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Don't speak Lowcountry? Then read this.
Byline: David Lauderdale
Sep. 21--We'll call today's lesson, "How to Talk Funny."
It's for you poor souls trying to become real Sandlappers. Help is here -- even if you're at that tricky stage where you're asking, "Do they have rocks in their mouth or do I have rocks in my head?"
The South Carolina Information Highway has a swell new resource for you. And if you thought the South Carolina Information Highway was the path to the outhouse with the Sears catalog, you would be wrong.
The South Carolina Information Highway is a Web site: www.sciway.net. It recently compiled a pronunciation guide for odd South Carolina names and places. It claims to be a new twist on Claude and Irene Neuffer's 1983 thriller, "Correct Mispronunciations of South Carolina Names."
Now see here, you don't have to have pluff mud for brains to know we talk funnier in the Lowcountry than they do up around Clempsun, or is it Clemzun? So we're well represented in the SCIway (that's sky-way) list. And I found it to be very accurate:
--Okatie. It's O-kuh-tee. Not O'Katy. When you pass this test, all you've got to do is FIND Okatie, but that's a lesson for a different day.
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