Southerners say the damndest things.

[Riprorin]

Just got back from Nashville. Here's a few gems I picked up:

Lit-A-tour (literature)
SIGH-reen (siren)
EYE-talian (Italian)
POH-lice (police)
UM-brella (umbrella)
Ta-BACK-a (tobacco)

 

[shiner]

I don't rightly cotton to you a running down the South.

 

[Gyrene]

Interesting. Out of my 18 years of living in Nashville, the only time I heard that was from people from outside the city. Nashville isn't the typical stigma of the South. I rarely heard any of those, though now that I'm in Cookeville (small town TN) I hear them all the time.

 

Ok, what i don't get is that people call TN the south...I am from Florida and that is the south, not Tentucky....

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: Riprorin
Just got back from Nashville. Here's a few gems I picked up:

Lit-A-tour (literature)
SIGH-reen (siren)
EYE-talian (Italian)
POH-lice (police)
UM-brella (umbrella)
Ta-BACK-a (tobacco)

go pick up a cd of Jeff Foxworthy and you'll get a few more. Or Rodney Carrington.

 

[Schadenfroh]

in mississippi we use

ya'll (you all)
yontu (you want to)
aint (is not)

i will probably think of a few more in a minute, btw you yanks languages are strange to us

 

[Riprorin]

Originally posted by: dtyn
Interesting. Out of my 18 years of living in Nashville, the only time I heard that was from people from outside the city. Nashville isn't the typical stigma of the South. I rarely heard any of those, though now that I'm in Cookeville (small town TN) I hear them all the time.

These folks were from Goodletsville, which is about 10 miles north of Nashville.

 

[Gyrene]

Originally posted by: Phocas
Ok, what i don't get is that people call TN the south...I am from Florida and that is the south, not Tentucky....

Tennessee is definately part of the South. Weather conditions are similar with the rest of the Southern states, we're south of the Mason-Dixon, and we were even part of the Confederates during the Civil War. We're also the smartest Southern state, because we were the last to leave the Union and the first to rejoin.

 

[Gyrene]

Originally posted by: Riprorin

Originally posted by: dtyn
Interesting. Out of my 18 years of living in Nashville, the only time I heard that was from people from outside the city. Nashville isn't the typical stigma of the South. I rarely heard any of those, though now that I'm in Cookeville (small town TN) I hear them all the time.

These folks were from Goodletsville, which is about 10 miles north of Nashville.

Ah Jesus. I'm afraid to go up there, that's small small town TN. I think you'd get shot just for stepping into their yard.

 

[shiner]

You might want to use this before you come down South again. If'n you don't we ain't gonna know whut in the tarnation ura talkin bout.

 

[CrazyPerson]

must be the sun

 

[Riprorin]

At the gathering I was at, someone told a joke about a fictional Bubba character.

After he finished the joke, one guy said, "dern I thought you wuz talkin' about my cuzin Bubba". Another one of them them said the same thing. It was pretty tough to keep a straight face.

My mom's originally from Nashville, and some of her friends were named Honey Gal, Junior, String Bean, Big Man, Cabbage, Bubba (of course), etc.

 

[Actaeon]

"Goin' down the yonder and mash me some tators."

I got some family in South Carolina, bunch of "southerns" over there.

 

[Riprorin]

I got kin folk in Tennesee and Georgia.

 

PIN = pen

 

[cliftonite]

Originally posted by: CrazyPerson
must be the sun

 

[A5]

Originally posted by: Phocas
Ok, what i don't get is that people call TN the south...I am from Florida and that is the south, not Tentucky....

The only part of Florida that's "Southern" is the northern part, aka the Redneck Riviera. The rest of it is beaches/Cuban

 

[CanOWorms]

Originally posted by: Phocas
Ok, what i don't get is that people call TN the south...I am from Florida and that is the south, not Tentucky....

What? Everyone else in "The South" doesn't even consider Florida in "The South."

I just moved from Tennessee & Alabama to Massachusetts. It seems that they forget a syllable or two when they pronounce their words

 

[Riprorin]

ROO al = rural

My mom and I were driving around Franklin, TN looking for a house her brother used to own. She said it was in a rooal area. I said, "you mean, rural". She says, "yeah, rooal".

 

[sillymofo]

I'm in southern California, does that count?

Here, good moring is "HONK HONK, LEARN TO DRIVE A-HOLE",
how are you doing is QUE PASSA?...

so on and so forth.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: A5

Originally posted by: Phocas
Ok, what i don't get is that people call TN the south...I am from Florida and that is the south, not Tentucky....

The only part of Florida that's "Southern" is the northern part, aka the Redneck Riviera. The rest of it is beaches/Cuban

As in Arcadia, Sebring, La Belle and Clewiston?

Where in Florida do you actually live?

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: dtyn

Originally posted by: Riprorin

Originally posted by: dtyn
Interesting. Out of my 18 years of living in Nashville, the only time I heard that was from people from outside the city. Nashville isn't the typical stigma of the South. I rarely heard any of those, though now that I'm in Cookeville (small town TN) I hear them all the time.

These folks were from Goodletsville, which is about 10 miles north of Nashville.

Ah Jesus. I'm afraid to go up there, that's small small town TN. I think you'd get shot just for stepping into their yard.

Heh, I bought a dual celery 333 setup from a guy in Goodlettsville.

Yeah, southerners have their own way of speaking. I can understand it just fine, but I have some trouble with people here in Indiana. They all talk way too fast. It's like listening to sped up Spanish.

 

[Cat13]

Originally posted by: Phocas
Ok, what i don't get is that people call TN the south...I am from Florida and that is the south, not Tentucky....

I'm from South Florida and I can say with no hesitation that Florida is NOT the south. It is just a sub-located section of New York!

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: Cat13

Originally posted by: Phocas
Ok, what i don't get is that people call TN the south...I am from Florida and that is the south, not Tentucky....

I'm from South Florida and I can say with no hesitation that Florida is NOT the south. It is just a sub-located section of New York!

Yup. Except for the panhandle.