Quote Originally Posted by Jerry Oz View Post
I moved to Memphis in 1994. I was shocked to see Jheri curls and gold teeth were still the fashion choice of many of the men [[young and old) so far past the '80s. It was like I was in a real world enactment of "Boyz N Da Hood" except for the language difference. It took a month or so to figure out what they were saying and when I finally got it, it made no sense. "I'm finnin to quit this job, y'all." [[Spoken at literally half the cadence of how we spoke up north.)

I had a friend who use to say zink instead of sink. That and the way she would massacre the word orange drove me crazy. However, I've heard quite a few Westerners, Easterners and Northerners butcher the English language so it's not all about living in the South. Different dialects and different strokes can be found all over this land.