for Mom Butterfly, today's installment

Yea, but it takes some twice as long to read if they can't talk like that..

Dee in Oz

I talk like that and it was rough going for me. :) Butterfly, how deep in the south did you live? :D

Mary in TN

Fort Lauderdale, Florida :) Bout as deep as you can go--and yes, we DID have a belated Honeymoon at the Summerland Key. Can it really be 30 years ago? Still have the 2 conch shells that DH found for us......Owner cooked them for dinner, we didn't partake of it as we already had reservations elsewhere.. Even went to Key West. Butterfly

Mary > I talk like that and it was rough going for me. :) Butterfly, how deep in

And as for my excuse........my grandmother is from the Eastern Shore of Virginia (says Dohguh for dog, Hoguh for hog, Loguh for log and that sort of thing). Also, I have the wonderful (not sure if it is unusual or not) talent of being able to pick up an accent - no matter where it is from - in less than 6 hours of being around the person speaking. It really freaked out my British neighbor when he was giving me a tour of his house before I house-sat for him. Now, my inlaws (oh, did i mention that all the boys were born in Illinois, yet still speak with a Mississippi accent?) have yet to make a comment on it.

Larisa, born > Fort Lauderdale, Florida :)

Oh, well that explains it. Florida isn't a part of the south. We don't know how it happened. It was southern at one time. It must have been the mass migrations from the north that squeezed out the native southerners. I can't prove it but I believe Florida is responsible for adding sugar to cornbread. My daughter lives in Florida now and she comes home to visit, it takes a couple of days for her to remember how to talk right so we can understand her. Poor kid.

Come to Tennessee, Butterfly, and I'll teach you how to talk the *right way.

Mary in TN

Florida never suceeded from the Union, therefore most of the South never considered it Southern. And the tip is all inhabited by transplanted yankees anyway, or Cubans.

I lived in the panhandle. It was only the backwoods well away from the interstate that folks talked proper Southern. And heck, I sounded more Souther when I lived up in Beavercreek (beavercrik), Ohio.

My sister lives in Melbourne, FL. Her kids still talk like proper Vermonters- they moved 3 years ago to there from Burlington. But she's lasped into the slight southern common in the panhandle where we were born.

-georg

What's wrong with a little sugar in cornbread? I love it that way! (Born in Florida, grew up in Indiana - not sure which one to blame for my like of sugar in cornbread!)

Ok--she asked how FAR south we went--that was 30 years ago Dec 1 (it was SNOWING the day we left MI--and we LOL for most of the trip) Since then we have hung our hats in the mountains of: KY and WV. MD, PA (east and west), IL, IN, MI(UP AND LP), WY, CO, UT, NM, NV, CA and been in every state but a dozen so far..lived in Canada for a year and walked into out of Mexico. HTH Butterfly (and they say I STILL have the MI accent and we haven't lived there in 24 years)

Mary > Oh, well that explains it. Florida isn't a part of the south. We don't