Cato's Grammar Grumble

[Papy Oli]

Gal Gadot called.

She's not coming.

[Cato]

Gal Gadot called.

She's not coming.

Too busy saving the world!   

This morning a "news show" was on television (it really has very little "news") and a 40-something blonde woman reporting on "fashion news" was just rapidly babbling about her products, and I kept picking up oddities, e.g. she was unable to pronounce the word "odor" properly (difficult to describe: quasi-"O-Ah-der").

I was mulling whether she was perhaps originally Dutch or Scandinavian, when it struck me that she might be from a certain area in America influenced by Scandinavia and Germany.

And after some Travels With Charley Google, the answer made sense: she was born and lived in northern Wisconsin, where one can hear curious pronunciations and conversational music both stemming from ancestors hailing from Germany or Scandinavia.   

The movie Fargo is famous for its portrayal of the accent in what is known as The Upper Midwest (e.g. Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, and a few others).

[Florestan]

I was mulling whether she was perhaps originally Dutch or Scandinavian, when it struck me that she might be from a certain area in America influenced by Scandinavia and Germany.

Then it should have been "oo-dawr", methinks.

AFAIC, the last word on pronunciation, especially English, has been unwittingly written by a Romanian poet:

Nu cerceta aceste legi,
Că ești nebun când le-nțelegi!

(Do not inquire into these laws,
For you are mad when you understand them!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Co%C8%99buc