I larn summat noo ever'day. ROFLOL I have jest bin correk-tid on me 'n Pama's dialectin'. Gotta 'mit, thuh person wuz right, and when a person duz sech a fine job o' "sanging" as Pama did las' week, it jest don' soun' right when you say "sing." But I got the funniest story about that. A few years ago, Victoria was reading "Hop On Pop" by Dr. Seuss aloud to Greg and me. She got to the part that reads "Thing" and "Sing", only...she said "thang" and "sing." Then-- "Hey, those don't rhyme!" in huge protest. Didn't matter that she'd just read them, and they were spelled similarly. When Greg and I got done wiping the tears outta our eyes, we then 'splained that hillbillies don't necessarily per-nounce things the way they're spelt. Last night, this same darlin' daughter corrected me fer sayin' "Ain't". Thang is, I never sed it 'till I moved back to the Ozarks frum a few years in Kansas City. It is one of the hardest thangs in thuh world to misspell bad enough to sound right and misspell good enough for you to understand what I'm a-sayin'. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/