Southernisms.

I’m so proud of my heritage and I really like I’m Southern. I forget that I have an accent and it gets pointed out to me lots. Most Canadians I’ve met think I have a REALLY thick accent, in fact some our friend’s kids decided at church that I sing like a cowboy. But when we go back home or talk to family on the phone or skype, they tell me that my accent is really neutral and I sound like i”m from somewhere up north, like Virginia or something.

So for my Canadians, and more specifically for our friend Ian, here are some true blue southernisms. If you’re southern, make sure to add your own to this list!

• A good attitude is like Kudzu – it spreads.
• So buck toothed he could eat corn-on-the-cob through a key hole.
• Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full o’ rocking chairs.
• So poor he’d have to borrow money to buy water to cry with.
• Slicker than a chased greased hog.
• Older than the mountains and got twice as much dust.
• Ol’ boy’s tough as whit leather.
• He ran like a scalded dog.
• Rough as a cob.
• Just as happy as if he had good sense.
• Cold as a well digger’s tail.
• So dull he couldn’t cut hot butter with a knife.
• Crazier than a run over dog.
• Tougher than a one eared alley cat.
• Scared my mule (when something really startled them)

• Faster than greased lightning.
• Better than snuff, ain’t half as dusty.
• She’s limber as a dishrag.
• So ugly she’d run a dog off a meat wagon.
• Took off like Moody’s goose.
• As scarce as hen’s teeth.
• Purty as a speckled pup.
• Done gone and got yankee rich.
• Sorry as a two dollar watch.
• Slick as an eel.
• Wild as a peach orchard hog.
• Plumb tuckered out.
• Full as a tick.
• Fat as a tub o lard.
• In all my born days. . .

here’s a few more…

Brandon’s papa says, “it made me so mad I coulda ate icecream, but I didn’t have any so I just cussed”

or one I’ve heard lots, “sweatin’ like a whore in church” but no respectable southern lady’d say that one

There’s a WHOLE list of words that we say that we realized outside of the south don’t mean the same thing…

Ill-in the south you say you’re ill when you’re mad at somebody “that lady at the check out made me so ILL”

Barbeque-in the south this is a noun NOT a verb! It means pulled, smoked pork…”let’s go down to the restrunt and eat up some barbque”

there’s a whole lot more but I don’t want this post to be  too long…

 

BE SURE TO ADD TO MY LIST!!!!

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