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[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

lol when my kid was like three or four he’d watch some British cartoon called “gecko’s garage “ or something, and they’d pronounce it “garridge.” So my kid started saying it that way.

One day I’m driving him somewhere and he asks me “daddy, why didn’t you park the car in the garridge?”

“It’s a garage.”

“Garridge!”

“No. Say ga-raage.”

“Garridge!”

“GARAGE! We’re not British!”

“No! Garridge…”.

“Ugh! Whatever!”

“We’re having a quarrel! :-D “

[-] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 13 points 8 months ago

Well, as long as you didn't get cross about it. :P

[-] Mwallerby@startrek.website 13 points 8 months ago
[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 15 points 8 months ago
[-] teft@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Plain, simple Garridge.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Car coffin?

But gare-ij actually sound more like mispelled Indian English.

[-] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 8 months ago

Now that I think about it, I'm surprised that the British term for garage isn't "motor home."

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 4 points 8 months ago

A motor home is like a camper van, what you'd call an RV

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Gare idge is what OP was going for phonetically.

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

British accents are non-rhotic, so really it should be "ga-ridge", not "gare-ridge".

[-] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

British accents are non-rhotic

Except the ones that aren't

[-] aleph@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

True, albeit a very small minority.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Sure, but -ji is a commonly used honorific in Hindi and related languages.

[-] dumbass@lemy.lol 3 points 8 months ago
[-] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not objectively the same thing, tho. Potential intruders can peer into a carport, without even committing trespassing. If they want to see into your car-hole, they have to already commit themselves to breaking the law, before they even consider stealing your whip.

[-] CetaceanNeeded@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It's actually gay-raj.

[-] CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The locomotion mechanism stables

[-] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago

Also: "Roller Holder"

[-] Uriel_Copy@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Languidge or Languahge? Petition for consistency!

[-] ChillDude69@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 8 months ago

Lang Wedge.

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