Not to criticize anybody’s accent (I never have, and never will), but it’s quite clear to me that many Americans are so averse to tea that they’ll even exclude it from their spoken words. You hear them talk about the ‘innernet’ and the ‘anni-Christ’. Or, a word like ‘better’ or ‘Peter’ becomes ‘bedder’ and ‘Peder’. What’s up with that? Guys and dolls, I have the perfect antidote for that. Brew yourself a nice pot of tea, pour yourself a cuppa and enjoy! Do it more often and you’ll find your elocution will effortlessly improve in leaps and bounds. You’ll soon be able to flawlessly articulate the following: Betty Botter bought some bitter butter. But the bitter butter made her batter bitter. So Betty Botter bought better butter, making her bitter batter better. Brought to you with love from the Tea Party Committee. :mdrmdr: I believe the fault lies within the Deep South that often changes the words and will only drink cold ice tea or lemonade but will switch out their hot drinks for the cough-fee :calvin So … is Betty Botter her alias name for Betty Crocker or Betty Cracker? But I must admit sometimes people from the Philadelphia region can say some very old words. One time my boss announced … don’t forget tomorrow you can wear your dungarees! And we were like, huh, :scratch: whaaaat are you talking about? I thought I had to go to the local mall and buy something new. Boy did he embarrass himself and showed his age when he explained what they were. 😆 So is this the Cup of Joes or the Tea Party asking this serious Betty Crocker baking question? :scratch: :unsure: - Fair Use - I live near enough to Atlanta, Georgia and most people around here call it Alanta so at least they pronounce one of the T’s, though I have heard it pronounced with none of them but these folk drink more tea than anywhere on the planet. Not only do they drink gallons of sweet tea (iced tea) but tea time is still practiced here. Mary Mac’s Tea Room is a very popular place and many people still do 4:00 tea. But that makes a lot of sense given Georgia’s history and ancestral connection to England. It has been shown that the Southern accent is very similar to a British accent. I saw a YouTube video on it recently (of course I can’t find it now) and it was quite interesting. I could admit that I only drink coffee in the morning and hot tea in the afternoon but I won’t 😁😎 Yep now that you mentioned it I’ve seen some clips where people pronounced Atlanta … Alanta. Very interesting about the name of the Tea Room being Mary Mac … I couldn’t help but think of that Miss Mary Mac Clapping Game. per Wikipedia Unknown origin. It is first attested in the book The Counting Out Rhymes of Children by Henry Carrington Bolton (1888), whose version was collected in West Chester, Pennsylvania. It is well known in various parts of the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom and in New Zealand and has been called "the most common hand-clapping game in the English-speaking world" But … The song may have originated from the Southern United States, but those claims are disputed due to lack of evidence. Miss Mary Mack was a performer in Ephraim Williams’ circus in the 1880s, and the song may be reference to her and the elephants in the show. - Fair Use - Ooh … a mix drinker living dangerously! Any others out there that need to confess … now don’t be shy. B-) Well … instead of organizing only the afternoon tea parties I’ll have to mix in some wake up/mid morning ones so its jamboree tea gatherings and soirées at night. :whistle: Oh, I did not confess. I simply said that I could admit to it …………but I didn’t 😎😁
