Subj : And/From...  1.
To   : mark lewis
From : Roy Witt
Date : Sat Mar 03 2018 08:24:55

13 Jul 12 15:38, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>>> I also got the reprimand from my father when I began to use what
 RW>>> he termed as "Chicagoisms" such as dis, dat and many other words.

 ml>> dis, dat, deez, and doze... they're further afield than chicago... i
 ml>> grew up with them in south georgia in the 60's and 70's... have
 ml>> heard them all across the country, too ;)

 RW>> 8^) Other than a 13mo stint in Europe during WW2, my dad wasn't a
 RW>> world traveler. His field of influence went as far as Chicago and
 RW>> into northern Wisconsin, upper Michigan and Minnesota. He
 RW>> considered such talk to be 'colored' talk ... being a southern
 RW>> Georgian you know what I mean with that.

 ml> yup... and there's still many folk who talk with their mouth full of
 ml> marbles... some, though, do have an excuse... they learned and repeat
 ml> what they hear and with a hearing problem, well...

I have one of those hearing problems: tinitus (sp). But I don't mumble or
jumble words.


                R\%/itt

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