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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, K G <moonmyyst13 at y...> wrote:
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> 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
> 
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> 
> 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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One of my favourite Southern phrases was when my grandma would 
say, "Quit going all over hell and half of Georgia and get to your 
point!"

Julie -- who is "fixin to" go to the "coke" machine and buy a "soda"