Dialects & Accents (Was Re: Subject-Verb agreement with compound subjects)

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> > 'Scuse me. I need to borra some fatback from a neighbor so we all
can have some chitlins and punkin' pah. ...
> > 
> > Carol, who felt throughout her year in NC that she had somehow
stepped inside the pages of "to Kill a Mockingbird"
> >
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> 'punkin pah'???? Don't you mean 'Sweet Pertater Pah'? 
> 
> Just curious.

Carol responds:

Nope. I never encountered sweet potato pie in North Carolina.
Actually, I never encountered pumpkin pie, either, except as an
expression. I remember a radio broadcast (why I was listening to
gospel music at the time, I have no idea) ending with "Ya'll is jis'
as sweet as a  punkin' pah." Of course, pumpkin pie is a traditional
Thanksgiving and Christmas treat even in Arizona, but the expression
was memorable. I can still hear the accent as I remember the words.

I also remember being served squirrel and dumplings when my
then-husband and I visited an Air Force friend of his in Virginia (his
wife saved March snow water as a cure for warts and they both believed
that putting a toy truck or a doll under the bed would determine the
sex of the child they were conceiving).

Carol, now remembering our drive through the Appalachians (or was it
the Alleghenies?) with nothing to listen to on the radio but the
"Obituary of the Air column" (someone reading obituaries from the
local paper)