"Southernisms"

[xwingnut]

Don't you just love the ways of expressing oneself in our Southern USA?
One day a few months ago, a friend and I were passing time by chatting with each other about high-level philosophy...like what other people know. Her comment was "If you don't know what you don't know, how are you gonna know any better? Ponder on that a moment while I give another example of "Southernisms".
In the Mississippi Delta (it's an area of north MS, but spoken of as if it's a Place)...someone said to me: "Raise the window down" HUH? Could that have come from the days when we propped the window up with a stick and had to raise it to take the stick out to let the window down? I'm guessing some of you remember those days.
Enough....I'm fixin' to get another cup of coffee.

JB

[Bikebum]

John, are you sure you are not "fixin' to fix another cup of coffee"?

[xwingnut]

LOL, you said it better Jamie!
jb

[Gail]

Hey! Yont smore cornbread? (Hey! Do you want some more cornbread?
Hand me the salt celler.
Shire down on it -or- a more sophisticated form is, floor board it! (meaning haul ass)
Y'all better getin the house, cause their's a cloud comin!
Siftin along flimsy minded.
Gail

[Vance]

You got it Gail! Now would you go "cut up" the heat a little..it's chilly in here....I am sure I can think of some more...but I got to "study about it a bit first".....

[xwingnut]

Good stuff, Gail and Vance...I'd hoped for a fun exchange like this.
jb

[Vance]

Can't wait til it warms up a bit...I need to get my hose pipe out to wash my truck!

[Gator]

Don't know what language you people are speaking but all I want to do is "pass a good time cher" that is after I finish making groceries and fixing the hot water heater.

Gator

[Gail]

Don't know what language you people are speaking but all I want to do is "pass a good time cher" that is after I finish making groceries and fixing the hot water heater.

Gator

The funny part is, I understood it all! However, I have learned that - sometimes...depending on what part of the country you are in, it is better to just keep my mouth shut . You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl.

[Vance]

The funny part is, I understood it all! However, I have learned that - sometimes...depending on what part of the country you are in, it is better to just keep my mouth shut . You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl.

And that is what makes this old world a fun place in which to live!!

[Bikebum]

Is Malvene the only person that ever says "all y'all"? For instance, if she is taking a group photo she may say "all y'all stand over here". It completely baffles the Canadians.

[Gail]

Is Malvene the only person that ever says "all y'all"? For instance, if she is taking a group photo she may say "all y'all stand over here". It completely baffles the Canadians.

It makes perfect sense to me. Why waste your breath when you can just run it all together and get your point across? Gail

[xwingnut]

"[I]All Y'all"[I] is a LOT more pleasing to hear than "Youse Guys", and the great thing about "Y'all" is that it can be singular or plural.
jb

[dkl]

Gail when did you ever keep your mouth shut

[xwingnut]

Hey! Yont smore cornbread? (Hey! Do you want some more cornbread?
Hand me the salt celler.
Shire down on it -or- a more sophisticated form is, floor board it! (meaning haul ass)
Y'all better getin the house, cause their's a cloud comin!
Siftin along flimsy minded.
Gail

Gail: you've got mail
jb