Speaking 'properly'

Steve bboyminn at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 8 18:05:14 UTC 2005


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "elady25" <imamommy at s...> wrote:

> 
> America has an amazing number of different dialects, far more than 
> simply southern and northern, as well as differentiating speeds.  
> Even vocabulary changes from region to region:  ...edited...
> 
> imamommy


bboyminn:

Just a very short note. 

That reminded me of my grandmother. For some reason when she was in
Iowa, and people asked her where she was from, she said 'EYE-wha', but
if she was out of Iowa and people asked her, she would reply
'eye-oh-WAY'. I neved did figure out why.

Steve/bboyminn







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