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Grandmom?
11 2 ReplyWhat are you doing, step-grandmom?
5 0 ReplyNot as uncommon a phrase as you might think.
5 1 ReplyNo, it's definitely as uncommon as I think. Been on this planet 40 years and this is the firs time I'm hearing it. I've heard people way "pollywag" more often than this word.
9 4 ReplyIt's okay not to know. English is spoken in a lot of different places in different ways. I doubt that in your 40 years you've explored this.
Google Trends shows that it's most popular in Malaysia and the Philippines, relative to its use in other countries.
11 2 ReplyThat explains it. Nobody in America says that and we outnumber the next three native English speaking countries combined.
3 1 ReplyIndia uses English as a lingua franca, they have their own phrases, dialect and everything, and they outnumber the American continent combined.
4 0 ReplyI'm native to North Carolina and I've heard it before.
But this country has 40 or 50 regional dialects. Probably more.
2 0 ReplyI did. And my family is from maryland.
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Pollywag is a Gen 1 pokemon. All of those are fairly common words.
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