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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>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Chillun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure how to spell this word, and am open for alternative suggestions.  For those who don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s the common Southern vernacular pronunciation for the word &#8220;children.&#8221;
I suppose it&#8217;s the way some Southerners actually say the word, though in my experience, it was more often used as a term of affection.  Mama, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trading with the gypsies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny how a comment in passing has the ability to conjure up a veritable photo album of memories.  It happened to me the last week in one of several unglamorous roles I fulfill, that of zoning administrator for the Town of Brooks.  A newcomer who has lived here only 30 years or so was asking about his tract of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yankee Memorial Day and Decoration Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 21:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s not a derisive term, really; it&#8217;s just one I used to hear from my grandparents&#8217; generation to differentiate their holidays.  As I mentioned in a previous posting, Confederate Memorial Day is observed each year on the twenty-sixth of April.  In the South of the first half of the 1900s, that was called &#8220;Memorial Day.&#8221; 
The national holiday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Axle-deep to a ferris wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My late father was a stickler about lawn maintenance, averring that nice folks kept nice yards.  His always looked like a golf course, and he&#8217;d comment scathingly about folks who allowed their yards to become unkempt.
I was reminded of one of his expressions the other day when I went to mow my maternal grandmother&#8217;s yard.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Knee-high to a grasshopper, and Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 20:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody out there have any idea where this phrase comes from?  It certainly sounds Southern, but I have no proof of its origin.  Under the assumption that it is a Southern phrase, though (and I feel half-way confident assuming this because I can&#8217;t imagine anyone from New Jersey using the phrase); I&#8217;d like to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confederate Memorial Day - April 26th</title>
		<link>http://brownsguides.com/southspeak/confederate-memorial-day-april-26th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 16:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve truly struggled over whether to write this post or not.  In doing so, I&#8217;ve frankly let the moment pass, for Confederate Memorial Day (hereafter &#8220;CMD&#8221;) slipped quietly by most everyone last Sunday.  
One reason for my hesitancy is that today&#8217;s topic has nothing to do with Southern speech, which is the main thrust of this blog.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Th&#8217;Good Lord willin&#8217; an&#8217; th&#8217;creek don&#8217;t rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this Monday after torrential rains and flooding in much of the country, it seems appropriate to trot out this old gem of presumably Southern origin.  I say &#8220;presumably&#8221; because I&#8217;ve no idea where the saying comes from, but can you imagine anyone from New York, New Jersey, or Chicago saying it?  I can&#8217;t.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginning of Sprang</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have been hibernating like a bear for the last several weeks, but the pretty weather this past weekend caused me to stir from my den, stretch, and begin to get active again.  Noticed Friday&#8217;s calendar heading, and saw that date marked the vernal equinox, or, what most call the beginning of Spring.  Only in most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry</title>
		<link>http://brownsguides.com/southspeak/sorry/</link>
		<comments>http://brownsguides.com/southspeak/sorry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even worse than last week&#8217;s topic of common and tacky was, and is, &#8217;sorry.&#8217;  I&#8217;m not talking about &#8217;sorry&#8217; as it&#8217;s used when making apology or feeling remorse.  All of us probably need more of that, and that&#8217;s not the usage of which I speak.
&#8220;He&#8217;s just sorry as gulley dirt,&#8221; I can hear my folks saying about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Common and tacky</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern ladies used these words, and may still, in bringing up their children.  &#8220;That&#8217;s tacky,&#8221; I can hear my mama saying across the years.  &#8220;Don&#8217;t be common.&#8221;  &#8220;Tacky&#8217; is easy enough to understand, but &#8216;common&#8217; can be confusing.  In warning us against being &#8216;common,&#8217; she didn&#8217;t mean &#8216;ordinary,&#8217; though ordinary was never the level she and [...]]]></description>
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