Janet

OK, this durned Yankee stands corrected <g>. I lived in Tennessee for 3+
years and didn't hear it there....maybe because most of my friends and
colleagues were also from out of state and I didn't notice it amongst the
natives...

Though I did learn to understand a heavy southern drawl (a la Tom on
Survivor). My roommate (from PA) would hand me the phone when our landlord
called.....she could never understand a word he said, lol.

Janet, mom to Caroline, 7, and Thomas, 3

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Sharon,
I'm up in the P'cola area, where are you? You must be near the Everglades if
your name "Sharon of the Swamp" is a sign of geographical location!!!
I can vouch for the Coke/soda issue being a Southern thing.
If someone asks if you want a Coke you then tell them what kind (Dr. Pepper,
Pepsi etc...) No one says "pop" ....our former favorite word for the bubbly
stuff..... it's soda down here. And that is any fizzy drink.
We got some really funny looks when asking for Pop our first year.
But then, I live in a place where people call their kids "Bubba" and "Billy
Bob"...????
People push buggies in the store, not carts.
They are always fixin' to go somewhere, and the y'all can be said more ways
than I ever would have guessed...as in, all y'alls. Wow!
My favorite saying is "We're gonna be fried like pie" on a really hot day.
These Southerners have a way with words, I'm tellin' ya.
Ren

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In a message dated 12/19/01 8:53:04 PM, jefhdvm@... writes:

<< My roommate (from PA) would hand me the phone when our landlord
called.....she could never understand a word he said, lol.
>>

I used to interpret, in college, between the Boston and New Jersey group and
the rural-New Mexicans (those speaking the Texas-sort-of-thing) who couldn't
understand one another. I had to learn some vocabulary myself, though, in
addition to accent. "A film and a pie" (as in pizza and a movie) was very
foreign.

Sandra

Sharon Rudd

> I'm up in the P'cola area, where are you?
Ren

Hi Ren

I am about 30 miles NW of Jacksonville on the St.
Mary's river, which drains from the Okeefeenokee
Swamp. Yesterday Roy waded across the river, to
Georgia, without getting his shorts wet. It is that
warm, and, at least, right here, that shallow. Need
some REAL rain. The river is sometimes 20 to 40 feet
deeper....more down river.

I used to live in between Crawfordville and Sopchoppy,
south of Tallahassee, with the Wildlife Refuge as my
back yard. That too, is a lot of swamp.
<<<<<<<<

I just got a reminder from the school board about
evaluations and tests and such. Do you have an open
minded qualified person to do your evaluation? Does
he/she charge and arm and a leg?

DH is an Amtrak engineer and is in Pensacola more
often than at home, just now. Perhaps we could all
meet sometime.? I have other friends who play a lot
of music in your area, they live in Tallahassee,
though. There are, also, a couple of quite active
bands of Muscogee Creek and Echota Tsalagi Indians.
Though I have mostly lost contact with folks over
there, in the last few years.

Ya'll can reply off list, if'n ya'll wanna.

Sharon of the Swamp



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