More Southern I think?

[thekrenz]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "mswisegrade3" 
<mswiseabc123 at a...> wrote:
> > 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!

Cyndi from South Carolina says:
I grew up in the south, but my parents are from NY and Canada.  I 
speak more like they do, but there is no way to avoid environmental 
influences.  I say ya'll all the time, and am not ashamed to admit 
it!  <big grin>  One thing I am bothered by about "southern speak" 
seems to come from the Charleston, SC area...saying CarolinER instead 
of CarolinA.  Some how words that end in "a" are pronounce as if they 
end with "er".  That is one thing I haved made every effort to avoid!

I am truly enjoying this thread, by the way!!