Speaking "Southern"

[Reediculous]

here ya go JO! only because i love you!

[Kara]

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

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

[Reediculous]

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

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

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

back to the topic!

[frankykeno]

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

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! )

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! )

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

That was a sure nuff frog strangler.

[Kara]

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

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!

[Stewart_Reptiles]

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

[mlededee]

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

scrapple. yuuummy!

[Gooseman]

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)

[Gooseman]

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

[Austin Smith]

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