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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 1:49:27 GMT
Every once in a while "oh for cute" slips out (you have to say it in a Fargo accent)
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Post by Merge on May 7, 2016 2:26:24 GMT
I always say "oh, my Long Island just came out." Give me a glass of wine and this CT prep sounds like Rosie O'Donnell. My dad lived most of his adult life in the Midwest and developed the typical non-accent, but after a couple of beers he sounded like he'd never left Long Island. I'm the opposite, though - I grew up in the Midwest and have lived in Texas for almost 20 years. And the more I drink, the more Texas I sound. I guess you can't really revert to a non-accent.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2016 2:44:25 GMT
My momma says "onest in a while". Instead of saying I bought something a while back, I'll try to make bought past tense and say "I had boughten it". My mom will cringe everytime I say had boughten and then I say onest to her and she lets it go.
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Post by cindytred on May 7, 2016 2:44:43 GMT
Everything that comes out of my mouth is southern - my accent and my sayings. I'm bad about saying "fixing to" and have consciously tried to change that. One day this week it slipped out in my 2nd grade classroom and one of the kids asked me "What does fixing to mean?" LOL! I am more southern when I'm stressed or tired.
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Post by valleyview on May 7, 2016 3:09:11 GMT
My southern came out big time when I was in second grade. We were studying silent E. I asked my teacher when we were going to learn the rule about silent "G". She got really mad! But, I had never heard a G sound in any of those "ing" words!
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Post by smginaz Suzy on May 7, 2016 4:00:06 GMT
My New England accent makes an appearance at times, and I drop my r's and add them where they have no business showing up. Completely separately, I have a tendency to say "You betcha" in my best Palin impression, and I have zero reason for doing that.
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Post by pierkiss on May 7, 2016 4:07:54 GMT
Sometimes I can't help but say "warsh". Like "I'm fixin to warsh the dishes so take them to the sink".
And every once in a while, when I am around someone with a deep, lovely southern drawl, mine will pop right back out, as if I've never left the south. I remember the first time it happened in front of my now husband. I've never seen his head whip around so fast in my life.
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Post by peano on May 7, 2016 4:10:17 GMT
Mine comes out when I'm talking to my dog. I'm all "give Mama some sugah, Posie Sue, Sistah Girl, Baby Sis, etc.
I also find myself unconsciously saying, "Lordy" and "Lord have mercy" and get strange looks from these Connecticut Yankees I've been living amongst for longer than I lived in the South.
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Post by finally~a~mama on May 7, 2016 4:23:06 GMT
I grew up in the country in the midwest. I've lived in the suburbs for 15 years now. My DH says that I sound "very country" when I'm mad. He's totally right. Piss me off and I start mispronouncing things and dropping g's (from ing's) all over the place. LOL
I also say y'all - even "all y'all" comes out every once in awhile. One time I was telling my DH a story and he teased me about that. I got mad at him, but could *not* say that sentence without saying y'all.
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Post by GiantsFan on May 7, 2016 4:23:54 GMT
hahaha, I'm always "fixn' to" do something.
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Post by cyndijane on May 7, 2016 4:51:41 GMT
I try hard to speak correctly and not my Southern phrases that are incorrect. It can be difficult...... Today I told my Northern co-teacher, "I used ta could do that." She died laughing at me saying my southern was showing. It really was funny and I laughed as well. What do you say that is incorrect? Oh my goodness- this!! I say that every once in a blue moon and DH starts laughing- either because of my usage, or my shock that I said it out loud. Now, I'm "fixin' to" do something or other fairly often.
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Post by PolarGreen12 on May 7, 2016 4:59:17 GMT
I think my biggest Okieism is dropping my G. Fixin, goin, etc. I was explaining something in class the other night and used the phrase "catty corner". Two people in class stopped me and asked what that meant. One was from Oklahoma one wasn't. I remember my grandparents using that term, so maybe it's generational not regional.
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Post by anniebygaslight on May 7, 2016 5:42:38 GMT
I pronounce the second o in chocolate. Me too.
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Post by eversograceful1 on May 7, 2016 14:11:00 GMT
I seem to have "lost" the G on all my ing words. Goin' instead of going.
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Post by KikiPea on May 7, 2016 14:58:33 GMT
I forgot my most used southern word! I say/type y'all all the time. My autocorrect even knows to suggest it to me. I have never added R's to words, or said crick. Believe it, or not, I never say "Well, bless your heart", either, and I have lived in TX my whole life! I do say carry corner.
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Post by anxiousmom on May 7, 2016 15:10:23 GMT
I forgot my most used southern word! I say/type y'all all the time. My autocorrect even knows to suggest it to me. I also use y'all a lot-both spoken and written (colloquial writing, not formal) as it is a pretty useful inclusive term that covers a wide range of situations.
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Post by flute4peace on May 7, 2016 15:17:39 GMT
I "drug" it out back (instead of dragged)Various other Midwest things like that occasionally pop out of my mouth, not often but just once in a while. Some of those past tense verbs get mangled, not when I'm writing or in everyday speech but if I'm around my cousins or something I catch myself slipping between "rang/rung", etc Brang/brought isn't a mistake I'd normally make, and it sounds uneducated to see it typed out, but I swear I was talking to my cousin and we were fondly remembering the time Uncle Soandso brang a bottle of something to church for someone's funeral to have a nip or two (lol!) ?? I've always been taught "drug" was correct. "Dragged" sounds all kinds of wrong.
I say "used ta could" somewhat often, also "over south", probably more that I don't even realize.
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Post by flute4peace on May 7, 2016 15:23:36 GMT
I think my biggest Okieism is dropping my G. Fixin, goin, etc. I was explaining something in class the other night and used the phrase "catty corner". Two people in class stopped me and asked what that meant. One was from Oklahoma one wasn't. I remember my grandparents using that term, so maybe it's generational not regional. My MIL grew up in OK (poor, rural area), and everything ends in "uh". Oklahomuh, Missouruh, Coloraduh.
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Post by valleyview on May 7, 2016 15:56:21 GMT
I forgot my most used southern word! I say/type y'all all the time. My autocorrect even knows to suggest it to me. I have never added R's to words, or said crick. Believe it, or not, I never say "Well, bless your heart", either, and I have lived in TX my whole life! I do say carry corner. Mine does too, but I place my apostrophe differently. That's also a regional thing specific to my home state.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on May 7, 2016 16:06:51 GMT
I forgot my most used southern word! I say/type y'all all the time. My autocorrect even knows to suggest it to me. I have never added R's to words, or said crick. Believe it, or not, I never say "Well, bless your heart", either, and I have lived in TX my whole life! I do say carry corner. Mine does too, but I place my apostrophe differently. That's also a regional thing specific to my home state. Curious what your home state is as I have always spelled it ya'll. Mine is MS. Dropping the 'g' is something I've worked hard to stop doing. It does slip through now and then. When DD was small, she did intensive speech therapy for 2 years. One day after a session, the therapist (lovely older woman) pulled me aside. She said she knew DH and I were both from the South, but for DD's sake we really did need to enunciate our words - especially the 'g' of 'ing'. So I have worked on it, but a couple glasses of wine and all bets are off. What may come across as slurred words is in reality my Southern accent coming to the surface! I also use "catty corner" and am always surprised at people who don't know what it means.
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Post by valleyview on May 7, 2016 16:42:18 GMT
Mine does too, but I place my apostrophe differently. That's also a regional thing specific to my home state. Curious what your home state is as I have always spelled it ya'll. Mine is MS. Dropping the 'g' is something I've worked hard to stop doing. It does slip through now and then. When DD was small, she did intensive speech therapy for 2 years. One day after a session, the therapist (lovely older woman) pulled me aside. She said she knew DH and I were both from the South, but for DD's sake we really did need to enunciate our words - especially the 'g' of 'ing'. So I have worked on it, but a couple glasses of wine and all bets are off. What may come across as slurred words is in reality my Southern accent coming to the surface! I also use "catty corner" and am always surprised at people who don't know what it means. I'm from AL. I didn't know Mississippi used ya'll. I am also very familiar with kattie corner and used it just last week! I'm realizing that it's usage is disappearing.
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Post by anxiousmom on May 7, 2016 16:45:10 GMT
What are people using if they don't say catty corner? I hear it pretty regularly.
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Post by scrapqueen01 on May 7, 2016 17:01:31 GMT
What are people using if they don't say catty corner? I hear it pretty regularly. I've heard it a lot too since I live in Alabama but isn't a word I've used as I never liked it. I always say diagonally across since that is what it means.
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Post by checkwheelsdown on May 7, 2016 17:45:16 GMT
My Long Island accent basically disappeared when I went off to college in FL. No one could guess where I hailed from. However, get me going, either fueled from anger or a little alcohol, and I start adding "er" to words that have no business with that sound in them, as well as changing "o" to "aw" (ie., "pizza" turns into "peet-zer," "coffee" to "cawfee," "dog" to "dawg"). Once you hear it, you'd know it. Lol. My folks and siblings have all moved down south. They still retain their LI accents, although they've lived there for many decades now. As much as I love a sweet southern drawl, like my sister-in-law has, I enjoy hearing the sounds of my old home.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on May 9, 2016 17:13:39 GMT
I grew up in NW Illinois, and I occasionally use y'all... it IS all-inclusive and just works best sometimes. I usually say it as 'all y'all' even though I have no earthly idea where I picked it up from!
I never even think about crick for creek, goin' instead of going, etc. being technically wrong; that's just how I've always said some of those words. And for diagonal I use 'kitty corner' but I don't really know where it ever came from.
I think my small-town Illinois upbringing comes out sometimes as sort of Southern and as upper-Midwest (WI/MN) some other times.
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on May 9, 2016 17:27:36 GMT
Don't ya'll know the correct spelling is ya'll? I drop the 'g' from words like a lot of ya'll and I've sometimes said I 'use ta could' do something. I say kitty corner or caddy corner. Wonder where that came from?
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Post by scrappington on May 9, 2016 18:16:55 GMT
I say eh more than I should. yes yes i do
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Post by valleyview on May 9, 2016 18:47:58 GMT
I said "yes, ma'am" to someone younger than my children!
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Post by KikiPea on May 9, 2016 18:49:31 GMT
Don't ya'll know the correct spelling is ya'll? I drop the 'g' from words like a lot of ya'll and I've sometimes said I 'use ta could' do something. I say kitty corner or caddy corner. Wonder where that came from? Not around here. Y'all stands for you all. So it goes between the y and all.
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Post by anxiousmom on May 9, 2016 18:55:00 GMT
I said "yes, ma'am" to someone younger than my children! When I was little (probably three/fourish,) my mama used to keep a small dish of M&M's in the refrigerator. Every time (or more likely most of the time) I would say yes ma'am or no sir or please or thank you I was allowed to get an M&M from the dish. That was in the days of warm fuzzies and cold pricklies, but I think these days they would call it positive reinforcement/classical conditioning. To this day, I ma'am and sir everyone.
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