"No pork on my fork"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Narbonne...

JL

"Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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Ah! Versailles, Madrid, Cairo...

dInIs

>I had a friend in grad school who grew up near Arab, Alabama. He
>said it was always pronounced "AY-rab."
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>JL
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>Wilson Gray wrote:
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>On Jun 20, 2005, at 4:45 PM, Mullins, Bill wrote:
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>>> During the Korean-War era, a friend of mine was stationed at
>>> Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville. According to him, GI's
>>> referred to the locals as "doo-wahs," because of a feature of
>>> the local dialect. Instead of saying, "huh? or "what?" or
>>> even "say what?", the locals said, "_Do_ what?"
>>>
>>> Thanks to Jerry Springer, I can testify that "do what?" is
>>> still used in this way, though, unfortunately, I can't say
>>> where, since the "guests" don't always mention their home
>>> states or hometowns. To my ear, "do what?" has the same
>>> intonation pattern as "say what?"
>>>
>>> -Wilson Gray
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>> I still say "do what?" in the context you mention (reared in Middle
>> Tennessee).
>>
>> And that would have been the KO-re-un war . . . (strong emphasis on
>> the initial syllable)
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>Needless to say, I don't think that you'll have any problem believing
>that the same people who say "JAY pan" also say "KO rea." ;-)
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>-Wilson
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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian, and African Languages
A-740 Wells Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Phone: (517) 432-3099
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preston at msu.edu


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