Comments on: Acrost is not a word http://scottbush.net/language/acrost-is-not-a-word/ Notes on web development (and a few other topics) Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Dan Valenza http://scottbush.net/language/acrost-is-not-a-word/#comment-27490 Dan Valenza Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:27:20 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=341#comment-27490 I have some cousins who like to say cousint. They're from New Jersey and Long Island, I guess I avoided the linguistic error by growing up in central Pennsylvania. Funny part of this story is when I was growing up, I wasn't a very strong speller, so hearing all of my cousins add a 't' to the end of the word made me assume I was the incorrect one. Made me very self conscious about saying the word until I finally asked my parents about it. I have some cousins who like to say cousint. They’re from New Jersey and Long Island, I guess I avoided the linguistic error by growing up in central Pennsylvania.
Funny part of this story is when I was growing up, I wasn’t a very strong speller, so hearing all of my cousins add a ‘t’ to the end of the word made me assume I was the incorrect one. Made me very self conscious about saying the word until I finally asked my parents about it.

]]> By: Scott Bush http://scottbush.net/language/acrost-is-not-a-word/#comment-22517 Scott Bush Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:17:00 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=341#comment-22517 It's never to late to comment, Chuck! The other commenter, Renee, said "acrost" was lazy, not me, so I won't speak to that. But as for Southerners (or any other regional group with a significant accent) being slow-witted or anything else: I completely disagree. Accents, regional vocabulary, dialects, and so many other facets of language are very interesting. They help define a group's speech but that's it. Anyone who feels that a Southern accent conveys stupidity or a New England one conveys rudeness is simply showing their own narrow-mindedness. It’s never to late to comment, Chuck! The other commenter, Renee, said “acrost” was lazy, not me, so I won’t speak to that. But as for Southerners (or any other regional group with a significant accent) being slow-witted or anything else: I completely disagree. Accents, regional vocabulary, dialects, and so many other facets of language are very interesting. They help define a group’s speech but that’s it. Anyone who feels that a Southern accent conveys stupidity or a New England one conveys rudeness is simply showing their own narrow-mindedness.

]]> By: Chuck http://scottbush.net/language/acrost-is-not-a-word/#comment-22400 Chuck Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:30:05 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=341#comment-22400 I know I'm a year and a half late to the party, but I just wanted to point out that it's silly to claim that "acrost" is a lazier word than "across", because it actually takes more effort to say - it has one more sound (a-kros versus a-krost). Saying it's a lazy word is a symptom of believing that those who talk with a different accent - say, Southerners - are slow-witted, mushmouthed, or any of a variety of other things, including of course lazy. I know I’m a year and a half late to the party, but I just wanted to point out that it’s silly to claim that “acrost” is a lazier word than “across”, because it actually takes more effort to say – it has one more sound (a-kros versus a-krost).

Saying it’s a lazy word is a symptom of believing that those who talk with a different accent – say, Southerners – are slow-witted, mushmouthed, or any of a variety of other things, including of course lazy.

]]> By: Renee http://scottbush.net/language/acrost-is-not-a-word/#comment-645 Renee Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:48:13 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=341#comment-645 Angelina, You made an Excellent point...words and their meaning change every few years...generationally, such as Cool, Hot, I'm down with that, Whack, BFF. However, when I hear someone use acrost in a sentence...."Guess who I ran acrost today," as an example, I feel like sharp spiny creatures are burrowing inside my brain and their main purpose is to scramble as many brain cells as possible. (I need All of my brain cells). We are well on our way to becoming an extremely lazy society. Acrost isn't a strange word, it's a lazy word. Angelina, You made an Excellent point…words and their meaning change every few years…generationally, such as Cool, Hot, I’m down with that, Whack, BFF. However, when I hear someone use acrost in a sentence….”Guess who I ran acrost today,” as an example, I feel like sharp spiny creatures are burrowing inside my brain and their main purpose is to scramble as many brain cells as possible. (I need All of my brain cells). We are well on our way to becoming an extremely lazy society.
Acrost isn’t a strange word, it’s a lazy word.

]]> By: Angelina http://scottbush.net/language/acrost-is-not-a-word/#comment-644 Angelina Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:23:00 +0000 http://scottbush.net/v2/blog/?p=341#comment-644 LOL, ROTF LMAO, GHW! I just googled acrost, because I was reading an entry in my journal and I came across the word acrost that I wrote a few weeks ago. I was high and drunk, but the story I wrote was pretty good. Well, maybe in 2150 'acrost' will be a valid word, who knows. Who ever thought 'thee' and 'thou' and 'art' would NOT be words in 2009 when they wrote, them in 1000? Well, 'art' is a word, but not like "How art thou this fine day?" 'Doest ' is not a word either. So I guess, relatively speaking, 'acrost' is not such a strange word after all. LOL, ROTF LMAO, GHW! I just googled acrost, because I was reading an entry in my journal and I came across the word acrost that I wrote a few weeks ago. I was high and drunk, but the story I wrote was pretty good. Well, maybe in 2150 ‘acrost’ will be a valid word, who knows. Who ever thought ‘thee’ and ‘thou’ and ‘art’ would NOT be words in 2009 when they wrote, them in 1000? Well, ‘art’ is a word, but not like “How art thou this fine day?” ‘Doest
‘ is not a word either. So I guess, relatively speaking, ‘acrost’ is not such a strange word after all.

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