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by nurseshark
Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:34 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: right straight?
Replies: 1
Views: 8611

right straight?

So I went to the cherry blossom festival in DC the other day, and we stopped to ask some locals for directions.. me, "can you point me towards union station?" local, "you go straight left down the road there and then make a right." everyone else in the car got confused, but i kne...
by nurseshark
Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:21 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: baby cats
Replies: 6
Views: 16421

baby cats

here is something to add for the next yankee/southerner dialect test..

what do you call a baby cat?
kidden (not sure where from, but i've heard it)
keh-ehn (connecticut)
kiten (how we said it in virginia)
by nurseshark
Mon Apr 03, 2006 11:17 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: merry?
Replies: 2
Views: 17303

merry?

I had a friend who was really into linguistics once and tried this trick on me.. say the words: marry mary merry people from different areas tend to say these words differently. where I grew up in southern virginia, these words all sounded the same, but here in philadelphia, they are all pronounced ...

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