we're not in Georgia any more

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Conversation at bedtime last night:

Me: Casper, could you [something or other, like put on your pajamas].
Casper: Yes, ma'am. [beat] I have to stop saying that.
Me: Yeah, nobody says 'Yes, ma'am" in Ohio.
Casper: And they don't say y'all! I had just gotten used to the y'all!

(Note, of course, she was born in North Carolina, but in a sliver of it that wasn't very Southern.)

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[cass404]

had just gotten used to the y'all!

Oh, pumpkin.

(That is really adorable.)

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I'm from north of the Mason-Dixon Line, but I love "ma'am" (and sir, and formality in almost all its forms).