Word: lahk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same blaring tone pervades the rest of the state's hospitality. Guides at the state capitol in Montgomery pointedly ask visitors, 'How do y'll lahk our state?" Correct answers may win handshakes with Governer Brewer ("he ain't a Wallace, but he's a good man") or small "Wallace in 68" buttons. In gas stations and greasy cafes all over the state, the same ritual goes one. "You from out of state? What y'll doin' round here? How you lahk it here?" The ritual has an important purpose: about half the people who come to Alabama are Southern...
...counters by asking him another state capital. The boy says he does not know, and is silent when his mother, quite gay now, urges him to recite. He glares at her, and petulantly she asks the porter to put him to bed. The porter chides him: "A smaht boy lahk you not knowing the capital of Alabama." The boy scowls, trying not to cry. Then: " 'Sure I know,' he said in a listless, uneven voice that was almost a whisper. 'It's Montgomery...
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