@anzet I think it's an east coast US thing. I've always heard it as “big league”, and was surprised not just that some people thought he was saying “bigly", but that *most* did.
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@anzet I think it's an east coast US thing. I've always heard it as “big league”, and was surprised not just that some people thought he was saying “bigly", but that *most* did. 5 comments
d0mth0ma5
@gruber @anzet The BBC ran this at the time https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37483869.amp but most people still thought it was “bigly”.
Jemal Cole Loves Each Of You
@gruber @anzet this fees like an “egg corn” as discussed on RecDiffs with @siracusa and @hotdogsladies this week, but is it people mishearing him saying “big league” or him growing up mishearing it and saying “bigly”? Could go either way. |
@gruber I rarely really hear American accents unless they are really pronounced (southern mostly) but I am going to find a clip of him saying big league because it just made too much sense to me for him to say weird things like bigly.
Btw: Melania is from Slovenia which is where I am from so I feel like we have a little responsibility for the last presidency :)