"No pork on my fork"

[Wilson Gray]

Don't forget Hayti, Missouri, pronounced "HAY tie," not to mention that
Madrid, Missouri is pronounced [MAE drId].

-Wilson

On Jun 21, 2005, at 8:51 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

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