[Magdalen] Charleston Receipt.

[ME Michaud]

Lots of Americans pronounce garbage

gah-BAZH

and it most certainly is an affectation.
Of course, Brits say "rubbish."

A dear friend always referred to the liquor store (package store, where I
grew up)
as
The Boozerie
(like charcuterie or patisserie)
and now all her friends & family do too.
-M

On Tuesday, August 29, 2017, Simon Kershaw <simon at kershaw.org.uk> wrote:
>
> But do Americans prounced other -age words in the same way? Dotage,
> footage (cue image of newsreader saying "here's some f'tahzh of the
> incident"), plumage, cottage etc? Surely not?
>