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...drowned; getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning; bears and cougars; syphilitic Indians; drunken Indians who once paid her a threatening visit when she was alone at night; Author MacDonald got rid of them by grabbing a gun and shouting in her fright: "Shi'll oot!" [I'll shoot! ] which she thinks must be Indian...
...easily guessed. But the 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...
...sennin' ye back TIME for Sept. 24 jist as it cam tae me, because I haena time tae strauchen it oot. If TIME hisna time tae fauld it ony ither wy than on the bias, an' wi' the aidges o't crush't an' crumple't like the heid o' a pine brod that has been hemmer't by a 10 year auld boy, I dinna want it, for I haena time tae airn't oot sae the pages can be turn't an' read. The last nummer...
...canna quite mak' oot what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps...
...Sound advice, from a certain diminutive Carnoustie man who teaches golf near Chicago, to persons going to golf at Troon, is this: "Gae oot on the fi-rrst nine o' Troon, an' gae in on the second nine o' Pr-restwuk. Hae yer lonch, an' gae oot on the fir-rst nine o' Pr-restwuk, comin' in on the last nine o' Troon. Aye, an' ye'll pay only one gr-reen...