Jay's Brain

I noticed about a year ago that most people I interact with are using a word that sounds like “fer” instead of the correct pronunciation of “for”.   The research I have done on the English language says that this type of word laziness is normal and will eventually lead to an unrecognizable form of English 1000 years from now… but I find it very interesting that no one else notices it.

I mentioned it to my wife a few months ago and she has started to self-correct based on my observations (I think she found it stupid at first but then realized I was correct in my observation and didn’t want to be one of those in the dregs of lazy English usage ).

When I noticed this in other people, a year ago, I also noticed that lazy pronunciation on my own part and have made an active effort to change my speech to correctly model the right pronunciation of simple words that we have just fallen away from.   Words like For (fer) and Pen (pin) are particularly interesting to me because they are more about oratory laziness instead of just localized mouth-to-tongue formations (Canada/New York vs California).

I guess I shouldn’t be such a word nazi… but it is interesting none-the-less.