The TV judges

[David Borowitz]

Unless Wikipedia is wrong, the only Raleigh County in the US is in West
Virginia. Raleigh, NC (the only other one I could think of offhand) is in
Wake County.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._counties_in_alphabetical_order

Dave

On 1/24/07, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Heard on the Judge Joe Brown show:
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> The speaker is a 25-or-so-year-old black male:
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> "It didn't feel much like home, the way she _stayed_ snatching the key
> back from me."
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> This is a new one on me. I would have expected "kept (on)" or "was
> always."
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> On the Peoples Court, there was a forty-ish white male who spoke an
> ordinary r-ful Southern dialect, except that he pronounced /ai/ as
> [oi] in all environments. He mentioned that he lived in Raleigh
> County. Unfortunately, no town or state was mentioned. He was suing a
> former friend - they were even members of the same church - but the
> friend used the ordinary Southern pronunciation of /ai/ that's usually
> spelled "ah" in eye-dialect.
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> -Wilson
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> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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