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	<title>TALKING SOUTHERN</title>
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	<description>Seventh generation Georgian Dan Langford has an ear for the sounds of the Southern Voice and a unique ability to translate what he hears into the written word</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Longer than a Wet Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard the title metaphor used recently, and thought it most apropos in this weather we&#8217;ve been having of late.  Weather forecasting may become unnecessary if the current pattern keeps up; it&#8217;s either raining, fixing to, or just has.  Nevertheless, the person who used the above phrase so appropriately was describing an excruciatingly long meeting we both had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea cakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This sounds like a topic for ladies only, but it truly isn&#8217;t.  Tea cakes were a staple of cookie jars around Brooks in my youth, but seem to have &#8216;gone with the wind&#8217; in recent years.   I never hear about them any more.  So I went next door to my 91-year-old great aunt, who may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lick and a promise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google this phrase and you&#8217;ll come up with countless opinions as to its origin.  I&#8217;m not convinced it originated in the South, but it&#8217;s certainly had heavy usage here.  What does it mean?  To do something with slapdash effort, in short; usually with the implication that a more thorough job will be done later, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Done (as substitute for already)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no question that this is badly substandard English.  Hearing folks who don&#8217;t know better use it makes one wince, but using it for emphasis when a speaker does know better is perfectly fine.  Just make sure your audience knows you know better; otherwise, they&#8217;ll think you an ignorant dolt.   I&#8217;ve explained that general principle in several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cold as a titch&#8217;s witty, so get you some lighterd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What about this arctic blast?  Land a&#8217;Goshen, it&#8217;s cold outside!  Around home, in polite company, folks&#8217;d say it&#8217;s cold as a titch&#8217;s witty.  If it&#8217;uz just menfolks listening, the beginning letters would be put back in the right order.  Somebody&#8217;d more likely than not comment that aforesaid witch was probably on the shady side of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleighbells at Christmas</title>
		<link>http://brownsguides.com/southspeak/sleighbells-at-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our older son, Niel, a freshman in college, is home for the holidays.  At supper the other night, we got to laughing about the night we heard sleighbells in Brooks &#8212; the night of December 24, 1996.
Lesley and I had just moved into my late grandmother&#8217;s house in Brooks with our boys, then aged 5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slappin&#8217; your grandma</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving has now come and gone; Christmas season is upon us.  Beyond the religious significance of these holidays, which should ever be our main focus, is the fellowship aspect.  Much holiday fellowship revolves around the table, where cooks outdo themselves with feasts, treats, and other gustatory excesses unheard of the balance of the year.
Thanksgiving and Christmas food [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Might near</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a variant on &#8220;it like to have&#8230;&#8221;, a post from several months back.  Both have the same rough meaning as &#8220;almost,&#8221; albeit on steroids.
I might say, &#8220;I ate a dish with hot chili peppers, and it like to have killed me.&#8221;  (Or course, most of us who would revert to this somewhat substandard usage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;an&#8217;em</title>
		<link>http://brownsguides.com/southspeak/anem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DAN LANGFORD 
How&#8217;s yuh Mama an&#8217;em?
There&#8217;s a common Southern question.  For the uninitiated, it is an inquiry into the health of one&#8217;s mother, her household, and her immediate and perhaps extended family and group of friends.  &#8220;And them,&#8221; which is what &#8220;an&#8217;em&#8221; contracts, can cover right smart ground.
&#8220;John an&#8217;em wuh at th&#8217;council meeting raising Cain again,&#8221; is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Your Health (part 4 of 4)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By DAN LANGFORD 
&#8220;Po&#8217;ly&#8221; is the last health term we&#8217;ll discuss, at least in this series.  It&#8217;s a contraction, of course, of &#8220;poorly,&#8221; which term should require no further elucidation.  One who feels poorly, or &#8220;po&#8217;ly&#8221; as most of us say it (whether as natural pronunciation or exagerrated dialect), feels rotten, terrible, God-awful, or almost-dead.  [...]]]></description>
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