[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Thicknesse: Question on Pronunciation - All and Oil in Texas

[Alex Hogan]

    My stepchildren are being raised using proper grammar, and, if I hear too much of a "twang" I quash it immediatly. My husband (whom I love with all my heart, he is a wonderful husband and father) has a strong Texas accent, and rather hideous grammar.  He is too old (39!) and set in his ways to "fix". But the children are little girls (7 and 4), and I want to give them the best chance in life. He is fine with everything that I do as long as " they don't sound like Yankees"!  How funny is that? I was raised in West Texas and I refuse to sound like a hick. And, yes, I say "oy-il ", also. Fortunatly, I had family in Illinois and spent every  summer with them as a child and teenager. I now have rather a mixed accent.
      I truly don't understand embracing a pattern of speech that automaticly brands you as unintelligent! Right or wrong, that is what people think of the Southern accent. Well, not the accent itself, but it is usually associated with terrible grammar, therefore, people think "hick", "white trailer trash", "Jerry Springer rejects", etc... 
      It is sad when people perpetuate the stereotype.
   
  Alex Hogan
   
   
   
  
Paige <medicpaige at yahoo.com> wrote:
          I am also a Texan, and I loath the 'southern' method of speaking. I
say 'oil' and I have to put out there that if you are going to visit
Dallas, Austin, Houston, San Antonio or any other major city in Texas,
you will be unlikely to encounter anyone who speaks in this manner. We
do say 'y'all' quite a bit in familiar settings, but thats about it.
If you travel to the small towns, only then will you find that more
than half of the population use 'All' for 'oil' and so on. 

Paige


                         

       
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