【词汇大师】阿拉巴马州Ⅱ(1/2)

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        美国南部州历来是美国的农业州，因此语言中也有许多于此相关的词汇。
        TIPS
        本篇只听写嘉宾的话，主持人的话不需要听写。
        主持人的话："And that phrase again is."  
        HINTS
        Hintsville
        Alabama
        Atlanta
        Birmingham
        em
       
       
       
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"I think we have a real neat dialect and I hear it dying, especially when you visit the larger towns. We're very close to Huntsville, Alabama, and we're not too far from Atlanta or Birmingham, and when you visit those places a lot of the locals you can't even tell are Southerners anymore. And that's sad to me. But then, as I used in the example to you in an e-mail, you'll hear those people who are very proud of their Southern heritage and don't hesitate to use it.
"I heard one woman say, she was asking about someone's family, and said, 'How's your mom and them? Well, tell 'em I said how-do.' And that's just such a neat expression to me."
"Well, what she said was 'how's your mom and them?' which means 'how is your family?'. It's 'your momma and them' and 'tell 'em I said how-do,' which is howdy-do or how are you, hello, I'm thinking about you. Just a good, all-purpose phrase that means several different things."