Cute email about Southernness

[bamajill]

Oh yeah...well, my coach is cuter than your coach! (granted, he looks tiny in this pic...but he's CUTE!!! lol)

 

[ashjohnson80]

Mmmmm Red Eye Gravy with Eggs and Biscuits and Grits!!!!! Makes me wish it was Christmas.

 

[MickeyMouseGal]

Oh yeah...well, my coach is cuter than your coach! (granted, he looks tiny in this pic...but he's CUTE!!! lol)

Ok, he's cute but...

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Southerners also laugh harder than Yankees at Jeff Foxworthy's Southern-style comedy not because it's funny, but because we know it's all true.

And I was with you till the War Eagle and the Roll Tide.

Gig 'Em Aggies and Hook 'Em Horns! \m/

TOV

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

We southerners do get a hankerin' for gravy sometimes. I prefer sawmill gravy over the redeye stuff, though. Even though it was over 35 years ago, I still remember watching my grand-daddy making redeye gravy with coffee and bacon grease.

Thoughtg of something else too. Only in the south will someone tell you that the house you are looking for is "set back off the road, just past the creek bridge, and over past where Slim used to live, then 'round the big curve a ways" and you'll instinctively know how to get there almost as if you'd consulted mapquest.

 

[ashjohnson80]

i've heard "go down the road a piece" too.

 

[georgina]

I totally get ya'll, but one thing I can't stand is "yuns"! Have any of you heard this one? I heard it all the time in school b/c it was short for younguns. We had a PE teacher that would scream for "all us yuns" to hurry up and get to the field. Who else is familiar with that saying?

In Pittsburgh they say "yinz".

The only part of the OP I would disagree with is the part about only southerners make friends while standing in line. There are a lot of friendly people who will talk to anyone around here.

 

[bamajill]

Ok, he's cute but...

touché
(how's that for a good Southern term??)

Gotta admit I'm really ready for a win.....................

 

[mickeysgal]

Ok...what does the dark thirty mean? I live in the south, but I'm originally from the north. I'm learning fast, but this one, I haven't heard.

I have heard the expression... Tuesday week. As in, "You can pick up the book Tuesday week" Or, "I'll have the report Friday week". Meaning...a week from Tuesday, Friday, etc.

 

[lucyanna girl]

Card carrying member of GRITS here. Girls Raised In The South

Penny

 

[LuvN~Travel]

We southerners do get a hankerin' for gravy sometimes. I prefer sawmill gravy over the redeye stuff, though. Even though it was over 35 years ago, I still remember watching my grand-daddy making redeye gravy with coffee and bacon grease.

Thoughtg of something else too. Only in the south will someone tell you that the house you are looking for is "set back off the road, just past the creek bridge, and over past where Slim used to live, then 'round the big curve a ways" and you'll instinctively know how to get there almost as if you'd consulted mapquest.

Oh but what I like is my Mom's tomato gravy! The best! It's so good over her home made biscuits. And, on the rich weeks, we'd also have bacon.
Hmmmm, wonder if I could talk her into making some soon......
Kim
And yes....'fixing' is a good Southern verb, I even looked it up in the dictionary.

oops. almost forgot WAR EAGLE!

 

[wvrevy]

It's funny, but living where I do, I hear a lot of this stuff all the time, but if you go just about two hours north of here you won't hear any of it. We're pretty much the gateway to the south.

I never used to say "fixin'". I picked it up from a cute Southern girl I dated in AF Tech School. Name was Bobbi Jo...and...whew...we'll just leave it at that.

 

[Southern4sure]

Thanks for the laugh, it is soooo true. My name says it all....

I'm not crazy about red eye gravy (I'm not a coffee drinker) but I absolutely love tomato gravy and milk gravy over warm buttermilk biscuits.

ROLL TIDE!!!!......

 

[goofyandplutoluver]

I totally get ya'll, but one thing I can't stand is "yuns"! Have any of you heard this one? I heard it all the time in school b/c it was short for younguns. We had a PE teacher that would scream for "all us yuns" to hurry up and get to the field. Who else is familiar with that saying?

Ohh yins is a Pittsburgh thing. I went to Kennywood the other day (park here in Pittsburgh) and I over-heard a child talking to his mom, he said something then "Pixburgh," and how could we forget "chipped ham"?

 

[JoBird]

Carolina Girl here!

How about the sayin', "Quit cuttin' the fool" As in, you kids are acting up and I'm gettin' ready to take a switch to your behind if you don't stop it.

Oh, and in Charleston, we like Shrimp with our grits. Yum...
And our tea? Please don't get me started. If it isn't sweet, can it really be tea?

 

[perdidobay]

How many of these are familiar to you southeners, esp around the Appalachian and Ozark Mountain regions:

fornenst ( next to)
nigh (near)
swan (swear)
skift (dusting of snow)
fixin' (getting ready to do something)
hant (ghost)
lettin' on (pretending)
scawmy (misty)
brickle ( brittle)
bumfuzzled (confused)
scoot (slide)
redd up ( tidy up, get a place ready)
let on ( pretend)
discomfit ( to inconvenience)
hull ( to shell beans)
ill (bad tempered)
kindling ( twigs, etc to start a fire)
mend (to improve physically)
palings (pickets)

The Scots-Irish that settled these areas brought these words and pronuciations from the old country with them...it's amazing how many are still in use!

 

[Rafiki Rafiki Rafiki]

All I have to say is

Go Hawgs!

 

[sajetto]

How many of these are familiar to you southeners, esp around the Appalachian and Ozark Mountain regions:


fixin' (getting ready to do something)
hant (ghost)
lettin' on (pretending)
brickle ( brittle)
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bumfuzzled (confused)
scoot (slide)
redd up ( tidy up, get a place ready)
let on ( pretend)
discomfit ( to inconvenience)
hull ( to shell beans)
ill (bad tempered)
kindling ( twigs, etc to start a fire)
mend (to improve physically)


The Scots-Irish that settled these areas brought these words and pronuciations from the old country with them...it's amazing how many are still in use!

I know the ones I left on your list. I used to live close to Robinsville, NC. There was a History Channel special on the area and how the people are so deeply connected to their scotch irish roots. I wish I could remember when it aired.

 

[lovemygoofy]

How many of these are familiar to you southeners, esp around the Appalachian and Ozark Mountain regions:

fornenst ( next to)
nigh (near)
swan (swear)
skift (dusting of snow)
fixin' (getting ready to do something)
hant (ghost)
lettin' on (pretending)
scawmy (misty)
brickle ( brittle)
bumfuzzled (confused)
scoot (slide)
redd up ( tidy up, get a place ready)
let on ( pretend)
discomfit ( to inconvenience)
hull ( to shell beans)
ill (bad tempered)
kindling ( twigs, etc to start a fire)
mend (to improve physically)
palings (pickets)

The Scots-Irish that settled these areas brought these words and pronuciations from the old country with them...it's amazing how many are still in use!

I know AND use quite a bit of those still. I grew up near the Ozark Mountains and lived in Arkansas most of my life. You want some country lol you should hear my family when we are all excited or in a tizzy about something.

WHOOO-PIG-SOIEEEEEE

 

[Evil Genius]

You just described my dh's family!!! As a Northern girl, I needed to learn all this stuff fast.

Thanks for the laugh!!!!