Christian Sci Monitor on "Southern drawl"

[Wilson Gray]

That's the word that my late father, "born in the 'Bam,' " as the
colored say, used. He told me, once, "A Jewish fellow helped me lose
my Alabama _brogue_," in discussing his life at the University of
Wisconsin. Howsomever, if Daddy thought that he had lost his brogue,
he was living in a dream.

>From the context, though, it's hard to say whether my father meant
"Alabama [Southern] drawl" or something more like "Alabama [Southern]
dialect." In any case, what he succeeded in losing was, unfortunately,
only his local Alabama lexicon and not the phonology. So, aside from
"brogue," I don't know *any* Alabama isms thhat aaren't general
knowledge.

-Wilson


On 9/24/07, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> In this part o' Dixie (it was largly a pro-Union part), the old-timers call it a "brogue."
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> I was chatting with a friend, a linguistics student at M.I.T at the
> time, and he claimed never to have heard the word "drawl" until I used
> it in the course of our conversation. This was ca.1975. He was a
> native of Vermont, but still ...
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> -Wilson
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> On 9/23/07, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
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> > http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0920/p20s01-ussc.html
> > The Southern Drawl: Is It Spreading?
> > Some Linguists Say 'Yes' as More Northerners Move South, but Others
> > See Stiff Resistance to 'Y'all'
> > By PATRIK JONSSON
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> > Article features quotes from ADS'ers Dennis Preston and Erik Thomas
> > among others, though it's full of typically muddy (folk-)linguistic
> > descriptions of the "drawl" -- so ill-defined it's not surprising that
> > there's disagreement about whether it's spreading or receding.
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> > --Ben Zimmer
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