Folks Or Folks?

[MIKolbe]

vote

[Hilde]

Folk with an o like in cottage.

[MIKolbe]

oh, the euros!!

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[Hilde]

Folk is already plural without the s. MADNESS!!

[dominicansoul]

i think this topic is very sexist...and you really should consider taking a break from making any new topics in the future...

you obviously are making fun of the way sarah palin pronounces the word "folk..."

[Nihil Obstat]

I picked the sexist option, but I actually say it with a long o and silent l.

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='13 May 2010 - 09:22 AM' timestamp='1273756937' post='2109865']
I picked the sexist option, but I actually say it with a long o and silent l.
[/quote]

Aaahahaha! Double ditto.

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='dominicansoul' date='13 May 2010 - 09:02 AM' timestamp='1273755777' post='2109856']
you obviously are making fun of the way sarah palin pronounces the word "folk..."
[/quote]
That's how she says it? I really don't listen to her that much.

[dominicansoul]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='13 May 2010 - 10:27 AM' timestamp='1273760879' post='2109892']
That's how she says it? I really don't listen to her that much.


[/quote]
i don't either...something about that voice makes me cringe inside..

[MIKolbe]

i hear and read that about her, but I have either 1) haven't heard her enough or 2) never noticed.

[T-Bone _]

Rhymes with the yellow gunk inside of eggs.

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='13 May 2010 - 09:22 AM' timestamp='1273756937' post='2109865']
I picked the sexist option, but I actually say it with a long o and silent l.
[/quote]

I say it the same way. Southern English also tends to shorten a lot of syllables. For example, the city New Orleans is usually pronounced phonetically by most outside the South, but here in Alabama we say "Norlins" and the closer you get to Louisiana, the more Cajun the sound, so by the time you get to the city it's "Nawlins."

[IgnatiusofLoyola]

I say it as if it were pronounced "foke" or "fokes." It also rhymes with "yoke" and "yolk" (the "l" is silent).

Does Sarah Palin say it some other way? I have literally never heard her speak. (I ignore politics as much as possible.)

And, if people don't like the way Sarah Palin says it, it's not sexist, it's "Alaska-ist." Most people (male and female) learn the way they speak from where they live, not their gender. But, I like Alaska (at least the parts of Alaska I've seen.)

Edited May 14, 2010 by IgnatiusofLoyola

[MissyP89]

Long o, no l.

I voted for ZZ.

[BG45]

[quote name='MissyP89' date='13 May 2010 - 08:36 PM' timestamp='1273797379' post='2110205']
Long o, no l.

[/quote]

This.