Don't Gang Up on Me, Southerners!

This had me rolling...Actually, I know quite a few Ohioans who sound just like this. Check out The Southern Word Homepage: http://www.netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html

It seems there's a disproportionatly high number of Southerners at DG, but I KNOW they all have a good sense of humor. No...make that a GREAT sense of humor!

;o) Kimberley

That's okay Kimberly....we in the south and in Texas notice northern speech patterns also. ie, warch = watch, ideer= idea....it's all a matter of respecting each other's collequesms{sp?}......eenywhoo, as I was saayin'......

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ahhh very good kim! I really like this one:ALL (noun). A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck." but i use it like this: Can you grab me that bottle of cookin all? (never knew i said that until I was with someone who was not from here and asked them
to hand me the "cookin' all"..they were clueless at what i needed)

I've never heard anyone say warch! I've heard plenty say warsh instead of wash, my English-teacher grandmother included. It's funny how one can be so exacting on paper, but so loose in daily speech. I'm that way! LOL@Lisa about cookin' all. Ha!

I always refer to garden hose as hose pipe.

hey g.clay, so do we..lol!

Right down to the soles of our boots, we're all just a good ole bunch of boys and girls......lol

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It reminds me of the note thats posted at my feed store. No disrespect intended."How To Speak Hilbilly" M R DUCKS , M R NOT ,O S A R , L I B ,M R DUCKS !! I know it sounds weird ,but just read the letters

I know that one....CC, my 30 yr. old DD brought that one home from school in the seventh grade......I didn't think anyone used that one any more.

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See what a sheltered life I lead!!!LOL

you left out C M WANGS

then there is MR SNAKES, MR NOT SNAKES, OSAR C M B D IS
we always called it the arkansas reading test, but lord knows it could apply to some down here.
thanks for the laughs, lol

I don't pronounce my Rs and Gs when I'm speakin' Southernese...(Jimmy Buffett)

My darling grazdma is an OKIE. I can tell when she is getting [deleted] at me. The twang starts to get a bit stronger. Actually OKIEUM is an interesting mix of southern and northern dialects.

Garden wife - I love that hyperlink - it went right to my list of favorites.

In the area where I live are several towns named after French explorers who were among the first white men to explore the area. LaSalle is pronounced LAY-SAL, Joliet is pronounced JOLLY-ET, and Marseilles is pronounced MARR-SALES.
Jack

I just love the differences in dialect around the country. It's always been so fascinating to me, even to hear the different dialects in our small town. There's a pocket of people on one side of town who speak in a similar way with similar pronunciations - it's just so interesting to me. I love language! And Gardenhubby can vouch that I'm a talker. ;o)

I think it's a real shame how some people are labeled "hicks" by others just because they pronounce words differently. And it's all relative...I moved to Ohio in 1981 and noticed a little difference in how people talked here compared to how it was north of Chicago. But I'd go back to visit family in Illinois and get ribbed mercilously about how backwoods I sounded!

Now listen yall, I want to know if yall are for true lol. I use to live in New Orleans and I had the time of my life there as a kid. The only thang that I didn't like bout it was the hot sun and humidity. I love to listen to old southeren stories, my mother was from Gainesville Ga and my father was from Mobile Ala so you know I heard a lot of stories.

OH, you better hope Mystic doesn't see this. LOL I don't think she can take much more 'hillbilly' insults than I already give her. She only lives about two hours from me and way up north in Kentucky, but boy oh boy, does she have a twang! She is the most wonderful person though, even if she does talk funny. I'm gonna fry for this.
The dictionary cracked me up. I have to say, I was born and raised in Ohio and I'm still here. But when I go down south, they tell me I talk through my nose and when I go up north they tell me I sound like a hick. LOL Guess we all sound funny/different to others. I think it's fun.
Michele

My daughter lives in sw KY and they all rib her because they say she's the nicest Yankee they ever met and while she doesn't act northern, she sure sounds it, and we all rib her because she's getting kind of twangy. I told one of her KY friends she was raised in SOUTHERN new york, that's why they couldn't tell until she opened her mouth. My dad, on the other hand, is fron northern Joisy and the closer he gets to the east coast, the thicker it gets - "give me a (q)wata." "What do you want water for?" "The toll." "You want water for the toll???" NO, a qwata, a qwata, you know twenty-five cents for the toll!!!"

For any of you in the upper midwest there is a great book out: "How to Talk Minnesotan" I grew up here but did'nt realize I had an accent until I spent 16 years in New Mexico.
Ron

Ahhhhh Badseed betwixt ya and horseshaw whats a southrn gal to do.But the heck of all is I really do talk like that( well not all like that but see allot of things I do say). So guess I am hillbilly thru and thru and I really have to say mitty proud of it. But ya know what I thought you was the one talking funny.... heck fire didn't realize it was me . lol Well yeah I guess I did because your DH said you was Hillbilly too...( now with that buckeye mix) thats where he heard it first. But heck you never teased me as much as he did. Pure torture wonder why I want to come back and see ya all again? lol.It was super meeting you and your family even if you did tease me. lol
Thanks Kim(aka Beverly)lol for the great thread.

I can't make head ner tails outta what youse guys are talking about.Besides wedder youse from brooklyn or longguyland youse can't pay no tolls wid a qwata dese days nohow!

Mystic and Kikisdad I just love it. Kikisdad I knew that you were from NY. Isn't it wonderful to share all the different lingo with each other, glad to meet cha all.

Actually I'm 180 miles upstate from the city but many moons ago I went through AI training at Fort Dix,New Jersey and except for one Oklahoman,one redneck from Tennessee and myself EVERYONE was from the NYC metropolitan area.I'll never forget trying to figure out what some of THOSE guys were talking about!

Hey now..I sure-nuff cain't b'lieve ya'll is even TRYIN' to make fun of good-talkin folks! Why I know'd for a fact this here Southern language is the best they is! Yes'm, why I remember the time I's hitchin' around the country and somehow stumbled onto the other side of the Mason-Dixon Line (that "line" seemed to be at least a foot off the ground so it was easy to stumble over!)...ever time I opened my mouth people would just start whispering amongst themselves and STARE at me like I had blue skin and 5 ears hangin' off my head. Eventually I learnt not to say a word! That shut 'em up! AND(!) they quit staring at me so hard! (But listen here..shhhh...them folks up North often-times don't have no idee what the rest of the world is really like so ya'll don't hurt theys feelings, K?) Anyways, like I's saying...this here Southern language is one of the best...why it's sucha complex language universities across the nation don't even teach it! (hmph...and they're sposed to be edumacated!) Now, lookee here Michelle/Badseed!...I've emailed and instant messaged that thar Mystic so often I could pick her accent out in the dark! I agree w/you!..ain't nuthin' like it...why it reminds me when I was on the Coon Creek River back in nineteen-ought-seven and heard a bass with broken lips swimmin' upside down trying to dis-lodge a broken fish hook...yep, that bass was making all kind of noises, justa gurgling anda burbbling..but makin a whole lot of sense, ya know? Why, if'n that thar fish was to learn how to type I'd be hard-pressed to figger out if it was the fish's words I's readin, or mystic's! Yep, for sure, they share that same wunnerful Kaintucky accent I unnerstand and love so well! Ain't nuthin' like it!

Ya! You betcha!

Joan (who's hoping nobody here has seen the horrible movie "Fargo"

Horseshoe you got a wandaful wau a talking,I undastood ery word.

Yuh made ma day,Shoe,nayded a laugh
this mornin'Ma baistist fraind waint
ta haven this weeeek'Bless yer little
ppikin' hart''Y'll,wee mountum willums
no ya thank weeer nun to brite,bett
we no wha weeer a talkin''bout'Sayya,
Sis'

SIS...yore "baistist fraind" will be doin' just fine...In Heaven all languages are spoke, and unnerstood! And ya git ta pick which'n you want to use! If'n I ever git to make it thru them Gates I reckon I'm gonna pick the Language of Laughter...and just be a giggling fool! (Bless you and your friend.)

Well Shoe I must already be in Heaven this morning! Cause I am just a gigglin my fool head off! Laughed so hard I was in stitches which came in handy reattaching my fool head!

Aw Shoe,yer a wunnerful fryend and um
mush abliged fer thuh blaysun' I do
try to make udders(hee,hee) laugh awl
thuh tyme'''Geet a gripp Zanynee,yer a
staitch yer sef''

I had a grip once but DH told me ta quit ma grippin so now I jest don't talk to him so much!

Yer tooo funny Zany,yer keelin' me
gurl''Ma hub nos to watch owt whin ey
kwit takin,Lol'
Yah,aver been ta Minnny Soda?
Wona ma dotter'n la's is frum thayre,
she do tawlk funny two'

No, never been thare...in truth I am a rare breed. I was actually born and raised right here in the State of California. But....we have so many imports from other states that we get confused at times about which accent we are supposed to have!

Shoe and Zany thanks for the laugh i need that this morning i understand about the speech we came out of mi 30 +years ago i've spent my time between sw mo and w tx i have a sister that has been in tn for 25+ years and a brother in tx the last 20+ now if you don't think that sounds funny when we all get together oh our dad was raised about 20 n of louisville ky

dave719, Talk about getting a laugh, I just noticed the name of your city! Is that anywhere near Aliensberg? Were they afraid no one would realize the residents were human? Ther has to be a great story behind that name! So how about tellin it to us?

Hey Zanymuse,I'm a "prune picker too"1st
generation,children,2nd'''

ok have to add my 3 cents. Grew up in Ahai and pronounced creek as crick, roof as ruff. Had a college roomate frm PA who whashed her hairs. Moved to Ct. where they brought the dogs to the vet and said so don't I. Moved to NC and ran across what I thought were bold (agressive) shrimp only to learn they were saying boiled! Had to learn about thrs, mash the gas and ohl. I had to 'splain why I said Ahunt instead of Ant. Went back to Ahai and was suprised at their accent, because now I pronounced it OH hi O. Still say ruff! Love different dialects.

Horseshoe should win an award!!!!!!!!

What ya'll say should we give her?

Cheers!

Well gol-lee shucks don no if'n to be ofen-d or blush...ole shoe you onery ole rascal ya. Was ya chawing me a fish or just sayen I's talks lik one?Hone chil ya ain't seen nothen yet. U's nos I's jus a good ole contre gal. Well heck fir cants even call meself a gal anymore hows bout good ole contre lady...... he he

Mystic, a little frisky tonite, are we???

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