How To Use southernness In A Sentence
- To be honest, though, I've never felt Edwards was particularly sincere, even in 2004, but it may just be his southernness. Feingold: Edwards Supporters "Are Being Taken In"
- y'all: contraction of "you all," a more musical, streamlined, unisyllabic take on the 2nd person plural than the northern phonetic catastrophe "you'ze guys." but y'all is a sadly misunderstood contraction, all too often torturously overused in fictional settings wherein "southernness" must be conveyed. in fact, y'all is rather more complicated than a mere drawling exercise in vowel manipulation, and only an ignorant yankee would treat it as such. Cherie puts her M.A. to marginally good use
- I think there's still a southernness, whatever that means. Oral History Interview with John Medlin, May 24, 1999. Interview I-0076. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
- I had completely eradicated it from my speech but when I moved home, I guess I just inhaled all of this southernness and it just comes out! Archive 2008-08-01
- She did a little background check on "southernness" which turned up this jewel by Jerry Leath Mills. Archive 2007-06-01
- (In the very same story southernness is seen as the less naive stance: a look, a mask of "life-is-a-dream irony, which could turn to pure challenge at the drop of a hat.") A Pondered Life
- Our southernness has lent a hand to many a literary devices. Murf made the button, too!
- Is there still a southernness to Wachovia, a southerness to the business in North Carolina in the region? Oral History Interview with John Medlin, May 24, 1999. Interview I-0076. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
