Bullcorn

[Jonathan Lighter]

And if you're disappointed in having just one pone left, you set up a lone co'n pone moan.  A really impoverished part of the South is called the Lone Co'n Pone Moan Zone. By linguists.

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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And as you know, Wilson, if we Southerners leave our bread on the sideboard too long, it becomes hard cone pone.

--Charlie
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>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 14:12:36 -0500
>From: Wilson Gray
>Subject: Re: Bullcorn
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>FWIW, "bullcorn" in Southern - well, in East-Texas, at least - BE is anomalous, since "-orn" is pronounced as "own." "Choppin' cone" is a usual summer job for working-class black kids. It's probably just another instancee of people who can't say "awe," but they can still say, "aw, hell!"
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>-Wilson

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