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Stargzer
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Joined: 15 Feb 2005
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Location: Crownsville, MD
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 Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:40 pm
Post subject: Drawl |
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No, a drawl is not a sketching tool for etchers.
"She had a Southern Drawl that was just dripping with Dixie."
Drawls run the gamut of the light drawls from Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore, getting progressively heavier as one heads South through Virginia and the Carolinas into Georgia and Florida and West through West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, down to the deep drawls of the Deep South in Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana, and over to Texas.
Wikipedia also has an entry for drawl, which points to articles on Southern American English and Australian English.
| Quote: | The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
drawl
PRONUNCIATION: drôl
VERB: Inflected forms: drawled, drawl·ing, drawls
INTRANSITIVE VERB: To speak with lengthened or drawn-out vowels.
TRANSITIVE VERB: To utter with lengthened or drawn-out vowels: “We-e-ell,” the clerk drawled.
NOUN: The speech or manner of speaking of one who drawls: a Southern drawl.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably from Low German drauelen, to loiter, delay.
OTHER FORMS: drawl'er —NOUN
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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Slava
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Joined: 28 Sep 2006
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Location: Finger Lakes, NY
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Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:20 pm
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Surprising we haven't seen this one cross our bows as yet. Now that we seem to have a new crop of Southerners, perhaps it's time.
By the by, if your happy elf speaks with a drawl while making shoes, is that a droll drawling elf with an awl?
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beck123
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Joined: 22 Jan 2010
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Location: Jacksonville, FL, USA
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:45 am
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Why're y'all misspellin' "awl?" I change mahn ev'ry 6000 mahls, an' the can says "oil."
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beck123
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Location: Jacksonville, FL, USA
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Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:47 am
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There are a zillion posts dealing with Southern-ese and Northern-ese in the "Rebel-Yankee" section of the forum for all y'all drawlers.
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LukeJavan8
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Location: Land of the Flat River
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Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:18 pm
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Saparris has a residence there: but he's under 3-4 inches
of snow today, and it has slowed him down.
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