@yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!

Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"

What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)

#linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

Here's a novel (to me) southern colloquialism. "Faster than a rabbit in a corn field."

I wonder what the story is...

#Language #USEnglish