From: "Roger Mills" <rfmilly@...>
> Happy to say, not guilty of any of those (esp. #4 which is not only
barbaric
> but iggerant as well coming from a graduate of Andover and Yale), with the
> occasional exception of No. 1 (and Long Live Hungaria, too, while we're at
> it).
I heard of Hungary being referred to as Magyaria once. Or maybe that was me.
And in Texas and elsewhere in the South we say 'igner(n)t'.
> Danny Wier also wrote: "Depending on what part of Texas you're in, you
might
> also hear other dyslalias...." My favorite character in "King of the
Hill"
> is Boomhauer (and his relatives) who speak an utterly incomprehensible
> dialect. Mrs. Hill's Spanish is pretty good, too.
The story behind Boomhauer: Mike Judge, creator of KOTH, also gave the world
Beavis and Butt-Head a decade ago. Some guy called who didn't like a certain
episode of the show, and made various threatening and incoherent remarks
talking in a way that would inspire the character Boomhauer (first name
unknown). Both he and Hank are guilty of one true abuse of the English
language: the phrase "I tell you what". Which I even do - or used to do
before I started sounding like Hank.
I actually thought Boomhauer was speaking some sort of fictional language
the first time he spoke in the first episode.
My French teacher didn't speak French much better than Peggy speaks Spanish
either.