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Skriven 2013-10-15 22:10:43 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
   Kommentar till text 5818 av DAVE DRUM (1:261/1381)
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Hi Dave,

 DD> Someone, several years ago, published a "learned thesis" on
 DD> regionalisms and their origins. Probably was a doctoral thesis or the
 DD> result of a Senator Ted Stevens style "bridge to nowhere" grant.

 RH> That was, I believe, a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill grad
 RH> student, and only within the past couple of years. The Raleigh
 RH> newspaper had an article about it at the time, Reader's Digest did a
 RH> small piece within the last 2-3 months. And according to all that, I do
 RH> speak southern.

 DD> Oh. OK. Someone has published something newer than the study to which
 DD> I referred. I wonder if the "new" paper broke any new ground or if the
 DD> Doc-candidate got away with a re-hash of someone else's work (they do
 DD> that a lot, you know).

I know it's done a lot but I don't know if this was based on previous
work or not. This covered pretty much all of CONUS. I remember seeing a
b&w movie in junior high English asking a group of people (4-6) from
various regions about dialect, etc. Interesting thing--at the end, they
described a skunk and asked the panel what each of them called the
creature. They all called it a skunk.

 DD> I've not noticed the statue of Liberty on the NY plates. But, the

 RH> It's not on the plates any more--was, starting in 1986 but came off a
 RH> few years ago.

 DD> That would explain why I've not noticed them lately.  Bv)= In '86 I
 DD> was driving a semi - but, I was more interested in where the little
 DD> buddies (4-wheelers) were going (in relation to my truck) than where
 DD> they came from.   Bv)=

 RH> Don't blame you--traffic was backed up almost to DC north of Richmond
 RH> with what looked like a big rig/suv accident on Friday. Big rig was
 RH> jacknifed into the median ditch.

 DD> We have an exit at the I-55/I-72 interchange that is very poorly
 DD> designed. I've seen several tractor trailer rigs on their sides on the
 DD> west-bound exit to South Sixth Street in Springfield. I also witnessed
 DD> a mugg in a high-rider four-wheel-drive pickup spin around thrice,
 DD> bounce off the left hand guard rail - doing neither truck nor guard
 DD> rail a world of good - and disappear down a gully on the other side of
 DD> the road. IDOT has yet to do anything about it.

Doesn't sound too good for the driver there. In NJ we were in a cars
only lane (on the far left) and as we got off the turnpike & went thru
the toll, we had to turn onto a road going off to the right. Other
drivers of big rigs, other cars, etc were trying to get over to the left
for the other road. All this after dark; it was like driving in Korea!
We made it without incident.


 DD> Federal Safety Yellow with the black numbers sure does make them
 DD> recognisable. As are Pennsylvania's plates with the dark blue stripe
 DD> on top and the bright yellow strip on the bottom.

 RH> And HI's rainbow.

 DD> The ones I have seen (not many on the mainland) generally have the
 DD> rainbow faded pretty badly. North Carolina's "First In Flight" plates
 DD> are much more recognisable from a distance and AFAIAC more attractive
 DD> and colourful as well.

 RH> We've got one of those on our Escape now. Have you noticed NC
 RH> alternates between red and blue letters/numbers--one year red, next
 RH> year blue, then red, etc?

 DD> No, I haven't. I'll have to start looking now that you have pointed
 DD> that out.

Ours are red; we got the plates in 09. They used to issue a front plate
if you lived within a city (town, village) limits with the name of the
city but gave that up some time ago. Kinda miss it in some ways.

 RH> Fish tossing would be fun to see. Just walking thru, smelling the
 RH> various aromas, sampling small bites of things, etc would be a treat.

 DD> Like I said, bring your walking shoes. Then, when you are done with
 DD> the actual Pike Place building, go out the front door into the
 DD> square/courtyard and explore the myriad specialty shops ... which are
 DD> no doubt changed from my last visit over ten years ago. I scored some
 DD> really dynamite spices from a small store-front vendor there and was
 DD> tempted by some dishes in another - but remembered that they would be
 DD> awf'ly hard to get into a carry-on for the return to Spring-A-Leak.

 RH> Sit down for a bit and enjoy something non Starbucks too.

 DD> There are waaaaay more coffee roasters in the Seattle area than *$.
 DD> Bv)=

I know, and I don't drink the stuff anyway. When we were in Bethlehem
(Palestinian territory), we saw one coffee shop with a sign for Stars
and Bucks but I don't think anyone in our group went for it.

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Catch you later,
Ruth
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