Apparently the new link has removed the '/state' subdirectory...

-Tim

---Oh, and a "camp" is a cottage, not a campsite or camping area. Dave, I think you actually shed some light for me... The locals here in this area of North Carolina call a family-owned fish restaurant a fish camp ...! I had thought all along that it was perhaps from the idea of setting u...

Frank, it's not so much that each state would have its own accent, per se, but that the types of accents within each state are fairly identifiable. You're right about the geographic size in comparison to most European political borders. But one thing to keep in mind with your comparison is that most...

Sweet, because I missed my chances today!

It's funny (to me) how I thought to search for 'orgule', even though I'd never heard of it before... I pronounced the French word BD posted, and spelt it accordingly!

-Tim

From Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur:

Also when I remember me how by my default, mine orgule and my pride, that they were both laid full low...

So apparently in the Middle Ages, we had a form of this word in English...

-Tim

Oh yeah. I pride myself in not using it that way.

-Tim

I would not be surprised to find orgulant as a noun form. As for verb... we don't have a verb form of 'pride', do we? Or am I being dense this morning...

-Tim

And as an acronym, it means Dial-Up Networking (in Microsoft-ese).

-Tim

BD, when were you getting the error message? Although you didn't specifically state this, I bet you were getting the error when you clicked the button http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-www/chrome/icon_listen.gif , and that you simply clicked the first link to listen to the show, which is the Real Pla...

...when I was growing up in Michigan, we used Michigander. Perhaps Michigas [Yiddishized Hebrew for craziness/crazy things] would be more apt.

For that truly Yiddish effect, it seems that Michigannas would be a better term...

-Tim

That is a freaky, freaky picture you posted, btw, Perry...

-Tim

I'm just glad the hygiene of this thread has maintained its clinical nature. I have a feeling we're holding on by the skin of our teeth. It would be easy to let any long series of puns decay...

-Tim

So what shall we do? Simply grin and bear it?

I'd give up my eye-teeth for another good pun.

Maybe we bit off more than we can chew.

-Tim