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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Wed Feb 6, 2013, 08:54 PM Feb 2013

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I come from the Deep South. I do not pronounce it 'The YOU-nited States.'

Nobody I knew in the Deep South pronounced it that way.

Only Yosemite Sam pronounces it that way.

Rep. Paul Broun is a asshole dumb fuck from the PIT-of Hell.

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I come from the Deep South. I do not pronounce it 'The YOU-nited States.' (Original Post) onehandle Feb 2013 OP

You must not come from deep enough in the deep south - it's the YEW-nited States tularetom Feb 2013 #1

'Nited States in my old neck of the woods... rppper Feb 2013 #2

tularetom

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1. You must not come from deep enough in the deep south - it's the YEW-nited States

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 09:08 PM

Feb 2013

At least that's the way my granddad always pronounced it.

rppper

(2,952 posts)

2. 'Nited States in my old neck of the woods...

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 09:39 PM

Feb 2013

Transplanted NE Texan here...from the land of Louie Ghomert!

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