Southern English

   / Southern English #62  
Ever hear "Worthless as teets on a boar hog" or "hotter than a 4 dollar pistol" or "Crazy as a peach orchard boar"?

Growing up dad would find a prospective boar and flip him over and count his teets. If the teets were offset or didn't have at least 11 pairs then he would find another and check his. He always said that "insult" was acuaully a compliment.
 
   / Southern English #63  
I can use it either way, it just depends on how highfalutin I want to sound.

Anyway, I'm fiddinda go eat, jeet yet?

I already ate. You go on and eat if yaonta.
 
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   / Southern English #65  
My mil is old school Va and there hardly a time were together that some new to me old time phrase comes out, my bil and I have talked about writing a book. lol

Does anyone ever use the term "foot accelerator" ? she and my wife do.lol

I've heard that called the 'foot feed'.
 
   / Southern English #66  
Any of you ever drink any "bluejohn" milk? Or milk that was a little bit "blinky"?

I've heard both of those growing up but had not in a long while until one day I was having lunch with an older gentleman in a cafe when he took a sip of milk, made a sour face, then looked into the glass and remarked ' I think this milk is blinky'. Forgetting my upbringing, I first thought the old guy had lost his mind and said the milk was 'blinking' at him. Then I realized what he was actually saying and the whole thing was so funny I had a hard time keeping a straight face. :laughing:
 
   / Southern English #68  
Here's a fun little test that's in the spirit of this thread.

Are You a Yankee or a Rebel? - alphaDictionary * Southern Accent Test

If you google rebel or a Yankee test there are several that come up and if you answer honestly they usually are pretty close as to where you grew up .

My results usually come up about 55% dixie and since I'm about 50 miles south of the Mason Dixon line that's pretty darn close.

86% Dixie and asked if I still use Confederate money?:laughing:
 
   / Southern English #70  
In post #1, isn't DIRECTLY always pronounced DRECKLY? I didn't even know the two words were associated until I was nearly grown.

In posts #4, I never heard the word YOUSE used until we spent the school year at the Northwestern University Traffic Institute and our 2 and 5 year old daughters picked up "YOUSE GUYS" from some New Jersey friends. I told them that when they got back to Texas they might get in trouble calling girls "youse guys".
 

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