'g' sound, BD,as in Eng(hard g stop here)'-lish, contrast to lenth all one sound, no 'g' sound in the middle. Minnesotans know what I'm saying,
Kt

Mngyal, the Northern Minnesota accents are even More pronounced, up in the iron range....I loved the lenth and strenth, for length and strength. no g at all. yet English clearly has a g.

Kt

*The actors in Fargo don't quite nail it, but we do say yaah (yeah), shoor (sure) and ya betcha (you bet you, I guess, though I'd never thought to break it down before). *We abuse the word "with" in sentences involving the verbs take, come and go, as in "You're going to Suzie's? Grea...

I was born in the midwest and pronounce wagon properly, so did everyone I knew there. I never noticed much of an accent while there, I blended right in, keep in mind I was born there but spent a lot of time in the south then moved to Minneapolis for high school/college. Kt maybe because we were alwa...

Would Torquemada have been an excruciator? How about Hitler or his minions?

or would it just be the one in the hood? Are those who order it the excruciator? or just the one who does the dirty deeds?

Kt
Many thanks to Luis for bringing this to our attention.

ketch·up (kchp, kch-) also catch·up (kchp, kch-) or cat·sup (ktsp, kchp, kch-) n. A condiment consisting of a thick, smooth-textured, spicy sauce usually made from tomatoes. [Probably Malay kicap, fish sauce, possibly from Chinese (Cantonese) k-chap, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) qié, eggplant +...

blath·er·skite (blr-skt) n. 1. A babbling, foolish person. 2. Blather. [blather + dialectal skite, a contemptible person (from Middle English skite, diarrhea, from Old Norse sktr, excrement, from skta, to defecate; see skei- in Indo-European roots).] The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English...

The American Indian's trickster is coyote, that is the tribes I'm familiar with say this.

Kt

Then don't.

And others won't, either.

But it's no fair tossing out little hand grenades and then feigning surprise when someone lobs one back.

-gailr

I think you need some chocolate.
Kt

Last Spring two large stray dogs cornered a racoon in the woods, and over 100feet away and through all the barking I could hear the racoon growling and snarling, the two big dogs were sent packing and yowling btw. Kt racoons are scary and big and we see them ALL the time out by our woods behind our ...

When you win that house, Tim and I will bring you the skunks! :) I figured you and your family might want to stay and visit, the house is huge and the guest wing is complete with a small kitchen and laundry facilities. but if you just want me to take your skunks, well, ok. and Apo, Racoons are a bi...

Mayhaps I'll catch them and send them to Charlotte for Tim to enjoy. Kt ...trade for skunks... But you'll have to come pick them up. :) Shannon, when I win this house http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/pac_ctnt_988/text/0,,HGTV_22056_38649,00.html I'll bring 'em wif me Kt BD, don't go changing.....we love yo...

BD, tall in the saddle?

Kt

Katy, you say you weren't talking about politics (which you keep referring to as 'big L' Liberal) but your post immediately after mine begs to differ: -Tim Tim, now we all know where we stand, each of us socio-politically, so we needn't beat that particular dead horse again. I shouldn't have used t...

:) We have at least 2 children who would think of you fondly forever if you did! I can't say the same for Tim, though. Tell you what... I'll trade you a couple of skunks for those coons you got. But you'll have to come pick them up. :) your kids would not like these big mean nasty racoons, nor Tim ...