Accents

[Kelley]

> Haha!  This cracked me up; several weeks back, I was phoning varios 
> tech support numbers in a vain search for help from MSN, and one of 
> the people I ended up speaking to was a young man in Kentucky.  I'm 
> in Texas, and even with all the accents I hear, I could barely 
> understand him.  I thought it was so funny, I kept repeating what I 
> thought he said, then he'd correct me.  He probably thought I had 
an IQ of 3.  He was extremely sweet, and gave me the most helpful 
advice I got that day.  > Kelley
> 
> 
> That cracks me up.  And it makes me think back to when I was in New 
York working with the news and they did a report from Kentucky and 
they had to subtitle the poor guy!  It is true that there are people, 
especially in the Eastern part of the state, that have some serious 
accents. I'm from there and I couldn't understand the guy, so I can 
understand where you're coming from!
> 
> Mer

Hahaha, that's too funny.  There are some of those TX accents like 
that floating around, too.  Happily, I don't have one, but I do 
use 'y'all' pretty regularly.  Not in an Ellie May way, though. <g>  
An invlaluable word...

Kelley