I wish to add a little humor from my perspective...
After reading all three pages, three for now, I could not help but smile. This topic gets "chewed" about once a year here at PM. I always laugh at what is written by the folks from different parts of the U.S.
A serious piece before the humor, though...
You see, I have spent a short lifetime, 44 years, being told I did not speak very well. That my dialect instantly implies "ignorant / uneducated"! During my freshman year of college, I had a "big city easterner" sociology PhD tell me that I should take voice and articulation classes because when I spoke I sounded "dumb"! I could not get it through his head that he was continuing the slow loss of my culture. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif I was dead serious, he thought I was full of crap! Here was this "big time" sociology professor, that had come to eastern Kentucky to "educate us for the better" and couldn't see that he was "changing" what he truly should have been observing, as a Sociologist! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif So...to each his own! I say coyotee, though!
Now for the humor...
In relevant terms, not all of us easterners are city folk. I am an eastern Kentucky, southern Appalachian highlands, American (PC lingo). For those that are not so politically correct, that would be "hillbilly" for you. There was not alot of pavement where I grew up, but I do work in the suburbs of a "big city", now!
CCP has it correct!
Chupathingy my dialect is not "queens english" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif but has been studied to be the closest dialect to kings (George) english, in the U.S. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif I learned modern english as a second language! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Please don't take this thread too seriously!
Redhound80