Word: carolinian
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Being a native South Carolinian, and a frequent visitor to the old settlement ... I must inform you that Ninety Six is still in South Carolina...
Scotch Presbyterian to the core, Will Blue does not run his road on Sunday unless "the ox is in the ditch." He was the first Southern railroader to get cotton rates reduced, first North Carolinian to offer door-to-door delivery with trucks. He was also the first railroader to get an RFC loan. Said Jesse Jones: "Will, I'm afraid of short lines, but I'm not afraid of one owned and operated by a bunch of Scottish Presbyterians." Five years later the loan was repaid. Blessed with a non-absentee ownership (the Blues and their...
...listeners had practically no luck in trying to tell one Southern dialect from another. Nevertheless there are distinct regional differences in Southern accent, apparent to a trained ear. A Virginian pronounces ou sounds with a quick upward-looping inflection, so that "out" sounds like "a-oot." A North Carolinian may leave out the r's in "carry," but he puts a heavy r in certain other words. He says "Yes urr no" instead of "Yes uh no," as most Southerners would...
Carthaginian, Carolinian...
...clear cool afternoon, Tuesday, August 4, 1914, a grave, spare, rather homely North Carolinian entered the courtyard before the massive grey British Foreign Office on Downing Street. He turned to the right, passed the guards, walked down a broad ornate corridor, passed through a large oak door into a spacious room. Its windows looked out on the tranquil lake and lawn and trees of St. James's Park. The clocks of London struck three...