Is there a Cracker term equivalent to "Uncle Tom"?

[thoth_moon]

If not, there oughta be. I've been doing my pre-semester GTA orientation this week. The class I'll be teaching is a combination of composition and communications, which I'm totally into. This speech guy at the school spoke to my group on Wednesday. He's nice; I don't like him. He exaggerates all of his vowels the way I do most of my o's (e.g

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[hcolleen]

Given that the 'th' digraph is not used in most languages in the world (see here and note that Latin, Greek, French, Gaelic, and English are the only languages mentioned having these sounds), calling it 'rural' is not only pompous, it's extremely uninformed. I'm used to people using the /d/ sound in my name if they're not native English speakers or if they're younger because I understand this and I know the /θ/ sound is one of the most difficult sounds to pronounce (which is probably why it's not used world-wide). Hell, I had trouble pronouncing my name for a long time because of that sound. That guy may 'know' communication, but he doesn't know jack about language, which makes him a poseur, not actually classy.

[thoth_moon]

I pronounce the "t" in my name--not "th," just "t"--softly like a "d" all the time--but that's because it's surrounded by nothing but soft vowels and it sounds really weird if I bite down on that "t". Nonetheless, already my orientation group thought I was calling myself "Amada" when I introduced myself; Adam, Ana, and Ahmad are my misheard triumvirate. And I do kinda get that, that's partly on me. But, yeah, that dude's a prick in an understated (flaccid? ^^) way, which makes him even more of a prick. I think if I ever catch him alone, I might segue into something awkward with the precursor, "Can I aks you a question?" to see if he cringes.