Do ya'll talk funny?

[k0ua]

I have told this story before, but it seems appropriate to repeat it here.

I went to Home Depot to get some Rid-X for my septic tank. I couldn't find it, so I asked one of the clerks where the "Rid" for septic tanks was. She took me to a certain aisle, and then asked: "Is the color of it "rid", or is the name of it "rid"?

I laughed, said the name of it was "rid", R-I-D. Then I said, "Where you from, Alabama?" She laughed, and said "yeah". We both had a good laugh then.

Good One!

In my job I speak to people from all over the United States on any given day, perhaps the majority in the South, and I don't have much trouble with them, but sometimes also people from the eastern and north-eastern parts of the US.. it can get interesting at times.

James K0UA

 

[bigtiller]

I worked at the receiving dock of a very large warehouse for awhile. One day a truck backs up to the dock and the driver comes inside. He was a black guy from somewhere down south with a heavy accent mixed in with a large dose of ghetto/gangster lingo. He asked two of us the same question twice and my coworker and I looked at each other, shook our heads, raised our hands and said I have no idea what you are saying.

Then he pointed to the area just below his belt and then we figured out that he wanted to know where the restroom was.

 

[Ted Summey]

We have a term here "a case quarter" as in "Hey Bubba, do you have a case quarter? I want to buy a coke." Meaning a 25 cent piece not two dimes and a nickel.

 

[cqaigy2]

One was, 'just drive to the end of all road and turn left', wouldn't you know there aint no all road. It was where they stopped the oil or tar as in chip seal. Another was my Wife talking to an operator that was probably from south of the mason dixon, discussing, for some reason something about a tire, no not tar, tai aye are ee is coming out of my Wife's mouth. To which i raise my eyebrowses meaning what the heck are you talking about to that operator??

And yes, i do have a problem understanding my cousins from NC!

 

[deepNdirt]

What do Y'all call the rear lid that opens of your cars? I call them the ( Trunk ) but most everyone else here calls it the ( Boot ) Boots are what I wear on my feet, I call what I park my cars in a ( Garage ) many call it their (Car-Port) another one is the top of a house I call the ( Roof ) I hear it often called ( Ruff ), I call the siding on my house ( Lap siding ) I've heard it call ( Clapboard siding ) Clapboard is what Milk does when it spoils,
Growing up working in the House construction industry 35 years, I've heard things of a house named many different terminologies but is suppose to be the same thing, it's almost like having to be a foreign language interpreter to know what it is some people are talking about ,

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I recall when I was a kid, that it was a big thing to know and tell everyone what your favorite food was. I recall mine was "BBQ ribs, Roasneers and orangeade". Of course I had never drank any orangeade, but I knew I liked it because lemonade was so good. BBQ ribs are self explanatory, but "Roasneers" was my rendition of "Roasting ears", which is what they called fresh corn on the cob. Even the adults rendition came out something like roastn' ears, at least that's what I heard. I never hear that term any more, and haven't for probably 50 years or so. Don't know the origin, but think maybe it was to distinguish it from field corn. Field corn makes good roasting ears, or so I'm told, but you have such a short window before it gets too tough and hard to eat.

 

[Bird]

"Roasneers" was my rendition of "Roasting ears", which is what they called fresh corn on the cob. Even the adults rendition came out something like roastn' ears, at least that's what I heard. I never hear that term any more, and haven't for probably 50 years or so. Don't know the origin, but think maybe it was to distinguish it from field corn.

I don't know if it's just because we're both originally from Oklahoma, but yep, that's what we called corn on the cob, and still do.

Field corn makes good roasting ears, or so I'm told, but you have such a short window before it gets too tough and hard to eat.

Yep, not just been told, but personal experience. Both are right. It's very good, but a relatively short window for it to be so.

 

[dragoneggs]

I remember as a kid going back to my grandparents farm for the first time (and first time riding a tractor) and was told to go wash up for dinner... I looked at my grandma and thought she was crazy and said, "really... do I have to, I am just going to get dirty again" thinking I had at least 5 more hours jumping off the hay loft in the barn.

 

[dragoneggs]

Okay the map that really cracked me up was... "what do you call it when the rain falls when the sun is shining?" Answer in Mississippi/Alabama = "the devil is beating his wife"... REALLY???

 

[two_bit_score]

Grew up with "The Sumbitch lit afar when ooool was throwed on".

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