More 1908 Dialect Notes on E 'Bama (white) English

[Dan Goncharoff]

Agree on "You don't say!" being common in movies. My sister still uses it.
DanG

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Randy Alexander
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> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> "You don't say!" Â Common in movies of fifty years ago and more. Am not
>> sure if I've ever heard a person utter it live.
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> I'm sure I've heard it uttered live lots of times in lots of places.
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>> I never heard "titty" in NYC except in derisive contexts about nursing
>> babies. "Tit" was the universal rude synonym. Â When I first heard "titty" i=
>> n
>> the South, it seemed weird.
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> I've known this as the universal diminutive form of "tit", which is
> quite universal.
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