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Heading south from US E coast
"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message ... On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:15:06 -0500, "Jim Woodward" jameslwoodward at attbi dot com wrote: Isn't the southern one "Bufert" or maybe "Buferd"? Jim Woodward www.mvFintry.com Right....Beaufort, in SC is pronounced B(long)u-Fut South Carolinians have a similar heritage to British colonies like Maine. They don't prounounce R either. Bu-fut Charleston has a special dialect called Geechee. You can also hear it in Norfolk, Va, (pronounced in Geechee Nofuk, which is where the Navy sailors got it, not from their sexual discoveries). Charleston, here, is properly pronounced Chao-stun..... Do a google search on geechee and learn it. When you come to Chaostun, I'll take you out to Rockville on Wadmalaw Island and cut you loose after we take off your blindfold. The Geechee people, black and white, will direct you back to the city and if you make it (many don't and we have to send out the rescue squad) we'll issue you a Geechee Certificate and put a special code on your driver's license indicating to the local people that you know Geechee and can accept basic instructions in Geechee, endearing you to all of them, instantly. Of course, drenched in coastal island hospitality, many Yankees refuse to be rescue, choosing, instead, to stay in Rockville. Many seem attracted to the shrimp, which sells there for $2/pound, to their astonishment compared to "back home". Another interesting pronounciation is one of the major islands close in, James Island. It's proper geechee pronounciation is Ji-mile. Makes perfect sense....reduces a long name to nearly one syllable, as do many Geechee words. I learned Geechee sitting at the lunch counters of the old Eckards Drug Store just South of downtown Chaostun on US 17. Old Geechee men used to sit and talk for hours and eventually let me sit in so I wouldn't miss anything. Don't ask for translations, though. They figure anyone who's not crazy already KNOWS Geechee, obviously. Your reporter in Chaostun, Lah-e (Larry) |
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