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Well, that makes *two* of us, at least.

Nyssa, who has never and will never set foot in a Walmart

I moved to lower Michigan two years ago, and found it interesting that a lot of the old-timers here have a slight accent similar to the Boston Irish. Coulda be cause they're Michigan Irish...

sue

Splort, two things came to mind... Banana Irish, which is an Irishman turned inside out... and Lower MI... sue!! You're a 'troll'! No offense! Noreen who's hubby still refers to her as a flatlander and a FIB.

It all boils down to corporate greed and corruption. Walmart is a union boycott!!!! It's true that their products are chaeper, (more cheaply made in my opinion) and they are causing a lot of businesses to go under because of their price undercutting and unfair labor practices. When someone is hired at Walmart, they are given a list of places to go to sign up for state health care, food stamps etc. because these people make barely minimum wage, hardly any of the workers get any health benefits and hardly anyone is full time.......most of them get 10 to 20 hours a week if they're lucky and at a rate of pay barely above minimum wage. There was a newspaper article a few months ago, that the meat Walmart sells has a 3 week shelf life. It is so packed with salts and preservatives, it is dangerous to your health! A couple were cooking and feeding Walmart meat to their dog ( a large breed dog like a german shepherd) and the vet proved that the crap in the meat is what lead to the dog developing and dying from a heart condition. Check out what you buy before you buy it!!!! Marie and the cats- union all the way

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:58:39 -0500, "Noreen's Knit*che" spewed forth :

baaaahbwohr (barbed wire) uuuul (oil) manshack (manchacha, which I think may be a spanish word) daaaahmbux (dimebox, a blink-and-miss-it town) nuhbrahnsfels (new braunfels, a town originally settled by germans, about an hour south of here) gwadloop (guadalupe, spanish)

And that's just a few of the more amusing ones.

Then there was the time I encountered a Scotsman in a London restaurant. I swear to god he wasn't speaking English...

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:57:33 GMT, "Carey N." spewed forth :

I read somewhere that the whole "Down East" accent is what used to be a Proper British accent. That makes sense when one considers where the first European settlers to that area came from originally.

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I understand the term as used in this state. :D I'm a furriner though.

None taken.

sue

Probably not.

sue

When I was growing up(born TN., Raised Doraville, GA,), I had a drawl on some words, especially ones with the long I - right, night, etc. My dad(born Alabama, raised Bama, Cairo, Ill., and TN.) asked me a question that I responded to with' "All rat, I'll do it in a minute"(that translates to "all right, I'll do it in a minute'). For 10 minutes, he continued to ask "what?" as I amended the phrase to variations of 'Yessir'. I finally realized he wanted me to pronounce the word correctly. I spent a year being corrected on the PROPER pronunciation. For years, people swore I had no accent because I only spoke with a drawl at 90 miles an hour, and NO self-respecting Southerner doesn't have a drawl nor do they speak fast.... Long tale for a short point.... Chris(who's father told her in the 70's that a Southern accent made people deduct IQ points)

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Well, when I used to use a CB radio, people said I slipped into a "Mid-Western twang." 'Course, I can remember being tired once and slipping into a semblance of a Southern drawl, and when I said I was from Boston, someone asked, "South Boston?" (Person obviously hadn't heard about the St. Patrick's Day parades, etc.) ;-)) Carey

Might be true, Wooly, but I never think of a Proper British accent when someone starts swapper letters at the ends of words (a la the Kennedy's) or dropping "r's" entirely (I still paRk my caR in the yaRd). I will admit to dropping "g's" and using "gonna." I remember my mother telling me I wasn't making an effort to speak properly. She *was* of English descent, but the family came over before 1675. :-)) Carey

If the Scotsman was from Dundee he probably wasn't speaking English. I have family who live there and they explained "Dundonese" to me. It's very regionalized dialect spoken only in Dundee. It isn't spoken by many of the younger people, but my cousin is in her 60's and remembers it well as her parents generation used it. When she and her husband spoke Dundonese I had no idea what they were saying - they had to "translate" for me. All this on top of the thick Scottish accent!!

Robin

Now I just thought of some more funny things, about American English in GENERAL.... we park our cars in the driveway, but drive our cars on the parkway. No wonder English is so difficult to learn, and makes me respect ANYONE for whom English is a 2nd or more language.... Noreen

And as another example, a tart in America is certainly something different than a tart in England, at least when the phrase was used in prior centuries (and no, I haven't been around *that* long!) ;-)) Carey

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On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:26:01 -0400, Robin spewed forth :

The folks I was with - Brits all, tho mostly from Hamps and roundabout

- assured me it WAS English, but I was skeptical. Try as I might I couldn't "hear" the man. His mouth moved, sounds came out, but that's as far as I got. Everyone at the table had quite a chuckle over the Poor 'Merkin who couldn't understand "Queen's English" *g*

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On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:20:18 GMT, "Carey N." spewed forth :

Oh, a tart is a tart the world 'round, unless of course you're referring to a tart. I prefer blueberry, myself ;)

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LOL that would be a Glaswegian then:)

This is very common in the south. As a matter of fact, even they can't distinguish sometimes between 2 different words, because they pronounce them the same. That's why a lot of southerners, especially in rural aread, say "ink pen" instead of "pen", because when they say "pen" it sounds just like "pin".