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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

On 1/13/07, Lynda <lurine AT softcom.net> wrote:
> I had the opposite problem.  I had a nanny from Georgia (back in the day, as
> the kidlets say, a babysitter who came to your home was called a nanny).

The Southern accent can be, ahem, a bit incomprehensible to outsiders.
The famous writer, Flannery O'Connor from Georgia, when asked by the
director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop why she thought she should be
admitted to the school replied in an accent so different to his that
she finally had to write out what she was saying on a piece of paper.

I encountered the same problem in the Michael Reese Hospital in
Chicago. I hadn't gotten my lab coats, so I went in search of them.
The people in the laundry were definitely southerners, and I couldn't
understand a word they were saying. A nice lady finally showed me
where the freight elevator was and, with hand motions, showed me how
to operate it. This happened shortly after I'd been teaching at the
University of Illinois where I had to understand every kind of
accented English from Thai to Russian to Nigerian.

So what do _you_ call the small chicken exit?

Marie