Hillbilly Word of the Day

[matthewb0051]

What do you use when buying groceries (you push it around the store and put your purchases in it)?

A buggy

[herr_oberst]

[berettafan]

'Neither' is artfully used in our area. Ex: Did you guys kill anything the other day? We ain't seen neither duck.

[Jeff Higgins]

Originally Posted by Crowbob

Hey Higgins,

Tell me again exactly how you got deaf on the wife’s side.

Asking for a friend.

Whaaat?

[Racerbvd]

Funny story, when my Mother heard her voice on a tape recording, back when they were new, she didn’t like her Southern accent.She went to great lengths to make sure my older sister and I didn’t have that accent, because she didn’t want it to hold back opportunities. Those who have met me and talked with me, ask where I am from, because I don’t have a Southern accent, even though I grew up just a few miles from the birthplace of Southern Rock. During a family vacation, to Cherokee, North Carolina, while out riding my bike from the campground, I met some locals. One asked me where I was from,, because, and I don’t think that I can truly describe the thick accent and draw “yawll Tawlks funnny”, and after that, I made a point to not have those traits don’t come out when I speak. I’ve been all over this country, and a few others, and people don’t believe me when I tell them that I was born and raised in the South. My sister, on the other hand (God Rest her Soul) went full blown “Country” accent and language. I remember one time at a family gathering, someone asked her where someplace was from her parents property and she started off with

over yonder

, in her thick Southern accent (but, at this point, had lived in the “Couuntry” for a long time). Me being me, asking her what a “Yonder” was, she slipped back into proper English, minus the accent, and, well, I can’t say what she said without going to ban island.

[oldE]

I loved working at the interpretive center. I met folks from all over the world. Sometimes I felt like Dr. Doolittle, making guesses about where people were from based upon how they spoke. On the other hand, I had people ask me where I was from, as I didn't sound like a Nova Scotian to them. I would explain that my job was communication and speaking without a discernable accent was part of that.

[GH85Carrera]

I spent time growing up in Hawaii, Texas, Alabama, and Oklahoma.

When I was in Hawaii I was pretty good at speaking pidgin and more important understanding pidgin English. We moved from Hawaii to Alabama, and I was clueless to understand the thick southern accent and the black classmates were un-comprehensible to me. It took me several months to really understand my teacher.

My first day in third grade I was one day late starting school as we were still getting moved in. The teacher said, with a very thick southern accent, that we were going to have a spelling test to see our knowledge of spelling. I could not understand her at all. She started with the word quarter, only she pronounced it something like ka-warta. I had no idea what a ka-warta was, so i spelled it phonetically. I made a ZERO on my spelling test. She sent me home with a note, and asked to see my parents. She told them she thinks I may be retarded, as I made a zero on my test. My dad replied madam, I can just barely understand you, and I am an Air Force officer that has traveled a lot. My parents went the the principal, and had me transferred to a teacher that spoke with just a slight accent.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Seahawk

"Whatcha know good?"

That sounds a lot like something my Scandinavian friends in Minnesota would say. Strange folks up there. I was doing a story somewhere west of Minneapolis and the guy fixed me up with a room in what they all a “resort.” I thought that was incredibly nice of him until I discovered a Minnesota “resort” is a fishing shack.

[berettafan]

downyoshunhun

Baltimore answer to where are you going this summer weekend.

[GH85Carrera]

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by berettafan

downyoshunhun
Baltimore answer to where are you going this summer weekend.

[GH85Carrera]

"Donna Douglas has done more to boost blue jean sales than every cowboy combined over the past century," said Walter Haas, CEO of Levi Strauss, following the first season of The Beverly Hillbillies.