Use Prawley In a Sentence
You all know Jeff Foxworthy and think he is hilarious. Well we live in a place that makes his stories look sophisticated and cosmopolitan. Anyway various members of the family have succumbed to the local dialect @ times. My brother and my husband somehow developed southern drawl/western drawl out of it. My mother was an English Teacher so she doesn’t count. My daughter worked @ a grocery story that was closer to the lake and thus the true hill people and managed to pick up some of the dialect, even more than she had gotten @ school.
Said daughter came home one day and we were discussing this and that. After about 3 prawleys….as in: “It will prawley snow tomorrow,” I asked her to define prawley as I only knew prawn to be something related to a fish maybe. She said it’s probably but easier to say. I said like yunt2? for Do you want to? She said YES, I said NO. But it’s become a part of family lore.
I will tell one on myself, I thought the written epitome and the spoken were two different things. I mean I said it ep I tome, which rhymes with hep I home. Someone did point that out to me though.
I do know people who say pneumony fever for pneumonia though. And they are serious.
Having grown up in the deep South I really relate to Jeff Foxworthy’s humor. In any monologue he does I can think of at least four people I knew in Georgia that he could be talking about. My drawl was very thick when I moved to Alaska. I had to lose the drawl to make my self understood. It’s been twenty years since I’ve uttered a single “ya’ll”. My hubby used to joke that I was bilingual because I could speak English and Southern.