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The educated Southerner has no use for an r, except at the beginning of a word. He says 'honah, and 'dinnah, and 'Gove'nuh, and 'befo' the waw, and so on. The words may lack charm to the eye, in print, but they have it to the ear. When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear?
The educated Southerner has no use for an r, except at the beginning of a word. He says 'honah, and 'dinnah, and 'Gove'nuh, and 'befo' the waw, and so on. The words may lack charm to the eye, in print, but they have it to the ear. When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear?
They's as thick as black be'ies in a patch, an' they's all gettin ready fo' a gran' ma'ch an' display to-mo'ow when they sweah in the new Southe'n gove'nuh, Mistah Hawes. They've got out scouts, too, colonel, an' if you go on you'll run right squah into 'em an' be took, which I allow you don't want to happen, nohow."
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