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The Southern Accent: We're Losing It
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Posted on 04/30/2002 7:12:45 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: foreverfree
"If the South would just give up its inferiority complex, I think we could come a long way in solving some of our social problems. Young Southerners, take the first step towards respecting yourselves as a people What the heck is this supposed to mean? We can solve our "social problems" if we stop thinking we are inferior? We don't respect ourselves?
Well shoot, columnist done said I been actin' inferior and the chilin' ain't a respectin' themselves so it must be true.
In a sort of back-handed-compliment kind of way, the writer blows the whole article at the end, oh well.
To: foreverfree
The other day on TechTV, on The Screen Savers show, the older fellow with the grey hair (forget his name) referred to a toilet ("toy-let") as a "tur-let". I nearly died laughing, as I was not expecting it, as he had no apparent regional accent. But none of his other TechTV coworkers (based in San Francisco) seemed to notice the odd pronunciation of toilet. Is this a bizarre Western pronunciation I was not aware of? I would think anyone asking to go to the "tur-let" would get funny looks in most parts of the country....
To: Scruffdog
Gallons a day!
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posted on
05/01/2002 5:28:34 PM PDT
by
rdb3
To: Dog Gone
Y'all is word that is badly in need of use in America as Engish has no word for "all of you." However, it is my understanding that the Southern work "y'all" is meant to apply to a single person "y'all" rather than to "y'all" as a group.
To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
In practice it applies to both, although it usually refers to the plural. We actually do use the word "you" most of the time.
To: Arkinsaw
Minna-SOH-tah. I love hearing that.My church's congregation has a young woman (well, probably 30something) who sounds southern but it turns out she's from Mankato, MN.
foreverfree
To: Fifth Business
Why is there an Olive Garden in every American city? There's one in Dover, DE. It's the only OG I've eaten in (one time, 2 years ago).
But that's more than I can say for Boston Chicken/Boston Garden fwiw.
foreverfree
To: Chad Fairbanks
My wife, from the west coast, still teases me because I once refered to a Dresser as a 'bureau'That's how my paternal grandmother, may she rest in peace, referred to a dresser, as a bureau. Whether that's the influence of her native Ukraine, I know not. Imagine Efrem Zimbalist Jr. starring on "The FDI". :-)
foreverfree
To: buccaneer81
My very favorite weather babe!Mine too. Unfortunately Kristina appears to have gotten hitched.
foreverfree
To: billbears
[now, Duke's is mayonnaise)]
That's correct. You got your two kinds of mayonnaise, son. There's Duke's and then there's all that other sorry $#!+ with sugar in it. ;-)
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05/01/2002 7:00:20 PM PDT
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Twodees
To: sheltonmac
Sheltonmac, come back South, son! You'll pick up that accent again real quick : )
Because of my accent, I get asked if I am from GA all the time - but I'm 5th gen Florida Cracker. Although, it is an honor to be consider from the proud state of GA.
The article is sadly true, but I'm keeping with tradition. We eat "supper" at my house and directions include "over yonder." I'm over in Ft. Worth, TX this week and it was a pleasure to hear the Southron accents over here - lots of cattlemen and cowboys. Good folk!
To: Twodees
oh yeah.
To: Clemenza
or this New Yorker, the most "vanilla" accent belongs to the people who prounounce "Orange" as OOr-enge, rather than Are-ange, as we in New York (and those in the UK) do. Remember, its not FlOOrida, its FlA-rida. Well, I'm from Flarada and it's pronounced arnge. So there.
To: Age of Reason
Blame it on air conditioning. That's what my mom always said. Thought it was the worst thing to happen to the south, esp. so. fla (she was a Key West Conch) lived in Miama. She called em damned yankees till the day she died.
To: mc5cents
Hicks who were born down here say "Floorida" and "Oorange" like they're some sort of newscaster or from Southern California or something. Sickening.
To: mc5cents
Miama? Where's that?
--- Clemenza in Mi-jammi.
To: Clemenza
I take it back: suburbanites with no cultural identity who live in South Florida pronounce those words that way.
To: stainlessbanner
And turning left at the tobacco barn on the right, not the other barn on the right mind you, 'about a mile or so down the road'. I still give directions like that. Just irks the non-native visitors
To: Ms. AntiFeminazi
Exactly! I always say "fixin'to". Same thing with "that-a-way". No one I know drops their R's especially when saying something like Whataburger. Everyone says it Waterburger. =)
To: RightOnGOP
Check out www.slanguage.com Click on your city and enjoy - Too funny! Sheeesh. I can't believe that Gainesville is on there. Does that mean we're world famous in the USA? Har.
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