Posted on 08/25/2012 2:06:11 PM PDT by BigReb555
Back in the 1940s and 1950s I used to watch the Crackers play my hometown teams, Birmingham Barons in the Southern League. Ah, those were the days.
Well, we old-timers do have our memories, you know?
What a great article! I love strolling down memory lane.
Now, for something completely different. ;o)
“Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, why politicians do this is self-evident. But more interesting is why Southerners do it in the first place. The answer is surprising: Actually, Southerners are truer to “original” English voicing than are their G-happy Northern counterparts. Chalk one up there for Biden. Historically, writes Barbara Strang in A History of English, “the more ‘correct’ pronunciation [i.e., the pronunciation of Gs], as it was considered, was in reality an innovation, based upon the spelling.” That is to say that Southerners who are speakin’ instead of speaking are “correct” — insofar as anybody can be right or wrong linguistically — and, by contrast, educated types who disparage the loss of the G are “incorrect” to do so, their admonishments serving only as invitations further to change the very language that they are attempting to preserve.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/314903/southerners-and-gs-charles-c-w-cooke
Us Southrons are saving the original English language. BTW, the word “y’all” is a very correct contraction of “you all” and is considered good English.
Take that, Elites! lol
I saw Lewis Grizzard not long before he died. A very funny man. I still use his stuff.
LOVED Lewis Grizzard! “Don’t Bend Over in the Garden, Granny, Them Tater’s Got Eyes!”
there IS a difference !
;-)
I’m reading a very interesting book, mentioned by a Freeper on a thread a couple of years ago. It’s “Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America”, and it states that in some areas of England, the practice of dropping the ‘g’ at the end of a word, was a natural way of speech, and that continued when they came to America. This was prevalent especially among the Cavaliers who came to Virginia, and the Quakers who populated the Delaware Valley area and Pennsylvania.
“I saw Lewis Grizzard not long before he died. A very funny man. I still use his stuff.”
I didn’t know that! What a wonderful experience that must have been.
I know he was an inspiration for you, but you have your own original stuff which is just as good as his.
You and he remind me of each other.
That’s a compliment. ;o)
Thank you for your post!
Happy reading, and it’s so good to see you. ;o)
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