Sheila, Hear ya on #4. I still go around muttering "yankee go home" everytime I hear someone on the radio or tv pronounce it wrong. A friend that I worked with for many years was from "mich-e-gun" and I still tell her "yankee go home" I never could get her to say it right. One time she would pronounce it right and the next right back to her old ways. > 4. Chattanooga is pronounced "chat-a-noog-a". If you pronounce it > "chat-nooga" you are obviously from "up north" and are branded an > outsider > for life. See "Wutwull" (not Whit-well). "Lufayet" (not La-fee-et), > or > "Fallin'-wadder" for reference. And I firmly believe in #3 > 3. If there is even the slightest inkling of a chance of snow, > schools will close without warning. (My personal belief is that the local > weathermen are on the payrolls of Bi-Lo, Food Lion and company since a prediction of > snow causes every self-respecting Southerner to flock to the grocery > stores as if we would be trapped in the house for a month Paula