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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/28/2008 12:40:51 PM
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Covaan_Meshuga
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Maybe it is because I was a "transplant." Or maybe I just didn't have your intelligence, Elastic. I struggled, when moving from place to place while young, with the pronunciations. Born in northern California, they definitely pronounced things differently from those in Mississippi, when I moved there at age 8.5, while still learning to spell. I remember that I never struggled with spelling until I moved. Moving from there to Kentucky, then Missouri didn't help. I couldn't separate spelling from pronunciation, so I used dictionaries to learn how to pronounce, in order to assist my spelling. I am extremely aurally-oriented. Even when I "watch" TV, I listen far more than I watch.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/28/2008 1:10:26 PM
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Our teachers taught us the correct pronunciation along with the spelling.
I suppose kids growing up in Brooklyn, Wisconsin, or Chicago, etc. would have similar situations.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/28/2008 1:24:25 PM
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You were very fortunate, Blue. I wish my teachers had taught us that. My schooling was nothing but struggle, until college.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/28/2008 7:08:15 PM
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Well, some of us are bumpkins who try to cover that up with our words and demeanor.
Ahem.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/28/2008 11:11:35 PM
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cut on / cut off that light - turn it one way or the other. btw, how do you turn off a light when it is controlled by a switch on the wall anyway??? Shouldn't that be switch the light on or off?
Quick, y'all, crack the windows (or winders), person in car pooted! Much to person's embarassment, someone had gas, so open the windows and air out the car! Usually, this is more a situation of needing to crank them windows down- open them fully.
Wanna Coke?
Sure, what have ya got?
Well, there's Coke, Sprite, Diet Coke, root beer, etc. But the initial question is never do you want a soft drink, or a soda pop. Coke means Coke, and it also means any other soft drink.
mash the button - to push the button
now mash the enter key- same thing
I ain't never seen nothin' like that before... First time seeing that
sounds like write cheer- meaning the location pointed to (right here)
My truck tire done gone flat on me
or my battree quit out on me
or my computer's done busted up - ceased to work
peecahns
tater salad
naner puddin
and Later means goodbye,
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/30/2008 1:26:38 PM
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Is "slicker than snot on a door knob" a southern saying? It doesn't sound like one, but I thought I'd ask.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/30/2008 1:29:39 PM
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Is "slicker than snot on a door knob" a southern saying? It doesn't sound like one, but I thought I'd ask.
I've never heard it. But my loverly wife often says that I have led a sheltered southern life...
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/30/2008 1:46:55 PM
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I think it might be Western, but I don't know. From my experience, it seems that, for the most:
* Westerners take pride in being blunt as well as pushing their colloquialisms, sometimes rough sayings.
* Northerners take pride in speaking clearly and exactly as most words are spelled.
* Easterners take pride in retaining very small local pronunciations and accents
* and Southerners take pride in retaining a certain pride and genteelity, poor or not, back-woods or not
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/30/2008 1:47:22 PM
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That just about covers it...
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/30/2008 4:03:02 PM
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Anyway, where I am from hor d'oeuvres were cheese and crackers, potted meat, and vienna sausage. 
In fact, that was often dinner (which is what we call the noon meal).
YUUUUMMMM!
"Soda crackers," Cheese Whiz, potted meat, an RC cola, and a moon pie for dessert makes a nice supper (evening meal) too!
I grew up drinking RC Cola (RC has three syllables: are-uh-see), probably because it was cheaper. But I preferred a "yeller dope" with my moon pie.
I just remembered that where I live it is common to call soft drinks "dopes" if you don't call them "cokes". Probably because of the cocaine that was rumored to be in Coca-Cola.
Anyway, a yeller (yellow) dope was Mountain Dew and the like.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/31/2008 2:19:10 AM
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Watch Paula Dean on Cooking Station on TV
She is Southern
Our first two children were born and still live in Charleston, S.C.
Would you like some suugger or lemon in your tea.
Southern's are slower to speak and prefer kind and softer words; they do have lot of colloquialisms and sayings.
I call South Carolina relative when I want to relax. They take time to prepare their food well and expect that you take time to eat well.
It a softer gently way of life. Some think of it as Country but it's really a gracious way of speaking and living.
Like Southern Living magazine.
Granny to 6 southern Grandchildren all adorable
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/31/2008 8:44:30 AM
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Anyway, where I am from hor d'oeuvres were cheese and crackers, potted meat, and vienna sausage. There was a little rhyme I remember from my childhood:
How 'bout them hoover-doovers, ain't they neat?
A little piece of cheese and a little piece of meat...
I grew up knowing what a hoover-doover was but had no clue what hor d'oeuvres meant.
Since we were close friends with a family from WAAAAYYYYY back woods Ozark mountains of Arkansas, the Beverly Hillbillies sounded perfectly natural to me. I think hoover-doover was their way of saying it.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/31/2008 8:46:01 AM
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Is "slicker than snot on a door knob" a southern saying? It doesn't sound like one, but I thought I'd ask.
I agree with those who guessed it was western. Only I heard it "Brass doorknob."
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 7/31/2008 1:37:56 PM
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There was a little rhyme I remember from my childhood:
How 'bout them hoover-doovers, ain't they neat?
A little piece of cheese and a little piece of meat...
I grew up knowing what a hoover-doover was but had no clue what hor d'oeuvres meant.
Since we were close friends with a family from WAAAAYYYYY back woods Ozark mountains of Arkansas, the Beverly Hillbillies sounded perfectly natural to me. I think hoover-doover was their way of saying it.
Oh, my, I'm slow. I never would have figured that out if you hadn't explained it. I wondered what cheese and meat had to do with vacuum cleaners!
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/2/2008 11:48:34 PM
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ya'll ya'll ya'll ya'll
you know you're a southerner when you start typing it... (also when you invest in a belt buckle)
Yeah, but a real southerner at least knows how to type it correctly. 
y'all
The apostrophe goes after the "y" and before the "a".
"Y'all" is a contraction of "you all".
In contractions, the apostrophe replaces the "missing letter(s)" . . . in the case of "y'all", the apostrophe replaces the "ou" in "you".
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ya'll ya'll ya'll ya'll
you know you're a southerner when you start typing it... (also when you invest in a belt buckle)
Y'all is the Southern contraction for "you all" thus, "Y'ALL"!
I'm guessing "ya'll" is a contraction of "ya will" - decidedly Yankee sounding to me.
Going back several generation, my lineage includes folk from South Carolina, Georgia, and Northwest Florida. I've lived in Alabama for 27 years.
Spent 4 years in Norfolk, Virginia. That's a different breed of folk because of all the military stationed nearby.
Oh fiddle, Jimbo already posted all this. 
The only thing I disagree with is what the word is a contraction of.
But I still say it's a contraction of "you all" . . . which brings up another thing.
"Y'all" is always (and already) plural . . . "you all".
BTW, "y'all" is the epitome of the English language.
Carry on, y'all.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/4/2008 11:33:15 AM
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This may have been something that was used in my Dad's family, originally from middle TN but we've used the term "heavy on the bottom" when passing a hot dish at the dinner table to warn the receiver that the plate or bowl was hot as long as I can remember.
I remember that the first time my soon to be wife had Thankgiving dinner with our family nearly dropping the bowl of green beans when my brother told her "Heavy on the bottom" and she put her hand underneath the bowl and burnt her hand slightly.
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/4/2008 11:40:28 AM
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This is so fun! You are all bringing fun memories back, and some are telling me things I never heard before. Thanking you!
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/4/2008 10:04:40 PM
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My Grandpa (and others), when relating something that surprised them, would say: "I didn't know whether to spit or wind my watch."
(paraphased to avoid a TOS infraction)
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/4/2008 10:39:24 PM
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My Grandpa (and others), when relating something that surprised them, would say: "I didn't know whether to spit or wind my watch."
(paraphased to avoid a TOS infraction)
And sorta related to that one was the old "Wish in one hand and spit in the other and see which one gets full first"
Dad said that and something similar when I would say"I wish I had a candy bar"
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RE: So, just talk to me like a Southerner - 8/4/2008 11:14:28 PM
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Oh, Roga! That is so cute!
I wanted to let all of you know that I am going to take a little more serious time with my L-rd for awhile, so I won't be here much over some period of time, except for theological issues.
Have fun here. I have enjoyed this thread and will look in eventually to see if there are any additions.
Bless you y'all real good, now! 
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) and our family was the only one from north of the Mason-Dixon. (lots of southerners came north to work in the factories back in the 50s and 60s) Many of our close friends were from Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, etc. My wife's family is from west Tennessee. 
