Words Only Southerners Say - Pretty Southern. Before we get to our favorite words only Southerners say, let’s hear it from the famous belles of “Sh%t Southern Women Say” on The Southern Women Channel. Down here, there is no Pepsi. Everything is Coke. Even Pepsi is called Coke. True Southerners don’t like going North because up there, if you ask for Coke, all y’all get is freaking Pepsi. In Northern states, iced tea is served with a box of sugar packets because Yankees are too lazy to actually blend sugar into the hot liquid to make sweet tea. Damn Yankees. Life below the Mason Dixon line is so sweet, just like our tea and Coca- Cola. Southern accents over time have developed their own vocabulary. These words tend to come out with even more zest if the Southerner has been drinking bourbon. Here’s a sampling of words only Southerners say. Y’all: it’s never “you guys” but “y’all”. We’ll know you’re a Yankee, or that your parents were Yankees, if you say “you guys”. Before we get to our favorite words only Southerners say, let’s hear it from the famous belles of “Sh%t Southern Women Say” on The Southern Women Channel. Juliana's I'm Still Here video remains on top in the last one month. Looking at the videos released in the last one month, Juliana's 'I'm still Here' has remained. As is tradition, Apple opened up this year’s WWDC with a broad proclamation: let’s kill some competitors. We go through this every damn year. The idea is simple. Fixin’ to: used to let your compatriot know what’s up. As in “I’m fixin’ to make me a drink”Lagniappe: a little bit of something extra (especially for those form N’Awlins and the Gulf area)Pocketbook: girls from the deep South’s middle- o’- nowhere areas are known to call it this instead of a purse. Mash: Southerners don’t push things, we mash ’em. Po’Boy: a long sandwich, usually served with fried oysters, shrimp or fish. But in NOLA, your po’boy could even have plain deli meat. Po’Boys are really defined by their good, long crusty bread. Buggy: it’s not a shopping cart, but a buggy. Phillip Jack Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by the ring name CM Punk, is an American mixed martial artist, comic book writer, and retired professional. Children's songs and nursery rhymes from all over the globe presented both in English and their native languages. Many include sound clips and sheet music. Might Could: a polite way of presenting your options. Caddywompus a. k. Main Road: screw the term “service road”. If the D. O. T. And by the way, if you live in the South, that construction is going to take five years just to pave two lanes. Especially if it’s I- 7. Georgia or Florida. Same thing for I- 8. Carolinas. Because of this tragic lack of getting the roads fixed, Southerners do not call our interstates “freeways” but “highways”. There’s nothing free about our highways (see GA- 4. Sweeper: as in run the sweeper referring to the vacuum. Made: whether you’re referring to a test you aced, a photo you took, or a baby you birthed, “made” is the verb. Changer or Clicker: you want me to pass you what? A remote control? Honey, that thing is called the changer or the clicker. There’s no controlling the remote in a Southern house. That darn thing will cause World War III, . Even if you’re from Washington D. C., you’re a borderline Yankee. But stay here long enough, plant some roots, and you’ll grow up to become a Southerner.“Bless Your Heart”: if you’ve heard this, especially from a Southern woman, she doesn’t mean it. It’s her nice way of telling you to put on your grown up pants and deal with it. As said by one of our New York friends “I could shout a parade of Yankee- style expletives in your face and it wouldn’t be nearly as bitchy as bless your heart.”What are some of your favorite words only Southerners say? Y’all can comment below. How doctors are using Coca- Cola to treat painful stomach blockages. The drink's chemical ingredients do a similar job to gastric acid, by helping to digest fibre. The bubbles also help speed up the process By. Anna Hodgekiss. Published. EDT, 7 January 2.
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