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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
In my neck of the woods, that's the way people talk. I've always wondered about the proper usage of that. My Granddaddy Sharpe, who had a third grade education, had a very unique way of speaking. He would speak of this here here and that there there and always pronounce the "Elm" in "Elm Avenue" with two syllables. Could you picture Bogart as Marlow speaking like that?
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I think Americans pronounce the 's' but they don't spell with it, unlike the British.
If you mean El-um, like Fil-um (for film), that would be Irish, or possibly Geordie.
No way did Marlowe speak like that, lol.