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Journalist: Texas twang on the rise
AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF ^ | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 | By Katie Humphrey

Posted on 01/25/2005 7:28:57 AM PST by Arrowhead1952

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To: Arrowhead1952

Guadalupe Street in Austin is pronounced Gwadaloop.


101 posted on 01/25/2005 7:43:33 PM PST by lavrenti (Think of who is pithy, yet so attractive to women.)
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To: HostileTerritory; Arrowhead1952
In Texas, Montague is pronounced as "mon-TAIG".

The town is the county seat of Montague County (pronounced similarly) and has a population of roughly 200.

They've got a substantial courthouse and a complete courthouse square -- 'cept for one thing. There aren't enough businesses in town to fill up the four opposite sides of the street from the courthouse. As a consequence, the courthouse looks a little naked -- with only about a block-and-a-half's worth of business scattered around the square.

The town is also heavily populated by people of Italian descent -- most of the men with the same name. The family name escapes me, but the men are all named Joe -- and known by "Joe on the hill", "Joe on the square", or "Joe on the creek", etc.

Montague also offers one of the very few permanent bocci courts in the state of Texas. It's right across the street from the courthouse...

102 posted on 01/25/2005 8:33:57 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: HostileTerritory; Arrowhead1952
Montague Courthouse
103 posted on 01/25/2005 8:37:52 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: xJones
...now I've got to get one of those luscious DQ baskets with the 'libary' paste gravy to sop up the tasty chicken-fried steak fingers with, and all those french-fries (whose quality McDonalds doesn't come near). And then the banana split afterwards, of course.:)

[Homer voice] DQ Banana split ... mmmmm...

104 posted on 01/25/2005 8:44:33 PM PST by Spirochete
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To: WhiteGuy
If anyone from Texas decides to place a phone call to me, I'll get my neighbor to come over and act as an interpreter.........

Oh don't worry, even though we are dumb, uneducated hicks down here, we can speak yankee, even though y'all can't speak southern.......

105 posted on 01/26/2005 5:20:58 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon (Redneck from a red city, in a red county, in a red state.)
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

Muh-hay-yuh?


106 posted on 01/26/2005 2:16:06 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

>>Mexia
D .a. i. r. y.. Q. u. e. e. n <<

Anna Nicole Smith? Ain't that whar she'z frum??? ; >


107 posted on 01/26/2005 2:17:04 PM PST by NativeTexun ("If you don't live in Texas, you don't live in the United States.")
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To: grobdriver

Don't forget Bexar & Nacogdoches!


108 posted on 01/28/2005 10:20:27 AM PST by texgal (end no-fault divorce laws return DUE PROCESS & EQUAL PROTECTION to ALL citizens))
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To: texgal
Since Dan Rather hails from Texas roots, design a way for a Texas girl to goose him so he goes "YEEEE HAAA" on the air.

Be bold! This is your mission if you decide to accept it.

109 posted on 01/28/2005 10:33:20 AM PST by BobS
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To: BobS
Since Dan Rather hails from Texas roots, design a way to........goose him so he goes "YEEEE HAAA" on the air.

Why bother, A thumb up a pig's nose'ud be tightern a fence post up his butt.

110 posted on 05/23/2005 10:06:15 AM PDT by rock58seg (RINO"s make the Republicans MINO"s (Majority In Name Only)!)
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