We all know how to pronounced the word “cause” — the cause we believe in, the apparent cause of something that’s happened, the causeway we drive upon, etc.
It’s pronounced “cawz” — everyone agrees with this. But when people say “because”, younger people especially, they say “beCUZZ.”
I first noticed this seven or eight years ago when listening to Kris Tapley, a Millennial, say the word. Me: “The fuck?”
Jo Van Fleet in East of Eden: “Becawz, BECAWZ he wanted to own me and bring me up like some little snot-nosed kid!”
The Beatles were totally cawz when they sang the Abbey Road track “Because”.
I swear to God that JFK never once said “beCUZZ.” He was a cawz guy all the way.
HE stands foursquare with the cawz community and against the cuzz brigade. Who’s with me?