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A Opossum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one's seen before.

If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.

Onced and Twiced are words.

It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!

Jawl-P? Means, Did you all go to the bathroom?

People actually grow,eat and like okra.

Fixinto is one word. It means I'm going to do that.

There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there's supper.

Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.

Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.

The word jeet is actually a question meaning, 'Did you eat?'

You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is, you work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em.

Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural.

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.

You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car.

You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco and ketchup.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, the motor sports, and gossip.

Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss(first name) or Mr.(first name)

You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

You know what a hissy fit is..

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!
 
Rusted, I call 'em fish food. I catch them in a live trap on a regular basis, if I don't they get in the chicken pen and eat the food.
I take them down to the canal, open the door and they jump into the water. I then pop them with a low velocity 22 shell with my old single shot rifle.
Turned one loose last year and it promptly made a U turn to the pipe that runs under the road. I ran across the road and waited for him to swim through (took him several minutes) then sank him. Turned around to walk back across the road and there was a Sheriff sitting there. He asked what I was doing, I said feeding the fish. After explaiing to him what I was really doing, he got a good laugh and said "have a good one" and on down the road he went.
 
The US Army, in it's infinite wisdom, saw fit to station me in such places as Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida, and some other places I'd like to forget, and while I developed a keen appreciation for the language(s) spoken in the South, I also studiuosly avoided ever speaking the language because "where I'm from", they think that kind of talk is "cute and entertaining". (;>))
 
Southern boy goes in a bar and says "Hey barkeep, Gimme a beer. Barkeep says "y'all got any Id? Boy asks " bout what?
 
Naw. We just got little guys here. The bird sized mosquitos are in the west. As for black flies, never had too much bad luck with them.
 
Agree. And "fixinto" is more usually "fixinta" or "fixina". Also, after 70 years in the South I have never heard "ya'll" used to refer to the singular, except by people not from the South.
 
(quoted from post at 21:40:04 02/28/12) The US Army, in it's infinite wisdom, saw fit to station me in such places as Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Virginia, Oklahoma, Missouri, North Carolina, Florida, and some other places I'd like to forget, and while I developed a keen appreciation for the language(s) spoken in the South, I also studiuosly avoided ever speaking the language because "where I'm from", they think that kind of talk is "cute and entertaining". (;>))

:lol: :lol:

Yeah, our language isn't as proper and precise as you fellas' is up there. :oops:
But, at least it [b:6db92c7cd8][i:6db92c7cd8]is[/i:6db92c7cd8][/b:6db92c7cd8] picturesque. :mrgreen:
 
I was born and raised in Indiana, but spent a few years down in Georgia and Texas. Loved and miss both places. Now, my language had begun to change without me noticin. The lubricant in my engines became known as ol', not oyall, although some of my neighbors called it earl. Little things like that. So, my buddy and his wife moved from Louisville, KY (pronounced Lullvull) to Chicago, and I went up to visit them for a week. I even moved there for awhile cause the hot chicks and great money and me not being gay or wantin to be poe, seemed like an ok thing to do. Turns out to be the week when the Bears beat the Patriots in a superbowl. So my buddy and his wife take me out to a bar and we meet and strike up a conversation with some people there that happened be there from Vermont or Connecticutt or somewhere in there, wherever they are. Out east, up north somewhere. So these people are talking to us, but I can't understand a word they are saying, so my buddy and his wife ended up interpreting for me. And I start talking and they can't understand a word I'm saying, so my buddy and his wife end up interpreting for them. Was the gosh darndest thing. We lived in the same country, separated by the same language. To this day, I don't believe that I could understand them still.

By the way, in Chicago, engine is pronounced moder. Go figure.

Mark
 
Around here it does not matter what flavor of soda you have. Pepsi; Sprite; Dr Pepper; it is all Coke.
People ask do you want a Coke; if you say yes they then ask what flavor.

There is no such thing as a Highway Median. It is called a Neutral Ground.

A few more I thought of

Dough Dough; means to go to sleep.
A Dressed Sandwich means it has all the fixings.
Lagniappe is a something little extra
A Shot gun house is a house with no hall and all doors are on the same side. If you open the front door you could see all the way out the back door threw each room.
pronounce "Tchoupitoulas" (Chop a two' les)
 
Us Oklomahanianpennsyltuckyians have created our own style of jargon, I usually type like I talk, not that I didn't get learned any better but with a little confusin twist for all dialects/accents, usually only ones it bothers Is the correct police in grammar, and English I know yer from Brooklyn if ya call out "Hey youse" or say Joisey where they call Beer gardens Gin Mills.
So I say taint any different than writing computer jargon like .. LOL

Not than I any smarter than most folks..We all have our ignorance or lack of knowledge in sumpun er nother
 
You forgot Mam for the women over 50. Call one younger than that Mam & you'll see real quick what a hissy fit is.
 
I grew up in western Pennsylvania and actually got a good education. Secondary education in military school with excellent English teachers. I usually type and write as I was taught. Since moving to southern MO quite a while ago, I definitely speak the local dialect more and more. Kind of strange to write one way and talk differently.

Christopher
 
lol i wondered where ford got the idea, and im not knockin fords, iv owned quite a few of them, but, back in the '70's i worked for a ford dealer, raised a ford truck up on the lift, to swap out the factory wheels and tires for custom ones and found baling wire holding the tailpipe up in place, the kicker was, this truck was brand new, never sold, it was being prepped for the buyer to pick it up!
 
You referring to the "rubber dick rednecks" or everyone one in the south?

Vito
 
In Indiana, my oldest granddaughter commented last week about her younger brother not being happy with getting his first hair cut. She said he threw a really big hissy fit. I had not heard that in a few years. She lived in Oklahoma the first 4 years of her life. My mother-in-law is from Texas and I lived there for 4 years so those terms remind me of a lot.
 
In the Army in Alabama and the phrase was, can I carry yau. Other wise known to yankees was can I take you or drive you to the store.
 
I love the South and ya'll up north do to,as soon as you can afford to move . why wait till your so old we'll take you younger and give you a chance to convert. you'll never want to go back. most likely you'll stop spending all your free time in bars if you move.
 
Lived in southern parts of Indiana most all my life except a few years away. Wife is from a variety of places, but formative years were in Minnesota, so she still carries a hint of that accent. Her English is great, mine.... well, I got good grades in math.

New rule around the house is the kids are not allowed to talk like dad... seems their English grades are slipping! But we are in rural Indiana and I don"t think they get it just from me....

However, about a year ago, I caught my wife saying to someone she would give them a holler (call them on the phone). She was horrified that it came out of her mouth, and it hasn"t happened again.
 
(quoted from post at 19:56:21 02/28/12) CANADA? You have to be kidding! You have black flies as big as P-51s and mosquitoes as big as crows!


And they are both big enough to carry drop tanks!
 
I was born and raised in Northern Idaho but Uncle Sam figured if I was going to go AWOL NAS Cecil Field FL was the farthest point from home.
Once I got out I returned to Idaho but now work so moved back to FL. Been here since 82 and on my place since 84.

Must say my language has changed some over the yrs. Most prominent when I visit family out West.

Here are "a coupla thangs" I saw missin' from yer list :)

Aggravatin - bothersome, troubling, or someone that gits on yer last nerve

Dawg - UGA mascot

Hawg - any pig; feral or raised

Air Up - to put air in your tares (tires)

Bard - as in borrowed, he bard my tractor

Druther - short version of I'd rather

Haints - ghosts, spirits, hauntings

Spoders - spiders (was pest control man at one time and had NO CLUE what the feller was talkin' 'bout when I came to treat his church.

Vetern - anyone who served our country honorably

Bless her heart - sympathy for dim witted wimen

Pea can - proper pronounciation of PECAN ask any Southerner

Jawja Peach - cuteness as in wimen, pups, calves etc.

Seeins how - since it being the case as in "Seeins how y'all took my dawg I'm gonna call the lawman"

Supper - ain't figured this one out yet. Meal around end of day. You have breakfast, lunch, dinner then supper.

I'll knock you into the middle of next week lookin' both ways for Sunday - threating to fight someone and expressing how hard you will hit them.

Like a dose of salts through an old widder woman - something that happened really, really fast.

That dawg don't hunt - story doesn't add up

Rat in the woodpile - your hiding something

Gimme suga(r) - give me a kiss

Nanna - grandmother; grandma

Poppa - grandfather, grandpa

Yankee - anyone not originally from the South. I am frequently having to tell friends I am NOT A YANKEE. Idaho was still a territory when they was havin' all that ruckus down here with the Civil War!

The list could go on and on. Now how 'bout some sayins' from y'all Yankees
 
Thosn's are all goodn's Shep!
One of my favorites is neerbowts, as in almost or nearly. My FIL would always ask my MIL "Is supper neerbowts redee?" and her normal reply was "Purtneer".

And when I moved to Texas from So Cal back in the early 70's one of the first odd things I heard was "it's rain'n strait down" as if that was unusual. Turns out it is unusual, as the rain rarely if ever comes straight down....see'n as how da windz alwaz a blow'n.
 
(quoted from post at 06:30:31 02/29/12) I love the South and ya'll up north do to,as soon as you can afford to move . why wait till your so old we'll take you younger and give you a chance to convert. you'll never want to go back. most likely you'll stop spending all your free time in bars if you move.


Now that isn't true......I've lived in NJ, Mn, Ks, Ky and TX. I'm now back in MN to stay.

Rick
 
You forgot woodjadidja,as in you didn't bring your wife woodjadidja?

And momenem. As in hows yer momenem.
 
(quoted from post at 01:17:29 02/29/12) I grew up in western Pennsylvania and actually got a good education. Secondary education in military school with excellent English teachers. I usually type and write as I was taught. Since moving to southern MO quite a while ago, I definitely speak the local dialect more and more. Kind of strange to write one way and talk differently.

Christopher

Welcome aboard, Chris.
Once proper and pristine English rubs elbows with Southern Redneck, it's forever tainted. :lol:
 
I gots a buddy who's always said that when he retires his goal is to move up north and drive slow. His view on life is a little slanted, he lives just off I65 and drives on it ever day.

Dave
 
Moved to Texas in 2001, met and married a real Texas girl (True GRIT) She says I still have a cute accent (I was born & raised in SoCal) When we meet any of the local people for the first time, I still get a few who ask " Your not from around these parts are you?" The California accent is still there I guess :p
Andrew
 

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