Southern 101---Explanation of all things Southern

[The Poultry Peanut]

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Hey!!! I have two first names!

What are they? may I ask

Well thats not hard to see: French Hen

 

[FrenchHen]

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Nya Nya...

It's Mary Beth. Miss Mary Beth to PurpleChicken.

 

[Pine Acres Peeps]

About the roadkill thing, this is no lie my sister and brother-in-law have ran over a deer on purpose to be able to eat it. My husband thinks they are nuts, well, I do to. He laughs because they did thousands in damage to their truck, I told um next time put on a brushguard first ! HA
Now everytime I see roadkill I think of my sister......

 

[scbatz33]

OK, I'm gonna have to read all this in the morning, I just can't believe you have 252 posts since yesterday!!!!

 

[Pine Acres Peeps]

LA~Poulet :

Words I notice used in Louisiana and not so much elsewhere:

Fixin' - I'm fixin' to go to the store, you need me to get some coke?
A'ight - Just leave 'em be, they'll be a'ight (all right)
Reckon' - I reckon it'll be a'ight.
Figure - I figure if we get a dozen eggs, we'll have enough to go with grits in the mornin'

Confession-while I don't normally use those ^ in daily conversation, my accent is such that my vehicle Onstar can't always understand my voice commands. I was trying to get it to dial a number and about to give up after the 10th failure, when I got the hairbrained idea to attempt (poorly) imitating a NY accent. It understood me on the first try.

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

 

[tampitt]

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I don't care for beer, but I'll drink Shiner. I think as far as nasty tasty beer is, Shiner's pretty good.

 

[Lanissa86]

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YES YES! SHINER IS THE BEST! Love it

 

[Pine Acres Peeps]

Yall, wanna know a secret?????

When my mom divorced my dad, she married her second cousin.

Maybe that's why my sister eats roadkill,

cause that's her daddy.

 

[scbatz33]

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A comedian explained this phenomenon one time by saying that the # of consonants in the English language MUST stay constant, so the northern "R"s migrate to the south, thus the "r"s from pahking the cah in the yahd become inhabitants of the southerner's "earl" wells . Another colloquialism (although this one is prominent in KY also) is saying, "I carried ____ to the store". Really now? Wouldn't it have been easier to have taken them in the car? I hope it wasn't too long a walk...

Where I grew up in KY, I knew lots of folks who were always "goin to town" Now, "goin to town" was not the town I actually lived in, it meant they were going to Lexington. Of course there were some folks who referred to Lexington as the "big city".

Also, if they were going "to town" a lot of times the phrase, "I'm fixin to go to town" comes up.

 

[jjdward]

Some body may have alread said this but what about these:
We mash buttons
we cut on lights
we orta not do .......
we rile somebody
and when a southerner dies, "He has gone on to be with the Loard"