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Im from Maryland and have been here for 6 years. I've always said y'all but haven't really noticed anything that people say down here to be weird to me. Now my boyfriend, who is from Philly, has his own made up way of saying things that I correct him on all the time.
I grew up in Charleston, and we always referred to all soft drinks as Cokes, like a PP said.
I'm familiar with the expression "to carry someone," but I've never used it myself.
Using "ugly" to describe someone's behavior was very common in my childhood. When my friend's mother would hear us saying something mean about another girl, she would say, "Now, girls, God don't like ugly."
We grew up in NC saying all of those things and also "Give me a Nab and a Coke." Wondering if any transplants use the same term and who from NC remembers what it means.
This conversations reminds me of the thread that wanted to know where all the southerners where. I have thought since that she really did not want southerners, but people around her who knew what "Nab and a Coke" means and that "ugly" is your behavior, and all the other things from our younger days that binds a southern community together and are stuck in our memories. Hope the language doesn't die out.
In response to the original question, I don't think many transplants are going to pick up "local" sayings, simply because those sayings aren't really that prevalent - especially here where a large segment of the population is from elsewhere (and the media doesn't use them). One simply doesn't hear them so frequently that they become engrained in our vocabularies. (And I say this as the spouse of a native southerner, whose family shudders at the fact that she moved to NORTH Carolina.)
Many of the terms people are using on this thread are not unique to Raleigh or NC for that matter. I've heard almost all of them while living in VA and quite a few growing up in a rural part of NJ. And "turn on the light" and "crack the window" are pretty universal terms in both the north and south.
Many of the terms people are using on this thread are not unique to Raleigh or NC for that matter. I've heard almost all of them while living in VA and quite a few growing up in a rural part of NJ. And "turn on the light" and "crack the window" are pretty universal terms in both the north and south.
Get uppity about it, son, and I'll jerk a knot in your tail.
I don't know if I've incorporated any new phrases, but I notice that if someone says "Bah"(bye), I say "Bah" right back to 'em. Plus I've learned that Earl means oil and non means nine. I do hear carry me/you from time to time, drink meaning non-alcoholic drinks, and many fun, colorful expressions.
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