> For those of you who want to build your vocabulary so that you can communicate better when you travel, learn these Eastern Kentucky terms:
> year - ear, those things you hear with
> hit - it, third person singular non-gender pronoun
> "Hit jest goes in one year and out the other."
> yeller - yellow, a color between orange and green on the solar spectrum
> dawg - dog, animal sometimes kept for a pet
> jest - just, I think that's an adverb
> "Hit was jest a little yeller dawg with a spot on hits year."
> Howard(known in Eastern Kentucky as "Hard.")

Here's a link featuring a similar lexicon from my neck of the woods. And let it be noted that I do *not* talk like this, despite the fact that I was born and raised in Jawjuh...er, uh, Georgia. :-)

-- codeman"and why is it that so many native southerners can't punctuate 'y'all' correctly?"38