Southern 101---Explanation of all things Southern

[Opa]

Evidently my sons must have figured out how to untie them knots I jerked in their tails as they were growing up cuz none of them walk like they're stove up.

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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Opa, you never fail to make me laugh!

 

[SarahFair]

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I say I reckon ALL the time..
haha

I have people that live about 35 miles west of me and they make fun of my accent all the time...yet the tell me to just talk so they can hear it. Yet they are always mocking me. Hmm

 

[chickabator]

my mom, dad and brother make fun of me alot cause the way I talk.
I have to go pay the juice bill or our juice goes out when we get a bad storm (electricity)
another is I have to go to the store to trade. they say go buy groceries.
I always told my girls if they didnt line it out I was gonna whoop the far out of 'em but we and we need tars for the car. Im gonna wear you out. we just go up in the holler to buy our feed. and my all time favorite that dh started about 20 yrs ago is
you've had the lick

 

[SarahFair]

whats "the lick" cause around here its a spanking
'Youre gonna get a lick or the belt, hant, fly swatter...'

 

[speckledhen]

Had to explain to my own very young son where "yonder" was. Once when he was about six or so, I called his name and I hear from the next room "I'm in yonder!".

 

[chickabator]

you've had the "lick" it is hard to explain. it is like you're cancelled. I guess the best way to explain it is like once my mom and dad came for a visit and we were talking and I said something that aggrivated him and said you've had the lick. I guess it would be something like stupid or crazy. I didn't know what I was talking about. Im right you are wrong kind of thing although I was right he didn't see it that way so I had the lick.
my brothers thing to say was well isn't that special. when ever there was something odd it was well isnt that special.

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

My mom also used to threaten to jerk a knot in our behinds if we didnt act right. I got a knot jerked in mine a few times and learned to do what I was told.

 

[insiderart]

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Of course, there are also the subtle distinctions between a "tad," a "tad bit" and a "tee-ninetsy bit" to squeeze in there, somewhere.

But of course! And for those who are wondering "tee-ninetsy bits" are extremely small! Unfortunately I use all 6 of those measurements quite a lot LOL!! In addition there's the dab, the smidge, the "enough to choke a horse", I'm sure I'll think of more later.

Around here we love people, "a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck". I regularly sugar up the kids, I'm a big sugarer...

Oh, and I've had a knot jerked in my tail more than once!

I started trying to monitor my daily speaking for things for this thread, there were so many I couldn't remember them all!

 

[Davaroo]

We hosted some chaps from England last month for a conference and they were enthralled with the whole notion of biscuits and cornbread.
"You eat them all the time, everywhere..." they quipped.
All I could say was, "Yep, we do."

They also had a rather difficult time with grits. Nothing would persuade them to like the requisite "plop" of grits on every breakfast plate here in Dixie. They tried, Ill give them that - but it wasn't working.

The fact that I relish mine smothered with crumbled sausage and milk gravy was further proof, to them, that we Southerners have certainly gone astray.

That I happily warsh down my grits with "sweet tea" didnt help matters. I like coffee, but I love my sweet tea.