Anna Stanford (annvstan@mars.utm.edu) from 170.143.229.76 at 11/23/99 02:09PM
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    (I wrote this at the end of September, so at the time it was the end of summer. It was a writing assignment for English class. We had to write about the sounds we hear in the South. Here is what I heard) I went to Wal-Mart yesterday to pick up a prescription. As I walked back to the pharmacy I heard, "Hey, Mary! How're you?" Then Mary answered, "Oh, I'm fine. How're the kids?" To which the other lady replied, "They're doin' good. It was nice seein' you!" People in the South are so polite, and in small towns it seems that everyone knows everyone. I came home from a meeting late the other night. As I walked up to my dorm from he parking lot I could hear crickets, cicadas, and locusts singing from the grass and trees. I could hear my feet crunching on the grass and fallen leaves because it hadn't rained in so long. I think the South is the only place you can distinctly hear insects and dry grass crunching. I love the accents people in the South have. I was sitting in the UC the other day, and all around me I could hear people greeting each other and talking about their classes. "Hey, y'all!" is one of my favorites and one I hear all of the time. "You gettin' out tonight?" I heard one girl say to another as she walked by. "Yeah, probly," the other girl said as she searched for an empty table to sit at. I love how Southerners don't pronounce the "g" at the end of words like walking, talking, and singing. I also love how some Southerners say "light" almost like "lat." The sounds that can be heard in the South are interesting to say the least, and make the South what it is. Without these sounds the South would not be such a wonderful place to live or visit, and I wouldn't love it near as much.