The Southern drawl – is it spreading?

Christian Science Monitor ^ | September 20, 2007 | Patrik Jonsson

[Mr. Blonde]

I admit to using like a lot. And I do it and then get angry at myself for doing it. I can’t stand it when others do it, and then here I am doing it. It just doesn’t sit right.

I h8 txt talk. I can’t bring myself to do it in text messages. Having a full keyboard has made it easier to avoid.

[GOP Poet]

Hey, I hear you. In college I used to say "Ya know" A LOT!! Basically every sentence. One day I was in a professor's office and he said, "No. I don't know. What do you mean?" I fa-areaked! LOL. I didn't have the least idea how to describe what I meant as I had been talking that way for so long and no one ever challenged me. They either said, "Yeah," shook their head yes, or said nothing.

Since then I have learned to articulate myself much more precisely but it took awhile and as you mentioned it is not always blessedly free of ums, likes, yeahs, hmmms but one thing I rarely ever say, if ever, is "Ya know." :-).

[Daffynition]

Listen to Kentucky fried Hillary: Hillary Adopts Southern Drawl In Church Service

"I just want to begin by giving praise to the Lord Almighty," said Mrs Clinton, 59, with a Southern twang not normally detectable in her speeches, as she announced she had come as "a sister in worship and a grateful friend and beneficiary of what happened in Selma 42 years ago".

Remember a few years ago when she tried to talk "black" to the NAACP?"I just want to begin by giving praise to the Lord Almighty," said Mrs Clinton, 59, with a Southern twang not normally detectable in her speeches, as she announced she had come as "a sister in worship and a grateful friend and beneficiary of what happened in Selma 42 years ago".