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[justiceischeap]

98. I'm originally from Missouri and we fix the hell out of things

We'd fix dinner or we'd be fixin' to go somewhere... Sometimes we'd warsh (wash) things or we'd have a hole in the ruff (roof). As a kid I played in the crick (creek) and catch crawdaddy's (um, I guess they're like baby shrimp).

When I moved to Pennsylvania, things would be broke (instead of broken) and man, did that drive me nuts. I stopped "fixing" things after a girlfriend made fun of me for it. I told her I was going to fix dinner and she asked me if it was... broke.

As far as y'all is concerned, I adopted it after hearing Emily from the Indigo Girls say it at a concert. I loved it. To me saying, "Thanks y'all" seems much more genuine than "Thank you."

I was having a discussion with a co-worker the other day about dialects and accents, lamenting about the fact they seem to be dying away. People move around so often, that our language is becoming homogenized, I think.