Y'all about whuppped up on this. Yeah, the things that make a person look "ignernt" may drive me nuts but local phrasings and the spoken word? C'mon....Gimmee a break. I really love to hear the way a word is said by the locals and at times it might be respectful to just go with it instead of making fun of it!

I love to hear Ed Schultz on MSNBC do the commercial about growing up. He went to Maury High School in Norfolk, Virginia. Ed says, "Mah-ree high school in Nawfuck." On the other hand, some of them piss me off. This one was on Facebook the other day and the woman nailed it. The word is Ap-uh-lattcha NOT Ap-uh-laysha. You owe it to folks in a region, or a state, or a city, or a street, to say it right!   Where I grew up there was a Tussing Road. We said TOO-sing because that was what the family used and I went to school with several of them. When I came back to Ohio after 15 years that area had grown and now they said Tuh-sing. I corrected someone and they corrected me right back. So I REALLY corrected them. It wasn't a pleasant scene.....

A popular expression in the south and especially the Carolinas is "carry."   "I had my Dadddy carry me down to the Piggly Wiggly." First time I heard that in college I had a vision a the guy riding piggy back to the grocery store. If someone was a homosexual, he was a queer (kweer). No problem, just like we all say it. But if a guy did something odd, it was a queer(kwair). A bit different. Berea opened my eyes a lot. It seemed the I was the one with the funny accent.......I spoke "right kwair" at times.

You can tell where you are in Ohio by how they say the name of the state. Every state tends to have local words and phrases that aren't attuned to our ears but it is to theirs......and we adapt. Except in Maine.....First time I went to Maine I was looking for a college friend and his wife who had just moved in and I had lost the phone number. Ended up at the Police station and spent the next 20 minutes in conversation........or something. Most of it wasa him speaking and I'd say, "Huh?" Then I would speak and he'd say "Huh?"

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