Bobert - I was only funnin' you about the climbing hydrangea (I mean hyacinth). I'll believe it when I see it.

Your 'dialect' does not sound Afro-American to me. You sound more like a a hillbilly. Since this a folk site, I think its perfectly appropriate.

Azizi - Do you write the way you speak or do you clean it up to sound a little closer to standard English? I know that most of the novels written by Afro-American women use the Afro-American speech patterns.