[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I was raised to speak good English. Learned from the best in New Mexico life and literature.
I was saddened to see my folks, who dragged us to the tick and chigger infested Ozarks, allow their English skills degenerate into Hillbilly due to the influence of people around them. they didn’t want to sound “better” than their neighbors.

Just last week I had a woman ask me..”You speak so well are you a radio announcer?”
“No ma’m. I’ve just always spoken good English.”

I just refused to learn Hillbilly in my youth.

[Uncle Miltie]

[Responsibility2nd]

“No ma’m. I’ve just always spoken good English.”

 

BZZZT! The Grammar Police have just issued you a ticket for poor grammar. Go back and rephrase that last sentence correctly.

[Aarchaeus]

I’m an Arkansas hillbilly, and I’m bilingual. Standard English and Hillbilly English. It ain’t hard.