How Do You Say The Word, Our

[mom'sfolly]

YUMMMMM, I love molasses. I still make molasses cookies, just like my Grandma did.

 

[Goose and Fig]

no- sorghum! mmmmmmm!

 

[deb1]

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I also know a lot of southerners who use the name Bubba in place of 'brother'. Once they have a second child, they start speaking to the baby about her 'Bubba."

"Honey, is that your big Bubba?"

Have any of you seen it used this way?

Even tho I'm southern I "Really" Really" Really!!" Do Not like to hear anyone called "BuBBA" !!! When my son was born my SIL law ask my daughter how did she like her new "BuBBA" I quickly corrected her and said he is her "Brother" and we will not be calling him BuBBA!!!

We don't use Bubba in our house either.

 

[deb1]

My grandmother always said that you shouldn't handle the biscuit dough too much or the results will be ruined. I might not be able to make a decent biscuit but I remember her instructions.

The way I make brown gravy is, when you add the flour to the pan drippings, cook the flour just a bit. Basically, you are making a sort of roux. Then when the flour is a tad bit brown, I add my liquid.

I used to get annoyed when I visited my step grandparents in Minnesota and they would correct me for saying hey with that stupid refrain, "Hay is for horses not people." Get a dictionary folks. Hey and hay are two different words, just like bee and be or aunt and ant.

If you have enough common sense to know that your mom's sister is not a busy little insect, then you should be smart enought to know that hey is not something that horses eat.

Sorry, usually I am patient and understanding. I have no idea why that childish correction aggravates the heck out of me.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

If you use enough flower to make it feel like a regular dough then it has to much. It should be very wet dough. Like a thick slime. Thats what works for me.


I don't do well with people correcting me when they understood what I said. Same with spelling. If you understood what I typed there is no reason to point out spelling or grammar errors. That better than thou stuff irks me.

 

[SarahFair]

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Aunt is a weird word

I use to have this old lady in my family (only remember her from when I was 4 or 5) she wanted us to call her AUNTIE like.. hmm how do I spell it out?

AWWN-T.. you know like the english (I guess they would..) say it.

For the longest time I thought it was her real name and thought of tea

all my other aunts I call Ant Betsy or Ant Cheri..

 

[PineappleMama]

I asked B "How do you pronounce the word O-U-R-"

"Our" (well duh, but he said it OW-ER just like me, just the same as we say Hour)

He was born and raised here in DFW, I've been here since I was four, with stops in Ark and Louisiana.

 

[catdaddyfro]

Well I'm from Louisiana and you probably couldn't get a more mixed up version of the English language/ with all the mulitiple colloquial dialects as we have in this area of the south.

We have the southern redneck version of english and Cajun French/English mixture(boy you'd better know something when you get into a conversation with this type of language esp. gestures along with kinda crude version of sign language).

Anyway I've lived in Colorado and NW Arkansas and everybody's got their own way of pronouncing and producing versions of words.

I think someone already had the "youins" on earlier, that's a typical Arkie slang word along with quite a few more that I won't go in detail at this time.

My "our" usually comes out two different ways it usually depends on where or what or even whom you are in conversation with.

One way is hour or ow-er and the other is ire.

All my kin folk on my Moms side are(Owers) surname, which should be pronouced "hours" but the local pronuciation sounds more like "ires" or even "aaires".

Anyhoo that's catdaddy's version of How to pronounce "our" in (ire) native Louisiana tounge--101

catdaddy


P.S. Just had to add while in Ark. I met a girl from St. Joseph, MO(show me) she asked where I was originally from, I told here, and she said she should've known that I was from the south(further south than NW Ark.) I asked her why, she replied "from the way you slurr and mumble when you talk" she had dated an Alabaman before, ha.

 

[curliet]

This thread is a riot!!!

I do use the word our as ower. I also say crick, we drink pop, and even tho we're northerners I eat my grits with butter, salt and pepper.

I always wondered about words with a K in them, and why it seems like southern people don't pronounce the K. For instance, the word 'like'. My Aunt Linda pronounces it in a way that seems to leave the K out, and it almost makes it sound like a T. Hard for me to explain, like stopping the K sound just before actually pronouncing it.
Does anyone know what I mean?


And, as for plurals, I once heard of a man in Fla who told a friend that he had broken his legs, "All two of 'em."

But, to be honest, I try to take the best of all the customs of both north and south, especially the food, and make them mine.

 

[gritsar]

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Yeah, ask T. ^^^^^ She would know that I don't talk funny. I talk fast for a southerner, but not funny.