I'm gonna try and watch the race tonight

That is one of those very annoying things that people say simply because they have heard others say it. Therefore, they assume it is correct.

One that drives me nuts is the phrase: Come go with? As in: I'm going to go to the market after lunch. Come go with?

Another one is: I could care less. The actual intent is the exact opposite, i.e., I could not care less.

I'll try and remember that.

Just kidding. One of my favorites was the sign I saw at a gas station, "We don't except credit cards". I wanted to take a card in and say "Yes, I saw the sign".

I don't worry too much about "country speak". We all have some flavor of local vernacular I'm sure.
Personally, I think that folks that get all nitty about such matters should go hang with those who need "orientating" on "there" "irregardless" "point of views".

be sure to be rid of all capitilzations and puncuations while there are it ignor the spell checker while your at it too

I'm curious to what race were you referring to?

Yes, I like local vernacular sayings myself. I don't like the homogenization of Mid-West speak to take over other parts of the country. I don't like that regional customs, culture or speech have to be lost to a perceived correct manner of mediocrity.

When I moved to Louisiana and New Orleans, there were many local expressions that slaughtered the English language but everyone still seemed to communicate with each other in their own way. And I am not talking about stuff like Y'all' that seems to annoy other regions of the country.
The first time I heard something like..

"Yeah your right, I saw her over on the neutral ground on Napoleon Ave at Tchoupitoulas over by Tip's. She was on her way to her mamas to make groceries with her."

Translation:

Correct. I saw her walking on the median of Napoleon avenue at the corner of Tchoupitoulas Street where Tipitinas is located. She was going to see her mother to go shopping at the supermarket.

Ciao

No race, Eric

That was just the first example that came to mind. No regional prejudice either.
In fact, I most recently saw the despicible phrase in a book wtitten by a waiter in New York.

Don

Hmmmm,

So, maybe you can answer the question, is it a 24 foot wide road or a 24 feet wide road?

Hmmmm,

24-foot wide road, with the hyphen when combining a number and unit

Let's just all have a Rob Roy and forget about it

I just found out what a Rob Roy is. Something I was reading. I never knew.
Dang, I want one!

Don

Karoly probably has a pitcher in the fridge:-)

Let's just all have a Rob Roy and forget about it

> I just found out what a Rob Roy is. Something I was reading. I never knew.

I'd suggest stocking up on the works of Charles H. Baker, Jr as a form of "adult education"

Bebida in Spanish means “Drink,” and piojosa means “lousy”; and the 2 of them together means a disappointed guest anywhere, besides a demerit in the mixer’s reputation. The 1st and great commandment in building mixed-drinks is that of not being lazy. Results are sad for the poor chap who has to drink his brews; but sadder still is the realization deep down in our poor mixer’s heart-of-hearts that he has betrayed his callings, his finer mixing art, through refusal to do the right and proper things–yet still does nothing about them.

Summing this whole business up may we say that just as there is no such thing as a 1/2-good girl there no such animal as a 1/2-good drink. A mixed drink is either made correctly out of correct stuff: good; or it’s La Bebida Piojosa. Even a homely gal can, with cunningly-employed paint, powder, patches, rouge-pots, whale-bone and falsies, fool part of the people part of the time; but a poorly-built drink betrays itself with the first sip. The only person our lazy drink-mixer is fooling is himself; he is a traitor to his art and there is no health in him. Amen.