[Homestead] Geography was: Tell me again why Republicans are good for peo...
eureka at hctc.net
eureka at hctc.net
Thu Dec 4 10:22:55 EST 2008
The people from west Texas have kind of a twang and tend
to shorten words. Pliers becomes Plars. In east Texas
there's a drawl and words tend to get longer. Rest area
becomes Ray-est A-ah-ree-a. Most of the people in south
Texas speak Spanish.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:09:34 -0600
"Marie McHarry" <mmcharry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:00 AM,
> <Clansgian at wmconnect.com> wrote:
>
>> Our pattern of speech in Appalachia is from the Cherokee
>>influence. Texas
>> speech is closely related to Tennessee speech. Sam
>>Houston spent a great deal
>> of time among the Cherokee and his wife was Cherokee.
>
> Have you ever talked to people from south or west Texas?
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