JP, Maybe you have been in a different part of the south than I am used to. Wheh I was raised up, they was called Aruh-cee colas.
You make a very good point. Accents and word usage in the South differ tremendously.
Speaking of language, here is a little something I came across awhile back that cracks me up.
Euro-English
Brussels, 2 Dec. 1998 – The European Commission has just reached an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the alternative possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling needed improvement, and has accepted a five-year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English." In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c.' Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favor of 'k.' This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replased with 'f.' This will make words like 'fotograf' 20% shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double leters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and should go away. By the forth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing 'th' with 'z,' and 'w' viz 'v.' During ze fifz year ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and similar changes vud of kurs be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After ze fifz yer ve vil hav a rali sensibl rtn styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis, and everiun vil find it ezi tu undrstand ech ozer. Zen Z Drem Vil Finali Kum Tru! |
