A few examples from my experience:
Some years ago I was having dinner in a family steak house in Knoxville, TN.
I heard one of the waitresses asking if anyone knew where the desert (accent
on the first syllable) bowls were.
While I was going to graduate school in Norfolk, Virginia I worked for a
while as a teaching assistant in the Math Department. One day I overheard
the following exchange between one of the local professors and a fellow from
India:
Local Professor: Does anyone have an UMbrella (accent of the UM) I could
borrow.
Indian Professor: A what?
LP: You know, the thing that you carry to keep the rain off of your head.
IP: Oh, you mean an umBRELLA (accent, heavily on the second syllable).
- Peter Schauss
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-healeys@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:owner-healeys@Autox.Team.Net]
> On Behalf Of WILLIAM B LAWRENCE
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:20 PM
> To: roadsterdude1600@yahoo.com; heard@datatrontech.net;
> healeys@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Y'all
>
> I worked in the West Texas oil fields a few (well quite a few) years ago
> and
> one of my coworkers was from Shamrock, TX.
>
> One day I walked into the shop while he was packing tools and parts to
> send
> back to the warehouse. I noticed he had scrawled the word FRIGGLE on one
> of
> the packages in large letters with a black marker.
>
> I looked at it kind of quizically and said "frig-gul?"
>
> He said "No! fry-jul!"
>
> Bill Lawrence
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