"Addy and other slang" (was If you don't want people to knowyour age...)

[Al Geist]

   Robotti, Anne (Carlin) wrote:

some strange reason, Northerners and Californians cannot 
distinguish the words "oil"
and "all", "fire" and "for", and "tire" and "tar" when most 
Southerners speak. ;^}}
      

Or "right" and "rat"...
    

Or "nuclear" and "nukular."  <shudder>

   I remember listening to a conversation in Winter Harber, ME, back when
   I was in the Navy, between a lobster fisherman and a fellow squid who
   was from Georgia farm country.  Good thing there were some of us from
   Michigan around to translate.
   Al
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