Gwenna Laithland
speaker
923 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Sep
Gwenna Laithland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Elementary elementary.
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I host international students, high schoolers, so I find myself trying to explain this kind of thing all the time as I help them improve their English.
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Flip flops are flip flops.
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I learned they're called thongs in Australia, but don't didn't know that was common anywhere in the US.
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Diagonal was very much kitty corner growing up, so that is my default, but as an adult, I understand that and catty corner interchangeably.
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Vehicle has a silent H, no it doesn't.
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And we don't bounce on the A in elementary.
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That is correct.
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Yeah.
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We do.
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There is a regional dialects quiz that I love and always recommend when this subject comes up.
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I'm not affiliated with anything, just founded organically years ago, and I'm fascinated with how accurate it is.
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It gives you your top three city matches, and my results are roughly where I live, Western Massachusetts, where my mom is from, New York, and where my dad is from, Yonkers.
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I love that you separated New York from New York City from Yonkers.
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Uh, because I have been forcibly made.
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to understand the difference between New York and New York.
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This makes so much sense to me since they taught me how to talk.
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Here's the link and we will drop the link in our show notes so you can take this quiz as well.
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But we're we're we took it so now we're gonna talk about how weird we talk.
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Listen.
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