It just seemed a little contrived because it didn't flow quite right. Whenever you use some part of speech, it has a certain flow to it. It is kind of like how I would never use the sentence " This Twinkie is Divine " because it does not flow correctly. If I ate Twinkies, I would describe them as being "tasty" or "good". It is the same sort of thing.

I admit though, that my speech is only in its currect state because of etiquette classes at the insistance of my grandmother (yay DAR and junior league?) and private school when I was in elementary.

There has got to be someone else here who has lived in southern areas and northern ones!

Ummm....What?

And for the record - I went to Western Il U, and now live south of Charlotte, NC.

Good grief.

:rolleyes: Hardly.

Pay attention. Everyone posting who actually lives in the South agrees that it was about as normal use of the word as one could have. My DAR grandmother would have said the same thing.
Ah, now we get it. Folks who use "y'all" are stupid, ignorant or lacking in refinement or the ability to speak in a flowing manner. Why didn't you just say that?

Might was well stay in the trailer, shinerbock.

LOL, do you mean the infamous St. Louis drawl?

Dang, it's just about High Tea time too - I guess we're not refined enough to qualify for ChildoftheHorn's teaparty. Oh well, back in the trucks, y'all.

Too bad you can't say the same for your spelling.

^^^Took etiquette classes, attended an elementary school for the "gifted," and still says y'all.

BTW CotH, do you say Missouree or Missouruh?

Sigh... I know I'm going to catch flak for this but... what is wrong/bad about High Tea (or do you mean Low Tea)? I love tea, I love the little sandwiches and meats (or the pasties and sweets at Low Tea), and I love the scotch that follows.

Nothing's wrong with High or Low Tea -- as long as it's not unsweet tea. :D [ducking for cover]

On Friday afternoon, 2 hours IS "almost". And I love tea, too.

OMG!!! Now you are taking things completely out of context! This is crazy, is it provoke the new member day? IDK - but it seems that people are twisting things to be to their own liking instead of their face value. My response about the speech thing was to the post above it about people from my state.

Also, There is NOTHING wrong about living in a trailer! Some people have just hit hard times or had a hard life, don't look down at them because of it. - That is a serious comment. Lack of money doesn't make you stupid or unclean, if you have met people in those circumstances you would agree.

*Those classes only teach you how to act in certain situations and not how to splel tinhgs . My major has to do just about as little as is possible with the english language.

Welcome to GC - EVERY day is provoke the new member day!

There are also really expensive trailers.

Since people are stuck on this "y'all" thing, my Southern parents didn't allow us to say "ya'll." They would always correct us and make us say "you all." They didn't care about regional dialect. They just cared about proper English, since "y'all" wasn't an accepted contraction (although almost all contractions were once deemed uneducated and improper English).

Very true, there is a very good documentary/show on the discovery channel about it. "Million Dollar Trailer Homes"

The owners all had other homes too. I was talking about what people usually assocciate with the type of housing.....

I don't know who to go after in this post, part of me wants to blast RA for giving us the Canadian perspective, but this girl talking about million dollar trailers just damn near gave me an aneurysm (which is a big deal, cause the mill don't offer very good health insurance).

LOL

There actually are expensive trailers and middle class trailer communities.

It is only nonintuitive because of what people have grown accustomed to regarding trailer homes and the people who live in them.

Yeah, I actually know a couple people whose parents bought them a trailer for college. Its weird going there, because you're driving around a TRAILER PARK and they're all filled with at least middle class kids with new 30k z-71's sitting outside.

LOL, Ignorance always runs rambutt on GC by some fantastice Posters!:D

It is so Swell of course!:o

Oh, I ment putt!:(

My Bad, I watch golf on TV!;)

What does this mean?

There are different accents just in Atlanta...when I moved here 25 years ago and I wasn't used to hearing Southern accents I noticed it a lot more. Now I have to stop and think about who has an accent and who doesn't because I'm used to hearing it. I barely notice all the different regional terms anymore, even though I don't use them (except I had to stop saying "pop" a long time ago!)

"Now I must fetch my pocketbook and carry Mother and Daddy to the Kroger because they are fixing to go to the beach and need to fill the buggy with Cokes for all the grandbabies"...said in my best NW ATL suburb accent.:D

Ain't it the truth!!!!:D

Oh Ya'All I am from The South or I am from Some Where say The North?

I have often wondered where the N & S is really defined?

It usually is in Peoples Minds!:(

Wrong. You're either born in the South, or you're a yankee. Thats basically how it goes.

^^^^ Very honestly I don't see much difference between the thesis you wrote and Mystic's synopsis. So I guess they are both garbage.

Oh, and make sure from here on out you spell everything correctly when you post.

I'm serious. How do you pronounce Missouri?

But what if you're born in the South....but your parents are "yankees"? Then what are you?

A democrat.

Hardly.

Win.

Why do I miss the fun when I'm working? Oh yeah, I'm sitting on an ambulance for 12 hours. Stop doing this without me! :mad:

Are your from MO? I specifically asked a person from there for a reason.

Ha!

I wish you would get eaten by a shark.

That's such a random type of demise.

Gotta keep it original.

"Just cause your cat has kittens in the oven doesn’t make them biscuits." --- Southern proverb

While at school, I say Missouree. I go to school in the Chicago area.
When in St. Louis or Columbia visiting family, I say Missourah. The difference is really only because no one knows what you are talking about when you say Missourah. The response is "Oh, you mean Missouree...." It just gets annoying.....

That's interesting. Growing up my family and everyone we knew (yes African Americans) always said Missouree. I didn't know that other Missourians pronounced it differently until years later. BTW, I am from the Lou and the third generation to go to Sumner.

I am from southeast Missouri. We say "miz-er-ee", not "miz-er-ah".

Yeah, I have family from Southeast Missouri and they say it the same way.

I don't get the Missourah thing. I think it sounds dumb...then again my mother can't really pronounce Massachusetts so we've all got problems.