"The devil is beating his wife": Dialect maps document U.S.'s many linguistic divides
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Just popped in to say: Geographical linguistic differences aside, Law it's a small world, yannow? And the web makes it all the smaller. And this forum......
...Which brings me to one of my personal favorites:
"Ya'll ain't from around he-uh, is yuh?"
...Which brings me to one of my personal favorites:
"Ya'll ain't from around he-uh, is yuh?"
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Oohoohooh. Another personal favorite:
"My git-up-n-go dun got-up-n-went!"
"My git-up-n-go dun got-up-n-went!"
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That's some mighty purdy smellin' stinkum ya got on thar!
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"That's some mighty purdy smellin' stinkum ya got on thar!"
This sounds like a line from a John Wayne western. I can just see him bellying up to the bar in the saloon of some dusty western town. One of those tawdry-type dance hall gals that always hung about such places saunters up next to him.... and this is what he says to her.
This sounds like a line from a John Wayne western. I can just see him bellying up to the bar in the saloon of some dusty western town. One of those tawdry-type dance hall gals that always hung about such places saunters up next to him.... and this is what he says to her.
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Anybody ever gotten "Drunker 'an Cootie Brown?"
And who the heck is Cootie Brown anyway?
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Back home, whenever we were out riding mud buggies/four-wheelers and a guy needed to...err..."use the little boys' room," he'd point in one direction and yell, "Look! There's Elvis!" Which meant we were to look in THAT direction while he went to "tinkle" in the other direction!
(Yes, I have redneck blood in me...though neither side of my family will claim it. Must have been a "redneck in the woodpile?")
And who the heck is Cootie Brown anyway?
AND
Back home, whenever we were out riding mud buggies/four-wheelers and a guy needed to...err..."use the little boys' room," he'd point in one direction and yell, "Look! There's Elvis!" Which meant we were to look in THAT direction while he went to "tinkle" in the other direction!
(Yes, I have redneck blood in me...though neither side of my family will claim it. Must have been a "redneck in the woodpile?")
