No disrespect meant here, but I've been talking to Southern Baptists and noticed they pronounce it "Babdist." Some people write this as "Babtist" but that's I hear it with the voicing of /b/ assimilated to the /t/. In any case, the /bt/ combo in the middle of words doesn't get used much in English, and /bd/ is even rarer. Bravo, Babdists.
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Michael:
Among the other colloquiallism indignenous to this babtist crew are the following:
1. dadgum or dadgummit
2. tarnation
3. pinny-costal, as in tongues-speakers
4. iz-rul or iz-rul-ites, as in the chosen people
5. hail, as in the abode of the debil.
Posted by Benjamin S. Cole | April 21, 2007 11:16 PM
Posted on April 21, 2007 23:16