Sunday, May 23, 2004

"Shagging is the dance you do to Beach Music, not what Austin Powers thinks it is, although one thing has been known to lead to the other."

This morning's newspaper column builds on the conversation at this blog about regional dialect, including the proper use of "barbecue," inverted words like "hoppergrass" and "peckerwood," and my favorite genteel verbal dagger, "bless his heart."

Read the whole thing.


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