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eileen
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 67 Location: antwerp, belgium
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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why, sarape, if i knew y'all was counting....i'm virginny (bawn in nawth carolahna, but living in belgium)....
and realising, teaching students from many countries, that 'y'all' is, really, really an excellent word that has counterparts in other languages. why don't we have a plural you?
y'all come back now, ya hear?  _________________ eileen |
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Rainey

Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 2498 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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eileen wrote: | why don't we have a plural you?
y'all come back now, ya hear?  |
I thought it was "all y'all". _________________ God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor |
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Judy

Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 1196 Location: buried under a pile of books somewhere in Adelaide, South Australia
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 12:53 am Post subject: |
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In Australia the generally accepted plural is 'Youse'. Rarely used, thankfully. It reminds me of a group of sheep! _________________ Doing what you like is freedom
Liking what you do is happiness
www.cupcakerecipebook.com.au |
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David
Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 1855 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Youse as in "youse guys" is sadly somewhat common in Saskatchewan too! _________________ Vivant Linguae Mortuae!! |
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JustMe

Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 213 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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I shudder every time something says "youse". _________________ Life is too short to drink cheap wine. |
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Judy

Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 1196 Location: buried under a pile of books somewhere in Adelaide, South Australia
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:56 am Post subject: |
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So do I, Justme _________________ Doing what you like is freedom
Liking what you do is happiness
www.cupcakerecipebook.com.au |
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katiuccia
Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Destin, Florida
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 6:38 pm Post subject: |
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Hello everyone! I stumbled upon Chocolate and Zucchini because it's featured on the website for domino magazine. I've been browsing the forums for a few weeks now. I know this is not a new sentiment, but I just want to say that I'm so pleased to see people from so many different places on this board, combining my two passions- food and culture.
To add to the "y'all/youse" discussion: I'm from Maryland, where neither is really common, but Northwest Florida (aka "lower Alabama") is fluent in y'all. Did anyone mention the posessive, as in, "I'll stop by y'all's house later." How weird does that look- two apostrophes in the same word?? _________________ I believe you are in league with the butcher. |
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Sarape

Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Posts: 583 Location: Anniston Alabama USA
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Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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Another member in the South USA.
And in Destin, a cool place to vacation according to some I've talked to.
I really can't stand this Southern way of talking. It isn't English. That's my main complaint with the South. People around me all talk like idiots. The Alabama legislature should give out free copies of My Fair Lady or Pygmalion. _________________ ' She says, 'I am the glamorous type.' I said, 'So what?' |
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Pesto Man

Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 185 Location: New Orleans Louisiana
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Welcome Katiuccia, the ranks of southerners grows daily, although apparently with at least some transplants.... I myself am, born & bred in Louisiana, with a brief side trip to Georgia, although my French/Cajun heritage has always been considered to be outside the mainstream of the "true south"
(yew fellers tawk funny). My wife however, is a true southerner born just a few miles up the road from you in Panama City. Her family now lives just north of Tallahasse in Georgia.
Destin Has a beautiful beach but it is a little built up for my tastes, before Ivan, I prefered P'cola, but now have fallen in love with St. George Island to your west ...any way, welcome _________________ I would like a gin martini, straight up, olives on the side, as dry as my wit, as clean as my conscience.
and... as cold as my heart!!!! |
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Shanti
Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Duluth, MN
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome Pesto Man and Katiuccia!
Pesto Man, I look forward to your views on Farmer's Markets and gardening in general! Both are topics of interest to me.
On the "Youse" topic - that one floats around here and I cringe everytime I hear it. Due to my proximity to the Canadian border (150 miles as the crow flies) we also get a lot of "eh" tacked on at the end of sentances. Urk.
Someday I hope to visit both New Orleans and Paris!  _________________ What if to reach the highest place you had to fall? Peter Mayer, singer/songwriter |
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David
Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 1855 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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"Eh!" is so common in Canada I've even heard Francophones use it. I certainly do and can't really think of anyone who doesn't! Odd isn't it, these little regional peculiarities of language. I was raised using the word "bluff" to describe a small stand of trees, while a "slough" is a small naturally occuring fetid body of water and a "dugout" is an manmade slough used to collect water for the cattle. _________________ Vivant Linguae Mortuae!! |
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Deborah
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 12 Location: San Diego, CA USA
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:21 pm Post subject: De-lurking to say Hello! |
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Hello,
My name is Debbie and I am from San Diego, California. I have been following C&Z since I read about it in the Los Angeles Times last year, and I decided to de-lurk as well.
I like to cook and bake both pastries and bread. My current culinary obsessions are French and Chinese, more particularly dim sum.
We have a wonderful wine growing region here in San Diego which produces some very good local wines. Thorton Winery, in particular, produces an excellent Cuvee Rouge Champagne which has the color of bright red berries. Delicious! |
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Rainey

Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 2498 Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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Big wave from up here in Woodland Hills (northwest end of LA county)! Delighted to have another breadmaker here! _________________ God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor
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rai
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 2 Location: geneva, switzerland
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Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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long time reader, first time writer just thought i'd send a little wave from switzerland and see if perhaps any other C&Zers are in the area. |
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Deborah
Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 12 Location: San Diego, CA USA
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Hi Rainey!
A big wave back from San Diego!
Wow another bread baker! I like to make all kinds of bread, but I really like to make the kind of bread that is referred to as artisinal breads. I start with a chef which then gets turned into the levain. I usually shape it into a boule and bake it in a La Cloche baker. |
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