Tuh is not a word. Stamp out illiteracy.
My Mother came from a large family, raised in the thirties in southern Illinois. Her family moved to Illinois from West Virginia, they were poor. Her parents were educated in public schools of the day. My mother went to grade and high school in Illinois and went on to attend college, earning a Bachelors degree. Many times as a child I met my grandparents and aunts and uncles from my mother's side of the family. My Mother (still going at 91 years old) has impeccable grammar which she taught us (myself and two brothers) daily as we grew up. She always said that good grammar was important. Her parents, brothers and sister, and all relatives I met through my childhood spoke with the same grammatical clarity as my mother. The ethnic origins of the family tree were German immigrant and possibly some West Virginia Native American influence.
My Father's family immigrated to this country from Canada, and further back from Scotland. Both sides of the family tree seem to be Scottish. These grandparents were both had some college. My Grandmother taught some school and my Grandfather had a life long job managing a grain elevator. My father was an educated professional, schooled in North Dakota schools, the US Navy, and a school for Mortuary Science in Chicago. My aunts and uncles on this side of the family also spoke with meticulous grammer.
Noting the influence of Illinois on both parents, why can they say the second shortest word in the English language "to" properly and our president (Barack Obama) who also has an Illinois influence cannot? He says "Tuh". "Tuh" is not a word. Get that? Can one of his handlers tell him that "Tuh" should be pronouced "too" just like the number two? Oooooo is an easy sound to make. Maybe the presidential speach therapist get on this one? That teacher would possibly be in the "Special Education" department of the White House.
Obama is hard enough to listen to with his spastic verbal timing without having to listen to mispronouced, two letter, single syllable words mispronounced such as "to."
Again. "Tuh" is not a word.
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