Teaching With a Kentucky Accent

[Beverly Flanigan]

You mean as a greeting variant of "hi"?  Did the older usage (the
exclamatory one) come from the South too?  I don't use it for greeting, but
my son (33) has started to do so recently; I guess it's the 30-somethings
and on down who use it, right?

At 09:08 PM 12/6/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Another aspect of Southern culture that has spread nationwide: we all say
>"hey."
>- Allan Metcalf