[Guenevere]

"asked what she wants to do when she gets home, she replied....'eat me some hamburgers'...I haven't eaten hamburgers, french fries or hot dogs in three years, and I want to see what they taste like

OH MY GOODNESS...words fail me.

[Yankee]

Sitting in a doctor’s waiting room here in Newnan, Ga. I listened to a retired school teacher, whose grammar was worse than that, brag about having taught three generations of this town’s students.

Rather than being a source of embarrassment, it is a point of pride with the locals that “we don’t talk like ya’ll, Yankees”.

I hear things like “We goin to see nana at the hospik. (hospice). She got oldtimers (Alzheimer's)." or "Man I sho is sick today. I drinked me too many beers last night." on a daily basis.

One of the funniest and most pathetic things that I've noticed is teenaged girls, I guess in some effort to sound less "southern", have adopted a sort of valley-girl sing-song manner of speach. Unfortunately it's even more annoying than their former way of speaking.

BTW: February 14th is Valentimes Day here in Newnan.