[Magdalen] Speaking of the Carolinas...

[Ginga Wilder]

Sometimes, Jon.  I've said that, but only in jest.  This area has another
set of expressions that I cannot spell, but the sound like 'been-yuh' and
'come-yuh.'  In the earliest days after the schism, I addressed our
congregation often with the words, "At Good Shepherd, there are no
'been-yuhs' and no 'come-yuhs'.  There are just us and we are all 'here!'
and part of the same family.  We are Good Shepherd!  Thanks be to God.'

Ginga

On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the elderly but active woman at Old Trinity, is a lector on one
> Sunday a month.  She has a beautiful North Carolina, despite the fact that
> she was born in Montana!  Her lilting voice is a joy to hear.
>
> A priest I know did a wedding (for an old friend, you know how that is) in
> Charleston. Hanging around at the small church for the reception, in
> speaking with folks in attendance, when he told them where  he lived (KCMO)
> People would say "Oh, you're from off!"  Is that an expression South
> Carolina uses for people not from SC?
>
> Grace and peace,
> brud
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > David, South Carolina accents vary across the state.  The further into
> the
> > upstate from Charleston you move, the more 'North Carolina' you will
> > find...but with SC's very own distinctions.  People in the Pee Dee area
> and
> > people from Columbia and others from Greenville all speak with a Southern
> > accents but not the same ones.  Charleston, on the other hand, has a
> > dialect unto itself.  Wikipedia has a good description;
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charleston,_South_Carolina
> >
> > Truth is, as more people move to the South and South Carolina, one does
> not
> > hear so many 'pure' accents these days.  Just in our small church we have
> > families from Chicago, Michigan, NY, VT, VA, etc.  One of our members
> has a
> > heavy Charleston accent and I have a smidge...my father was born and
> raised
> > in Charleston and his mother was of French Huguenot descent.
> >
> > And, to Sibyl's article, I would love to do excavation at an archetural
> > site.  One is being done locally at the 1750 English Church ruins built
> as
> > part of the Church Act of 1706.  An entire settlement grew there with
> 1800
> > residents in its hay day.  On the Ashley River, the highway to Charleston
> > for the plantations.  St. George's English church's bell tower still
> stands
> > but everything else is lost.  Digs to find the foundation have been going
> > on for years, as have those to identify the village buildings and
> homes.  A
> > tabby fort remains more or less intact on the river banks.  General Swamp
> > Fox Marion from time to time fought for the colonies in the fort.
> >
> > History, including that beneath the ground, is fasinating to me.
> >
> > Ginga
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> > magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Over and beyond the obvious flood problems for which we all pray
> > > will be resolved, I've been interested in the interviewing of the
> > > residents
> > > on the national news programs.
> > >
> > > I had in mind that the typical South Carolinian had a deep southern
> > > accent more akin to South Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi.   Instead,
> > > they sound much more like natives of North Carolina with which I  am
> > > familiar (brother lived in Cary, NC in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill
> > > area).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > David Strang - whose sister-in-law from Evansville, IN sounds much
> > > more like the the Alabama natives than South Carolina  natives.
> > >
> >
>