Totally Southern Expressions

[grengadgy]

"I was born at night, but not last night!"

 

[Detroitgator]

I'll bet the South is responsible for "Catsup" vs "Ketchup"!

 

[Detroitgator]

"I was born at night, but not last night!"

A Lee Trevino classic!

 

[grengadgy]

Southerners are dum.

Quit Being Ugly

 

[grengadgy]

Cattywampus

 

[Detroitgator]

Quit Being Ugly

Hey, I misspelled "dumb" as a jab at myself... C'mon, man!

 

[grengadgy]

Can't Never Could

 

[wrpgator]

Some old English words survive in a modified form in certain regional Southern dialects like “vittles” (from victuals) and “britches” (from breeches).

You’ll hear some Southerners call a garage a porte cochere.

Some will say “touched” for a little crazy.

“No Account”

“Drawers” instead of underwear. Common in the Black community as “draws”.


Alex.

“The Treasure of our Tongue’ book written late 50’s / early 60’s list many phrases and words from Elizabethan English that survive vestigially in Appalachia (at that time) but fell out of usage in England / Scotland long ago. I had a carpenter from the hills tell me in the 70’s that he ‘thowed’ something away. Everything that wasn’t in front of you was ‘oer yonder’.

 

[Detroitgator]

“The Treasure of our Tongue’ book written late 50’s / early 60’s list many phrases and words from Elizabethan English that survive vestigially in Appalachia (at that time) but fell out of usage in England / Scotland long ago. I had a carpenter from the hills tell me in the 70’s that he ‘thowed’ something away. Everything that wasn’t in front of you was ‘oer yonder’.

Lambert's restaurant in Foley AL is home of the throwed roll

 

[wrpgator]

"She looks like she was rode hard, hung up wet then stomped dry."

 

[B52G8rAC]

Exactly. Other than "things to do with a peanut," I don't think there is much that "the South" has invented or come up with on their own.

That was just too much to bear. If you do any linguistic research, you will find the dialect spoken by southern Scots-Irish settlers is more like the English spoken in the 1he 1700s than the English spoken in England. All good American novels have their origins in southern culture. The southern plantation culture gave rise to the most genteel and well-mannered people in the Republic. It is the only example of an aristocracy where educated folks can use time to think and elucidate on the condition of the body politic and hypothesize solutions to the problems found.

 

[B52G8rAC]

Quit Being Ugly

Bless his pea pickin heart.

 

[wrpgator]

Lambert's restaurant in Foley AL is home of the throwed roll

The Throwed Roll

"Throwed is the more refined version. "Y'all wont biskits? Yount some? "No, Lester, I need cast iron jaws to ate them thangs...critters won't even sniff em. I'd soon Thowed em in the trash"

 

[wrpgator]

"That tractor couldn't pull a greased string out of a cat's ass."

 

[g8tr72]

"Tough row to hoe."

 

[g8tr72]

"Grinnin' like a mule-eatin' briars."

 

[wrpgator]

On a job site in Albany Ga. about 1980, I had two carpenters from MacClenny Fl working. In the course of conversation or detail about the work I said "you guys" and they laughed at me. I asked "So, saying 'you guys' makes me a damned Yankee?" No, one of them said, "It makes you a god-damned Yankee".

 

[grengadgy]

Hush Your Mouth

 

[grengadgy]

Heavens to Betsy

 

[wrpgator]

Exactly. Other than "things to do with a peanut," I don't think there is much that "the South" has invented or come up with on their own.

Whatever you do in this thread, don't mention General Grant (vs Lee--J.F.C. Fuller) or anything about General Sherman.