Reading this list:
http://www.tickld.com/x/33-things-am...nada-seriously
Do any of you actually say zed? It's zee to me. And I've never heard zed spoken before. Not that I asked people to say the alphabet on the mainland.
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I encountered something I've not heard before the other night at a family dinner.
My aunt (from the Quidi Vidi neighbourhood of St. John's) uses to to denote place even in sentences where I have NEVER used it, nor heard it used.
She asked my cousin about a painting at her house and said:
"You knows that painting you've got to your house..."