Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/03

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Subject: Talking Southern (was: Re: [Leica] gummint ? [Re: Urgent: Long Distance Charge for Internet?])
From: "Howard Sanner" <flagstad@sysnet.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 23:38:09 +0000

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:09:41 -0500, Dan Post wrote:

>Gummint is the way we pronounce 'government' in the South in the USA!

   My grandmother, from North Carolina, always said "gov-ment," 
as if it were two words, with about equal stress on each.



>You also have to remember that a 'cheer' is something you sit in.

   Don't forget to tell him that "hit" is a pronoun, not a verb, 
and "sheer" does not refer to something translucent. Oh, and 
"aint" is your mother's or father's sister.

   We'll get into "wunst" and "twyst" in lesson four.

   Lest anyone get the wrong idea, I'm really sad that these 
regionalisms seem to be dying out. It's a part of the culture, 
but almost no one talks like my grandmother or uncles and aunts 
these days, and it's a shame.




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