Whenever I hear a good example
Alice Faber
faber at HASKINS.YALE.EDU
Sun Aug 3 23:44:36 UTC 2008
So I turned on SportsCenter this evening, and was subjected to the end
of a car race (I couldn't tell you what kind, but the vehicles actually
looked like cars) at Poconos racetrack. In the course of the commentary,
I was treated to this gem:
"Sometimes whenever you slow down the car drives worse."
I didn't catch who the commentators were, to look up biographical info,
but the accent was pretty clearly South Midland to Southern.
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