RemembeRED: Colloquialisms and Dialect

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It never fails to shock me when my sons speak with a regional Southern Maryland dialect  “Mahm! I need some wah-durr.”

It leads me back to a tidbit from my linguistics class: a trained linguist can determine, just from listening to one’s speech, the birthplace of the speaker within thirty miles.

So, in the spirit of dialect, slang, and turns of phrase, this week’s RemembeRED prompt is: Write a piece of creative non-fiction in which turns of phrase, dialect, slang, or colloquialisms feature prominently.

Choose ONE moment and explode it. Please, no laundry lists of phrases. This is a memoir, not the urban dictionary.

Let’s keep it to 400 words.

See you at the link-up on Tuesday!