Down South Mississippi ping.
In 1962, I watched The Longest Day at the J-H Drive-In in Jonesboro, LA. That movie still works today as well as it did fifty years ago.
Thanks for the ping!
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