Yanks thinking that when we're saying "Paddy", we're actually saying "Patty", because the way we pronounce the former is how they pronounce the latter. It's the equivalent of when people write "could of" because they have heard people say "could've" and don't know the difference.
Yanks thinking that when we're saying "Paddy", we're actually saying "Patty"
How you guy's pronounce it has nothing to do with it. "-tty" ending is just very common in American English. Kitty, Shitty, Itty Bitty, and my personal favorite, NATTY ICE.
How you guy's pronounce it has nothing to do with it.
It absolutely does, and for the very reason you stated. People that are used to "-tty" being pronounced with a soft T heard Irish people saying "Paddy" and assumed we were saying "Patty". You just galvanised my point.
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u/pHitzy Mar 13 '16
Yanks thinking that when we're saying "Paddy", we're actually saying "Patty", because the way we pronounce the former is how they pronounce the latter. It's the equivalent of when people write "could of" because they have heard people say "could've" and don't know the difference.