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To: Chi-townChief
Other places have their own dialect.

East Texas.

"Wadder", water.

"Foot feed", gas pedal, accelerator.

"Killin'", fuhgedaboudit.

"Purdy", pretty.

"Dang", $%^&*&#$!

"Needed", deserved. (Conditional upon placement) as in "He needed killin'.

30 posted on 08/20/2003 6:20:11 PM PDT by LibKill (Obligatory Tagline)
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To: LibKill
And isn't "oil" called "awl" in Texas?
31 posted on 08/20/2003 6:21:06 PM PDT by brewcrew
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To: LibKill
gotta love Texas talk.
http://omni.cc.purdue.edu/~guzmanr/textalk.htm

Ah gotta code (cold) in mah nose
131 posted on 08/20/2003 7:44:51 PM PDT by eleni121
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