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To: 21twelve
And a really large group is “All you alls”

I always thought the pronunciation was "All y'alls" :-)

131 posted on 09/18/2015 4:58:50 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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To: COBOL2Java

Of course you are correct. (Hey - I’m a yankee!) Although growing up in Minnesota and knowing enough Norwegian I was mistaken for being a Norwegian a couple of times when I visited there, accent and all.

One time on a hike we came across an older guy up in the mountains - it was clear that he lived up there. The Norwegian guy I was with was having a conversation with him, but I could tell he was having a difficult time, and I couldn’t understand much. I asked him what the old guy was saying.

“Beats me - I could only pick up a few of the words. Lots of these mountain valleys have dialects that are so different from anywhere else.”


132 posted on 09/18/2015 5:08:32 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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