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Re:Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” ... by self_assembly on Thursday February 08, 2018 @10:48PM (#16337768)
Another fun one that I'm definitely guilty of as a native Californian is "no yea" for "yes" and "yea no" for "no". I do it without thinking all the time and am always shocked that no one ever questions what I mean.
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Re:Talk Like a Texan: How Texans Use “Down,” “Out,” “Over,” ... by meej on Friday February 09, 2018 @01:30AM (#16338349)
the lexicon valley podcast did an episode on this.

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2013/0...

(the discussion starts a bit before six minutes in)

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