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dacjohns
Our Frustrated Curmudgeon
Or chimbly or chiminey.
Car for sell.
Car for sell.
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Henrietta23
Yard Farmer
In my personal opinion, the narrator of Dr. Suess's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is allowed to say "Chimbley". No one else is.dacjohns said:
Edited to insert the word "Grinch" which I had inadvertently left out of the title!
Beekissed
Mountain Sage
Okay, I'm going to "axe" a question here. Is it okay to say "don't got any"? 
THAT is my pet peeve around here. Noone bothers with verb tense at all, even when dealing professionally in their jobs. Do they not even hear how uncouth this sounds when they are talking to a doctor about a patient?
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dacjohns
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I don't got anything to say about that.Beekissed said:Okay, I'm going to "axe" a question here. Is it okay to say "don't got any"?
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ugh, my spelling and grammar are SOOO terrible you'd probably get tired of always telling me. Fortunately I try to hit the spell check button on the google toolbar before I hit submit. 
<edit to add... see I found one mispelling already and fixed it>
<edit to add... see I found one mispelling already and fixed it>
reinbeau
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Don't got nothin', Dac. It's hard for a grammarian to get the colloquialism right!dacjohns said:I don't got anything to say about that.Beekissed said:Okay, I'm going to "axe" a question here. Is it okay to say "don't got any"?
Quail_Antwerp
Cold is on the Right, Hot is on The Left
IT'S DON'T HAVE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE
"Dont'cha wish yer girlfriend was smart like me....."
"Dont'cha wish yer girlfriend was smart like me....."
2dream
Flibbertigibbet
Gorsh ya'll....you sure are taking the fun out my Southernease.
(Southernease = left out letters, letters that don't belong, shortcuts and words run together for EASE of speaking in a slow drawl along with misuse of as many words as possible in one run on sentence.)
We always warsh the winders with that rag over there ifn we can get the water hose to reach this fer. Cause we need to sale the house for English lessons.
Bee - axin back - you mean "I don't got any" is not correct?
I think here in the South we hear so much of this all the time we are immune to being bothered by some things. At a very early age we learn to read/listen to what someone intended to say and we completely overlook added letters, misspellings, etc. Most of us figure what the heck. Even if you should happen to be brave enough to correct some gun toten redneck why bother... they won't get it.
For safety sake (mine) I will add (just in case my neighbors is here and knows this is me)
Besides, most of us are funny and fun loving, great people that will do anything for you for free. And we are always good fer a good laugh.
My DD read this post over my shoulder and ump'ed. Apparently, she is with you uns. It drives her crazy.
(Southernease = left out letters, letters that don't belong, shortcuts and words run together for EASE of speaking in a slow drawl along with misuse of as many words as possible in one run on sentence.)
We always warsh the winders with that rag over there ifn we can get the water hose to reach this fer. Cause we need to sale the house for English lessons.
Bee - axin back - you mean "I don't got any" is not correct?
I think here in the South we hear so much of this all the time we are immune to being bothered by some things. At a very early age we learn to read/listen to what someone intended to say and we completely overlook added letters, misspellings, etc. Most of us figure what the heck. Even if you should happen to be brave enough to correct some gun toten redneck why bother... they won't get it.
For safety sake (mine) I will add (just in case my neighbors is here and knows this is me)
Besides, most of us are funny and fun loving, great people that will do anything for you for free. And we are always good fer a good laugh.
My DD read this post over my shoulder and ump'ed. Apparently, she is with you uns. It drives her crazy.
Beekissed
Mountain Sage
2dream, its not only us southern folks who have a speech and grammar problem. The worst I've encountered was in Rhode Island! They take every "A" and turn it into an "R" and all "Rs" then become "A's"... among other enunciation and pronunciation proclivities! I asked one of them if they were taught to speak like this in school and they said that they hadn't but it had just developed over time. They were correct! All the school children talked normally. Go figure!
reinbeau
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Obviously, Beekissed, you have never Pahked the Cah in Haavaad Yaad. Those Rhode Islanders are a sorry imitation of the true Bawston accent, which is trounced only by a good downeast Maine A-yup!
