Way OT: Phrases you Hate 936On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Puester Go, Gloria! No flameproof suit needed here. You're right. It seems that over the years educators in high places have not had...
Way OT: Phrases you Hate 937Kathy Not by any stretch of the imagination! It's "She gave it to Jimmy and ME." The words Jimmy and me have to be in the objective...
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, sarah bennett
One of the oddities of one of the more than 2 dozen variations of Southern, US speech is adding an "h" sound before the contraction (it's) for it is. It is more like the "h" sound one makes by just audibly breathing out. With this group of people, largely under-educated, they write what they "hear" from others, as well as how something sounds to them. So, she was saying, "It's a man called" - which is odd enough without the "h" sound.
I have discovered that with Southerners, we exhale as we speak - as opposed to some other parts of the country where, some (not all) take a breath, say what they choose to say, then exhale. With some Southerners, this audible exhale adds the sound of "h" before some words. There are a lot of other oddities, too. It is common for Southerners to say things like "a napron" for "an apron" or "a nangel" for "an angel". Instead of making two distinct words, they are just run together.
It was all about me learning a totally new "language" so I could communicate. And, too, it was about my not wanting to hurt the feelings of those less fortunate than I.
