Southern talk....

[Bob Wright]

In another post, Wyandot Jim used, and explained, the expression "fixin' to" as being Texanese. It is, rather, Southern, and is used very often in my household, as "I'm fixin' to go to bed."

I was recently musing over the contraction (?) atall. As in reply to "Do you mind?" is "Not atall." And it can be pronounced both ways, as "uh-tall" or, especially for emphasis, "A-tall", as in "I wouldn't wear that A-tall."

And we, Nita and I, were also remembering an expression her late mother used, juning around. We had to look that one up, but to "june around" meant to flit around looking busy while actually doing nothing.

And those movies where the dialect coach has everyone dropping the final "g" on word like anything, and pronouncing it "any-thin." We say huntin', shootin', or drivin' but we say anything.

Bob Wright

 

[graygun]

I never heard 'juning around' but have the others many times.

I knew a man who would say 'over to' instead of 'over at'...ie "He works over to Sears."

How about 'onlyest' instead of 'only'. I've heard that a time or two.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Yep nother one is "I'm going to carry her to the store" Rather than take her to the store :wink: :wink:

 

[Number9]

...well I'll swanee! :mrgreen:

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Festus used to say "onlyest".

 

[GA Cracker]

Hey yall it's late djeat? Dajum I fergot. Gonna come over tomorrow and hope ya fix dat tractor.

 

[gramps]

Hey yall it's late djeat? Dajum I fergot. Gonna come over tomorrow and hope ya fix dat tractor.

Honey chile you is speaking my dilect.
gramps (born and raised in Atlanta, Ga)

 

[Cape Cod Terry]

My West Virginia born Grandfather had a couple.. When my Grandmother would ask him when he was going to get around to fixin' something around the house he would say "Well I'm studyin' it", If she asked again when he was going to do it the answer would be "directly".
"Cape Cod Terry"

 

[Fox Mike]

What about "smell of it". My Knoxville grand mom used that all the time. I have always wondered just how far away "yonder" was. Is it farther or nearer than "just a piece"?

 

[WVGIRL]

Yonder is closer then just a piece. Aways is even longer.

 

[Don Lovel]

a woman being a little upset can spiral out of control into a full blown conniption in a little under five minutes avg

 

[WVGIRL]

Not to be confused with the HISSY fit

 

[stevemb]

Purty dern neat, right here !

 

[Robes]

Hey Bubba,... done reach me nother beer,....woodja...

 

[Critch]

My dad referred to his personal things as his "clediments", he was from West Tennessee. "Juning" around I've heard, that's probably a West Tennessee/Memphis thing...We also say "directly" here in the Ozarks when we're "fixin'" to do something. Around here people think the past tense of climb is "clumb".

Some odd things even I notice and I grew up here for the most part are the locals saying "Walmark" instead of "WalMart", very peculiar to this area. The little dog that likes to chase rabbits is a "beedle" not a beagle and names that end in "a", for example "Dula", "Duba", "opera" get a "y" vowel sound on the end...so they come out at Duly, Duby, and opry. My history professor many years told me it was the influence of the Irish immigrants to my county in the mid 1850s. We still call the north part of our county The Irish Wilderness.

 

[JPGLSG]

Mash the button to make it go !!!!!

"And we, Nita and I, were also remembering an expression her late mother used, juning around. We had to look that one up, but to "june around" meant to flit around looking busy while actually doing nothing."

That sound like what Bo-rack is doing......

 

[FastEd]

In the Kentucky Mountains we used the exclamation: "Well upon my honor!"
Which said in a hurry came out as "Pawn my honor!"

 

[DGW1949]

A mess is more than just a bunch.

DGW

 

[Number9]

In the South many times it's how you "sound" that's really different...

Georgia has three basic drawls.. north, middle, and southern part.

Same with Tennessee and most Southern states.

If you don't live in the South, you might never notice it?

But, the southern part of Louisiana has their own language!! :mrgreen:

 

[GA Cracker]

Purty dern neat, right here !

Purty dern neat richerea! Donkey doo doo instead of horse $#!+. And it is yawn that sounds like lawn with a Y and it is NOT yawn that sounds like yon as in over yon-der. Dinner is lunch and supper is the evening meal. Eatin, cutting, sittin, meetin, ...don't use the g sound. Yank sayez "I would cut you if I had a knife" Reb sayez "Lookaherea you kin borrey one of mine. Thisun suit ya? Ketch les daince an don fret or jaw a bout it n git it done"

 

[Bob Wright]

And to add to what some of ya'll have said:

Around my folks, "directly" sounds more like "trectly" and some folks I know the past tense of "climb" is "climb" but spoken as to rhyme with "limb."

And my aunt, who lived up near the Kentucky border in Macon County, Tennessee, had "flares" in her "flare bed."

And, speaking of Georgia, I heard men there ask "to hold you knife" instead of borrowing it, as in, "Let me hold yore pocket knife."

Oh yeah, about the words "hog, log, and frog": They are correctly pronounced like "hawg", not to sound like "odd", has "haag" etc.

Bob Wright

 

[Specs]

Here in Nowhere KY it is common to hear " I don't care to" not as a negative, but as a positive reply. So, if you ask Clem to give you a ride to the store he will reply "I don't care to", which means that he will give you a ride.

 

[eveled]

In the Kentucky Mountains we used the exclamation: "Well upon my honor!"
Which said in a hurry came out as "Pawn my honor!"

Now that's funny! How long do you have to pay off the pawn ticket, before they sell your honor to somebody else?

 

[Fox Mike]

Then there is the zinc whar ya warsh the dishes.

 

[caryc]

Many years ago, I knew a young woman who had the oddest speech thing. She used to say "We're gonna' "take" and do this" or "We're gonna' take and go there.

I think she was from the midwest somewhere. Never heard anyone else use "take" like that since.

 

[Mike J]

How I talk has changed as I have grown up. I used to be bad about saying something had Ruirned, or Ruint instead of ruined. I remember Grandma saying to go in there to that spicket & wrench off those dishes.

Number 9 is right though. There are different dialects of Southern. It is different depending on the area.

 

[Number9]

"They live back over that way"(with a motion of the arm or hand)...
A line from Deliverance...
what's funny, the saying is really used around hur! :mrgreen:

I would say the people used in the movie really spoke that way. They used local people and the "banjo player" was a kid from the local school at Clayton Elementary School.. he was picked because he looked the most like an inbred! :mrgreen:
His name is Billy Redden.. last seen being the dishwasher and part-owner of the Cookie Jar Cafe in Clayton, GA... oh, he can't play the banjo, it was dubbed in the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8

 

[caryc]

"They live back over that way"(with a motion of the arm or hand)...
A line from Deliverance...
what's funny, the saying is really used around hur! :mrgreen:

I would say the people used in the movie really spoke that way. They used local people and the "banjo player" was a kid from the local school at Clayton Elementary School.. he was picked because he looked the most like an inbred! :mrgreen:
His name is Billy Redden.. last seen being the dishwasher and part-owner of the Cookie Jar Cafe in Clayton, GA... oh, he can't play the banjo, it was dubbed in the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8

Aw crap, yall just ruint the best part of that thar movie for me.

 

[hickoryhillbill]

When asked how she felt, my grandmother would answer " just fair to midlin " . I never found out if that was good or bad.

 

[Number9]

This is a very funny video!!!!
And it fits this thread to a "T"!! :mrgreen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO1kmfLmGRA