Speaking "Southern"

Okay folks I'm listening again to the Reptile Radio broadcast from last week featuring the guy named "Big Country". I need a translation please!

He mentioned something about a person getting him into snakes and used the word (excuse me trying to type it out like it sounds lol)....pap ah (best I can do, these southern accents get me confused).

So what's that referring to, I got that it's a person but what does that word mean?

Since I'm on the quest to learn to speak "southern" feel free to share some other words that are common to your southern states. :)

LOL...His Grandfather...
BT

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Since I'm on the quest to learn to speak "southern" feel free to share some other words that are common to your southern states. :)

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I would but I'd confuse even more...:D
BT

i dont know.. papah could be dad too.. paw paw is grandpa here.. or pappy, depends who you talk to. typically father or grandfather though ;) there is a maw maw too lol

although i call my grandparents grandpa and grama, my kids call their grandpa (my dad) paw paw, and used to be maw maw too.

yeah, i will resist..its difficult to say if your not used to it let alone spell it lol

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Originally Posted by BT41042

LOL...His Grandfather...
BT

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Okay, thanks *quickly adds this to her growing list of southern words and their meanings* :D

You're not really southern until you've at least tried chiterlings. And you have to acquire a taste for fried chicken and pancakes (together). Greens are a must on any table, cooked all day with ham hocks.

OK, not southern words, other than maybe chiterlings.

When you say "you're right" it has to be with a hard I in the word "right" kinda like write, but you draw out the "i" sound.

And you're always "fixin" to do something.

Jo, you know we're all about the links here, here are a few for you:

http://www.usadeepsouth.com/article1019.html

http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny...pressions.html

http://usads.ms11.net/evenmoresouthmouth.html

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Originally Posted by rabernet

You're not really southern until you've at least tried chiterlings. And you have to acquire a taste for fried chicken and pancakes (together). Greens are a must on any table, cooked all day with ham hocks.

OK, not southern words, other than maybe chiterlings.

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I do NOT know what "chiterlings" are and I'm a bit afraid to find out! :weirdface

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Originally Posted by rabernet

You're not really southern until you've at least tried chiterlings. And you have to acquire a taste for fried chicken and pancakes (together). Greens are a must on any table, cooked all day with ham hocks.

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I'll second that! Your even more southern if you clean your own chiterlings and can still enjoy them later, with some tobasco of course....

You all come back now, ya hear!

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Originally Posted by Ironhead

I'll second that! Your even more southern if you clean your own chiterlings and can still enjoy them later, with some tobasco of course....

You all come back now, ya hear!

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Helps if you hold your nose when eating them too - fried ain't too bad.

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You're not really southern until you've at least tried chiterlings.

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don't do it!

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Originally Posted by reediculous

don't do it!

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Killjoy! It's a rite of passage!

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Killjoy! It's a rite of passage!

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you don't make karl eat that stuff do you?

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Originally Posted by reediculous

you don't make karl eat that stuff do you?

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Are you kidding me? I don't make that stuff, stink up the whole house!

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Are you kidding me? I don't make that stuff, stink up the whole house!

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thank goodness! :gj:

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Originally Posted by rabernet

You're not really southern until you've at least tried chiterlings. And you have to acquire a taste for fried chicken and pancakes (together). Greens are a must on any table, cooked all day with ham hocks.

OK, not southern words, other than maybe chiterlings.

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They are guts! Oh my dear lord...they are pig guts! *puke, gag, puke* You people! Have you not heard of a nice bit of steak or perhaps a burger or hell...A SALAD!

Oh my gawd...pig guts as food! I'm seriously worried about you people!

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Originally Posted by rabernet

When you say "you're right" it has to be with a hard I in the word "right" kinda like write, but you draw out the "i" sound.

And you're always "fixin" to do something.

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I'm "fixin" to puke over the whole "pig guts as a dinner" option! :O

Granted I've had haggis and that's traditionally made with some odd stuff but still...pig guts! yewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

My all time favorite southern words...

Mam maw= grandmother
wersh= wash
yutes= youth
Get 'er done
over yonder
straight shift= manual transmission (took me ages to figure out they weren't talking about an automatic)

My favorite lost in translation... I was at a fast food place the first time I came to Tennessee and the lady behind the counter asked me How I was doing I said good thanks and couldn't figure out why she was still waiting on me for an answer. My husband who is from TN... leans over and whispers into my ear and says "She wants to know if the order is for here or to go". I am still trying to figure out how I got how is messed that one up.

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Helps if you hold your nose when eating them too - fried ain't too bad.

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If I have to hold my nose to eat something...well Robin...it ain't going in my dang mouth, sister! :O

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Originally Posted by reediculous

don't do it!

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Don't plan to! yewwwwwwwwwww

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

They are guts! Oh my dear lord...they are pig guts! *puke, gag, puke* You people! Have you not heard of a nice bit of steak or perhaps a burger or hell...A SALAD!

Oh my gawd...pig guts as food! I'm seriously worried about you people!



I'm "fixin" to puke over the whole "pig guts as a dinner" option! :O

Granted I've had haggis and that's traditionally made with some odd stuff but still...pig guts! yewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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Good ol pig intestines, and we all know what passes through the intestines......i won't touch or smell the things! trust me, its bad!

here ya go JO! only because i love you!

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...tlinsSmall.jpg

Another one - "Well butter my butt & call me biscuit!"

You can take a girl outta the South, but... ;)

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Another one - "Well butter my butt & call me biscuit!"

You can take a girl outta the South, but... ;)

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still snowing up there? patriots are going down, this weekend!

back to the topic!

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Jo, you know we're all about the links here, here are a few for you:

http://www.usadeepsouth.com/article1019.html

http://www.innocentenglish.com/funny...pressions.html

http://usads.ms11.net/evenmoresouthmouth.html

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Some of my my favorites!

That boy’s more slippery than snot on a glass doorknob. (yewww well that's just gross now isn't it)

Well, if that don’t put pepper in the gumbo!

He looks like something the dog’s been keepin’ him under the porch. (I'm assuming this guy isn't all that nice looking???)

My grandmother was the epitome of a Southern lady--an excellent cook, perfect hostess, and doting wife and mother. However, she did have one rather hideous phrase that brought my brother and me to our knees. Whenever Scott and I "acted up," Grandmother would assume the Sumo stance with hands on hips and announce, "I'll snatch your arm out and beat you with the bloody stump!" Believe you me, that worked every time--better than a time out, better than sitting in the corner. If Dr. Spock had only known . . . (you have some darn mean old grannies down there! :O)

Good enough to make you wanna smack yer granny. (the above kind of explains why you might want to LOL)

Don't go gittin above yer raisin' (this one confused me until I realized they were not talking about a bran breakfast cereal ;))

I feel like I been 'et by a wolf and sh** over a cliff (heaven's you are REALLY having a bad day aren't you! :O)

And I cannot wait for it to rain so I can somehow work in this sentence.....

That was a sure nuff frog strangler.

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still snowing up there? patriots are going down, this weekend!

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Fine by me...I'm a Cowboys fan. ;) We're due for a big snow-in this weekend, got a lot day before yesterday, too.

Dreaming of the South - keep the good stuff coming!

Jo I have been living in the south for the past 6 years and I still have a hard time understanding people, but they have a hard time undertanding me too so I guess we're even :8:

"where yuns at?" - my father in law
"i'm gonna ditty bop on over to the store." -my mother in law

scrapple. yuuummy! :P

mhmm... some basics...

when "th" is in the middle of a word, substitute it for "tt"
the "g"s are instantly dropped on ALL "ing" endings.
use as many conjuctions as possible i.e. y'all (you all), or what'cha (what do you)

i can't give away too many secrets... it's against the rebel cause to tell ya yanks the way of the south. lol

..and yes, it's all bout them cowboys (or the cowboys cheerleaders at the very least)

oh yes... and EVERYTHING is better with a little bit of Gruene, Tx BBQ sauce!

Somethings Yanks Might want to know about the land of the rednecks:

Tony Chacheries - Its a spice that should be in any gumbo, but people in the south frequently put it on popcorn and other things.

Boudain - Its a cajun dish of rice, meats, and spices all bundled up into a pig intestine. It kinda looks like a sausage but the color of rice.

Crawdads - Small lobster looking crayfish that make mud piles in the yard. Also know as Crawfish. They are a Southern/Cajun Delicacy boiled and ofen eaten with "taters" (potatos) and corn on the cob (All cooked together in one big pot). (The ones that are eaten actually come from crawfish farms [rice patties] not holes in the ground).

Words: yonder (mostly used by older southerners for "over there"), fixin ("I'm fixin to eat some crawdads"). Watch out for double negatives in the south ("There aint no Tony Chacheries in this gumbo!"). Mostly these words are only widely used in the rural areas of the south. As you enter more urban areas people speak more "proper".

I'll post some more later. Gotta go to work. Come back now ya'll here?!

Austin

...and the ONLY substitute for Tony Chacheries is Joes Stuff... (though it's harder to find, it's arguably better)

jezzzzzz what a thread..:)

For Robin, Judy and Kara: Remember the "Bless your heart" conversation?? :D

Someone on page 2 mentioned "me maw" for grandmother...and I used to call my grandma that when I was little! :D

My grandfather says: "Well, I'll be darned" all the time.

Wash...it changes on where you are...

"wersh" like "were" with a "sh" isn't one I've heard. Where I'm from, it was more "warsh" like "war" + "sh", one nice, long dipthong.

Used in a sentence:
"But Maw, I done warshed mah hands twicest!"

Twicest...that's "twice" + "st". Another dipthong.


*shudder*

And y'all can keep yer dang grits and chitterlings - YECH!

my husband's grandparents on his dad's side are mamaw and papaw and on his mom's side they are nanny and papaw. his mom is nanna and his dad papaw to our niece. for some reason it is very important to have different names for the female grandparents, but not for the male grandparents.

i used to be quite amused by a lot of the sayings and the way my in-laws said things, and sometimes i still am. sure, i grew up in the south (virginia) but i didn't know what sweet tea or creamed corn were until i moved to georgia, and you did NOT use words like ain't or ya'll where i grew up. living here i've picked up a lot more of the sayings, and being around my in-laws (who live in the very rural mountains of western NC) has taught me quite a lot about being southern. :P

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here ya go JO! only because i love you!

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...tlinsSmall.jpg

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Good GAWD that looks awful! :O

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straight shift= manual transmission (took me ages to figure out they weren't talking about an automatic)

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they call it a straight drive down here

Where I come from it's an automatic and a manual or more commonly an automatic and a stick as in "I can't drive stick". :)

Oh and Cass, no one has ever adequately explained to me exactly what a "grit" is so therefore I'm adding it to the "things I will not eat while in the South".

Hmmm that's very interesting Emily. I live here in Chesapeake (which is close to VA Beach... some people have never heard of Chesapeake before) right close to the Carolina border. I grew up saying ain't and y'all all the time, I find myself dropping the 'g' at the end of words, and my kids refer to their grandparents on my husbands side as nana and pawpaw (sometimes even popo..). I grew up calling my grandparents on my dad's side as grandpa and grandma... my dad is from Ohio (Huron if anyone is interested) and if I had ever met my mom's parents (she's filipina and her parents both died before I was born) we would have called them lula (grandma) and lulu (grandpa....the way that filipinos refer to their grandparents... just a side note). We drink all kinds of sweet tea around here, I personally love grits, don't care much for creamed corn, never tried chitterlings (although I have tried some philipino foods that could probably top that.. one of those try it then they tell you what is in it deals when I was younger..). Hmm what else.... people around here call a manual transmission a "stick shift" or just "stick" also.

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Oh and Cass, no one has ever adequately explained to me exactly what a "grit" is so therefore I'm adding it to the "things I will not eat while in the South".

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Jo, grits are made from corn. :)
They are good with sugar and milk although some will eat them with cheese and ham and other stuff mixed in.

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Oh and Cass, no one has ever adequately explained to me exactly what a "grit" is so therefore I'm adding it to the "things I will not eat while in the South".

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I grew up with grits! They're made out of corn (similar to polenta, if you've ever had that). We never ate them sweet, like some people like to. They were always with something savory.

For breakfast, a bowl of grits with 2 over-easy eggs cut up in them. Crumble bacon into the bowl, add a dolop of butter, and salt-and-pepper to taste. It's so TERRIBLY bad for you, but it's delicious. :)

As a dinner side-dish, you melt butter and cheese into the grits and salt/pepper to taste. Fried catfish with cheese grits on the side is another of my favorite (though terribly bad for you) meals ;)

Ok I grew up in Michigan, my first 23 years and the last 20 years I have llived in South Carolina, Arkansas and Florida. Depending on where you live, in the north they have POP and parts of the south they say what kind of coke do you want, pepis, orange or what. In other parts everthing is a Soda, and you never here the word Pop down here. So Jo have we Learned you anything?


Richard

Anyone every have your pants "Stumped"? In other parts of the country they call it getting your pants Hemmed


Richard

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Oh and Cass, no one has ever adequately explained to me exactly what a "grit" is so therefore I'm adding it to the "things I will not eat while in the South".

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Oh grits are GOOOOD! I love me some grits! Butter and salt - yummy! When I was a kid, I would NOT eat scrambled eggs without grits to mix into them.

Don't forget the Waffle House - open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!

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Ok I grew up in Michigan, my first 23 years and the last 20 years I have llived in South Carolina, Arkansas and Florida. Depending on where you live, in the north they have POP and parts of the south they say what kind of coke do you want, pepis, orange or what. In other parts everthing is a Soda, and you never here the word Pop down here. So Jo have we Learned you anything?


Richard

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You BETTER ask for a Coke in Atlanta!

Agreed, grits are the stuff... definitely a must try!

Another one I've found... we call it a sweeper, but it's normally called a vaccuum. I used to get made fun of in Columbus for calling it a sweeper.

And yes, I drink different forms of coke, none of this pop stuff.

Ya'll ever been snipe hunting? Now that's a trip!

A few more words, a tobaggon (pronounce ta-bog-gin) is a winter hat, and a hollar is like a road.

LOL at the Waffle House... they are everywhere here in Tennessee.

I still have not tried grits or greens. Love me some fried chicken though. Have tried scrapple (sp?) and ochra

My 17 year old loves his toboggan's he must have like 5 or so of them.

Also soda is usually referred to as a Coke here.

Another thing about the south... they are HUGELY into football. High School and College mostly. Even the highschool games get covered on the news.

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Hmmm that's very interesting Emily...

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it does make a difference that i grew up in northern (but still rural) virginia i think--maybe being so close to the mason-dixon line we weren't quite as southern as the rest of the south. :)

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Depending on where you live, in the north they have POP and parts of the south they say what kind of coke do you want, pepis, orange or what.

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when i first moved to georgia that totally stumped me. i went to a restaurant and ordered coke and the waitress replied with, "okay, what kind?" umm, i thought coke just meant coke? :P

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Another thing about the south... they are HUGELY into football. High School and College mostly. Even the highschool games get covered on the news.

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you aren't kidding--some of the high school games are even aired on tv here. if things like math and science weren't required parts of high school curriculum we'd have more football in their place and everyone would be darn tootin' happy about it! :rolleye2:

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So Jo have we Learned you anything?

Richard

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Yep though I now have to go google what "scrapple" is :confused: and I think grits are starting to sound sort of yummy. :)