Vanessa, I LOVE this post!  I'm not a Southener --  yet.  But it sure would be wonderful to know what they're saying to me! I speak to someone on a grocerly line and I get "The Stare."   I'm fixin to come back to this post :)

Love it! Don't forget: y'all come back now!

I am a Carolina gal and so don't forget to mention we can't live without the BBQ and fried chicken.....thanks for mentioning the collards......love em.

Well bless yo sweet little heart for makin my day!  I fixin to tell ya a truth of the matter an' that is corn whiskey is much better fer ya than that there processed liquor theys sell in that them over priced liquor stows and well ya got it right down right more affordable too.  Yousuns have a right nice day, ya heah!

I fotgot one ~ Southerners know that a burm is the shoulder of the road and that you may fail your license exam if you don't know that.

Vanessa - Your picked this southern thing up pretty fast. Now if you go a little farther south, you might find out what a coonass is.

I grew up in the hills of North Alabama, and was raised on Cornbread and Pinto Beans.  We also had buttermilk biscuits with every meal.  I remember being referred to as "cute as a button" and "fit as a fiddle" many times.  The sweet tea thing...we just referred to it as tea, we never knew that people actually drank unsweet tea until recently.  Now I live in North Carolina, and we love a good ol' pig pickin' with all the fixins.

Great Post, I love it.

These are so funny and though I was born in Connecticut (can't get much farther North than that) I was raised from first grade on in Memphis so these are very familiar. You have got to check out this post by Jennifer Dahl!

This post is so, like, totally awesome!  Oh my gosh!  Are you serious!  It's like, a whole other place!  Maybe, I could, you know, like, come chill there.  We could take a breakfast meeting.  Do you know a place where they have lite grits and a good mochachino? ;)

Elaine- We don't have Mochachino..but I will treat you to a cuppa joe...lol

Rich- Thanks for the heads up, Jens post was great!

Very true, and that is why now that I am in real estate, I have a GPS. I learned to turn at the big ole' Oak Tree, down yonder. People up here say " go North about 1.2 mile, then go South 2 miles....blah, blah, blah.

 I tune them out, because I don't know North or South, east or West.  

Amy- Thanks for the reminder on the cornbread and beans(with collard greens) The tea thing is funny, when I go anywhere else I forget that it is not automatic and I end up with no sugar tea. Blech!

Larry- True--shhhh I don't thik they know~

Linda- LMAO. You sho nuff funny little girl! :.)

Karen- I got the fried chicken in there, can't believe I forgot the BBQ! Doh!

Carole- come on back now, heah?

Missy- Laughing hard, i know right? Nobody in the South EVER gives directions based on North East South or West. It;s always, turn left at the big rock and go a fir piece then turn in at the old chicken coop...

Vanessa, I do know if someone chunks a rock at you, you better duck or dodge.

Vanessa, I grew up in the south and we know what corn pones, chitlins and gravy is. We also know that corn bread is square and pie are round.

Missy, I get the same thing here! Turn left at the tallest Pine tree...yeah right!

Vanessa, I thoroughly enjoyed these! I understood each and every one too! Humm...I must be a southerner??? Is that what they call us in East Texas? I really don't know. Later in the rain~DEB

Vanessa~And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say, "Bless her heart" ... and go your own way. We all need to be blessed by some true Southern hospitality. 

What a fun post! 

God Vanessa,

I understood most of everything you mentioned. Oh boy, I must now be a southerner and no longer a New Yorker....

Does having lived in the south since 1991 make me a southerner yet?

Well, since I live in Texas.... I could consider you a Yankee since you live in the north.

Southern gal at her wedding reception...  (Just kiddin!)

Cheers, KIM. 

Vanessa, I LOVE IT!!! You know I have to add some thangs, being a southern girl and all. Here's a few definitions that might help folks understand us southerners lingo.  Ready.. here it goes...

AIM TO- plan to do
CARRY ON- to carry on foolishness
CLODHOPPER- heavy work shoes or large shoes
CHUNK- throw, toss
'COON- Raccoon.
COW LICK- hair standing out on one's head.
DO-HICKY- substitute name. Like the terms whata-ma-call-it or thinga-ma-jig
FALLING OUT- disagreement
FEISTY- being frisky
FIXING TO- about to
HOLD YOUR HORSES- (be patient)
HONEY- affectionate term
LAID UP- ill, hurt, unable to work
MESS-one who carries on, "He's a mess."
MUCH OBLIGED- thank you; hope to return the favor
PIDDLE- waste time, doing nothing
PLAYING POSSUM- playing dead
RECKON- think or supose so.
SHINDIG- dance or celebration
SWEET TALKING THING- has a good line
TIGHT- stingy with money
WAIT ON- serve or assist
WORRY-WART- one who is annoying
YA'LL or Y'ALL (can be spelled both ways)- you all, two or more people

This just cracks me up.  Two friends of mine and Realtors are from Texas and from North Carolina.  Sounds just like both of them!

Vanessa- I am American by birth- and Southern by the grace of God! I am fixin to sit a spell and read me some mo blogs!

Vanessa, I am laughing so hard...  It's so true... It takes time to remember all of those and you did one heckava job!

Dionne- Yeah, I forgot that one!

Mike- Corn pones and chitlins, how could I miss them?

Deb- I read your blog and thought it was hilarious!

Julie- LOL, of course we all know that "bless her heart" means %$#@!!! lol

KIM- All you need the sign above and you are good to go! LOL at your pic, ::::shakes head:::::::::

Jenn- Clod hoppers and pidlin' are 2 of my favs, thanks for reminding me! You are a hoot girl!

Sandra- Lol, send it to them and ask them for the ones left off..hehehe:.)

Mark- Sit a spell, take off your shoes and stay while, heah?

Ray - thanks but I did not wtite them someone sent them to me, just sharing the laughter( some I did)...glad they tickled you!

Ok, 2 more I thought of~

It's better than a poke in theye with a sharp stick!

I am plum tickled to death (about whatever...)

This one from Melissa Grant ~

Don't forget : Lunch is really Supper here in the South and Dinner is actually Supper for us Northerners. Yes, I was a bit confused myself.

That's a cute post!  We have a lot of the same sayings in the South Carolina area too.

Those are true sayings as i would kow I am from South Alabama. When you invited someone to Sunday dinner they knew what would be on the table fried chicken, potatoe salad, turnip greens, homemade biscuits, banana pudding and sweet tea.  

You sound like family!!

I miss living in the south.  Jokes on the rest of the country, southern folks live and love very well.

Cute post.  I still say Bless your heart!

Vanessa, God bless you for staiten folks out, I,m so mis understood in these parts of the country.

I KNEW I had been in the South too long when I heard myself say, "It got gone!"  WAY TOO FUNNY!

What are Texan's considered to Southerners, we consider ourselves Southerners and Texans.

Really enjoyed this post. I am fixin' to get a CMA done that I need to do Rat Now !  Boy... some Butter beans and cornbread would go good for a late night snack,  but think I'll wait and just have some grits, bisquits and gravy for brekfast instead in tha mornin'.  THE Photo of the brekfast plate got to me :o)

Don't use spell checker when bloggin southern.

I guess I'm a true southerner -- cuz these aren't odd to me -- just the way it is. I am from the mountains of NC, and my mom's from E Tennessee. When you grow up southern, you don't know that you're different from other folks. But here are a few things that have been pointed out to me as uniquely southern: We keep the "light bread" on the table. Light bread isn't reduced-calorie bread -- it's white loaf bread. We always spend weekends with our Memaws until, and sometimes after, we get married. You can never underestimate the love of a southerner for his dog. We have "Decoration Weekends" the same weekend every summer, where all family members meet at the family cemetery, clean up and decorate the family graves, then gather for music and a big meal afterwards to catch up. Oh, I could go on and on. . . It's great being southern!

Diane- Post 'em here if we missed any! :.)

Vicki- Gotta love the Southern diet, or lack there of. lol

Virginia- Mayhap we ARE related...lol. One never knows...

Audrey- Does anyone know what it means when you say it?! lol

Cameron- twern't nuthin, child....:.)

Leesa- Oh my...lol. I have not said that one...yet!

Cindy- Maybe honorary Southerners..I think probably just "Them Texans" hehehe, don't hit me please!:.)

Trey- Right on! Spell check ruins the whole thang, yessiree Bob, it sho' nuff does!

Dawn- I plum near forgot about Memaws and Mamaws. Bad dog! lol. Also good one on the decoration weekends...

Vanessa

I am a Yankee and I have a Good Buddy who is a transplant that Married a true Southerner, My wife and I have to practice talking like you guys a week ahead of time so we can understand what Y'all are talking about.

Question: What's the difference between a Northern Girl and a Southern Girl?

Answer: A northern Girl Say's You Can.   And A Southern Girl says Y'All Can!

That one usually goes over real well:)

LOVE to get EDGECATTED like this.... :)

There seems to be this idea that because we speak the way we do (I'm from Houston) that we are somehow less intelligent or less educated and that is not at all true. I know that is not what you were saying but I do get that a lot.

I was surprised when I moved to Seattle that they didn't know what black eyed peas were!! I couldn't imagine having lived my whole life without having black eyed peas! So I made them some. They liked them. Imagine that. I'm sure there's lots we could learn from our "yankee" neighbors and vice versa.

All this yapping and jawing about sweet tea has made me thirsty so I'm fixin to go make me a glass. lol.

Cheri

I love that Southern Down Home Cooking, I love to cook myself and my best quality is Baking. Often, when I visit the South we exchange recipes. I'll show them my tricks of the trade and they show me theirs at the end of the day we all get together for some viddles and enjoy each other's company.

Gary- I bet it does...not! lol

Dennis - or my favorite, edjumacated. lol

Cheri- Yes, I know just what you mean. As if the slower cadence is proof of a lower IQ. :::shakes head:::

Black eyed peas..mmmmmm

Gary- cool, cookin' up a whole pile o' vittles sounds good 'bout now. :.)

I'm a good ole' GRITS (girl raised in the south) myself. My sista sends her chillins to the coner when they git in trouble and my daddy holas at them there stray dogs to "GIT on outta heah"!

Lawd have mucy I just luv my suthern roots.

And my granbabys calls me mawmaw and them youngins is just as purty as a georgia peach and is as cute as bug in a rug and is as smart as a whip ifn i do say so maself. I jus luv 'em to pieces and could squeeze the mushins out of em. That knee baby of mine luvs him sum butta in his grits and Dukes mayonaise on his mater samich.

 Did you know I crank my car up every moanin 'fo I go to work?

 Vanessa, thanks for the laughs!! This was fun. In the summer the family still gathers round the front porch and pics on some gitars.

Love it, Vanessa!  After living in the south for the last 27 years, I believe I am an adopted child although I still have that impossible to change Yankee accent (born and raised in the Bronx).  I do a mean YA"LL though.

Dondra

You are speaking like a true Southern women ya baby! Cept mayonaise on your samich! I've heard it used this way, Mayonaise a lot of people hear tonight. :)

Vanessa

Today is Sunday and Iam in the kitchen cooking up some mo vittles fo the family tonight, one of my chittlens girlfriends say's she never had a meal home made everything is frozen? Can't believe that so I invited her over for some home cookin.

Vanessa,

UR so funny I love your post!!!!  Southern Gals rock!!!!

Southerners are more fun. I went to Nashville for  a seminar last year, and I didn't want to leave. Met some wonderful people and ate some great food. Had a super time - can't wait to go back

Cathy

I don't know if they are more fun, they are definitely more open.

I'm from Mississippi ya'll.  And I write like I talk.  We just go on and on and on.  Heck, it takes all day to have a conversation.

Now the correct pro-nouns-e-a-shun  of alcohol  is "al-key-hall".  Then there is the word situation correctly pronouned as "sitch-e-a-shun".

I can remember the time I went to the bank and I was talking to the teller telling her about my new britches.  I was just going on and on about my britches and how much I liked 'em and she shook her head but then asked me what britches were.  She had no idea what I was talking about.

Vanessa thanks for the post!  Makes me feel rite at home.  :-)

I have to say it is good to hear a true southern dialect. I grew up on a farm out here in TN and I haven't heard honest to god southern since I moved away from it. Thanks for the post it was food for the soul!

Now, some areas (not in the South) are just way too uptight. Why can't we, who live in uptight places, import some Southerners to teach us how to cook and how to have fun.

My girlfriend and I used to go to Oklahoma periodically to a tole painting convention. I gotta say we had more fun with those gals than at any other painting venues. We spent most of our time laughing. And people you don't know will get in conversations with you like you were a long lost friend. Even the instructors were down to earth.

Oh yeah, we painted, too.

Today my buddy from S.C was on the phone with me and he was telling me that he was having problems collecting rent on one of his properties, said "the Mo Fo owes Me Some Mo Dough"!

You guys have really just highjacked this blog! Cool! Bring on the Southernisms!

Vanessa

Don't get us wrong we be lovin our Southern neighbors, especially during BBQ's

Vanessa, I love this post and I'm from Cincinnati right across the river from Kentucky and I didn't even know many of my phrases are southern.  My family just thinks I'm old fashioned but now I know I'm southern.  Wow, the valuable things we learn in the Rain.  ;-)

Ohh, that was good.  I almost miss NC.

"I Swawnny" - Oh my goodness, you've got to be kidding, or, that is unbelieveable.