Southern English

[milkman]

How about bob ware, we had and old cow that could jump a bob ware fence and never touch it.

 

[PMA]

My wife is from Kentucky and she pronounces wash like warsh. Told her there is no r in wash.

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[IslandTractor]

Am I correct in thinking that the word "killed" sounds like "kilt" or "built" in the South?

 

[dave1949]

Those "r"s are tricky. :laughing:

Some variations I've heard from the Boston area, Downeast Maine and S. Maine:

award : awad
pattern : patten
Micah : Miker
Norma : Normer
lobster : lobstah
there : theyah

and the classic Park the car in Harvard Yard : Pahk the cah in Havahd yahd.

 

[Daver1963]

Am I correct in thinking that the word "killed" sounds like "kilt" or "built" in the South?

Actually down South we say "killed" and pronounce other words correctly when with another Southerner. It's just when folks from up or out yonder (notice I didn't say Yankees) are around that we lay it on thick and heavy so as to fool y'all.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

I live in rural Georgia and one of the favorite sayings I have heard is when someone got divorced,spouse passed or a long term relationship ended..."they are walking alone now". Any one heard that in your area?

MarkV

When they got divorced "they split the sheets."

 

[two_bit_score]

In giving directions a lot of country people used to say 'turn towards to the …..' right , left whatever because many turns were not right angles.

 

[milkman]

Those "r"s are tricky. :laughing:

Some variations I've heard from the Boston area, Downeast Maine and S. Maine:

award : awad
pattern : patten
Micah : Miker
Norma : Normer
lobster : lobstah
there : theyah

and the classic Park the car in Harvard Yard : Pahk the cah in Havahd yahd.

They sure are, and up north, a saw is a sar, and they think we talk funny!!!

 

[milkman]

Everybody knows there's no "a" on the end of balone, or is it baloney? Balogna, what's that?

 

[crash325]

OK!!! Who knows where the term "Hillbilly" came from or originated??

 

[Bird]

How about bob ware

That's what we called it when I was a kid.

Who knows where the term "Hillbilly" came from or originated??

I don't know, but my West Virginia mother-in-law didn't like to be called a hillbilly.:laughing:

 

[bcp]

OK!!! Who knows where the term "Hillbilly" came from or originated??

Informal form of "HillWilliam"

Bruce

 

[Lou66]

OK!!! Who knows where the term "Hillbilly" came from or originated??

I always took it as people that live and walked the hills,, like mountain goats.. or hill billy,, Hill being mountain,, goat being billy.. Lou

 

[TGeorge]

Actually down South we say "killed" and pronounce other words correctly when with another Southerner. It's just when folks from up or out yonder (notice I didn't say Yankees) are around that we lay it on thick and heavy so as to fool y'all.

Amen!

 

[IslandTractor]

Actually down South we say "killed" and pronounce other words correctly when with another Southerner. It's just when folks from up or out yonder (notice I didn't say Yankees) are around that we lay it on thick and heavy so as to fool y'all.

I can believe that. Most of us don't pahk ah cahs in Haavad yahd either except when the tourists are around.

 

[farmer2009]

My wife is from Kentucky and she pronounces wash like warsh. Told her there is no r in wash.

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And exit is eggsit or egxit. And the letter s is some times called "crooked letter". How I was taught to spell Mississippi M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-humpback-humpback-I.

 

[1bush2hog]

That's not Southern, that's non college black.

Yep Ebonics

 

[1bush2hog]

Mash is one of my favorites. You can mash your finger or mash the elevator button. You can also mash potatoes . Or just drank sum mash

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Mash is one of my favorites. You can mash your finger or mash the elevator button. You can also mash potatoes

We smash our fingers, mash our 'taters and push the elevator button.