Re: "Addy and other slang" (was If you don't want people to knowyour age...)

Subject: Re: "Addy and other slang" (was If you don't want people to knowyour age...)
From: Al Geist <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:48:16 -0400


Robotti, Anne (Carlin) wrote:

some strange reason, Northerners and Californians cannot
distinguish the words "oil"
and "all", "fire" and "for", and "tire" and "tar" when most
Southerners speak. ;^}}


Or "right" and "rat"...


Or "nuclear" and "nukular." <shudder>

I remember listening to a conversation in Winter Harber, ME, back when
I was in the Navy, between a lobster fisherman and a fellow squid who
was from Georgia farm country. Good thing there were some of us from
Michigan around to translate.
Al
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RE: "Addy and other slang" (was If you don't want people to knowyour age...): From: Robotti, Anne \(Carlin\)

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