Quiz for the Fans

[fireflyr]

Well, Fireflyr, I will remember, next time, that you add an & inside the acronyms so that no explanation will be needed!!!
 

WAAL SHOOT LIL' MISSY, we'll make a cowgirl outa you yet!

[Baradium]

WAAL SHOOT LIL' MISSY, we'll make a cowgirl outa you yet!

Well shut my mouth and paint me red!

[fireflyr]

WAAL SHOOT LIL' MISSY, we'll make a cowgirl outa you yet!

Well shut my mouth and paint me red!

HEY, Georgia Boy!   Ya'll know what A'm asayin' dontcha?

[tundra_flier]

WAAL SHOOT LIL' MISSY, we'll make a cowgirl outa you yet!

Well shut my mouth and paint me red!

Awww she it. 

[Gulfstream Driver]

Shame on Fireflyr for confusing the Europeans.

[fireflyr]

Shame on Fireflyr for confusing the Europeans.

Just trying to clear up the impression that Americans speak the king's English---ain't so

[chuckar101]

Well what do we speak then, cause I sure can't figure it out.  I still here accents that sound like a completely different language.

[fireflyr]

Well what do we speak then, cause I sure can't figure it out.  I still here accents that sound like a completely different language.

Gotta enjoy the different dialects here in the US of A, everybody's always making fun of everyone else   ....and we have sub-dialects too...usually amplified by ingestion of various types of alcoholic beverages

[Frank N. O.]

Shame on Fireflyr for confusing the Europeans.

Just trying to clear up the impression that Americans speak the king's English---ain't so

I thought it was the Queen's English or did I miss something in the news?

I probably also speak more american than english since most of the movies I watched (which is how I learned to speak the language since I was barely in school at that age) were US and not english.

Frank

[fireflyr]

Shame on Fireflyr for confusing the Europeans.

Just trying to clear up the impression that Americans speak the king's English---ain't so

I thought it was the Queen's English or did I miss something in the news?

I probably also speak more american than english since most of the movies I watched (which is how I learned to speak the language since I was barely in school at that age) were US and not english.

Frank

Well Gee Whiz Frank,
Yer pinnin' me down on a technicality---Ah don' thank that ole Queen Lisibeth or even ole Victoria invented this here way ta speek--Ah thank it wuz some Kang way back yonder in history   .....B'sides that, I think ole Winston Churchill said the British and Americans was two people separated by a common language

[chuckar101]

Gotta enjoy the different dialects here in the US of A, everybody's always making fun of everyone else   ....and we have sub-dialects too...usually amplified by ingestion of various types of alcoholic beverages


I think the alcoholic beverages started most of them.

[happylanding]

Gotta enjoy the different dialects here in the US of A, everybody's always making fun of everyone else   ....and we have sub-dialects too...usually amplified by ingestion of various types of alcoholic beverages


I think the alcoholic beverages started most of them.

it seems to me the same situation that switzerland. apart from the fact that we have four national languages, one of them is swytzerdutsch and it is actually a non existant language, but an huge number of dialects with different expressions and words from a region to another. and the cause? probably the higly alcoholic kirsch found in the typically swiss dish: the fondue! 

[Baradium]

A new yankee neighbor down in GA where I come from...      "It took me forever to figure out what 'over yonder' meant!  I mean, I'd ask where something was and they'd say 'over yonder,' but that didn't help me any because I didn't know what a yonder was that it was on top of!"

We also like saying "thingy"  example:  "the thingy on the engine in my car over yonder is making a noise."

Being from Illionois, he prefers to use "whatchacallit"  ( what-cha-call-it) comes from, "what do you call it"  Example:  "That mechanic used his whatchacallit to fix my car."


BTW, I still can't get my truck started...

[happylanding]

A new yankee neighbor down in GA where I come from...      "It took me forever to figure out what 'over yonder' meant!  I mean, I'd ask where something was and they'd say 'over yonder,' but that didn't help me any because I didn't know what a yonder was that it was on top of!"

We also like saying "thingy"  example:  "the thingy on the engine in my car over yonder is making a noise."

Being from Illionois, he prefers to use "whatchacallit"  ( what-cha-call-it) comes from, "what do you call it"  Example:  "That mechanic used his whatchacallit to fix my car."


BTW, I still can't get my truck started...

what does over yonder mean then? could not catch the sense from your message.
and what happened to your truck?

[fireflyr]

A new yankee neighbor down in GA where I come from...      "It took me forever to figure out what 'over yonder' meant!  I mean, I'd ask where something was and they'd say 'over yonder,' but that didn't help me any because I didn't know what a yonder was that it was on top of!"

We also like saying "thingy"  example:  "the thingy on the engine in my car over yonder is making a noise."

Being from Illionois, he prefers to use "whatchacallit"  ( what-cha-call-it) comes from, "what do you call it"  Example:  "That mechanic used his whatchacallit to fix my car."


BTW, I still can't get my truck started...

what does over yonder mean then? could not catch the sense from your message.
and what happened to your truck?

Yonder is an dialectical expression indicating a general direction to a destination or an object, generally but not required, to be within eyesight .
The expression comes from the archaic "yon".     Does that help?