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Originally Posted by BenG
I once knew someone from the mountains of Tennessee. He would pronounce fire as far.
A friend claimed he had a serious conversation with him about how some words are pronounced the same but spelled differently, like fire and far and tire and tar.
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But then, around here fire = far
far = fur
I do believe that tire and tar both = tar
Oil is more or less "earl" .... business is sort of "bidnis"
I hear a lot about the earl bidnis around here.
I've stopped trying to have serious conversations with most of the people in the area. They can't understand a word I say anyway, so what's the point?? Sigh .... actually had someone insist I couldn't possibly be "one'a dem budie people, cause there weren't no budie church around." I tried explaining that the Buddhist philosophy I happen to follow does not believe in an all-powerful creator god, hence, no churches in which to worship a non-existent god. They walked away muttering something about "damn weird furners movin' inta thuh area!!"
