Re: Accents, no worries OT

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<snip>That's what makes this such a great country. June C <snip<  

AMEN!!!!!sharon

> Cracked me up when Sandie wrote " Ann Arbour "

> Hahahahahaha

> I hope you don't mind the joking around. I couldn't

> find a word to use with " our " in it,

> so I made up my own figuour. LOL I know you don't spell

> it that way.

> You can only imagine when a bigger gathering gets together

> with all the accents and ways of saying things. Everyone

> comes across the same in typing. LOL

> As said, she's from Boston and doesn't

> pronounce her " R " If she says,

> " You Betta Buy Butta " She means, " You Better

> Buy Butter. " Am I right ?

> I had a friend in high school that moved here from Boston

> and she said, " Dahhhhhhg " for " Dog " I

> love the accents, it's so much fun to hear the different

> ways that English is spoken.

>

>

>

> Re: OT /My visit to see Don

>

> Laughing big time here, especially with your spelling of

> figure!

>

>

>

> > >

> > > Courage, you and have accents in your

> writing. You write cheque, we write

> check.

> > > I think it was the word favour or something that

> wrote similar to that and

> we write

> > favor. Do you write color as colour?

> > > That's what makes it even more fun that we

> are all from different places with different

> > > ways of writing and speaking. LOL

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> > >

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> > Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

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[Guest guest]

<snip>That's what makes this such a great country. June C <snip<  

AMEN!!!!!sharon

> Cracked me up when Sandie wrote " Ann Arbour "

> Hahahahahaha

> I hope you don't mind the joking around. I couldn't

> find a word to use with " our " in it,

> so I made up my own figuour. LOL I know you don't spell

> it that way.

> You can only imagine when a bigger gathering gets together

> with all the accents and ways of saying things. Everyone

> comes across the same in typing. LOL

> As said, she's from Boston and doesn't

> pronounce her " R " If she says,

> " You Betta Buy Butta " She means, " You Better

> Buy Butter. " Am I right ?

> I had a friend in high school that moved here from Boston

> and she said, " Dahhhhhhg " for " Dog " I

> love the accents, it's so much fun to hear the different

> ways that English is spoken.

>

>

>

> Re: OT /My visit to see Don

>

> Laughing big time here, especially with your spelling of

> figure!

>

>

>

> > >

> > > Courage, you and have accents in your

> writing. You write cheque, we write

> check.

> > > I think it was the word favour or something that

> wrote similar to that and

> we write

> > favor. Do you write color as colour?

> > > That's what makes it even more fun that we

> are all from different places with different

> > > ways of writing and speaking. LOL

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > ------------ --------- --------- ------

> >

> > Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

<snip>That's what makes this such a great country. June C <snip<  

AMEN!!!!!sharon

> Cracked me up when Sandie wrote " Ann Arbour "

> Hahahahahaha

> I hope you don't mind the joking around. I couldn't

> find a word to use with " our " in it,

> so I made up my own figuour. LOL I know you don't spell

> it that way.

> You can only imagine when a bigger gathering gets together

> with all the accents and ways of saying things. Everyone

> comes across the same in typing. LOL

> As said, she's from Boston and doesn't

> pronounce her " R " If she says,

> " You Betta Buy Butta " She means, " You Better

> Buy Butter. " Am I right ?

> I had a friend in high school that moved here from Boston

> and she said, " Dahhhhhhg " for " Dog " I

> love the accents, it's so much fun to hear the different

> ways that English is spoken.

>

>

>

> Re: OT /My visit to see Don

>

> Laughing big time here, especially with your spelling of

> figure!

>

>

>

> > >

> > > Courage, you and have accents in your

> writing. You write cheque, we write

> check.

> > > I think it was the word favour or something that

> wrote similar to that and

> we write

> > favor. Do you write color as colour?

> > > That's what makes it even more fun that we

> are all from different places with different

> > > ways of writing and speaking. LOL

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > ------------ --------- --------- ------

> >

> > Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Thank you Ron. I heartily agree.

> > >

> > > Courage, you and have accents in your writing. You write cheque, we

write

> check.

> > > I think it was the word favour or something that wrote similar to

that and

> we write

> > favor. Do you write color as colour?

> > > That's what makes it even more fun that we are all from different places

with

different

> > > ways of writing and speaking. LOL

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > ------------ --------- --------- ------

> >

> > Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Thank you Ron. I heartily agree.

> > >

> > > Courage, you and have accents in your writing. You write cheque, we

write

> check.

> > > I think it was the word favour or something that wrote similar to

that and

> we write

> > favor. Do you write color as colour?

> > > That's what makes it even more fun that we are all from different places

with

different

> > > ways of writing and speaking. LOL

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > ------------ --------- --------- ------

> >

> > Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Thank you Ron. I heartily agree.

> > >

> > > Courage, you and have accents in your writing. You write cheque, we

write

> check.

> > > I think it was the word favour or something that wrote similar to

that and

> we write

> > favor. Do you write color as colour?

> > > That's what makes it even more fun that we are all from different places

with

different

> > > ways of writing and speaking. LOL

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > ------------ --------- --------- ------

> >

> > Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Okay...I was born and raised in Oklahoma, but my accent is far more southern

than Oklahoman.  The reason is, my grandparents came to Oklahoma from Georgia

and Tennessee, my mother and father both have a distinct Southern drawl, and

when I'm tired, I lapse into that same cadence.  I have a tendency to speak as

the people around me speak.  However, my VSO (very significant other) is from

New Jersey/Pennsylvania, and HE'S the one with the accent...*LOL* 

 

I teach Spanish, and it tickles me to no end to hear my middle school students

attempting Spanish with an Oklahoma accent.  I have to stop them and say, " Okay,

no more Okie Spanish! "

 

Jannis

Redefining Normal Every Day

[Guest guest]

The Dallas morning news today had a story about old words. This sort of fits in

with the

accents and I thought yo might enjoy it. The link is below and then below that

is the text.

For those that don't know " Rat cheer " means right here.

(Page at:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/sblow/storie\

s/

080708dnmetblow.37bdfca.html)

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I swanee, readers had favorite old words, too; much obliged

08:29 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 6, 2008

We're all accustomed to plants, animals and historic places being put on the

endangered

list.

So why not words?

I got a big reaction to my column Saturday on fading words and phrases. That

tells me

that many of you are ready to take a stand for " Land o' Goshen " and

" cattywampus. "

If we can save the snail darter, why not " sakes alive " ?

My inbox was swamped with words and expressions that people want saved --

things

like " yonder, " " boy hidy, " " bodacious, " " gumption, " " tump " and the courtly " much

obliged. "

It was good to hear that some people have already started the preservation

effort.

Marc Wichman teaches at Richland College, and he's doing his part to save " rat

cheer. "

When a big test is coming up, he always writes on the classroom board the time

and

location. Where? " Rat cheer. "

" Of course I have to explain it to them, " Marc says.

White works in one of the big downtown law firms, but even in that

highfalutin

setting she's preserving one of my favorites -- the poetic " of a mornin' " and

" of an

evenin'. "

While living in Alpine a few years ago, learned the phrase from gifted

talker Bill

Burton. " He just passed away last year, and I think of him every time I use it, "

she says.

" People seem taken aback when I use it and chuckle, but no one ever asks me

why. I think

it is a charming phrase. "

Retired English professor Tommy Boley doesn't go to the movies. He goes to " the

picture

show. "

" I like to see the response it gets, " he says. " With older folk, I get a

chuckle. With anyone

under 40, I get a question: 'Go WHERE?' "

Dinah Bleau raised an excellent question: How do you spell " floocy " ?

Just as I did, Dinah grew up hearing her mother talk about a " very floocy

dress " or a

" floocy party. " It meant elegant or upscale.

But neither Dinah nor I can find any trace of the word in dictionaries or

online. And that's

using a variety of spellings -- flucy, floocie, fleucy ... .

What are we missing, word preservationists?

We need to save " floocy. " And we're not talking about " floozy, " which is

something

completely different.

A reader in Lake Highlands worries that we're losing some fine old verbs for

the ways

people move about -- " sashay, " " traipse " and " mosey, " for instance.

Back when people traipsed, seems like it was always " all over tarnation " or

" all over

Timbuktu. "

I suspect Yankee infiltrators are responsible for supplanting those fine

phrases with the

unseemly " East Jesus. "

Speaking of seemly, I was reminded of a lot of great old exclamations -- words

so much

better than the vulgarities that replaced them.

Make the world a little nicer (and lower your blood pressure) by trading your

favorite

profanity for one of these:

" Great day in the morning! "

" For cryin' out loud! "

" Lawzee me! "

" I'll swan! "

" Dadgummit! "

" My lands! "

" Good night, nurse! "

Of course, I recognize that some extreme situations may exceed the load limits

of these

words.

As one reader noted: " My sweet little Southern Baptist mother-in-law used to

say, 'Well, I

swanee!' because heaven knows she would never swear ... until the day her

daughter's dog

urinated into a box fan!

" We laughed ourselves hoarse! "

[Guest guest]

Now, if we could just get help on our computers and credit card bills from

somebody from the US instead of India/Asia/etc., etc. I just hate to try to

talk to them.

June

> > Cracked me up when Sandie wrote " Ann Arbour "

> > Hahahahahaha

> > I hope you don't mind the joking around. I

> couldn't

> > find a word to use with " our " in it,

> > so I made up my own figuour. LOL I know you don't

> spell

> > it that way.

> > You can only imagine when a bigger gathering gets

> together

> > with all the accents and ways of saying things.

> Everyone

> > comes across the same in typing. LOL

> > As said, she's from Boston and

> doesn't

> > pronounce her " R " If she says,

> > " You Betta Buy Butta " She means, " You

> Better

> > Buy Butter. " Am I right ?

> > I had a friend in high school that moved here from

> Boston

> > and she said, " Dahhhhhhg " for

> " Dog " I

> > love the accents, it's so much fun to hear the

> different

> > ways that English is spoken.

> >

> >

> >

> > Re: OT /My visit to see

> Don

> >

> > Laughing big time here, especially with your spelling

> of

> > figure!

> >

> >

> >

> > > >

> > > > Courage, you and have accents in your

> > writing. You write cheque, we write

> > check.

> > > > I think it was the word favour or something

> that

> > wrote similar to that and

> > we write

> > > favor. Do you write color as colour?

> > > > That's what makes it even more fun that

> we

> > are all from different places with different

> > > > ways of writing and speaking. LOL

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > ------------ --------- --------- ------

> > >

> > > Welcome to LBDcaregivers.

> > >

> > >