Cost in the "Good Ole Days"
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Cosmic, you're jes' a mess. Peanut rabbit stew. Gawd. Reminds me of my buddy Benny Ray Lee**, a lodge brother at the Auburn/Opelika Elks Lodge BITD. He was sitting at the bar one afternoon hugging his suds & somebody asked him if he wanted to go rabbit hunting that weekend. Didn't even look up, just said "Earl, I ain't lost no rabbits."
** -- For yankees & other folks outside of the deep south, yes, a lot of us do go by three names. Benny Ray, his real name, I swear, worked for the gas company. Everybody called him either Benny Ray or B.R., except his wife, who always called him Ray Lee. He was usually in charge of the cook crew for July 4th picnic at the lodge. The cook crew was up all night stewing (& getting stewed). The last thing that got cooked was a kid goat; that was what *we* got to eat in return for cooking up everybody else's stuff. One year B.R. made the mistake of letting his kids name it. All y'all Suthun folks know what that meant. And as long as I've rambled this long I might as well finish it -- yes, "all y'all" actually is something we do say. It means "everybody," as in, "every last one of y'all." Seriously. :
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** -- For yankees & other folks outside of the deep south, yes, a lot of us do go by three names. Benny Ray, his real name, I swear, worked for the gas company. Everybody called him either Benny Ray or B.R., except his wife, who always called him Ray Lee. He was usually in charge of the cook crew for July 4th picnic at the lodge. The cook crew was up all night stewing (& getting stewed). The last thing that got cooked was a kid goat; that was what *we* got to eat in return for cooking up everybody else's stuff. One year B.R. made the mistake of letting his kids name it. All y'all Suthun folks know what that meant. And as long as I've rambled this long I might as well finish it -- yes, "all y'all" actually is something we do say. It means "everybody," as in, "every last one of y'all." Seriously. :
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Hey, I know a Benny Ray. Or, I did. I lent him some money, so I don't suspect I'll ever see him again. ::
"Y'all" is a contraction of "you all," and is Elizabethan English. The Southern dialect, mostly the "Montgomery" dialect is closer to true English as spoken by the first settlers. But, now we are getting into the really "old days."
:"Y'all" is a contraction of "you all," and is Elizabethan English. The Southern dialect, mostly the "Montgomery" dialect is closer to true English as spoken by the first settlers. But, now we are getting into the really "old days."
Nope, I'm betting you won't either. On the other also yup, like the folks in the "hollers" of WV & eastern KY. Folks there get ridiculed as hillbillies, rednecks, or "iggernt" in language, when in truth it's just that they never got out of their own area enough to have their speech modified by associations with people from other regions.
Nope, I'm betting you won't either. On the other also yup, like the folks in the "hollers" of WV & eastern KY. Folks there get ridiculed as hillbillies, rednecks, or "iggernt" in language, when in truth it's just that they never got out of their own area enough to have their speech modified by associations with people from other regions.
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