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>Ask a Richmond native to say "about" and you will hear "uh boot"...
> If you ask someone from southwest Georgia to say it, they will say
>"ah baeut", adding an extra "a" to "bout".
Never mind "about." What about that famous four-letter word describing fecal
matter!
It's common to hear it pronounced as a two-syllabe word in the Georgia area.
I can even imitate that. What amazed me the most was one woman at work who
could turn those four letters into a -three- syllable word. I can't even
come close to imitating it, but I've heard it.
Rick Lippincott
rlippinc -at- bev -dot- etn -dot- com (I can now get e-mail at work.)
