The mangling of idomatic expressions (a minor rant and call for commiseration)

[planefixer]

My Wife and my Grandfather both add a letter "t" to the end of the word "across" , as in "Its acrosst the street". They're both from Wisconsin so maybe its an Upper-Midwest thing, I don't know.

When my Tennessee-born Grandmother was still alive she would pronounce the L in salmon but not pronounce it in the word "bulb" so it sounded like "light bub".

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

My Wife and my Grandfather both add a letter "t" to the end of the word "across" , as in "Its acrosst the street". They're both from Wisconsin so maybe its an Upper-Midwest thing, I don't know.

No, but being from there, that really is a separate dialog of English between WI, the UP, and MN.