AJ
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My family has lived in the South from 1745 until today. Started in Onslow County, NC and ended up in Vero Beach, Fla. since 1918. Never really heard them use "southern colloquialisms".
Southern Expression Really Old.
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rockquarry
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I avoid the old expressions, but they sound much better than newer ones like "just sayin'", "back in the day", "juice isn't worth the squeeze", "I call BS" ( what DO you call it?), and a few hundred other irritants some like to call words and phrases today.
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Just the other day, met a really cool gal from LA.
‘You met a gal from Los Angeles?’
No! She’s from Lower Alabama!
‘You met a gal from Los Angeles?’
No! She’s from Lower Alabama!
Radio Ply Tires (steel belted tires)
Car Porch (carport)
Separate Tank (septic tank)
Mud In The Tires (mud built-up in wheels)
Frog Strangler (heavy rain)
Gully Washer (heavy rain)
Beggin' To Shout (bragging)
Caint Hide Money (buying a nice car)
Faster Than Moody's Goose (going real fast)
Head Cold? (remove your hat, indoors)
Raised In A Barn? ( close the door)
Wasch yo problem? (disagreeing with someone)
Ast Me Again (didn't you hear me?)
What In The Sam Hill? (did you see that?)
Caint Never Could (change your attitude)
Step Over Here (don't make me repeat my statement)
I Ain't Stuttered (I said it plainly)
Foot Feed (gas pedal)
Crack The Window (open a window)
Don't Worry 'Bout They Mule, Juss Loads The Wagon (get to work)
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Car Porch (carport)
Separate Tank (septic tank)
Mud In The Tires (mud built-up in wheels)
Frog Strangler (heavy rain)
Gully Washer (heavy rain)
Beggin' To Shout (bragging)
Caint Hide Money (buying a nice car)
Faster Than Moody's Goose (going real fast)
Head Cold? (remove your hat, indoors)
Raised In A Barn? ( close the door)
Wasch yo problem? (disagreeing with someone)
Ast Me Again (didn't you hear me?)
What In The Sam Hill? (did you see that?)
Caint Never Could (change your attitude)
Step Over Here (don't make me repeat my statement)
I Ain't Stuttered (I said it plainly)
Foot Feed (gas pedal)
Crack The Window (open a window)
Don't Worry 'Bout They Mule, Juss Loads The Wagon (get to work)
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charlie sherrill
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Your Granny was probably "Hanging in there like a tick on a dog".
It wasn't until I lived in Florida that I learned the wash had an "r" in it and fish had two "e's"
And folks heated hot water.
North: puh-kahns.
South: pee-cans.
And folks heated hot water.
North: puh-kahns.
South: pee-cans.
AJ
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Some of that is from the folks from the Northern states that have moved into the state. Never heard warshed until I was in the service.
I live in Louisiana and it's puh-cons . Call it a pee-can and people are going to look at you like you're an alien .
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Same in Texas, for Texans anyway. Pee-can folks are obviously foreigners.
I have lived in Texas, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina. Every person I heard those terms from were lifelong residents.
Those terms weren't imported.
Those terms weren't imported.
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Rusty, I don't doubt you at all. However, I grew up in southwestern Tennessee and it was always "puh-cons" there also. Don
You're strainin at a nat to swaller two camels. Lemme show ya the right way to do that.
He's so tight he eats cheese and drinks Neverleak.
She's so ugly she has to slip up on a dipper to get a drink.
"Poop" (not the word used) far and save matches.
You ain't right.
Caint never could do nothin.
I'm sweatin like a whore in church.
Busier than a cranberry merchant.
Man, them are sellin like hotcakes.
That's a lazy man's load. (trying to carry everything at once instead of making two trips)
You ain't got the brains God gave a grasshopper.
She's not happy less she got sumpthin to complain about.
If Aint Myrtle don't die of cancer she'll be disappointed. (she's a hypochondriac)
That thing's held together with baling war and good wishes.
He's so tight he eats cheese and drinks Neverleak.
She's so ugly she has to slip up on a dipper to get a drink.
"Poop" (not the word used) far and save matches.
You ain't right.
Caint never could do nothin.
I'm sweatin like a whore in church.
Busier than a cranberry merchant.
Man, them are sellin like hotcakes.
That's a lazy man's load. (trying to carry everything at once instead of making two trips)
You ain't got the brains God gave a grasshopper.
She's not happy less she got sumpthin to complain about.
If Aint Myrtle don't die of cancer she'll be disappointed. (she's a hypochondriac)
That thing's held together with baling war and good wishes.
That strip of grass between the traffic lanes is a medium
HughD1
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I remember older folks saying that they would hope you ! Then there was madder than a little wet settin hen! My grandfather said he had a hound that was so slow that he could trail all day in a saucer!
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sipowicz
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My grandmother was way ahead of her time. I remember way back in the 60s she mentioned that she wanted to organize all her old photos and she wished she could put them all on something the size of a match stick and then when she wanted to look at them, put the stick in a small flat box with a screen on it and scroll through them. Amazing woman.
AJ
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You gotta remember all those areas have been infested, probably long before you got there.
I was born in Boston but lived in the South most of my life. Let's not get started on that Boston accent.
I love them balled peanuts down in LA.
I love them balled peanuts down in LA.
Alpo
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Here in the Florida panhandle - which everybody from around here refers to as lower Alabama - pa-con is a nut or a tree. Pee-can is a pie. Pee-con and pa-can (and I have heard foreigners use both terms) are just wrong.
