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Subject: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Bobert Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:01 PM Well, folks, we are livin' just 5 miles north of South Carolina and... ...rat = right and ...lay-ift = left... Man, I thought I was country??? Just thought I'd share that with ya'll... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: gnu Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:15 PM Gladjadideh? Least you can understand em. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Bobert Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:35 PM Well, I won't miss those 30 inch snows.... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: gnu Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:39 PM 30 inch snow? Dustings? What's bad about them? They freshen the air. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Bobert Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:45 PM Dusting we might get here every 5 years... 30 inches??? Never... Hey, if I need freshinin' I'll get some Glade... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Rapparee Date: 14 Aug 12 - 08:50 PM 30 inches...you wimps! You wussies! We can and have gotten 72 inches AND MORE!!! Last I saw there was still snow on the hills to the west of us!!! Just some little pussycats, ain'tcha? You probably think a mild 50 mph zephyr is a hard wind, too! Pantywaists! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Bobert Date: 14 Aug 12 - 09:19 PM Oh bull, Rap... Ya'll crazy people who live in snowburg have snow figured out... No one runs outta beer... No one loses their power... In Virginia ya' get 30 inches and you are seriously screwed... BTW, rat 'er lay-ift??? B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: GUEST,MarkS Date: 14 Aug 12 - 09:41 PM My employer is in South Carolina. Get a half inch and they shut the shop and send everybody home! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Rapparee Date: 14 Aug 12 - 09:57 PM Raht don the sinner! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Janie Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:27 PM Never quite sure how to think about this, being aware of the negative connotations and prejudices toward both southern and hillbilly accents, and possessing an accent that is decidely both, though more southern after my many years living on the Piedmont. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Bobert Date: 14 Aug 12 - 10:42 PM Come on, Janie... Ya' gotta choose... No, you don't... I know what you mean... I got 'um both and can go either way... Ain't a rat 'er row-end thing... B;~) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Ebbie Date: 14 Aug 12 - 11:04 PM I am one of those who likes regional accents and take pleasure in hazarding a guess as to where a speaker is from. I used to be spot on anywhere in Kentucky. Nowadays I am attuned to North Carolina and Texas. Midwestern accents are harder to isolate; not sure about the differences between Kansas and Nebraska for instance. Oklahomans range widely- more Texas than most states- but they also pick up on more northerly regions. Michigan and Indiana, and Ohio seem pretty mainstream to me while the only Minnesota to my ear that I can identify has a sing song quality I don't hear anywhere else. I'm not attuned to differences among Oregon, northern California and Washington people. I suppose that is because I spent most of my life there. In Alaska we are practically all from somewhere else, which makes it fun to guess origins. But yeah, I kin idintifaa with living rat heah where I can chick the all and kiuck the tars. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: artbrooks Date: 14 Aug 12 - 11:15 PM I am pretty sure that there hasn't been 30" total since we moved to Albuquerque 11 years ago. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Bugsy Date: 14 Aug 12 - 11:23 PM SNOW?? What's that? I've lived in West Aussie for 40 years and never seen one flake fall here. CHeers Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Ebbie Date: 15 Aug 12 - 12:13 AM A (very nice) man originally from Perth told me that he was going up Mount Hood, Oregon, because he had never seen snow but that, of course, he knew what it was like, having seen frost in freezers... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: JennieG Date: 15 Aug 12 - 01:57 AM Yes, Ebbie.....some Aussies don't know what snow is much. A village nigh on an hour south of here gets the occasional fall once or twice each winter. That's a big deal round here, you know. Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Ebbie Date: 15 Aug 12 - 03:33 AM Yes, I assured Des that he'd find that snow is quite, quite different from freezer frost. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: GUEST,petecockermouth Date: 15 Aug 12 - 05:14 AM i thought it was the english that never stop going on about the weather.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 15 Aug 12 - 09:38 AM You know the diffence between Georgia peaches and South Carolina peaces? Georgia peaches only have two syllables. South Carolina peaches have at least three. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Bill D Date: 15 Aug 12 - 10:24 AM Could be worse... a lovely lady I know from New England used to talk about The Bawding Potty |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Rapparee Date: 15 Aug 12 - 10:37 AM Pahk the cah in the Hahvahd yahd. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Ebbie Date: 15 Aug 12 - 11:14 AM bahk! bahk! bahk! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Aug 12 - 12:15 PM When I worked for the National Park Service in Tennessee some of use used to sit on the crew house porch in the evening doing a Smokey Mountain spelling bee. "Far" = F-I-R-E "Tar" = T-I-R-E etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: gnu Date: 15 Aug 12 - 05:44 PM "I've lived in West Aussie for 40 years and never seen one flake fall here." NO flakes in WEest Oz? Sounds like a nice spot on more than one level. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: JennieG Date: 15 Aug 12 - 05:56 PM Don't believe it, gnu......it can be a pretty flakey place at times! What makes the southern accent.....where did it originate? Is it a descendant of Scottish settlers, Irish, what? Or is it a hybrid accent, like Aussie - a mix of different accents? Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: artbrooks Date: 15 Aug 12 - 07:07 PM There is no one Southern accent, Jennie. People who live there can easily distinguish North Georgia from South Georgia, and so forth. Those who have never had the pleasure, or who (like myself) have been gone for a long time have much more trouble - shucks, some of them can't even tell an Alabaman from a West Virginian! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Ebbie Date: 16 Aug 12 - 12:44 AM In northern-ish Virginia a great many accents, aphorisms, customs and family names - and for that matter, much music - hale from Scotland and thereabouts. At the moment I can't recall the occasion(s) that brought the pioneers to the west but the influence is still there. My family knew a couple where the husband and the wife spoke with different accents. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: Little Hawk Date: 16 Aug 12 - 01:31 AM the most snow I EVER saw was in rural New York in the late 50s, don't remember which year exactly...might've even been the very early 60s. At any rate, it was incredible. I think it was '58 or '59. They had some odd dialect there too. The most enduring one was: "Ayyyy-yup!" - meaning "Yes!" And then there were: "So didn't I." - So did I. "So wouldn't I." - So would I. "So couldn't I." - So could I. "No fair!" - That's not fair! (this is common all over the place) "I could care less." - I couldn't care less. "Febyooary" - sans the "r" (also common all over the place) "Nocyoolar" - nuclear (also very common...a Dubyaism) "Lay down" - lie down "irregardless" - regardless "disorientated" - disoriented The odd thing was how so many of those common expressions were more complicated and cumbersome to utter than the correct words would have been, and they didn't make sense either logically speaking, often meaning the exact opposite of the intended meaning. People had not yet, however, descended to the utter banality of saying things such as: "I'm like...whatever. And she's like...get a life! So I'm like...I HAVE a life!" etc. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Rat 'er lay-ift... From: ChanteyLass Date: 16 Aug 12 - 08:28 PM If you want to understand one type of Rhode Island accent (I don't think this is mine), you need to watch Mr. Rhody. At least we know how to laugh at ourselves! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikdawnIY8RA |
