Posted on 06/03/2016 8:32:43 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
I heard that phrase from a woman in San Antonio, which is definitely Texas. I’ve since heard it from other Southerners.
What is funny is that the friend who always said it had one of the thickest Texas accents one could imagine. And I have a... well, probably mix between CA and MD accent. So one day we were talking, and I said the word “leg”, and she noticed that I pronounce it “layg” (long a sound) instead of “lehg” (short e sound). She said that until she heard the way I pronounce “leg”, she had never noticed my accent! That surprised me, since we have very different accents.
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