Posted on 12/26/2024 7:44:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yes, just about all locations have unique pronounciation. Southerners have trouble pronouncing city names like Worcester and Medford. New Englanders don’t know how to pronounce Louisville.
Wife’s GrandMa had a bunch of Texas sayings. one of her favorites when surprised was “$#it fire and save the matches”.
Haven’t heard git-out since the 80s.
I grew up in Sherman. Howdy, neighbor!
How wonderful! Grandfather loved the town and the people. His father lived and died there. A carpenter.
You forgot “doo-doo fire.” (Bowdlerized)
The family name was Butridge. And his wife was Walker, daughter of Watsons. Grandfather raised me so I called him Daddy. Daddy was Homer and his brother was Napoleon. Sister Lee Ola. Pure Southern, so he was frequently called J.H.
Mary
My wife, a Californian, calls “Bless Your Heart,” the “Southern kiss of death.”
I was born in SD. And now live near Chireno.
My momma’s family are from San Augustine. Lots of cousins still there. Small world
Them folks on the west side of 59 can be kind of uppity.
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Them folks on the west side of 59 can be kind of uppity.
LOL......not my family. They’re halarious! Never meet a stranger.......good peoples.....;)
Oh, that’s good!
True. Just kidding.
True. Just kidding.
Oh I knew that.......the state hospital is up that way and we’ve always told people that some of us should have been on the inside instead of the outside....LOL
it was a great place to grow up. We moved there in 68 right before my second birthday. I lived away in 88 to Austin and then to Allen in 98.
I was raised with a great love of Texas, even though I probably only lived in Sherman for a year or so when I, too, was around 2, back in ‘46. Always had Confederate flags growing up, and can remember singing Yellow Rose of Texas at the top of my lungs as a kid. Any association to Texas was about button-bursting pride.
There was none of the Confederate put-down you see today. People were proud of their ancestors fighting on either side - enemies for awhile and then family again. It was about family pride, not about race and not about bitterness. I can remember the newspapers always talking about both Confederate and Union old men marching in the military parades, a big deal as the last of them were dying out. Breaks my heart to see the old names changed on the bases and the American statuary art broken down and destroyed.
Bkmk
I beg to differ...
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