How do you score?

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Originally Posted by SouthernBelle

Actually I was referring to Pulaski Tn. ;)

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So, what's proper pronounciation (did I spell that correctly?????)

Obviously we're not real Tennesseeans (geez this post is spelling chore). As has been revealed, Mr. was born in Boston of a Boston born mother and Atlantan born father then moved to Barbados and learned to speak from a British accented nanny.

I'm crimson blooded Alabama born and bred.

We lived in Nashville for 7 years and in Memphis for 7 years.

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Originally Posted by Hub

Thanks for the support Silver! I know he's a good man and all, but he must own up to his roots!

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GRITS stick together!

;)

I have a GRITS hat.

Pull- ask-ee.

That's how peple who live there say it. Newscasters are a different story.

For those non-Boston born, Barbados raised, poser southerners, GRITS is:

Girls
Raised
In
The
South

Hmmm, I'm going to have to teach Silver how to spell, don't ya'll agree?

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Originally Posted by bmccasland

It was the "War of Northern Aggression" and there was nothin' civil about that Wah.

American history was truly amazing when I moved from Louisiana to Michigan. Having an Ozark hillbilly for a Dad and my mom is from the northern Louisiana - but I grew up in the Air Force, I find my choice of words changing. How I acually pronounce things is a mix too. On the advanced test I scored 48% Dixie.

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Ok, that's a little weird.

My dad's side: All from Haynesville or parts thereabout. 'shiners about two generations back. My dad was in the AF for 8 years. In fact, I was born at Kessler.

Mom's side: Born in Jackson, grew up in Grass Lake. We bounced back and forth between Haynesville and Michigan when I was growing up. Last lived in Kalamazoo.

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Originally Posted by bmccasland

It was the "War of Northern Aggression" and there was nothin' civil about that Wah.

American history was truly amazing when I moved from Louisiana to Michigan. Having an Ozark hillbilly for a Dad and my mom is from the northern Louisiana - but I grew up in the Air Force, I find my choice of words changing. How I acually pronounce things is a mix too. On the advanced test I scored 48% Dixie.

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Yep, it was interesting in our family too....

SilverDaughter had Tennessee history when we lived there and the war was about "States Rights".

SilverSon had Indiana history when we moved here and the war was about "Slavery"

Personally, I believe the war was about the "Rights of States to choose Slavery":cool:

Hrm...100% Dixie on the basic test, but only 60% on the advanced.

I have little to no southern accent, and most people who meet me are surprised to find out that I spent something like 15 or 16 years growing up/living in Tennessee. (I wasn't born there, but we moved there when I was 8 or 9...oh, and my father was born and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas so accented English was something I grew up hearing at home. My mom is Chinese, so that's an entirely different kind of accented English.)

I can turn on an accent when I want/need to, and I easily drift into one when having a conversation with someone who has an accent, but it's not normally detectable (unless I've been drinking Jack Daniels). But despite the lack of accent, a lot of southern colloquialisms are deeply embedded in my vocabulary--obviously, since I didn't even realize that some of them were considered predominantly "southern".

Oh, and I thought it was The War Between the States. Heh.

Mu mom was in the DOC before it morphed into the a KKK auxiallry - I was thaught that it was "the Late unplesantess". Of course my Dad's ancestors fought mainly for the Union, we think. it's what i get for growing up in Border state:)

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Originally Posted by dex

It's not normally detectable (unless I've been drinking Jack Daniels)

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There are a LOT of sides to me that aren't detectable unless I've been drinking JD :D