Catch Y'all Later.

[tiredofdoctors]

Certainly didn't let ME know you were going to be in town. Hmmmmmpf

[AndreaB]

Lynne,

Isn't Louisville the thorobred capital of the states? Are there a lot of farms in your area? I love horses.

[CarlaB]

You'd love KY then, Andrea. There are all kinds of horse farms with white fences, it's really beautiful.

[VydorScope]

Certainly didn't let ME know you were going to be in town. Hmmmmmpf

Well mark your caladner... next time Promise Keepers is there, so will I! (its there every other year so you can not say I did not give you any warning!)

[Lisa]

Thank God this thread has turned it's page!

Lynne:

As a true Southerner, I think you need to educate people about the difference between a Red-neck and a Good O'l Boy.

[tiredofdoctors]

Oh my . . . . . . . . don't even know how to begin to address the difference!!!!! Words simply can't do the characterization justice. Let's just say, if you LIVE here, you know the difference!!

The funny thing is that Louisville is like the 6th largest city in the US . . . go figure.

We actually do have cultural events . . . we have an orchestra, a center for the arts, an art museum which brings in exquisite collections, theatre, art galleries, a beautiful new building which houses works of glass that are locally crafted . . . the same goes for Lexington. It's just that, well, if you would go to our state fair, you'd be hard pressed to believe that any of that exists!

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Actually, one of my dearest friends (I've known her for 30 years!) lives in Lexington--she plays in the Lexington Philharmonic and teaches Suzuki Violin through the Lexington Talent Education Association!

[tiredofdoctors]

See -- we have culture -- pronounced "culchur"!!!!!

Actually, my daughter & son-in-law sing in the Opera there . . . .

[debmidge]

Karen:

The cool thing about our accents is that it is dirived by a cross between "old-english" and early American.

I am not a native here, but I have picked up some, after being her for almost 30 years. And, it is very much like the Canadian Maritimers. As in "hoi-toid" (high tide). It still lives on the outer reaches of the outer banks.

On the other note:

I know there are others. Healing is all inclusive, whether is it physical, chemical, mental or emotional.

Sending the grits....

Lisa

I had been on OuterBanks a few times now and I have two cousins from NJ originally who live there year round & have for over 10 years . One of the cousins (male) has developed an accent of the region and I have to really listen to him when he speaks because I can't figure out what he is saying until 30 seconds after he speaks. (They moved there when they were about only 22 years old - wanted to get out of NJ and start new). I was there during Labor Day weekend and did not want to leave. Stayed in Southern Shores in house near beach. I'd like to live there too.

[debmidge]

Hey Carla -- where do you live? I would LOVE to meet one Saturday . . . it would be FUN! If we can drive 2 hours and then some because I left the instructions at home to see Jen, 30 minutes would be a piece of cake! Canadian cake, which, evidently is in the mail and is the best you've eaten!!

It is true, however, that most of us sound like hicks. Don't understand it. When I was working as a sales rep, the bulk of my accounts were in Cincinnati and Southern Ohio. Had to work hard to "Northern up" my accent because of all the garbage I took about my accent. Unfortunately, because that was in the 80's, I'm back to sounding like a hick. If I spelled it phoenetically (which, many from my state don't understand what that means . . . sorry, but it's true) you guys pronounced "giz" (long I) wouldn't be able to understand me AT ALL!!! Not that I make a heck of a lot of sense ANYWAY . . . .

Lynne:

For my job I talk to people from all over the country and when I get a southerner on the phone I absolutely adore talking to them. I enjoy their accents and would miss it if they all "Northern Up" - I like them just the way they are. I've been speaking to people from south so long that, as in my post about my cousin, it just takes me several seconds before I process the information. I'd really miss the accents. I worked with a fellow from KY (about 20 years ago) and he worked for a large national insuance company when he first got out of college and they forced him to go to school to learn to speak without a KY accent. They turned him into a northerner! It kind of upset me to hear that back then. I don't know if they do that any longer or would it be considered violating someone's civil rights?

[CarlaB]

I like southern accents, too. I lived in the south for several years, and to this day I pick up the accent very easily and very quickly, but when I get back up north, I pick up the lack of accent.

[Lisa]

I like southern accents, too. I lived in the south for several years, and to this day I pick up the accent very easily and very quickly, but when I get back up north, I pick up the lack of accent.

Hey...we don't have accents, y'all do

[VydorScope]

Ive been a southern for 6 years now... and I still talk like a Jersery hick

[CarlaB]

Hey...we don't have accents, y'all do

If that's the case, how come stuff is spelled like we say it?

Ive been a southern for 6 years now... and I still talk like a Jersery hick

They might think that in TN, but I bet they don't think that in Jersey!

[VydorScope]

If that's the case, how come stuff is spelled like we say it?

Its not Try this sentence..

The dove dove in the bush.

Soooo

They might think that in TN, but I bet they don't think that in Jersey!

I kind of wish I could pick a good old south accent..... I did pick up "y'all" and "fix'n" at least!

[jerseyangel]

Ive been a southern for 6 years now... and I still talk like a Jersery hick

Ain't nothin' wrong with that

When we lived in the south for 7 years, people would always comment on our accents. Before that, we had only lived in one city our whole lives up to that point, so we never thought of ourselves as having an accent! What a couple of rubes we were.

[CarlaB]

Its not Try this sentence..

The dove dove in the bush.

Soooo

Well, granted, there are often different pronunciations for the same spelling ... that's not what I meant. I love the way Taz writes, you can "hear" her accent. Lynne ocassionally tells us how she says things, but there's nothing interesting about the way I talk, it's all how it's written .... well, except for irregular words like the first dove.

[nikki-uk]

we have culture -- pronounced "culchur"!!!!!

Now that's exactly how I would say it as a Londoner.

I pick accents up really quick.I've only got to be in someone's company (who has an'accent') for 5 mins and I struggle not to mimic their accent in my answers!

My sister in law lives in Yorkshire England (up North as we call it) and she reckons she can't understand me when I talk fast

Dunno wot she's on about-I ain't got no accent

[tiredofdoctors]

If you meet someone who grew up not so far from here -- maybe even 30-40 miles out -- you will hear ALL kinds of southern "hick" sayings!!! Fix'n is a standard. "I'm fix'n to make dinner" "I'm fix'n to whoop your tail" . . . also, if they're fairly southern, you wouldn't wake up "In the morning." You'd wake up "of a mornin'" So, if you put it together, you would say, "I was fixin' to try to get a hair appointment as soon as I got up of a mornin'"

Yeah, I'm kind of used to my accent . . . . and the rediculous things I say sometimes! When my daughter was a sophomore in high school, she had TOLD me that she entered four poems / articles into a contest in order to be published in a book that the school puts out. It's a pretty "hushy-tushy" thing if you make it into it. The competition -- or at least the way they conduct it -- is brutal. They put up a HUGE poster and list each person who as submitted either an art or written composition, put their numbers up, and as they're eliminated, they just cross first the numbers out, then the person's entire name. Their name STAYS UP there for the duration, just with a big black line through it. Talk about HUMILIATING! My son is an excellent writer, but he said he wouldn't submit anything because he just didn't want to risk the humiliation.

What my daughter DIDN'T tell me was that she actually submitted FIVE compositions . . . and the ONE that got accepted was the one that she didn't let me see. She gave me the book for Mother's Day -- it had just been published, and there was a ribbon bookmark that she had put in it. The title was "I'm not ready to stop believing . . . . " and it listed all the goofy things that I say! I thought it was pretty funny, but some of the things were pretty SOUTHERN . . . . . !!!!

When she was little, I was getting a haircut, and the girl was combing the back of my hair. Ashley kept saying, "Watch her baki's" (long I) "Watch her baki's" Finally the girl cutting my hair said "What in the H*ll are BAKI's?" Ashley just looked at her like she was an idiot . . . she said, "They're the eyes that you get in the back of your head when you become a mother, AND YOU'RE COMBING THEM!!!!!" So, as you can see, I've passed the legacy on . . . . . . when I finally get to have them, my poor grandkids!!!

Nikki -- I do the same thing with accents . . . my kids do the same thing, too! When I was a kid (14 or 15), a friend and I had these two people who worked at the arcade that we were from England . . . luckily, my friend was GREAT at Geography, and she was saying the areas in which we grew up, etc. We walked out chuckling . . . .

My kids are good at mimmicking accents, as well. My son's rendition of the "stereotypical Jewish mother" . . . he would have our friend, Helen, who was Jewish, doubled over laughing!

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Here in Pittsburgh, the local dialect leaves out infinitives: instead of saying, "the car needs to be washed," they say, "the car needs washed."

Drives me crazy (I'm not from Pittsburgh originally). And, oh, was I horrified when my kids started to do it!

Instead of, "y'all," they say, "yunz" or "yinz" (not sure how to spell it). They can't seem to pronounce "ow." "Downtown" is "dahntahn." Yinz gahn dahntahn?

[CarlaB]

Here in Pittsburgh, the local dialect leaves out infinitives: instead of saying, "the car needs to be washed," they say, "the car needs washed."

Drives me crazy (I'm not from Pittsburgh originally). And, oh, was I horrified when my kids started to do it!

Instead of, "y'all," they say, "yunz" or "yinz" (not sure how to spell it). They can't seem to pronounce "ow." "Downtown" is "dahntahn." Yinz gahn dahntahn?

Hmm, I leave out infinitives ... must be a midwestern thing, too. I've lived in Ohio, Indiana, Texas, California, and Florida. I used to have an Ohio/Texas accent. It was very funny. As I was talking with a man at the airport while waiting for a plane (not a college guy), when I was in college, it was driving him crazy, he finally asked, "So, are you from Ohio or Texas?" When I explained that I grew up in Ohio, but my family moved to Texas and I spent a lot of time there, then he understood.

Lynne, sometimes it's the southerners who can do the best English accent -- think Bridget Jones Diaries -- and vice versa -- think Gone With the Wind.

Well, must go, Fiddle-Faddle, the kitchen needs cleaned.

[jerseyangel]

In New Jersey we never say "go to the beach" or "to the ocean"--we say "down the shore". Like, 'this weekend went down the shore.'

[CarlaB]

Well, must go, Fiddle-Faddle, the kitchen needs cleaned.

Actually, I would say the car needs washed, but the kitchen one doesn't sound right.

[nikki-uk]

Lynne, sometimes it's the southerners who can do the best English accent -- think Bridget Jones Diaries -- and vice versa -- think Gone With the Wind.

I'd have to agree I couldn't find any fault in Renee Zellweger's English accent.

I actually think there are similarities in English + Southern accents.

Heck, 5 minutes in Lynne's company and I would be drawling like a native!!!!!

[tiredofdoctors]

Nikki -- so COME ON OVER!!!!!

My in-laws are from Baltimore -- their accent keeps me reeling -- I don't know what they're saying!!

Bel-Air road is "BLAIR" road . . . If they're going to the beach -- it's "Downy ocean" (Down to the ocean), the word "wash" is "warsh" and a sink is a "zink" -- hence, you "warsh the dishes inth zink." Baltimore???

It's "Balmer" . . . . . .

Holy mackerel! For a southern girl, they're killin' me! When we were on our way up to New Hampshire a few years ago, we stopped at a McDonalds in Boston so that I could get a milkshake. The guy looked at me with disbelief when I ordered a "Large Chocolate Milkshake". He repeated it, and I couldn't understand it!! I looked at him and said, "I just want a large chocolate milkshake." He shook his head, took my money, got my shake and started laughing!