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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“the gether” for “together”
You’ll find this said a lot in Scotland, and maybe other places too (Newcastle?)
Not a fantastic eggcorn, since gether doesn’t mean anything nice :(
Maybe one day people will eventually be saying “Let’s all get the gopher and have a knees-up”.
Last edited by chichilatte (2008-12-10 13:50:24)
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chichilatte, to my ear “the gether” sounds more like Scots/Geordie for “they gather”. “They gather together” can sound like “th’gether t’gether” for example, and sometimes there isn’t much to distinguish between between a casually delivered ‘t’ and a ‘th’ sound. “Tomorrow” is often pronounced “the morrer” but that isn’t really any help – can I ask whether you’re a visitor to the North, or a native?
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I’m native scotch, so it’s all gospel. y, “the morra” is really common too. In fact any word prefixed with “to” seems to become a demi-corn, e.g. “how are you the day?”
Last edited by chichilatte (2009-09-17 11:37:01)
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