newbie here!

[justcarol67]

June wrote:
<snip> I'm a transplanted North Carolinian
> living in the D.C. area, and I really do miss an honest-to-gosh soft
> Southern accent. 

Carol:
I lived briefly in North Carolina when I was a newlywed of twenty, so
long ago that I don't remember the name of the man I was married to
<joking!>. I do recall a few North Carolinaisms, though:

Heard on the radio: "Ya'll is jes' as sweet as a punkin' pah!"

Spoken by my supervisor on the phone after work: "All the folks lives
within hollerin' distance of the old home place."

Spoken by a friend of my then-husband's: "It don't make *me* no never
mind!"

As an Arizonan who didn't speak "Southern," I was of course a "Yankee"
even though Arizona was on the Confederate side in the sole Civil War
battle it fought (and lost). Too bad the rest of us are so much less
colorful in our language than those (apparently) undereducated
Southerners.

Carol, who has treasured these phrases for many years and appreciates
the chance to share them