[Old Fossil]

Thanks for starting this Thread Rock Climber. It has brought back many memories. Again, this doesn't meet the request for "accents", but I'm throwing it in anyway . I was born in 1930 and spent my pre-teen years with my grandparents on a farm in Pike County and was exposed to their "old way" of talking, though they weren't as "bad" as some of their neighbors.

Since this Thread started, I have taken note of my speech. I've realized I have two languages; one I use around family and close friends and the other I use around acquaints, strangers, and in public settings. Here are some words/phrases I use in the first situation. "Y'all", which is the word most often misused by people who are trying to "talk southern" and don't know what the they are saying. It is used simply to address two or more people. Nothing more, nothing less. "Yonder" as in "over yonder" vs. "over there". druther vs. rather - ain't vs. not (and some other words) - although they didn't use it, some of my grandparents older friends used thar vs. there. Of course there are many words from which we drop a letter; i.e. goin vs. going, doin vs. doing, etc.

Again, thanks Rock Climber. I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes remembering that farm and can close my eyes and see the house we lived in and the hill on the dirt road on which I rode my tricycle until the tires wore off and I still rode it on the rims. In the past few years I have driven by there a few times just to look and remember. After Papa sold the farm, our house burned and was replaced by one built of plywood, and the huge barn was torn down, or rotted down. Oh well, life goes on.

[gemstone1]

"Here are some words/phrases I use in the first situation. "Y'all", which is the word most often misused by people who are trying to "talk southern" and don't know what the they are saying. It is used simply to address two or more people. Nothing more, nothing less. "Yonder" as in "over yonder" vs. "over there". druther vs. rather - ain't vs. not (and some other words) - although they didn't use it, some of my grandparents older friends used thar vs. there. Of course there are many words from which we drop a letter; i.e. goin vs. going, doin vs. doing, etc."....

Don't forget "fixin' to" and tars...as in fixin' ta put some new tars on my truck....or plars...whut ya cut waar with...

Regards
Gemstone1

[Old Fossil]

Originally Posted by gemstone1

"Here are some words/phrases I use in the first situation. "Y'all", which is the word most often misused by people who are trying to "talk southern" and don't know what the they are saying. It is used simply to address two or more people. Nothing more, nothing less. "Yonder" as in "over yonder" vs. "over there". druther vs. rather - ain't vs. not (and some other words) - although they didn't use it, some of my grandparents older friends used thar vs. there. Of course there are many words from which we drop a letter; i.e. goin vs. going, doin vs. doing, etc."....

Don't forget "fixin' to" and tars...as in fixin' ta put some new tars on my truck....or plars...whut ya cut waar with...

Regards
Gemstone1

[songinthewind7]

Originally Posted by gemstone1

"Here are some words/phrases I use in the first situation. "Y'all", which is the word most often misused by people who are trying to "talk southern" and don't know what the they are saying. It is used simply to address two or more people. Nothing more, nothing less. "Yonder" as in "over yonder" vs. "over there". druther vs. rather - ain't vs. not (and some other words) - although they didn't use it, some of my grandparents older friends used thar vs. there. Of course there are many words from which we drop a letter; i.e. goin vs. going, doin vs. doing, etc."....

Don't forget "fixin' to" and tars...as in fixin' ta put some new tars on my truck....or plars...whut ya cut waar with...

Regards
Gemstone1

I was texting my husband the other day and used the word 'fixin' as I'm fixin to leave and the phone wouldn't recognize the word. It kept adding the g at the end. I thought that was hilarious. I have a smartphone that doesn't recognize southern slang....what's up with that?

[songinthewind7]

Originally Posted by Old Fossil

Thanks for starting this Thread Rock Climber. It has brought back many memories. Again, this doesn't meet the request for "accents", but I'm throwing it in anyway . I was born in 1930 and spent my pre-teen years with my grandparents on a farm in Pike County and was exposed to their "old way" of talking, though they weren't as "bad" as some of their neighbors.

Since this Thread started, I have taken note of my speech. I've realized I have two languages; one I use around family and close friends and the other I use around acquaints, strangers, and in public settings. Here are some words/phrases I use in the first situation. "Y'all", which is the word most often misused by people who are trying to "talk southern" and don't know what the they are saying. It is used simply to address two or more people. Nothing more, nothing less. "Yonder" as in "over yonder" vs. "over there". druther vs. rather - ain't vs. not (and some other words) - although they didn't use it, some of my grandparents older friends used thar vs. there. Of course there are many words from which we drop a letter; i.e. goin vs. going, doin vs. doing, etc.

Again, thanks Rock Climber. I'm sitting here with tears in my eyes remembering that farm and can close my eyes and see the house we lived in and the hill on the dirt road on which I rode my tricycle until the tires wore off and I still rode it on the rims. In the past few years I have driven by there a few times just to look and remember. After Papa sold the farm, our house burned and was replaced by one built of plywood, and the huge barn was torn down, or rotted down. Oh well, life goes on.

My grandparents were on a farm in SE Missouri and used the words mentioned above. I use some and I say ya'll a lot. This just brought back some memories of them. I miss them so much and I can hear their voices as I read this post.

[Old Fossil]

Originally Posted by songinthewind7

I was texting my husband the other day and used the word 'fixin' as I'm fixin to leave and the phone wouldn't recognize the word. It kept adding the g at the end. I thought that was hilarious. I have a smartphone that doesn't recognize southern slang....what's up with that?

Probably a Yankee phone !

[DC at the Ridge]

When we first moved to Arkansas from Massachusetts I used "you guys" as the form of address to groups of two or more. I was quickly informed that "you-all" or "y'all" was much more civilized, as it was gender neutral and so didn't insult girls in the group.

[Old Fossil]

Originally Posted by DC at the Ridge

When we first moved to Arkansas from Massachusetts I used "you guys" as the form of address to groups of two or more. I was quickly informed that "you-all" or "y'all" was much more civilized, as it was gender neutral and so didn't insult girls in the group.

"you guys" is also a St Louis MO term. "yous guys" is a Brooklyn NY term.

[Old Fossil]

"Tolerable" (which means "fairly good") is a word my grandparents used all the time, but I had forgot about it until tonight when I saw it used in a Canadian archeology report. The Canadian underwater archeologist said; "---we could see tolerably well.---"

[gemstone1]

Here is another....puny. "as in I feel puny today". First time I heard that after arriving in Malvern from CA, my friends Dad said that. Now mind you, he was 6'6", a good 350 pounds....I'm thinkin', wait a minute, what did he just say ? When I asked for the meaning....he clarified, "he was feeling under the weather".

Regards
Gemstone1