I'm from the South. Born and raised in Georgia in the suburbs of Atlanta, I cultivated a southern accent throughout my upbringing. While I've managed to completely drop the accent, I still say y'all, call every soft-drink a Coke, and when I'm getting ready to do something, I'm 'fixing to'. So it's not uncommon when I mispronounce a word or two.

Something that had been a wee bit confusing to me is to see people write 'Faux News' when referring to that obvious mouth piece of the White House and Chimpy McHalliburton, Fox News. Both Fox and Faux start and end with the same letters, but have completely different pronunciations. Faux is pronounced 'foh' while Fox is pronounced 'focks'. Knowing this I cannot read Faux News as anything but 'foh news' which kills the joke for me. I never understood why people wrote that.

Until I heard some of the lefties at work reading a newspaper article with the word faux in it. They kept saying 'focks'.

Guess that explains it for me now.

See y'all later. I fixin' to get back to work.

posted @ 3/7/2005 7:59:00 AM
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