cooking roadkill for tea

[Beverly Flanigan]

Arkansawer or Arkansawyer?  The former best reflects (insider)
pronunciation, I assume, even though the latter is the usual (outsider?)
spelling?

At 07:52 AM 10/30/2006, you wrote:
>Lynne, any proper Arkansawer would take his roadkill home and have his mum
>cook it for SUPPER!
>
>--Charlie
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>---- Original message ----
> >Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:57:08 +0000
> >From: Lynne Murphy <m.l.murphy at SUSSEX.AC.UK>
> >Subject: cooking roadkill for tea
> >To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> >
> >I came across this one, "spoken" by a member of the Gossip.  It's a
> Portland, OR band, but 2/3 of them (including the quotee) are from rural
> Arkansas.  The quotation goes:
> >
> >"If my dad hit a deer in his car, he'd just say 'sweet!'" grins Brace.
> "Then he'd drive home with it on the hood and we'd cook it for
> tea."  [The Guide (The Guardian), Oct 28-Nov 3 2006]
> >
> >Do people from Arkansas use 'tea' as a name for an early evening
> meal?  I have the suspicion that he said 'dinner', but that that was
> deemed by the writer to sound too formal for the picture of hickdom that
> he was trying to paint.  (I've been told here how 'charming' it is that
> we colonials say we have dinner every day.)
> >
> >Lynne
> >
> >Dr M Lynne Murphy
> >Senior Lecturer and Head of Department
> >Linguistics and English Language
> >Arts B135
> >University of Sussex
> >Brighton BN1 9QN
> >
>
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