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Living in Vermont past 11 years (but still haven't come to terms with the horribly cold winters yet...). I'll be moving back to my parents' soon for Plan B or D, haven't figured that out yet...they are right outside of Philadelphia.
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I LOVE yankees, "you guys"!!!!!!!!!!! When my yankee relatives used to visit us when we were kids we teased back and forth the intire visit.
I can just hear him teasing them and saying, "If any of "YA'LL" die while you're down here, we'll just send you home in a shoebox".................meaning he knew what they were "full of".
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The "he" in the above post was my Dad.
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Originally from Illinois, and that's what I still claim as home...even though I've been exiled to the land of seagulls and polygamists for quite some time now....I'd tell you the name, but it's a four letter word. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" />
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OK Oscar, I live in the same state as you, only I live way down south in Dixie.
(that ought to confuse everyone)
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<small>[ June 09, 2004, 04:16 PM: Message edited by: still seeking ]</small>
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I work with a yankee woman from Pennsylvania and I love to drive her crazy with our "Georgian" saying of "I'm fixing to leave, fixing to go to lunch, etc etc". It drives her insane!!!
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by Lisa103:
<strong> I work with a yankee woman from Pennsylvania and I love to drive her crazy with our "Georgian" saying of "I'm fixing to leave, fixing to go to lunch, etc etc". It drives her insane!!! </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">We have a similarly bizzare saying up here that is mainly used by women of scandanavian roots... and this the "Oh for.." Examples would be:
"oh for cute..." or "Oh for special.." or my favorite "Oh for cripes sake!" Only in Minnesota.
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As a "yankee woman" who lived in Oklahoma for awhile -
I loved the way they talked, but it took me forever to figure out what they were saying. They drop half the letters in the middle of words and change to "oor" sound to "er".
For example I was a bartender and the first night I worked I couldn't understand when they were asking me for a Coors. "Gimme a kers, plaze" A what? All night long. I know they thought I was dim witted.
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My boss's wife went out to San Francisco (from Mississippi) several years ago. She asked the waiter at the hotel restaurant for a Tab...the nasty diet soft drink. He had her repeat her request several times before he understood her. He said he'd never heard the word "Tab" pronounced with so many syllables. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Razz]" src="images/icons/tongue.gif" /> Love that Southern draaawwwwaalll. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> Lori
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lol...we do tend to add syllables to those one syllable words!!!! H and I used to live in UTAH when he was in the air force. The people that I worked with were absolutely fascinated just to listen to me talk <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/grin.gif" /> ! They had some strange words for things to such as elastics for rubber bands.
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I have to sometimes ask my H if I've said something "Southern" or not. After 9 years he's pretty much laughed the more embarrassing phrases and pronunciations out of my vocabulary. The latest, a couple of years ago, was acorn. I pronounced it "A krn" rather than "A korn". <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
He also thinks "t" past tense forms are weird - burnt, learnt, etc.
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Yes, that was it too - drawing out the words, so they go on forever.
We need more Southerners up here in this frozen tundra I live in, even if just to warm it up a bit.
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I'm originally from Delaware, so I don't really speak "southern"...or so I'm told. The Southern-ism of H's that just drives me nuts is "ow-chunder". That's the Mississippi way of saying "out yonder", which is country enough already. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" /> My MIL thinks I've ruined H and my kids, because they all say "soda". Down here every soft drink is a Coke. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> Lori
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Speaking of southern expressions....
First, although I currently live in Maryland, I was born, raised, and educated in Va. Lived in Woodstock, Ga. and Charlotte and Wilmington, NC as an adult. So I have southern roots.
My favorite southern expression - more a story than a pronunciation - is the "turtle on a fence post," as in, "now, he's a turtle on a fence post ifn' there ever was one."
When I use that up here, I get blank looks, "Huh?"
"Ya know, the one definite thing you can conclude when you see a turtle on a fence post is, you have no idea how it got up there, but you can shur bet it had some hep (help)."
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