Southern vs. Northern Speak

[jbowyer01]

Ok now ya'll are gittin my britches tied into a knot and I dont preciate it atall!

I'm also always running into town and asking my kin if they need anything while I'm there.

And if you are a yankee never, ever, ever ask for directions we only know how to get over yonder by telln ya to go down the road a strech and watch for old man coopers house, then ya gonna take a sharp left just after ya pass miss lilies. I can get alot of people lost in my little southren town

and my DH is from Philly, you should hear the two of us together, me with my southren drawl and his youz guyz!

 

[Picky Chicky]

I don't know that this is a Northern/Southern thing, but I've been corrected multiple times when saying Gyro. I say it like it looks, but have been fussed at and told that it's pronounced, "Year-o".

 

[Beekissed]

I did a brief stint in Rhode Island...and I'm from WV.

I never, ever want to hear northerners make fun of how we talk!!! Those folks turned every "a" into an "r" and every "r" into an "a". I was quite dismayed to get a report about Mrs. So and So having "diarrhear" all night!

Or that one gal brought a "bananer" with her lunch.

AND I was interested to hear that a "caa" was not the sound a crow makes but something which you drive.....

And every other word was "F***" this and "F****" that! It was a definite culture shock!

 

[Bluemoon420]

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LOL Every summer I go to our family reunion in Jamestown. I had a rental with Texas plates. You being in Rhode Island know that they can't drive worth a _ _ _ _.
Anyway, I was at a red light in the rental car, and someone was trying to cut me off. She rolls down her window and says.. Get the F outta my B_ _ _ _, and go back to Texas. I just let loose... used many F words, and told her I was born and raised here you moron. I'm from Providence. Next time, Use your blinker. As I drove past her.

Bluemoon

 

[hennypenny9]

Anyway, I was at a red light in the rental car, and someone was trying to cut me off.

How could someone be cutting you off while you're stopped? *confused*​

 

[jlmann]

Go to New York or somwhere in Jersey and drive around for a while I promise you'll find out!

 

[Beekissed]

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How could someone be cutting you off while you're stopped? *confused*

Trust me....in RI its quite possible! She is right....they are the worst drivers on the road. I had the worst case of road rage I've ever had in my life while staying in RI!!! The woman crossed two lanes and darted in front of me, in downtown Newport....about made me wreck and with my kids in the car. I blew the horn and she flipped me the bird and shouted their state motto of "F*** YOU!"

I then proceeded to follow her all the way to Conneticut, intent on pulling her trachea out of her body and wearing it in my hair as a pink scrunchy!

That was one nervous lady, I will tell you! I didn't let up until she had left the state.....well...that isn't too far when yer talkin' about RI~but it sure made ME feel good!

I felt like Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies! If I had a shotgun at the time, I believe I would have used it!

Doesn't do to rile the rednecks....even if you feel secure in your little Mercedes-Benz!

 

[Freebie]

Ol'FashionHen :

What about this line from my uncle-"Y'all kids are fixin' to get a whoopin if you don't quit!"

Ahh yes the whoopin's...We use to have to cut our own switch

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OMG!! I lived in NC for 5 years and when I moved back, I said to my son "I'm fixin to whoop you boy" And my Mom was like...What did you just say and just started laughing.​

 

[byrandom]

My grandfather was from South East Texas, and my grandmother was from Wisconsin. She is VERY Irish (her father used to say.. You know what I would be if I wasn't Irish............... Ashamed.) and he was VERY Southern.. So I have am mix of the two in the way I speak! But.. they slay me.

My Grandfather - Southern

beans = breans "Can I get two tacos and a brean burrito?"

windows = winders "Roll 'em winders up!"

cucumbers = cloocumbers "They put cloocumbers in the salad!?"

potatoes = potaters "Yep, the potaters and the cloocumbers are comin' along nicely. "

wash = wersh "We was wershin the dishes..."

screen = streen "I went to Home Depot and they didn't have any window streen!"

roots = ruhts "I was tillin' up the yard and hit tree ruhts"

Coke/Pepsi = soda "Stop wastin' the soda!"

My Grandmother - Northern

Isn't it though? "That picture is pretty.......... Isn't it though?"

Coke/Pepsi - Pop "Want a pop?"

Underwear - Bloomers "Nearly soiled my bloomers"

And she LOVES everything that has to do with farts. Every fart joke she hears, she tells.. Well, she tells as she laughs/cries and usually gets someone else to finish it for her!

My mom's company sent her home with a computer in about 1996-97 and she was showing everyone in the family because it was a big thing. My grandfather commented on how everything took a long time to open once you clicked on it.. She quickly responded back "It shouldn't take any longer than the other computers, it has Winders 95!"..

My family is crazy..

 

[hennypenny9]

I've been to New York State twice, and New Jersey once. I guess I did see some creative driving while there, but thankfully I wasn't behind the wheel.

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Follow the dotted lines, he went around two lanes of stopped traffic, in the ONCOMING lane, and drove where the crosswalk is to go right.

Also, had someone hit our rented van (with a hired driver) and keep going.