Judy, that was great!! I had to email your list to several friends as a justification for my addiction to the Mudcat forum.

It reminds me of when I was in art school, and a graduate student from North Carolina was really difficult for me to understand. I was working in the print lab, levigating a lithograph stone, when he walked by and briskly said, "MahndefAhturndahntherahdyoh? He had to repeat it three times before I understood 'Mind if I turn down the radio'. A few months later, after Christmas break when he had gone back home to visit, I said to him, "Gee, Lowell, it seems like it's easier for me to understand you when you speak now." He said, "Ya, ma fokes say Ah tawk lak a Yankee now."

alice