if you’re from the USA, tag what you chose and what general region you’re from (don’t dox yourself, I don’t need to know your hometown or any other security questions), using this map:
I’d also love to know if you were aware of the opposing connotation/definition or any of the various other pronunciations before reading this. I am not the least bit interested in what anyone thinks is ~correct~, only what they use and what they’ve heard before.
for non-USAmericans, I’m super curious if this linguistic difference exists outside the USA in any way, so I’d love it if you tagged your country as well.
Michelle’s continuing adventures in piss-poor wildlife photography. At one point the beaver swam right in front of me, and I couldn’t get my camera to turn on, because of course not.
In the last shot you can see how he/she was doing some dam repair, as the tail is loaded up with mud. Pretty cool to watch.
“You need not believe in the gods to believe in your own soul. It is that part of you that feels not obliged to materiality. I do not know if the soul survives physical death - and I do not care - but I know that to lose your soul while you are alive is worse than death.” Jeanette Winterson
