That's how my relatives down south pronounce it. (Like ol' Miss, not like potato ole) We see a lot about the change in oil traffic in North Dakota and Canada. With the price of oil changing so drasticaly, is there a big effect on oil moving everywhere else in North America by rail?
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and Murphy persons in east Tennessee pronounce it "EARL"
Georgia is All and Nebraska is "look at the high price!"
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ˈȯi(-ə)l It's two syllables, of course, in standard English.
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schlimm ˈȯi(-ə)l It's two syllables, of course, in standard English.
Murphy SidingMy relatives live in North Carolina. Nothing they say sounds like standard english to me. Of course they say the same thing about us flatlanders.
Do they live on Ocracoke Island? Those folks speak what sounds like a 'whole nuther language'.
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Here I thought from the title that we were going to hear of the adventures of that fine old Norwegian and his wife Lena. For those that don't understand, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_and_Lena
Jeff
Norm48327 Murphy Siding My relatives live in North Carolina. Nothing they say sounds like standard english to me. Of course they say the same thing about us flatlanders. Do they live on Ocracoke Island? Those folks speak what sounds like a 'whole nuther language'.
Murphy Siding My relatives live in North Carolina. Nothing they say sounds like standard english to me. Of course they say the same thing about us flatlanders.
I do not recall a weird accent there, but in the Low Country in FL, GA and SC, they speak Gullah.
schlimm do not recall a weird accent there, but in the Low Country in FL, GA and SC, they speak Gullah.
I believe that's it. Couldn't remember the name of it.
jeffhergert Here I thought from the title that we were going to hear of the adventures of that fine old Norwegian and his wife Lena. For those that don't understand, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_and_Lena Jeff
And my first thought was that it might be about bullfighting.
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schlimm I do not recall a weird accent there, but in the Low Country in FL <snip>
I do not recall a weird accent there, but in the Low Country in FL <snip>
Dakguy201 schlimm I do not recall a weird accent there, but in the Low Country in FL <snip> I didn't realize there was a High Country in FL!
Every Interstate overpass is the High Country! But after driving down I95 and Florida Turnpike to Homestead - it is the trash dumps. They tower over the surrounding areas.
I do not know about Georgia and Florida (I had not heard of calling a section in either of those states "Low Country"), but the Low Country in South Carolina extends up to the Fall Line--the line where you find falls in rivers--and is much larger than the section (around Charleston, particularly) where Gullah is spoken. Above the Fall Line, you have the Up Country--where I grew up; it is also called Piedmont, particularly in the western part of the state.
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Here in Houston, we just call it "the payroll"....
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Gullah is spoken in the Sea Islands and parts of Lowcountry. It's Creole-based, spoken by descendents of slaves. On Okracoke the few true locals speak with a strong accent to each other and would say for example, "hoy toyd" for high tide.
Since the thread has been...diverted (NOT going for the obvious pun), I will briefly address the topic by appending this quote from this article
According to data from the American Association of Railroads, oil-by-rail shipments across the nation are down by 13 percent over the past year.
But isn't this just a temporary decline in oil shipments and like all things cyclical will come back again? Or is this a decline because of pipelines that have been built recently so rail shipping isn't as necessary?
Given the common practice of looking at things in the short term, not helped by the recent growth of CBR in general, it's hard to say what's going on. General oil usage has peaks and valleys, and it's really necessary to look at a number of factors, including historical data, to tell what's up.
F'rinstance, how much of an effect has this incredibly mild fall had?
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Schlimm,
While there, friends and I chartered a small fishing boat. The owner definitely was a local. He was somewhat difficult to understand at times.
edblysard Here in Houston, we just call it "the payroll"....
Norm48327 Schlimm, While there, friends and I chartered a small fishing boat. The owner definitely was a local. He was somewhat difficult to understand at times.
Mookie But isn't this just a temporary decline in oil shipments and like all things cyclical will come back again? Or is this a decline because of pipelines that have been built recently so rail shipping isn't as necessary?
One destination terminal on my carrier is still doing their normal 4 trains a day. Don't know about other terminals.
Ole? Here in Minnesota, we pronounce that "Oh-lee", as in "Hey Ole, there goes another oil train, tell Sven to get the camera!"
Course my old friend from Arkansas would have pronounced it "Earl Train".
wjstix Ole? Here in Minnesota, we pronounce that "Oh-lee", as in "Hey Ole, there goes another oil train, tell Sven to get the camera!"
tree68F'rinstance, how much of an effect has this incredibly mild fall had?
I've seen it written that in Texas or Oklahoma, it's also pronounced "awl" (Tom Clancy, Red Storm Rising).
I've also seen or heard that the English language dialect in the coastal areas of North and South Carolina and Georgia is more like the English in the times of Shakespeare and Chaucer ("Canterbury Tales") than the English spoken in that country of Great Britain today.
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