Three things that are SO played, but people can't resist ...

[Lannis]

Shirley you didn't drink that... 

I did, and it was shirley very tasty .....

[Guzzistajohn]

And don't forget the widely accepted ozark vernacular "youns"


Youns can come over for supper if youont to

[Tobit]

So Dolly Parton walks into a bar with her sheep named Shirley....

 

[Lannis]

So Dolly Parton walks into a bar with her sheep named Shirley....

 

Go on then, don't stop there .... 

[PJPR01]

Any politician who says Nukular instead of Nuclear should be fired on the spot...particularly those who are involved in negotiations on the same bloody subject.

Any real estate agent who calls themselves a RELAtor instead of a REALtor...run away!

School officials who frequently say libary instead of library, or Febuary instead of February...

Irregardless, incent or incentivize, paradigm shift, pick off the low hanging fruit and all the rest of the over used buzz phrases.

Crick vs. Creek...that seems be more of a country vs. city pronunciation I have noticed, or folks who confuse present and perfect tenses.  E.g. So there I was back in 1992 at the crick nearby Marshall's country store, and I come up on a possum layin on its side... :)

[Chuck in Indiana]

In Indiana, we used to warsh our clothes down in the crick..

[blackcat]

In Indiana, we used to warsh our clothes down in the crick..

Yeah, we said that in Ohio.

[oldbike54]

 And people make fun of Okies  Really , English is such a fluid language , warsh and crik were probably carried over from some region in England . Ever tried to read Chaucer ?

  Dusty

[Lannis]

And people make fun of Okies  Really , English is such a fluid language , warsh and crik were probably carried over from some region in England . Ever tried to read Chaucer ?

  Dusty

Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury

       Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
And specially from every shires ende
Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende .....

Well, "fluid" it is over a 600-year period .... Maybe not so hard to read, if you make some guesses .... !

Lannis

[Shorty]

And people make fun of Okies  Really , English is such a fluid language , warsh and crik were probably carried over from some region in England . Ever tried to read Chaucer ?

  Dusty

BUT, Okies ARE kinda funny. We  buy INsurance, call the POlice, put stuff on DISplay, go BERserk.  It's PURE D funny, I tell ya. 

[kirby1923]

And people make fun of Okies  Really , English is such a fluid language , warsh and crik were probably carried over from some region in England . Ever tried to read Chaucer ?

  Dusty

"Tee Hee quote she, and let flee a fart"

Canterbury Tales,

Quite clear me thinks
:-)

[oldbike54]

BUT, Okies ARE kinda funny. We  buy INsurance, call the POlice, put stuff on DISplay, go BERserk.  It's PURE D funny, I tell ya. 

 Don't forget "tars" , as in , "gonna hafta put some new tars on my pick up"

  Dusty

[blackcat]

It took me a bit to figure out Bubs for bulbs, guff for gulf but now that I know that some L's are silent I'm OK.

When I moved to NYC in the 1970's I dated a girl from Jersey City, NJ and it didn't last long because I couldn't understand half of what she was saying.

[Shorty]

Don't forget "tars" , as in , "gonna hafta put some new tars on my pick up"

  Dusty

Yep, don't forget to change the all every 3000 miles, too. "Ain't that right, Lamar?"

[oldbike54]

 For a bunch of motorbike riders we are an amazingly literate bunch , not me mind you , but some of you other guys 


  Dusty

[Lannis]

Don't forget "tars" , as in , "gonna hafta put some new tars on my pick up"

  Dusty

And the Okie who laid 3 bouquets of carnations along the road when he was fixing the flat tar, like he learned in highway safety class ....

[Bonafide Bob]

Yep, don't forget to change the all every 3000 miles, too. "Ain't that right, Lamar?"

Unless you are in some areas of New Orleans where oil is pronounced earl

[Cam3512]

So Dolly Parton walks into a bar with her sheep named Shirley....

 

Shirley says "don't forget to TIT the Baaa-tender"!

[Lannis]

Unless you are in some areas of New Orleans where oil is pronounced earl

Here, an earl is what the umpire gives the center fielder when he boots a ground ball ...

[Guzzistajohn]

When I moved to Oklahoma in the 80's I was suprised everybody was "fixin" to do something all the time.

In south St. Louis people ride harses. And at one time a candy bar would cost you a quArter.  Two major highways in stl are farty far (44) and farty (40)

[Lannis]

For a bunch of motorbike riders we are an amazingly literate bunch , not me mind you , but some of you other guys 


  Dusty

Here's a literate "Walks into a Bar" joke, that even requires knowledge of British idiom.

A woman walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre.

So the bartender gives her one.

Lannis

[oldbike54]

 Let's not leave our brethren in California out of this .

 "Like Dude , that's like so gnarly" 

  Dusty

[sib]

[quote author=PJPR01 link=topic=79276.msg1246146#msg1246146 date=1443634934
Crick vs. Creek...that seems be more of a country vs. city pronunciation I have noticed, or folks who confuse present and perfect tenses.  E.g. So there I was back in 1992 at the crick nearby Marshall's country store, and I come up on a possum layin on its side... :)
[/quote]
You're prolly right.

[PJPR01]

Let's not leave our brethren in California out of this .

 "Like Dude , that's like so gnarly" 

  Dusty

  For suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu urrre...and it was Awesome too man!!  :)

[PJPR01]

Here's a literate "Walks into a Bar" joke, that even requires knowledge of British idiom.

A woman walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre.  So the bartender gives her one.Lannis

 

I'm going to steal this joke if you don't mind...with credit duly assigned of course! 

[PJPR01]

BUT, Okies ARE kinda funny. We  buy INsurance, call the POlice, put stuff on DISplay, go BERserk.  It's PURE D funny, I tell ya. 

  Damn funny and Oh so true down here in Texas as well, and even after living here for 18 years, I'm still not used to it!  Then there is of course Veee - HICK - El and for some reason a town called Humble, that is pronounced Ummmble...

[rocker59]

Any politician who says Nukular instead of Nuclear should be fired on the spot...particularly those who are involved in negotiations on the same bloody subject.
 

Nothing in the world wrong with regional differences in the American English dialect.

Things would really be boring if we all sounded like some mid-western news anchor.

Oh, and "new-cue-lar"?  If someone with the credentials of Jimmy Carter can say it, that's fine by me.   

[Triple Jim]

Yeah, we said that in Ohio.

In that part of Ohio I was talking about earlier, across from Wheeling WV, "wash" was usually pronounced "woosh".

BUT, Okies ARE kinda funny. We  buy INsurance, call the POlice, put stuff on DISplay, go BERserk.  It's PURE D funny, I tell ya. 

Those are all common here in rural NC.  Insurance is really more like INshornce, with only two syllables.  And any town name that ends in "ville" is pronounced with a "vul" at the end instead.  But this stuff isn't pet peeve wrong stuff, it's just interesting dialects.  Heck, how do you pronounce "Detroit"?   

[blackcat]

Unless you are in some areas of New Orleans where oil is pronounced earl

There is a thin line between a Brooklynese and New Orleans accent. I wonder if they both say Tourlet?

[rocker59]

   Heck, how do you pronounce "Detroit"?   

DEE-troit