SC slang

[g-man430]

A hurby curby? I've never heard it called that. LOL.

[Sassy8722]

LOL Yeah that is what everyone who I know calls it. We are from Hopkins/Eastover/Columbia.

[Geechie North]

Originally Posted by Woodlands

Ok.. how about this very bad analogy from the Dukes of Hazzard... Boss Hogg is a "good ol boy" and the Dukes and Cooter are "red necks"? Boss could slip on overalls and yuck it up with the fellas at the Boar's Nest OR he could go to Hotlanta and sit down with the Guvna in his white suit for a photo op. He is a politician and a little monied which he likely made at the expense of his bretheren. Cooter could go to Hotlanta to meet with the Gov but he would be noticably uncomfortable in a suit and may have a problem talking polaticks. Plus he doesnt have a white caddy. This does not mean that all "good ole boys" are corrupt.. but just a little slick..all "rednecks" shouldnt be considered unwitty or not smart.. take Luke Duke for example

Yeah, the Dukes:

So ingrained and so much a Hollywood fiction, that I guess they are useful in drawing archetypes.

And I 100% agree with your conclusions.

Good ol boys are more connected into the system; they were the guys who were the Upcounrty's version of the Coastal Bourbons- as repugnant as it would be to the Coastal Bourbons.

Whereas as rednecks were the rank & file.

Remember the scam in Ludowici, Ga. in the 70's?

In that instance, the guy who collected the fradulant traffic ticket $, and pocketed some of it, would be a good ol boy, while the guy in whose barbershop they installed the over-ride switch for the traffic light would be the redneck.

[buni13]

I live in Lancaster, SC but natives call it "Lank-uh-stir"

I grew up in SC but my mom's side of family was from Liverpool, so the dialect I heard at home was quite different from what I heard at school, and some things I heard never made any sense to me.

When my British grandmother first moved to the US, she and her Kershaw native husband went to visit his family, and the mother-in-law served breakfast. My grandmother asked what they were having & was told "eggzin branes".... she realized afterward that she had eaten eggs and brains.

some people say "mirrow" instead of mirror...

sometimes a bra a "briar" , and a chimney is a "chimley"

a friend of mine recently told me about a cartoon called "Rocky & Bo-Winkle"

... when I was about 11 or 12 years old I was wrapping xmas gifts & my SC native grandmother walked into the room and asked me "how much more d'you like?" ... I kept asking her over and over what she was saying, and she finally pointed to to the pile of gifts and I realized she was asking me how many gifts I had left to wrap before I was finished ("how much more d'you lack?"). It was kind of a weird failure to communicate.

[Columbiadata]

If any of you were to meet my southern Orangeburg County relatives in the country and hear them talk among themselves, you'd need me as an interpreter at times. They're white, but their speech is heavily influenced by something akin to Gullah, especially the oldest generation's. (Us'll see yunnah = We'll see y'all.) I have a B.A. in English, but because of my relatives I'm not a grammar snob. Instead I'm a linguist at heart, because they have their own grammar rules and are consistent with them when they're talking with each other. I'll admit, though, that my aunts, uncles and cousins don't use the local lingo the way my grandparents did when talking with their peers.