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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