the title is self explanatory,but once again southern words or phrases what have you heard get used what do you use,and what word/phrase do you feel should be added to the unwritten dictionary of southern words??

 

Well the first word that came to my mind is skidem. Which for all you northerners translates into get them. There are plenty more i just cant seem to think of any.

Chris

 

Of all my time spent living in South Carolina I have picked up a few words and still use them today

"Hey" instead of HI or hello
"Coke" instead of soda or pop ex: "will you grab me a coke at the store?" other person "What kind" answer back "Dr. Pepper"
and my favorite is :
"ya'll" combination of you + all (yanks say "you guys")
another is:
"ya'hear?" good for yelling at your children...ex: "ya'll best not be getting into that kitchen and makin' a mess ya'hear?"

ahhhhh miss the south...

 

I could list these for hours but here are a quick few:

"git" = leave, ie. go away

"momenems" = my parents

"d-jeetchet? = have you eaten yet?

"ah-ite" = okay

"drekly" = directly, ie. in short order ex. "I'll be there directly"

"wood-je?" = would you? as in "would you hand me that wrench?

"buhtater" = potato.

"duhmayter" = tomato.

"learnt" = having been schooled.

"skul" = where one is educated.

I could go on and on they're so much fun. I am a son of the South and I have fun making fun of the way we talk down here. But, it is certainly true, we take things a little slower and that comes out in our speech.

Do to my occupation, I try to refrain from regional slang and accent while at work, but at home it pretty much comes through. It comes from being around it all one's life.

Don't make the usual misjudgment that because we speak this way we are uneducated or backward. While it's true that the general educational level in the South is lower than most of the country, Most people here CHOOSE to speak that way. I guess you could call it "part of our charm". BTW, it transcends both races. And just like the rest of the country, we use it to tell where one is from. The Alabama accent is different from Virginia is different from Georgia, etc. But it's RADICALLY different from Pennslyvania so " we knowed ju wuz a yankee by tha way you talkt." lol.

I accept it for what it is and just enjoy it. I will say this, the accent can be most alluring when spoken by an attractive young female with a soft voice. I'll leave that at that....

 

My ex is from southern VA in the mountains, and sometimes that southern bell accent would just come out by an accident and it'd send chills down my spine. I do love a womans southern accent!

 

senseyas senseyas up gimme a beer .........
rectum rectum damn near kiltem .........
yankee some one from up north ......
damn yankee a northernor who croses the mason dixon line and doesnt go back home....
rootin hey ya'll lets go down to the power lines and do some rootin

 

Famous last words of a redneck.

Now y'all gotta watch dis.

 

I speak hillbilly (E.Tennessee Mtns. born and raised) and we have some of our own words. Just to be clear mountain speak is not southern. Southern and mountain are as different as english and spanish.

Some hillbilly words:

Cokes-same as above, every soft drink known to man is a coke

Dope-a soft drink, cames from when Coca Cola supposedly had a little opium in the formula, also refers to all brands.

Poke- a paper bag

flicker- remote control for the TV

"do ya reckon"- translates-Do you think so?

Mitchells- fishing rods with reel installed


A few southern words I like:

dut- dirt

owed- road
As in "going down the dut owed"

water-wada
Strong southern speakers don't pronounce the letter "R".

Thank God for southern and mountain speak. If it wasn't for us everyone would sound like northeners. I don't I could take that

 

Words:
Fixen- going to do something. "I'm fixen to shoot that dawg".
Aim to- see above. "You fixen to shoot that dawg?" "Yep, I aim to".
Gwine- going to. "When you gwine shoot that dawg?"
Soon's- soon as. "Soon's I find my gun".
Holt- hold. "Take holt a that dawg so's he don't run off. I'm fixen to shoot him soon's I find my gun".
Nary- none. "Maw says shoot all them dawgs, ain't nary a one no count".
No count- worthless. "He's no count for nothin'." (Also no account, depending on region).

Phrases:
Ain't worth the powder to blow his brains out.
Learnt to whisper in a sawmill, dintcha?
He's so mean he'd fight a buzzsaw. (Also called circle saw).
He's so dumb he couldn't pour (politically correct word inserted) urine out of a boot with the directions on the bottom.
Dumb as a post (box of rocks, sack of hammers).
Ugly as a mud fence dobbed with lizards.
Ugly as homemade sin. (Didn't know there was any other kind didja?)
Drunker'n Cootie Brown. (also drunker'n a skunk, high as a kite, high as a Jawga pine).
Slicker'n snot on a doorknob.


Bound to be lots more but I'm sposed to be workin.......

*Disclaimer* No dawgs were actually shot in the posting of this reply.

Ron

 

Slicker'n snot on a doorknob.

My 8yr old daughter got in trouble at school for using this one. My wife says it's all my fault because I learnt to talk in Alabama. I told my daughter, next time say "it's slicker than frog snot on a watermelon seed" and see what they think.

 

A few phrases that found their way to farm country... I'm guilty of using most of them at some time or another.

1) Worthless as "breasts" on bull.
2) Sharp as a bag of wet hair.
3) Sharp as a ball peen hammer.
4) Quicker'n a castor oil enema.
5) Uglier'n a dirt outhouse.
6) Dumber'n a rubber screw.
7) Higher than a Harvestore. (name of a grain silo)
8) Colder'n a welldigger's belt buckle.
9) Hotter'n the hinges of Hades.
10) Fell outta an ugly tree, and hit every branch on the way down.

Some automotive makes... again, guilty as charged.

1) "Ose" A car formerly made by GM. Its full name is "Osemobeel".
2) "Murgree" & "Lingunn" Cars made by Ford Motor Company.
3) "Pawniack" Another GM brand.
4) "Cadlack" GM's luxury brand.
5) "JimmSee" Makers of pickup trucks similar to
6) "Shevverlay" This brand is also known by the shortened "Chebbie"
7) "Rose Roys" An English luxury car.
8) "Beam Dubya" A car made in Germany.
9) "Plimth" Brand of car made by Chrysler and raced by "Richud Peddy".
10) "Buke" GM car with portholes.

Honorary mention... Farm equipment.

1) "Jawn Deeyer"
2) "Verzuhtal"
3) "Noo Hawlun"
4) "Innernashnul Harvster"
5) "Aid Enn" (a small tractor made by Ford)
6) "Alce Chammers"
7) "Kaze" (after merger with International Harvester, they became "Kaze Eye Age"
8) "Allver" (dark-green tractors with red wheels)
9) "Minnyaplus Mowleen" (tractors painted prairie gold color)
10) "Mazzy Fergzun" or "Mazzy Hairsun" (tractors originally made in Canada)

 

How about an IGNORANUS, that would be a person that is stupid and a butthole.





I learnt that rightcheer in the South.

Boy, if I ever get a holt of you!!!!!!

 

tator - potota's
mator tomato
young-uns -kids
switch- a whipping tool aka paddle

 

Don't forget fur and far!

Fur - a long way, as in "Boy howdy its a fur piece to Bubba's house"

Far - source of light and heat as in "Boy Howdy, lookit cheer, Bubba's house is on far! Get outta the way, here comes the far truck.

Boy Howdy - I say old chap, this is remarkable!

lookit - look at

cheer - here, usually combined with rat as in:

rat cheer- right here

 

Beat half to death with an ugly stick
G'zinter - Goes into, as in "this piece here g'zinter this here piece"
Inaire- In there, as in "That house has haints (haunts or ghosts). I DARE ya to go inaire!"

True story: I lived for about six months in St. Mary's Georgia.
Now..... Ya'll cain't GIT no futher southeast in Georgia lessen ya got a hankering to swim in the ocean.
Anyhows, I'se workin in the Piggly Wiggly vittles store there.Now.... Fur some reezn wut only the Good Lordz no'in they got the most ignoramous lookin' hog ever wut youse seen plastered on all the store brand vittles. And that hog looked purty plastered, too! I seen that stuped hog grinnin on 'bout everythin' inaire. (My buddy sed he's grinnin cause he jist finished makin bacon. )
Anyhows, I'se workin on the boneyard stockin' crew when the sistunt soopviizer come uptme 'n sez " Hey, bubba, how much more ya lack?" Now.... when sumb'dee don't be memberin' ya'llz name, then ya'llz name's Bubba.
Anyhows, I jist lookt atim likes all his bricks wud'n laid. Wuts he do? He sez it agin! Now.... ya'll gotta member: I'se from Nubrasskee, and.... well we speak English there.
Anyhows, I sez "Marshall, I don't even no wut ya sed!" He lookt atme and sez "Oh, I furgot, bubba: youse a YANKEE!" Now.... I cain't fur the life u'me figger out WHY in the wurld he'd go be makin' a smart crack like 'at. Cept..... maybe he uz jelus.
Anyhows, I jist grinned all big an' sez "And I'm GLAD we won the war!" He 'uz sa flustered he didn' no wudda say, so he jist walked off.
Come to find out late thet he uz wontin to no "How much more do ya'll have to do?" Coarse.... Ya think he cooda jist sed so ta bugin with?
Anyhows, thets mu story story 'n I'se stickin' too't.