Things that ain't right
 

Met up with a friend who was in the area for some kind of college get-together (his college, not mine). There are a lot of colleges around here, so we get to know each other.
Anyways, the guy don't talk right.
He's from "New Orleens" but says he's from "Nawlins." OK, I can get by that, I'm not from there. But then we started talking about pie, as two old friends would.
It started when he says he'd like a piece of "Pee-can" pie. The waitress gave us a "WTF?" look. I reassured her that he wasn't looking for a place to relieve himself. I corrected him. "He means "Pa-cawn pie, please."
Being good friends, we quickly forgot about pie, challenged each other to another drink, and argued about Big 10 vs SEC.
As two old friends would.

Southern folks add a lot of syllables. Try saying "buddy" using 3 syllables. If you need hep wi theyet, call someone in AL.

I'm from NOLA and say 'New Orlins' and everybody I know from around there, says "pa kawn" . So he's an outlander! Except I agree that the SEC is by far the best conference in college football.
lol.

I didn’t know there was another way to say pa kawn pie! 🤯

Ms Rocket is from New Orlins.

Pronounce the following: Willamette, Couch Street, Oregon.


Key: will-aaa-met. Cooch. Or-eh-gun.

I guess I dont hear people saying it often but I think pee-can is the way most people say it around here thats how i say it. Ohio mid western accent is certainly unique dont chya know

My favorite is hearing tv announcers say San Antonio...... as San-An-Tonio. I laugh every time.

If you ever hear someone say they are a native of New Or-Leans they are lying. Most locals pronounce it more like Narleans. Just one word.

Same with Montgomery, AL. Anyone saying they are a native and life time resident and they say Mont-gomery, they ain't telling the truth. It's Munt-gumry.

If someone every says they are from Miami, Oklahoma and they pronounce Miami like they do in Florida, that are lying big time. It is pronounced Mi-am-a in NE Oklahoma.

The list of cities that the locals pronounce one way and visitors pronounce improperly is long and varied.

Wil lam ette, or Williamette, just to be snarky.

And of course there's the Yeard Sale...

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...which is what I call the upside down car in the roadside ditch that is ever-present in Ore-gun

Buena Vista ...

If you don't pronounce it Boona Vista, the ultra-rich folks will know you ain't from here ... and are very poor :D

'Nawlins .... yeah you right :)!

most folks say Santa's mantra is "Ho-Ho-Ho", it is actually "ho-HO-ho"

I grew up in North Carolina and have lived in a good many southern states. I say Pee-can

Second biggest city in MA is Worcester, pronounced wusster or more correctly wusstuh. There are many others.

I grew up with pee-cons ... knew it had to be wrong :D

"Oil" is a one syllable grunt ... four letter words get the 2 or 3 syllable stretch out btw...

Dayuuuuum ;)

My dad grew up in NC, I grew up hearing about pee-can pie and eating sal-mon.

Salmon patties and peecon pie ;)

I think I've heard 3 different pronunciations for pecan

pee-kan
pee-kahn
pa-kahn

I'm peh cahn, second syllable emphasis

I've always said pe-can but I don't like it so my vote doesn't matter.

And it's GRAVY not sauce.

My "rule of thumb" is talk to a lot of the locals, people living there. That is proper way to pronounce that city or town's name.

In the deep south single syllable words become two syllable words. Bed becomes bee-yad, and different slang is used. For instance, if one's bike falls over, it "tumped over". And it can't just tump, it has to tump over.

And of course we all know "bless your heart" is not really a compliment in the south.

If you are talking about Thanksgiving turkey or roast beef. Absolutely.

If you are talking about marinara or a ragu, then obviously it is sauce. It is said that off the boat Italians adopted "gravy" (hurts to even type that) to fit in better as Americans. Such a shame to disown an incredible culinary heritage.

Milk gravy over biscuits ... and sauce is your arena, but it ain't gravy.

And y'all have ham .... ours is "country" and salty .... for making red-eye gravy too :D

+1 from northern Ohio

Maybe a bit of an h after the a. Pee-cahn but depends of what comes out. I don't really give a rat's ask.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...leys/freak.gif

I do like bofem Bob :)!

Watching the Sopranos and hearing Ralphie call red sauce 'gravy' was one of the many great highlights of the show.

As mandated by my grandfather. To quote him " Maso, we Amerigan now we parliamo Amerigan...capisch?"

Everything damaged is "tore up."

You can talk to the locals all you want but that last little bit will never come to you. I hate when actors try a Southern accent.

Hang around with some kids from the South a few weeks and you will sound like them

Sometimes you need to pay close attention to the context. After we moved to a place outside of West Alexandria I heard people say “Westellic” now and then. I thought it a town somewhere in the area. Then a new friend was introducing me to someone. “This here’s Patrick. He lives over by Westellic.” Ha!

Yep. Broken is “tore up.” If it has a lot of something, it’s “eat up.” As in, “That junk yard is eat up with tore up Fords.”
It’s even in local radio ads. “Burbanks Barbecue is eat up with atmosphere.”

Depends on which parish or which side of the tracks you're from. Born and raised there and it's always been "NuOrlins". In Plaquemine's or St. Benard Parish, it's anybody's guess if those people can speak any intelligible English.

And no, they are no cajuns in NOLA, those people are on the other side of the Atchafalya Swamp - closer to South Central/West La. (Lafayette, Abbeville, Jennings, etc. )

Pee-can. South Ga is home and there are a LOT OF Pee-can orchards in south Ga. Oh yeah, it’s also Vi-daya Onions..Not Va-Dalia…that one drives me crazy.

One of my wife's friends lives in South Carolina. She has a cute thick southern accent. When she talks to my wife for an hour or so on the phone, my wife starts to get more and more of a southern accent. It takes her a few hours to get back to "normal" speech.

Of course the southern word y'all is used through most of the south, and even Yankees that come to stay will start using it. And of course everyone knows the plural of y'all is "all y'all".