A totally non important thread but curious if others have noticed this. I first noticed Candace Owens pronounced the word women as woman. In other words she didn’t say “wimmen”. She seems to have changed now to what I’m used to. But I am hearing it over and over on different media platforms and it seems strange to me.

The English most of us learned in school has been incrementally 'idiotized' for decades.

Now you hear this idiocy more and more in common use. Bit by bit, it becomes the defacto correct usage.

Women/woman is just one more example of a dumbing down of language.

I’m going to be straight with you, I’ve always said women as it’s phonetically spelled. I have always considered “wimmin” to be a hillbilly accent.

As long as it's not womyn...................
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womyn

Candace is from Connecticut, it is a regional accent there. There is a town near the center of the state named New Britain, which many people pronounced “New Brittinn” with a very weak “I”. Whenever I listen to her I hear that Connecticut accent clearly.

It is a little odd however as she is from Stamford, which is overrun with New Yorkers and sometimes sounds more like westchester county NY.

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Originally posted by mark123:
I’m going to be straight with you, I’ve always said women as it’s phonetically spelled. I have always considered “wimmin” to be a hillbilly accent.

I’m fine with that. It just sounds odd to me to hear the singular and plural the same. But I guess it is a regional thing to some extent.