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To: The Toddler

Personally, I use y’all or all y’all and I’m from Missou-uh. All this drives my Yankee wife nutz because she’s a grammar nazi. She can’t tolerate me saying warsh, far truck, over yonder, chim-ley, ain’t, cain’t or I reckon and ahm ah fixin to without correcting me.

I just thought this was language used throughout the south since my family migrated from Virginia to Kentucky then here. Too late to change now but I can speak yankee when I have to.

TM


710 posted on 06/28/2022 8:53:06 PM PDT by A thermonuclear marshmallow (If democrats had another brain, it would be lonesome.)
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To: A thermonuclear marshmallow
Personally, I use y’all or all y’all and I’m from Missou-uh. All this drives my Yankee wife nutz because she’s a grammar nazi. She can’t tolerate me saying warsh, far truck, over yonder, chim-ley, ain’t, cain’t or I reckon and ahm ah fixin to without correcting me.

My ex-wife (commonly referred to here as 'Satan in a red dress') used to say, 'affen under' which is hillbilly for 'out from under'. Top that one.

I didn't go all grammar nazi on her, I just laughed at her. Come to think of it, maybe that explains why she's my ex-wife?

#Ponders


724 posted on 06/28/2022 9:37:29 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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