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  • From: "Tony Spencer" <tony AT tonyspencer.com>
  • To: "'Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/'" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] What type of English do you speak?
  • Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:29:29 -0400

Tarheel born, turnip greens and cornbread, from my cold dead hands. :)

My cousin taught it to me when I was 7.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: matusiak [mailto:dave AT matusiak.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:25 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] What type of English do you speak?
>
> You must be a True Southerner then. For all the colloquialisms I've
> heard/adopted, this is one I've missed up til now.
>
>
> On Apr 28, 2005, at 1:20 PM, Tony Spencer wrote:
>
> > I always heard that 'devil beating his wife' was when it
> was raining
> > at the same time that the sun was shining.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: matusiak
> >> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 1:21 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] What type of English do you speak?
> >>
> >> My results were:
> >>
> >> 50% General American English
> >> 30% Yankee
> >> 20% Dixie
> >> 0% Midwestern
> >> 0% Upper Midwestern
> >>
> >> Which sounds about right. I'll agree that there weren't
> >> enough options
> >> on some of the items.
> >>
> >> Talk about learning something new everyday... WTF is "The Devil is
> >> Beating His Wife" ?? Does that saying actually exist?
> How come I've
> >> never heard it?
> >>
> >> On Apr 28, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> >>
> >>> This online test was pretty fun:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.blogthings.com/amenglishdialecttest/
> >>>
> >>> Your Linguistic Profile:
> >>>
> >>> 80% General American English
> >>> 15% Dixie
> >>> 5% Midwestern
> >>> 0% Upper Midwestern
> >>> 0% Yankee
> >>>
> >>> Strangely enough my "southern" wife rated higher in both
> the Yankee
> >>> and Dixie categories...
>
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