A new one on me y'all guys

[Charles C Doyle]

Old east Texas joke:


Teacher:  "Johnny, can you name a city is Alaska?

Johnny:  "No'm."

Teacher:  "That's correct."


--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Wilson Gray [hwgray at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 12:37 AM

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In Marshall, in ultra-nigrous speech, people would use "ya'm" - if
that's the correct spelling - in place of "yassum."

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-Wilson

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