"[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Wyatt)" wrote:
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> Next up for discussion--honky-tonk diction. Why the heck do singers like Buck
> Owens and early Paycheck add an "ell" to words that don't have them? Like, "I
> ain't nell-ver..." They don't talk like that in southern Ohio (Paycheck's
> stomping grounds), and I bet they don't in Bakersfield, either.
because it is more euphonius. My grandfather (a central Texas farm boy)
always said "milnk" for the same reason.
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Joe Gracey
President-For-Life, Jackalope Records
http://www.kimmierhodes.com
