{"id":678,"date":"2007-05-03T07:27:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T12:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=678"},"modified":"2022-01-02T07:38:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T12:38:22","slug":"everything-is-ray-low-tif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Evrathang is RAY-low-tif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Explainer at <em>Slate<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2165375\/?nav=fix\">does it again<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/?p=671\">I commented on this<\/a> the other day, but little did I know then that I was actually a &#8220;code shifter&#8221; when I&#8217;m hangin&#8217; with the clan back in Vah-GIN-ya and talking mountainspeak.<\/p>\n<p>Hillary&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markaelrod.net\/2007\/05\/02\/at-what-point-does-one-stop-being-a-yankee\">not the only one<\/a> trying to convince us of her Southern bona fides. In Full Professor Elrod&#8217;s case, the more hard-core secessionists among his rowdy and far-flung boiled peanut gallery may have finally disabused him of the notion. I think it was the part about lapsing into Delawarespeak that did him in.<\/p>\n<p>Huntsville is about as cosmopolitan as you can get in Alabama with so many transplants from all over the country and world. But if you cross the Whitesburg Bridge and the Tennessee River and head down &#8217;round AAY-rahub way, the Southern dialect suddenly grows twangier than a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flannery_O'Connor\">Flannery O&#8217;Connor<\/a> dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Evrathang is RAY-low-tif.\n<\/p>\n<p><!--c298f6fef81ed2d582635e544c1b9be3--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Explainer at Slate does it again. I commented on this the other day, but little did I know then that I was actually a &#8220;code shifter&#8221; when I&#8217;m hangin&#8217; with the clan back in Vah-GIN-ya&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23,20,27,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-current-events","category-huntsville","category-politics","category-southern-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9614,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/9614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocularfusion.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}