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Funny that the title of this thread is, “How awesome is the English language”.
English is the 4th language my mother learned—-Arabic, French and Italian all came before. In fact, it’s possible she learned some Latin and Greek before English. So, maybe it’s the 5th or 6th language she learned. Anyway, sometimes she says things that has everyone scratching their heads; just butchering some word or getting some phrase wrong. One that stands out from years ago—-she would say, “isn’t that AY-wee-some?” She said it several times and no one knew what she meant, but no one had questioned her. One day, I finally had to ask her what the hell she meant. She was trying to say the word “awesome” but didn’t know how.......we still joke about it today, telling her something is ay-wee-some.
She also says things like “don’t hanging around there!”
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