What I realized when I took my linguistic class last year was that Indiana is weird combination of north and south. The changes in accent and word usage are drastic in a very short amount of distance. Also, in this certain part of Indiana where I am, a lot of people from southern states moved up here around fifty or so years ago, when factories opened. Some people like to refer to a town near by--Noblesville--as Nobletucky, even though that is technically incorrect, since most of the people actually moved from Virginia--like my dad's family.

Haha. That is one of my favorite stories about my grandmother. When we finally figured out what was going on, she laughed so hard she was in tears, and she did that every time we told the story too.