you talk funny

Can I just say I love my southern gals! :)
Everything is coke! Sprite, Mt. Dew, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, CocaCola (but, here, ya leave out the ca, so it's really CoCola)
I'm with Nikki on a lot of these.
I still call my parents Mama & Daddy!
I say "fixin'" a lot! Instead of about to.
Y'all & all y'all. & plural would be y'all's or all y'all's! Yes, 2 apostrophes! :)
We push buggies, not carts.
When we take someone somewhere, we carry them!
We cut out/on the lights.
Everyone is "honey", "sweetie", or "darlin"!
& I'm sure there are plenty more! :)
 
I'm from South Africa, so there are number of differences

Here are a few
Shopping Cart - Trolley
Swimsuit - Costume or cossie
Soda - Fizzy Drink
Wallet - Purse
Purse - Handbag
Stroller - Pram

My aunt call any clothing item on top a sweater,
Tshirt= Shortsleeved sweater
Vest= Sleeveless Sweater
a sweater however is called a jersey

Here we say paJAHmas or Jaymees

Some uniquely South African ones: Lekker which means nice or good.
BBQ is a braai
Eish = A more polite way of saying OMG.
 
emmasmommy said:
i want a southern accent. bad. it just makes everything sound sweet and sugary...even when it's not ;)
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I had one of my Airmen tell me that one time when I was still in the service. I was yelling at them for something and he told me, I was really scared, because you looked really mad, but you didn't sound mad because of your accent! LOL!
 
Oh an another one...we say "nekkid" instead of "naked"...

And I use the word "butt" combined with other words as a term of endearment...my DD is "Sugar Butt"..my dog is "Booger Butt" etc :)
 
I haven't heard any of the Southern girls say this yet, probably because you all are way to nice to do this...but my ex-motherinlaw would say mean things and then tack on "bless her heart" at the end, as if to soften what she said. Like, "She is uglier than sin, bless her heart." :blink:

Am I right Southern girls? People say that in the South don't they?
 
Julie Billingsley said:
I haven't heard any of the Southern girls say this yet, probably because you all are way to nice to do this...but my ex-motherinlaw would say mean things and then tack on "bless her heart" at the end, as if to soften what she said. Like, "She is uglier than sin, bless her heart." :blink:

Am I right Southern girls? People say that in the South don't they?
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yep lol
 
Julie Billingsley said:
I haven't heard any of the Southern girls say this yet, probably because you all are way to nice to do this...but my ex-motherinlaw would say mean things and then tack on "bless her heart" at the end, as if to soften what she said. Like, "She is uglier than sin, bless her heart." :blink:

Am I right Southern girls? People say that in the South don't they?
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I'm going to link to this.. kim showed it to me the other month a lot of it sorta was over my head since i'm obviously very far from the south and knowing how southern women talk but i'm sure several will get a kick out of it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUFL2GT1-2g

(oh and some not so appropriate language so no watching around kiddos)
 
Julie Billingsley said:
I haven't heard any of the Southern girls say this yet, probably because you all are way to nice to do this...but my ex-motherinlaw would say mean things and then tack on "bless her heart" at the end, as if to soften what she said. Like, "She is uglier than sin, bless her heart." :blink:

Am I right Southern girls? People say that in the South don't they?
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LOL! Yes, we say that. LOL!
 
pewtertm said:
LOL I love the differences in British English and American English.

Rachel has watched Peppa Pig for so long that she asks for ice lollies...the first time she did that I was like 'whaaaat?' before it dawned on me that she wanted a popsicle.
And then there was the time I was on my HS graduation trip with a few girlfriends and this guy from Yorkshire kept flirting with me at the hotel pool. I enjoyed the attention but nearly choked when he asked if he could come knock me up later. Imagine his mortification when it was explained to him what that means here in the US. LOL
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My Nicholas watches lots of British cartoons too and will thus use lots if British words. I have to tell him all the time, that's not what we call it in America! Lol
 
Julie Billingsley said:
I haven't heard any of the Southern girls say this yet, probably because you all are way to nice to do this...but my ex-motherinlaw would say mean things and then tack on "bless her heart" at the end, as if to soften what she said. Like, "She is uglier than sin, bless her heart." :blink:

Am I right Southern girls? People say that in the South don't they?
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Yes, ma'am! :)

nikkiARNGwife said:
And I use the word "butt" combined with other words as a term of endearment...my DD is "Sugar Butt"..my dog is "Booger Butt" etc :)
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I absolutely do this!! And we call our dog "Booger Butt"!!! LOL
 
Julie Billingsley said:
I haven't heard any of the Southern girls say this yet, probably because you all are way to nice to do this...but my ex-motherinlaw would say mean things and then tack on "bless her heart" at the end, as if to soften what she said. Like, "She is uglier than sin, bless her heart." :blink:

Am I right Southern girls? People say that in the South don't they?
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Lol!! This is definitely true!

The first thing I can think of that I say is Walmart sounds like Wall-MOD when I say it. My dad always gets on me about that. I tend to say 'I reckon' a lot when someone asks my opinion and I can't think of an answer...lol!

Ohh that video, Kristin...lol!!!! I have to bookmark that! :D
 
OK, I've got one but I'm going to apologize in advance if it offends you: here in TX, the kids say "I gotta go tee tee!" I had NO IDEA what DD meant the first time she said that. But I figured it out since she was jumping in place rotfl. Back in MI, I've only heard parents/kids say "I gotta go potty" or "go peepee." DD's first preschool teacher was from TX, so I assume that's where DD picked it up. I asked her "What is 'tee tee'?" and she just looked at me and said "It's a different kind of pee pee." LOL!
That was the first time I noticed DD was becoming a Texan. She tells me she's a Michigander, but I tell you what: she's picking up the lingo here. ;) The first time she says "I'm fixin' ta" I might just cry. LOL! And if we stay here much longer, DD is gonna laugh at me when I say "pop." She says "soda," which is weird for 2 reasons: 1. that's not what people say here OR what DH and I call it and 2. we don't keep POP in the house and she doesn't ever drink it. So where did she hear the word soda?!

Oh, another difference: some (not all) native Houstonians pronounce the word "bayou" as "bah-yohh." I say "bye-you." The first time I heard someone with a very strong Southern drawl say "bayou," I didn't know what they'd said lol! And I'm sure my nasally Michigander voice drove them nuts. But at least they didn't say "Oh, bless your Northern heart." LOL!
 
ltarbox said:
I'm sure I have things but I don't know what they are. My hubby says crayowns for crayons. It kinda bugs me and now my kids are starting to say it that way. Lol.
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This made me giggle because my SIL says "crowns" for crayons. Even my little nephew makes fun of her and corrects the way she says it.
 
We don't even call them crayons...they're called "colors"..you color in your coloring book with colors lol

And we do call it "tee-tee" too :)

and another yes for the "bless her heart" thing....so true lol
 
I say "colors" for crayons too. Always have. :)

Does anyone have talk-to-text on your phones? It's funny what it picks up if I don't enunciate well. I've had a couple of one syllable words turn into two and I'm not even Southern. ;)
 
My in-laws call the sink a zink and crayons are crowns. They lived up north in Baltimore and Atlantic City. So I just assumed that is where it came from. My husband is funny cause he has the southern lingo but it often comes with a northern accent. Although his is really slight not nearly as bad as his parents or his oldest brother.
 
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