Southern 101---Explanation of all things Southern

[Lanissa86]

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Thats a good one! (hey australorp chick your not too far from me!

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[crtrlovr]

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I use these words everyday, and I hate automated phones where you have to tell your number,

I can never get any to understand me, never, never, never

My DH (born & raised south of New Orleans, LA) bought one of those very nice Dragon software speaking programs that allows you to (theoretically) speak into the mic and your PC will print your spoken words into text. In order to do so, the user must read several word lists so the program will learn how the user pronounces certain words and vowel/consonant combinations. After trying certain words (and right now I simply can NOT remember which words specifically were the sticking points) for nearly THREE WEEKS, he got frustrated, chucked it all back into a box, and put it into "storage" meaning the vast wasteland of abandoned software, books, knickknacks, and miscellaneous junk stuffed into our garage... I could understand him perfectly well; apparently the software / program designers are Yankees...

 

[Lanissa86]

 

[Up-the-Creek]

I remember when I was a little girl,going to the grocery store with my great-grandmother. She asked the clerk for a "poke". I was clearly confused as was the clerk. She finally told her she wanted a paper sack, a bag.

 

[scbatz33]

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That is because there are no Floridians in Florida. They came from NY in the first place and never want to go back, so they all stop here in the N. Ga Mtns to torture me.

Those snow birds!!! My FIL used to say if you wanted to be in the south in Florida, You'd have to go north!!

 

[crtrlovr]

yes a poke means a bag or sack but it also means um... shall we say... an "intimate moment" in Old West slang... (can't find a "cover the ears" smilie...)

 

[scbatz33]

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Like a pig in a poke? Another weird one my grandfather always used(and he wasn't southern but I guess since he was in the Marines in NC) was pole cat - for a skunk.

 

[Up-the-Creek]

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Yep, should be careful asking for a "poke" huh?

 

[scbatz33]

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I use these words everyday, and I hate automated phones where you have to tell your number,

I can never get any to understand me, never, never, never

My DH (born & raised south of New Orleans, LA) bought one of those very nice Dragon software speaking programs that allows you to (theoretically) speak into the mic and your PC will print your spoken words into text. In order to do so, the user must read several word lists so the program will learn how the user pronounces certain words and vowel/consonant combinations. After trying certain words (and right now I simply can NOT remember which words specifically were the sticking points) for nearly THREE WEEKS, he got frustrated, chucked it all back into a box, and put it into "storage" meaning the vast wasteland of abandoned software, books, knickknacks, and miscellaneous junk stuffed into our garage... I could understand him perfectly well; apparently the software / program designers are Yankees...

OMG!!!! I have this problem every time I have to call "the new AT&T". All I want to do is add minutes. No, not features. No, Customer care. Customer care!! CUSTOMER CARE!!! No. not Costa Rica. CUST O MER CARE!!!!

Man I hate that stupid automated thing!Oh and why no one can understand me when I say my last name over telephone I have yet to figure out. It's Batz like the flying little nocturnal animal. NO, not bass or betts or bess... I always have to spell it "B, as in boy, A, T like Tomas, Z like Zebra. ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jjdward]

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That is because there are no Floridians in Florida. They came from NY in the first place and never want to go back, so they all stop here in the N. Ga Mtns to torture me.

Those snow birds!!! My FIL used to say if you wanted to be in the south in Florida, You'd have to go north!!

Yeah, how many people have you ever heard of the live in FL all their lives and when they retire they say, "lets move to MI or NY"?