so many southerers and midwesterners

you are soooo right East Ender, that is the difference, we don't have yawls we only have sloops

Not enough southerners, IMHO!(tu)

When we're there we feel like the only southerners around. Glad to know there are more of " y'all" there!!8-)

Sometimes (not all the time) there is a little truth in humor. Do you all feel that identifying with others, what part of the USA you come from is important. This I ask as a question not an indictment.

Well, I know I really get a kick out of talking to people from all over. It just seems like there are never any people with accents while we're down there, or any people we meet. I guess maybe I'm afraid people with no accent, or not much, may judge me as a 'hick'.....?

I know back when I was 16 and had first moved to the island my Jr class out at Good Hope was only about 27 people and they were from all over, even Australia. Since there were so many different accents our English teacher, Mrs. Scott, asked everyone to write on a piece of paper the person in class who had the strongest accent, who they had the hardest time understanding. Let me tell you I was SHOCKED when almost everyone had put my name down! We all laughed in class at the time, good joke on me and all, but it made me think about how I sounded! I used phrases like '' I should of'', '' instead of ''I should have'', " I orta'' instead of ''I ought to'', ''I'm fixin'' instead of ''I'm about to'', and all my words like eggs, legs,etc sounded like '' aigs'', ''laigs'', etc. Instead of ''light'' I said '' liiite". Very country Texas. The kids I went to school with at Good Hope would have been very surprised to learn that a few years later I'd graduate from college with a degree in Speech Therapy!:-o

Every once in a while I'll slip up with a ''liiite'' or an ''aig'', though...*-) You can take the girl out of the country but you can't take the country out of the girl, and all that, you know! 😉

I don't think it is all that important in terms of making friends.. I was just curious :). To me it is sort of like how many of yawl are teachers? 🙂

Born in Tre'en New Joisey, Y'all. Grew up knowing that every fireplace had a 'chimmly' and my PB & J was a 'samich'. And When I was thirsty, I went to the sink and got a glass of 'wudder'...

Hope that help :}

nn

NN-- funny!

My grandmother's family came from Boston and for some reason they added an 'r' to certain words. She was actually born in S.E.Texas and spoke like it, but that 'r' came out at the end of certain words. I guess we're all a mixed bunch in some ways!