Meijer or Meijers?

[dtown]

Timize, that website is great! I say like half of those things, but some ive never even heard,

[kiki]

I noticed that people on the east side of the state (mainly Bay City and Saginaw area) use the word "ya's" (As in "Can I get ya's something to drink). First time I had ever heard a "plural ya." So it may be a Michigan thing...

[Timize]

I noticed that people on the east side of the state (mainly Bay City and Saginaw area) use the word "ya's" (As in "Can I get ya's something to drink). First time I had ever heard a "plural ya." So it may be a Michigan thing...

[allbusiness]

Meijer has never had an S

Thrifty has never had an S.

Acres always had an S.

The "Going to Meijers" thing is rampant in Holland! I also still hear "Thrifty's"

Usually it's older people.

[tamias6]

Great Website. I espesially love "a-par-meh'" which I find most yong people, early 20's and younger, saying "apartment" that way.

Here's some other Michigan things I can think of.

Sixdeen instead of Sixteen

Tubafour instead of two by four

Thhhe-a-dur instead of theater

Couple of Three

Plus I could never figure out why we Michiganians put a slash though our "7's" when writing that number.

I started a topic talking about things like these (company names as possessives): http://www.urbanplanet.org/forums/index.ph...&pid=432229

It's a Michigan thing

[beergeek]

I can't HANDLE when people add the S to Meijer. Yipes.

[Allison Slater]

A line through the 7 being common here? eh? I thought I was the only one in the state who did that? (I actually began the practise because of my handwriting. My 1s looked like ls, so I added the top swoosh thingy, but they started looking like 7s, so to differentiate the two, I began adding the line in my 7s)

I remember I used such a 7 on some document at the Secretary of State's office at Roger's Plaza, and received rude service because of it. The lady repeated the number back to me wrong, repeating both the euro 7 and the 1 to me as 7. When I corrected her, she replied "well we don't use european here." Excuse me, but if you could distinctly tell I was using european 7s, why would you assume something else WITHOUT the tick would be a 7 as well? oi.

[Rizzo]

I do the seven thing too... of course that dosen't mean you can read anything I write -- I'm left handed.

[blueradon]

Yay for being left-handed...I'm left-handed too.

I'm not a major in Speech or English or anything but I try to articulate my words to some degree where it sounds correct but not annoying. A BIG one that really irks me is when people say "fur" instead of "for" and "tuh" instead of "to"

Also (I know this is a little off-topic) I was informed by an English teacher that in the Pledge of Allegiance there is no comma in "...one nation under God..." yet people pause in between the four words. So I say it correctly now and everyone always looks at me when I'm saying it the technically correct way.

[luma]

Also (I know this is a little off-topic) I was informed by an English teacher that in the Pledge of Allegiance there is no comma in "...one nation under God..." yet people pause in between the four words. So I say it correctly now and everyone always looks at me when I'm saying it the technically correct way.

[blueradon]

Yeah I kinda have mixed feelings about that...wouldn't be surprised down the road if they changed it back to its original form.

[destijl]

Great Website. I espesially love "a-par-meh'" which I find most yong people, early 20's and younger, saying "apartment" that way.

Here's some other Michigan things I can think of.

Sixdeen instead of Sixteen

Tubafour instead of two by four

Thhhe-a-dur instead of theater