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Being a Hillbilly in WV I hear the statement I talk funny if traveled south or north of WV. They just don't speak our language, Appalachian American, lol. And still, I bet even you don't ever say "if'n" like a few 'round here..
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Southern English is a very relaxed manner of speaking. We fabricate our own style of contractions and leave the "g" off of the ending of any word that has it.
Spoken Southern English flows much more smoothly than English spoken elsewhere.
Mine has changed just a bit since I moved from far western Kentucky to central Kentucky. Far western Kentucky is "the south". Central Kentucky, not so much.
It was good to travel back "down home" this week and hear my original dialect being spoken again. That is a great way to explain our way of speaking
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Confucius say
Man who fraid of self checkout not make fun of man who say yall lolololol
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We all enjoy hearing from you all. They all from up north make fun of us all cause we all don’t say you guys.
I’m fixin to whoop up on ya’lls ass is what my grandma would say.
Cody Johnson has a song called “ Y’ll People”
We had some boys that came down from Michigan to hunt for a week in East Texas. They made fun of the y’all so we went out of our way to lay that on thick. We all, them all, you all, bastards make fun of us wearing Wrangler jeans and blue jean snap shirts too. The shirts were Canadian Tuxedos they said. My wife, who was raised in Houston, went with me to one of my class reunions up in the Panhandle. She told me " I can see now why you talk the way you do" Thought that was funny..
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Phil Harris, "That's what I like about the South,"
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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Half the country says "y'all".
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Half have left Dem areas to come here.
When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are something to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honors are something to be ashamed of
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Just wondering if ‘y’all’ is regional dialect? Used regularly on these forums, can’t recall ever hearing it used in this corner of PA Cuz you’re a DAMN YANKEE! The other thang you don’t know bout is sow belly turnip greens chitlins and cone bread!!
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We all enjoy hearing from you all. They all from up north make fun of us all cause we all don’t say you guys.
I’m fixin to whoop up on ya’lls ass is what my grandma would say.
Cody Johnson has a song called “ Y’ll People”
We had some boys that came down from Michigan to hunt for a week in East Texas. They made fun of the y’all so we went out of our way to lay that on thick. We all, them all, you all, bastards make fun of us wearing Wrangler jeans and blue jean snap shirts too. The shirts were Canadian Tuxedos they said. My wife, who was raised in Houston, went with me to one of my class reunions up in the Panhandle. She told me " I can see now why you talk the way you do" Thought that was funny.. I can tell someone from the panhandle as soon as they start talking, my father's family are all from that area.
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I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
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One of the reasons I refuse to watch "In The Heat of The Night", other than Carroll O'Connor being a flaming liberal.
You just can't fake a real southern accent
Niece was visiting in California. Aunt sent her into a grocery store for "oil" to fry chicken.
She couldn't find it, so asked a cashier, "Where's the awl?"
They sent her to the detergent aisle.
Finally asked a stocker, "Where's the awl?"
Guy takes her to the detergent aisle and points to a jug of "All" detergent!
Frustrated, she stated, " Not A-L-L like soap, O-I-L like you cook with!"
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Very common in mid to south missouri
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My extended family is from the Piedmont region of North Carolina, with one cousin still living on the family farm established in the 19th Century.
He has a habit of haddin' a haitch in front a' some words that start with a vowel sound. But hit don't matter.
I grew up in South Florida before the Yankees took over and was taken aback the first time I heard someone say "youse guys".
If you watch a guy from the North try to sound like some stereotypical dumb guy he'll imitate a Southern accent. If you watch a guy from the South try to sound like some stereotypical dumb guy he'll imitate a Brooklyn accent.
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I lived in the South for many years. Y'all is almost universal. It might surprise you that y'all is singular. If a Southerner means more than one, the phrase is "all y'all".
BTW, anyone who'd write "I wouldn't of known that." has no room to criticize anyone else's English.
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More than once I've been accused of being a "Yankee" since I moved to the south. My accent ...
I tell folks that I'm from way out West and we had no idea there was ever any War of Northern Aggression till just recently, we were being chased by the local tribes... they laugh!
Every day I hear Y'all and All Y'all along with Might Could and a few other southernizms..
Folks here are very nice and always have a minute to visit and say "Hey" even if we aren't friends, yet.
We mostly say Hey as a greeting, not Howdy or Hi or Hello. Were a little less formal than that and I like it!
Hey Y'all! How ya doin!
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Being a Hillbilly in WV I hear the statement I talk funny if traveled south or north of WV. They just don't speak our language, Appalachian American, lol. Exactly. South West Central PA here (100miles east of Pittsburgh) The farther North I go, the farther South they think I'm from. In Montreal, I was accused of being from Georgia! Some of its regional, some social. Some folks here think I have an accent, others have it mote. It even extends to sub, subsections. There are 4 or 5 noticeable patterns or ways of saying certain words. For instance, almost every person 40+ from one certain area eats "Hut" dogs, and uses U in place of an O in many short words. It's sad to me. As people move around, watch TV, become more "Educated" accents fade away. Go into any Big Southern city and most of the folks sound more north than us. It's the rural areas where you find the Southern Drawl.
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Yall welcome to our Ainglish. I'd like to trade Atlanta for Vermont New Hampshire Maine. Not just for those big deer but getting rid of Cesspool Atl. I'll throw in Birmingham except for our Medical field for some of that maple syrup.
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It’s in my Hillbilly vocabulary of butchering the English language.
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I lived in the South for many years. Y'all is almost universal. It might surprise you that y'all is singular. If a Southerner means more than one, the phrase is "all y'all".
BTW, anyone who'd write "I wouldn't of known that." has no room to criticize anyone else's English. Lol. I wouldn't of known that if you hadn't pointed it out. Maybe with all your higher learned education you could understand the English language enough to be able to follow along with the simple context of a discussion. Nobody's criticizing anybody. It's a friendly discussion about real or perceived misuses of words in the English language depending on what region you're from. The differences were amusing to me then, and it still is.
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We all enjoy hearing from you all. They all from up north make fun of us all cause we all don’t say you guys.
I’m fixin to whoop up on ya’lls ass is what my grandma would say.
Cody Johnson has a song called “ Y’ll People”
We had some boys that came down from Michigan to hunt for a week in East Texas. They made fun of the y’all so we went out of our way to lay that on thick. We all, them all, you all, bastards make fun of us wearing Wrangler jeans and blue jean snap shirts too. The shirts were Canadian Tuxedos they said. My wife, who was raised in Houston, went with me to one of my class reunions up in the Panhandle. She told me " I can see now why you talk the way you do" Thought that was funny.. I can tell someone from the panhandle as soon as they start talking, my father's family are all from that area. That is true, deep east Texas people also.
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I'm originally from southern Illinois and didn't think I had an accent. Ha! When I went through the military Public Affairs School, I learned to speak in "Broadcast Neutral" which is devoid of regional accents. But I tend to take on any regional eccentricity like a parrot if I'm somewhere for very long. I learned to speak Texan, Mizzipian, and Floduh.
I developed a comic routine I call "How To Speak Dixie" that has four rules. Sadly, it can't be written or I'd maybe amuse y'all here with it.
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