When Dr. Goodword was Dr. Language at yourDictionary.com, in a gleeful mood one weekend he began recalling all the funny words he learned as a child growing up in North Carolina. The result was his Glossary of Quaint Southernisms which we have been featuring for a week or so now.
It is part and parcel of the most popular page on our Website by far, the Rebel-Yankee Test, which predicts with amazing accuracy the degree to which the speech of speakers from the States reflects a southern or northern accent.
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Katy,
Everyone in my family tried to speak "standard" English and loved to pick on each other's slippage. I told my students for decades that it is just a regional variation of English, but I still find it funny myself for some reason.
I will eventually get around to Brooklyn to balance things out.
Everyone in my family tried to speak "standard" English and loved to pick on each other's slippage. I told my students for decades that it is just a regional variation of English, but I still find it funny myself for some reason.
I will eventually get around to Brooklyn to balance things out.
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