if somebody says something that they don't understand. they will reply "do what?"

they=you people

11/11/2007 8:24:43 PM

My grandmother says "I declare" all the time.

11/11/2007 8:27:10 PM

they say reckon and ain't here in Wales, and they look and me and ask, do you know what that means, and I say, do you know where I'm from?

I love mightcould and put up

11/11/2007 8:51:44 PM

dag blasted

11/11/2007 9:00:45 PM

can this be sayings too?

like....

im drunker than a tick in a yo yo

or...

he looked at me like i just ran over his best coon dog

11/11/2007 9:30:04 PM

dad gommit

11/11/2007 9:32:27 PM

well there's your problem

11/11/2007 9:53:20 PM

how about "to be sure" I get alot of laughs when I use that phrase.

11/11/2007 9:55:59 PM

mash the button

11/11/2007 9:58:17 PM

people say 'have a blessed day' and 'bless their heart' a lot. I don't say these things, I feel like it is the southerner's way of being northern.

11/11/2007 9:59:26 PM

What about when someone says they are going to "carry" someone somewhere rather than just take them there.


I don't say it, but it's mighty redneck.

I do say "fixin' to" on occasion. And I enjoy it!

11/11/2007 10:02:11 PM

I like "bless her heart" when its used like "she is a dumb bitch, bless her little heart."

11/11/2007 10:02:26 PM

I say the carry thing. I am not too proud of it.

11/11/2007 10:03:07 PM

Dudical McNiggatron.

11/11/2007 10:06:25 PM

Quote :

"i always get a sideways look when i say "fixin' to" here in the midwest"

My bf's family (chicago area) marveled at my complete lack of anything southern in my speech, save for yall, which I don't do 100% of the time.

Until I said "I'm fixing to go get a drink. Anyone want anything while I'm inside?"
"What's broken?"/"What are you fixing?"/"WHAT? "

...Until that exchange, I had no idea "fixing to" do anything wasn't something everybody, everywhere, says

11/11/2007 10:07:44 PM

high--->expensive
cart/carry---->transport a person in your vehicle

11/11/2007 10:21:50 PM

shoppin cart = buggy

11/11/2007 10:58:57 PM

i realize that i say "do what" ALL the time when i want someone to repeat what they said. so far i think i've gotten away with it because no one has pointed it out

11/11/2007 11:59:44 PM

Yah, I also say "do what" quite a bit.

11/12/2007 12:00:52 AM

ask dog!

11/12/2007 12:15:09 AM

"shoot, man"

and

"I tell you what"

11/12/2007 12:23:56 AM

someone thought "gank" and "dude" were southern???

11/12/2007 12:29:08 AM

"Land o' Goshen, dag blasted younguns, i'm fixin' to tan some hides if'n i have to chase y'all all over tarnation."

that... and

"niggers and jews!"

11/12/2007 12:40:55 AM

When you're playing touch football...

"One Mississippi two Mississippi three Mississippi"

I've heard that in the north it's Philadelphia, not Mississippi

11/12/2007 12:42:45 AM

as someone who's lived in both the north and the south as a kid playing football in the back yard, you heard wrong

11/12/2007 12:46:37 AM

well I used to play w/ these Jewish kids from New Jersey, and they always said "Philadelphia"

I asked my Mom about it, and she was like, "They're just saying Philadelphia because it's a place where no one ever owned slaves"

and yes, by "I've heard that in the north it's Philadelphia" I meant "I used to play with some Jewish kids who said Philadelphia"


[Edited on November 12, 2007 at 12:52 AM. Reason : /]

11/12/2007 12:51:06 AM

more importantly, who the fuck plays a three mississippi blitz? it was always "one mississippi, two mississpp.... BLITZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

11/12/2007 12:56:53 AM

Quote :

"I asked my Mom about it, and she was like, "They're just saying Philadelphia because it's a place where no one ever owned slaves""

Wait, and these kids/your mom actually believes that?

11/12/2007 12:58:11 AM

SLOB ON MY KNOB

LIKE CORN ON THE COB

11/12/2007 1:00:46 AM

^^
no, I'm paraphrasing...this was like 20 years ago

11/12/2007 1:05:31 AM

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"I went to school with NCSUsmiley for proof"

she surely has the harnett county accent. i remember once she called me when i was in arizona asking me what i was up to that weekend or something (obviously not knowing that i had abandoned NC and was gone at the time), and it was so refreshing to hear a NC drawl after hearing only desert rednecks for a few weeks. seems like it would be the same, but its not.

she's also FUNNER'N HELL when she's drunk. seems like the first time i met her i wound up drunk with her after a party the night before a football game (with no way home), and she gave me shelter for the night and said "stay on the floor and dont steal nothin" before she got in her bed. it was hilarious.

COME BACK SMILEY

11/12/2007 10:23:04 AM

okokok

house shoes

or

slippers?

11/12/2007 8:59:09 PM

can we settle the tobaggan debate?

11/12/2007 9:36:34 PM

Quote :

"them fine ass speakers would look gooder 'n hell in mah truck-boat-truck"

I lol'ed

11/12/2007 9:39:09 PM

toolin' around

pilfering

11/12/2007 9:47:33 PM

"Yoooo Hoooo"

11/12/2007 9:49:04 PM

"deal/deals"

11/12/2007 9:51:41 PM

YEE HAW

HEE HAW

YEE BO

11/12/2007 9:53:44 PM

there was another thread like this the other day and I mentioned it


I was pretty well wasted one day


we caught some bait and I was like, "you reckon that bait is any count"

which, we all looked up at each other and lolled... since we had been trying to outdo one another all week with 'neckisms...

my uncle also calls "yellow"... "yaller" (not pronounced like "yall")

the funniest dialects are like... way down east... hyde county and way down east carteret

[Edited on November 12, 2007 at 9:57 PM. Reason : ..]

11/12/2007 9:56:19 PM

^hmm...i never really noticed any type of Southern accent from Morehead City...

11/13/2007 2:59:02 AM

Quote :

"PIDDLIN'"

Whenever someone asks my hobbies, this is generally what I say. A disturbing number of people don't get it.


My cousins live in Ohio and always make fun of my y'alls, but what really baffles them is when I say 'cut on' or 'cut off'.

I guess it just puts a hitch in their britches. Bless their hearts.

11/13/2007 6:32:58 AM

yit-on-out-a-hee-ur

11/13/2007 8:33:26 AM

i forgot 'right quick' ... and i use that one fairly often

11/13/2007 8:40:12 AM

y'all & ain't

Since I work in photography, I've noticed that people from Johnson County and Robeson County (Lumberton) pronounce pictures as PIX-ures

11/13/2007 8:54:20 AM

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"people say 'have a blessed day' and 'bless their heart' a lot. I don't say these things, I feel like it is the southerner's way of being northern."

Actually "bless his/her heart" is southern for saying "glad that isn't me"

eg: "Jeb ran himself over with the tractor again this morning"
"Oh, bless his heart, I hope he's OK"

11/13/2007 8:59:58 AM

"plum near"

My gas tank is plum near empty!

i guess that's how you spell it anyway...

11/13/2007 9:04:35 AM

Quote :

"the funniest dialects are like... way down east... hyde county and way down east carteret"

Its a slek cam ut un te bak sooun!

11/13/2007 9:07:17 AM

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"Actually "bless his/her heart" is southern for saying "glad that isn't me""

NO


There are some weird dialects in the South. Anyone from around Oxford knows that you don't go straight down the street to the strawberrry stand, you go skrait down the skreet to the skrawberry skrand.

If you know anyone from an old family in Virginia (Charlottesville especially) you'll know that you're not going out and about, you're going "oot and aboot" and that "there is a mouse in the house and theres no doubt about it" is properly pronounced "theres a moose in the hoose and theres no doot aboot it."

11/13/2007 9:29:45 AM

are people from that area of canadian history?

11/13/2007 9:44:00 AM

Nope, just very old English families. Interestingly enough, this is probably how people like Robert E. Lee sounded, as opposed to the Deep South drawl that a lot of interpretations give him.

Some students of North Carolina history would know that for a long time, the residents of the Outer Banks and Ocracoke in particular, had their own dialect which wasn't remotely "Southern."

11/13/2007 9:49:30 AM