Speaking "Southern"

[Gooseman]

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

[Larry Suttles]

jezzzzzz what a thread..

[AzureN1ght]

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

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

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

[cassandra]

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!

[mlededee]

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.

[frankykeno]

here ya go JO! only because i love you!

Good GAWD that looks awful!

[Chubbz]

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

they call it a straight drive down here

[frankykeno]

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".

[Sunny1]

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.

[Sunny1]

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".

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.