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Re: White Trash?
> No biggie. That's what Johnny Cash always sang. It's good stuff, and white
> trash folks is "salt of the earth." I'm sure we all have a little bit of
> that in us. I'm a big Johnny Cash fan, myself, and a fair Springsteen fan,
> too.
I think I've got some white trash in me also. When I first went to New York
City, some friends I met there said I had a big-time country twang to my
speech.
I was shocked by this. I thought I spoke that Mid West / Great Lakes dialect
that T.V. & radio companies look for in their broadcasters. It's supposed to
be the least-affected, most non-confusing (!) dialect of American English.
Then I go to New York City & they're telling me I sound like a hillbilly! Maybe
I peppered my speech with too many "y'all's" that day. I do that sometime.
- SCHRADE in Akron