More Southern I think?

[mswisegrade3]

> A. Goldfeesh here:
> 
> I can tell you exactly where the extra "R comes from: Boston!  
> Haven't you heard of the Linguistical Law of Letter Conservation?  
> Any "R" dropped in Boston-speak comes to southwest Iowa and makes 
> its way further south.
> 
> I must say that I had never heard of "heighth" as being considered 
> Southern though. Nearly everyone I know says it that way (although 
> southwest Iowa, where I'm from, is accused of having more in common 
> with Missouri/southern speak than the rest of the state).
> 
> A. Goldfeesh
> who proudly, nay, perversely, warshes clothes, and knows that 
George 
> Warshington was the first President. Plus, walks on SEE-ment, has 
> pet feesh, and knows what democrat bugs and gran'daddy longlegs are.


Now for Missy's turn:

I have always thought of myself as having a neutral accent, and was 
very proud of that fact, that I had gotten away from things that my 
grandparents and parents say, for example Bob-Wire (instead of barbed-
wire,) and batt'ry (instead of batt-e-ry,) but as I was teaching 
Sunday School this morning I just listened to myself... and thought 
of all of things that you all had been listing on this thread... and 
I am guilty :-) Then I saw the above and had to stop and 
think, "Well, what do you call it if not cement" (pronounced see-
ment) Lol... 

Another thing, and I wonder if this is just southern or is it 
everywhere? As a kindergarten teacher I have a problem explaining how 
to spell words like ten, pen, hen, den because we all say TIN, PIN, 
HIN, DIN... So I wind up saying Well, we say it like that, but we 
spell it like this... Another problem, dog, hog, log, fog which we 
say dawg, hawg, lawg, fawg...  

Missy- whose dad just said "I didn't have a dollar to boot," and 
doesn't know where that came from, southern or not!