> > In other cases, those foreign cultures just
impose their colloquialisms wherever they go,
like we Southerners are doing with "y'all". :-)
>
> It still seems weird to think of you as a
"southerner," for my money. I just got used to
you living to the north of me, and then you go
saying things like "y'all." I have to wonder if
maybe you're turning into Howard. ;-}

It matters not where you were born or how you
were brought up to speak. If you go and live in
the South for any appreciable amount of time,
you WILL begin to talk like a Southerner. It
seems unavoidable.

It happened to my family. We only lived in
North/South Carolina for a combined eight
years, and we've been back in Ohio for almost
seventeen years, yet we still catch ourselves
saying "y'all" and longing for sweet tea and
grits.

Issachar and his wife are DOOMED.

Gri"hey y'all, I reckon I'm fixin' to have me
some backlash hyar."shny