Journalist: Texas twang on the rise

AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF ^ | Tuesday, January 25, 2005 | By Katie Humphrey

[ForGod'sSake]

THIS might be helpful ;^)

FGS

[dfwright]

At least it's spelling isn't as bad as Pflugerville. I still have to look that up whenever I send anything to friends there.

Forgot about that one. We used to play them in HS football. I imagine the pep squads just did "beat flu phlu 'EM!"

Used to live in Buchanan Dam, Near Burn-it... had to explain a few times that it was BUH-canon, no BYOO-canon.

[ichabod1]

Pert-in-alis,

Burn-it

Man-shack.

Another Austin Fave: Guada-loop.

Here in Houstonm San Felipe is San Fileep.

Frontage Road, Access Road, or Feeder?

I love regional dialects.

Boston: Soda? Pop? or Tonic? Gotta go get my clothes from the Cleanser.

And then there is the broad A. For a more novel example than Paak the Caah at Haavad Yaad, how about

Khakis -- Something you start your car with.
Car-keys -- A pair of tan colored cotton twill trousers.

[DeFault User]

But surely you must admit, using "y'all" makes perfect sense, since it fills a gap in the English language (pluralizing "you".)

Well, I suppose we could use "ye", but I don't think it will catch on again.

[NativeTexun]

“Son of a gun, that‘ll pop your girdle, granny."


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[MeekOneGOP]

haha! :^D

[MeekOneGOP]

haha! Texas Twang fer Dummies. :^D

[WhiteGuy]

"Y'all better get ready because the Texas drawl is the future of American English"

I have given my family and friends full authority to shoot me if the phrase "y'all" ever comes out of my mouth.

[pilgrim]

Have any of you Texan's dealt with HP Support from India?  Will never purchase a HP item again without support in the US.

 

Had to call them and when asked if anyone there spoke Texan the young lady snippily replied "No we only speak 'English'!  (Emphasis on the English.)  Oh well. Fixin to fix lunch.

 

Take care...;^pilgrim

 

 

[xJones]

D .a. i. r. y.. Q. u. e. e. n

Dang you, 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.:)

Actually, maybe it was an imitator of DQ, but there really used to be a 'Frigid Queen' hamburger place in Alpine, Texas. I was in Alpine on a summer field trip, and a lot of the students had their pictures taken standing underneath the sign.:)

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Dang you

My curmudgeons work is done! ;-)

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

What's so stinking difficult about the pronunciation of New Braunfels??

That's easy. It's "New Brawns-fulls". Right? Right???

'Course, the main reason so many people have an opportunity to mispronounce it is because Schlitterbahn is there. Interestingly, nobody has trouble with that name. :-)

[brytlea]

HAHAHAHAHAHA! You beat me, I was going to post that joke!
And, btw, the plural form of ya'll is ALL ya'll.
sundero

[BJClinton]

Well, y'all is an excellent second-person plural.

[naturalized]

I have given my family and friends full authority to shoot me if the phrase "y'all" ever comes out of my mouth.

Do the rest of us have to wait until then?

[monkapotamus]

Y'all better get ready because the Texas drawl is the future of American English -- at least according to journalist Robert MacNeil, who has spent many years studying and chronicling how Americans talk.

Residents in the other 49 states, don't fret. "Texas drawl" has yet to take over most of Dallas, Texas.

[WhiteGuy]

Do the rest of us have to wait until then?


I'm afraid so.........sorry.

[humblegunner]

I don't ever recall hearing it pronounced without out the 'H'.

I've heard it pronounced that way, but the lady who did so also did the same
with "huge". She was a native Houstonian.. maybe there is some obscure group 'round here that do this.

[MeekOneGOP]

Here tis! :^D