"southernisms"

[Matthew Gordon]

Indeed, it is lazy in the same way that some lazy people compress bacon,
lettuce, and tomato between slices of bread rather than enjoying them as
distinct tastes. I think they do that in Missouri as well (well probably just
southern Missouri).

Linda Sparlin wrote:

> Is not "tump" simply a blend of "turn" and "dump"?  As in "...turned it
> over" or "...dumped it over" ?
>
> And I have to disagree slightly with the pronunciation of "Jeet chet?" and
> "Yont to?"  "Yont" rhymes with "want," not "won't."  It's simply lazy
> enunciation, rushed/compressed into fewer distinct sounds, meaning  "Did you
> eat yet?" and "Do you want to?" in all of MO, OK, KS, IL, as far east as
> Cleveland (my only experience.)
>
> Haven't read the whole string - so my apologies if this has already been
> suggested.
>
> Linda

Linda Sparlin wrote:

> Is not "tump" simply a blend of "turn" and "dump"?  As in "...turned it
> over" or "...dumped it over" ?
>
> And I have to disagree slightly with the pronunciation of "Jeet chet?" and
> "Yont to?"  "Yont" rhymes with "want," not "won't."  It's simply lazy
> enunciation, rushed/compressed into fewer distinct sounds, meaning  "Did you
> eat yet?" and "Do you want to?" in all of MO, OK, KS, IL, as far east as
> Cleveland (my only experience.)
>
> Haven't read the whole string - so my apologies if this has already been
> suggested.
>
> Linda
> _____________________
>
> ...funny this should show up in the Atl Journal-Constitution's anonymously
> called in "Vent" section this week.  did one of you submit it?
>
> "Favorite 'you-can't-get-more-Southern-than-this' Southernism:  'tumped
> over' --- 'I reached to get my beer and accidentally tumped it over.'"
>
> Also, something that people around here think is a "southernism" but I
> suspect it is widespread.  I heard it commented on this week and saw it
> on a sign at a Taco Bell:
>
> Jeet chet?
> Yont to?
>
> [yont rhymes with won't, of course]  is anybody besides me a fan of the
> very definitely dated video from our own Preston and Shuy on varieties
> of am eng?  well, a fan of some parts of it anyway, esp this section on
> style.  every time I hear a comment on jeet chet I think of that guy
> (who also did a skit of middle-aged hopelessly uncool dude trying to be
> hip by using slang, who is he anyway? dInIs?)
>
> Ellen Johnson
> Assistant Professor of Linguistics
> Dept. of English, Rhetoric, and Writing
> Berry College, Box 350
> Mt. Berry, GA 30149
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