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Dementia is a bitch.

So is Rudy.

 

This is why Biden won the state

 

Until Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller can finalize the plot to take out Biden and Harris, which they will try to execute with the help of each Secret Service detail.

 

We were just talking about this at dinner tonight, where we were surrounded by "mountain people" who haven't yet come close to losing their regional accent.

The y'alls, honeys, sugahs and dears are just as thick as ever. As long as they keep marrying each other's sisters, the Dawgs aren't in danger of becoming the Dogs.

As Gwen said in her best southern drawl when discussing the study behind the story, "That ain't right."

Atlanta, perhaps? But rural Georgia is still crackerville.

 

Losing it, or not losing it? You'd be hard-pressed to find someone with a thicker Southern accent than mine.

 

I grew up in Georgia. I left in 1978 and have since lived in Texas and Alabama. I have lost my Georgia accent, a distinctive sound to my ear. I still sound very Suhthern, but it's a softer, more generic form of speech. I no longer sound like my Georgia roots.

 

Often there are accents within accents to the "trained" ear. One of my best friends 'round here, I met him on the golf course when I'd first joined our club. He'd said no more than a sentence or two before I knew, within 100 miles, whence he came.

 

I always think I should have majored in dialects, because I've lived so many places and heard so many different ways to pronounce English words.

North Carolina's regional dialects are quite distinctive, if you've been around long enough to hear them all. Down East is like somebody trying to talk with their lower jaw wired in place. But the closer to the Atlantic, the more it goes from "hiigh tiide" to "hoi toide." And Ocracoke is it's own dialect.

If you ask someone where they're from, "Federal" is Fayetteville and "Churvul" is Cherryville. And south of Raleigh, you might find yourself on "Fitty Highway," or as I might pronounce it, Highway 50.

 

I once did a phoner w/someone in Massachusetts who asked where I was from. I told him Long Island and he guessed a town like five miles from mine.

 

Shocked. Shocked I tell ya. Trump drops Cohen suit before he has to give a deposition.

Trump drops lawsuit against Michael Cohen just days before former president was to be deposed | CNN Politics