[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: newbie here!

[K G]

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




I have heard (and used!!) all of the above phrases!!  I also cannot help but be amazed at the people who look at me with a clueless expression when I talk about something being "over yonder".  

I was born and raised in the deep south!!  My next door neighbor still flies a rebel flag over his garage!!  (and we live in an upper middle-class subdivision).  Most of my family and friends have double names (my nick name is Katie Mae).

moonmyyst


		
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