Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Here's a samplin' of dialect Suthern

My friend Janice is a dye hard Alabamian even though she done got above her raisin (by moving to Yankee land), so what she sayz I don't pay no mind to. I especially don't listen at 'er when shez all the time complaining abouts where I growed up being trashy. Man, has she looked in her back yard lately? She must have a half dozen cars spread out all over her backyard.

Anyway, she sent me this dialect of Suthern which somebody called Alabamaisms. You decided for yourself:

You know you're from Alabama when-

You have a party or a barbeque whenever Alabama plays Auburn in football. You go to Gulf Shores every summer. You call the Atlanta Braves baseball team "us" like they're actually from Alabama. You would much rather visit Florida than California. You don't "take", you
"carry" or "tote"... as in "You want me to carry you down to the 7-11?" A soft
drink isn't soda, cola, or pop, it's Coke. You call it a "buggy" and
not a shopping cart. You've said "fixin' to," "might could," or
"usetacould" during the last week. Someone you know has used a football schedule to
plan their wedding date. You know the meaning of the phrase "Fobbed
again." You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Opelika, Bayou La Batre,
and Oneonta. The Talladega 500 is the biggest sporting event of any sort
during the entire year. You know exactly what chitlins and mountain
oysters are, and you know someone who eats them anyway. You think that
people who complain about the humidity in other states are sissies. You
aren't surprised to find rental movies, groceries, ammunition and bait
all in the same store. You've missed a wedding or a funeral to go to a
football game. Asian food is always "CHINESE" regardless of the fact
that it may actually be Korean or Japanese or Thai You actually get
these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Alabama.

2 Comments:

At 1:50 PM, Blogger Idgie @ the "Dew" said...

Well, I push a buggy, I can say Opelika, I know what chitlins and mountain oysters (No, I do not eat them!) are and I go to Gulf Shores every single summer. I would rather go to Florida than California

Sigh.

 
At 3:09 PM, Blogger Idgie @ the "Dew" said...

FYI Hon, I didn't delete you from my blog, merely moved you to the blogroll and re-arranged the sidebar a bit - again!

 

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