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Originally Posted by REE1993
. . . and now says "open" or "close" the light, like I do (turn on or turn off).
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Now there's one I've
never heard. At least "cut off the light" makes
some sense.
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Flipflop shoes are "thongs".
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And yeah, thongs are underwear, and flipflops aren't shoes. They're . . . flipflops. (Sandals?)
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Originally Posted by NutBrnHair
Some of the "Southern" colloquialisms mentioned in this thread are "rural" as opposed to "urban."
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True to a point, but since until relatively recent times, there was little that was "urban" in the South, it may be a distinction without a difference. Where it is not "urban" dialect, that may be as much due to the influx of people from, ummm, "not around here" as to a rural-urban distinction.