Southerners

[the_pet]

It is a single syllable word for me.

or so you think right..... get around a yankee

 

[BiBunny]

For the shorter test, I got 94% Dixie--Is General Lee your grandfather?

For the longer one, I got 100% Dixie--Is General Lee your grandfather?

In my defense, I can use the more "normal" pronunciations of words when necessary. I don't sound like an ignorant hick all the time. I have the regular drawl, the almost-inaudible drawl for special occasions, and the full-on redneck drawl for when I'm tired, drunk, or really mad.

 

[Chris_Xavier]

Look away, Dixieland

For the shorter test, I got 94% Dixie--Is General Lee your grandfather?

For the longer one, I got 100% Dixie--Is General Lee your grandfather?

In my defense, I can use the more "normal" pronunciations of words when necessary. I don't sound like an ignorant hick all the time. I have the regular drawl, the almost-inaudible drawl for special occasions, and the full-on redneck drawl for when I'm tired, drunk, or really mad.

Oh when I'm pissed my neck gets really red.. and I have drawl that would make Jeff Foxworthy just roll with laughter..

 

[Evil_Geoff]

On the original - 100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!
On the advanced - 100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

Which is strange because I disagree with ALL of the pronounciations on some of the words. For example "insurance": I pronounce it "in-SHUR-ence" ( not INsurance or inSURance...

 

[BiBunny]

On the original - 100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!
On the advanced - 100% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

Which is strange because I disagree with ALL of the pronounciations on some of the words. For example "insurance": I pronounce it "in-SHUR-ence" ( not INsurance or inSURance...

Yep. Same here. I couldn't find an approximation of the way I pronounce "oil" and "syrup," either.

 

[Evil_Geoff]

Yep. Same here. I couldn't find an approximation of the way I pronounce "oil" and "syrup," either.

I say:
Oy-yell &
sear-ip

 

[BiBunny]

I say:
Oy-yell &
sear-ip

I think it's something like "aw-uhl" and "ser-rup" or something. I'm not very good at phonetic spellings. I could already read at, like, the 4th grade level when I started kindergarten, so the Hooked on Phonics totally went over my head, LOL. I think I'd have failed the damn grade if it'd been totally dependent on our HoP scores.

 

[neonflux]

Okay.. found the test I was looking for.

http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

My score: 48% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom.

One of the answers that throws my score to "Yankeedom" is the night before Halloween.. I've only seen it referred to as Devil's Night.

OK, now I'm scared. I thought my accent only came out these days when I was drunk (Perhaps it was the cold medicine, LOL...)

Anyway, didn't take the original, my score on the second was:
94% Dixie--Is General Lee your grandfather?

~ Neon

 

[Snoozebutton2]

Here in the South, we take our water towers seriously! Football games have been waged to see who wins the right to paint them. The Peachazoid in Gaffney, SC is a must-see on I-85.

As an aside, Happy Birthday, Evil Geoff, a week early.

I have a pic took of but too big a file to upload. It's also been called the ass tower lol.

 

[Snoozebutton2]

How the hell did I miss this thread. I'm getting the warm fuzzies just realizing how many of you are close by.

You close to Greenville, S.C.?

 

[Snoozebutton2]

"Y'all"--contraction for "you all." Contractions are made by putting an apostrophe in place of letters left out. Since you're leaving out the "ou" in "you," the apostrophe is placed after the "y" in "y'all." Putting the apostrophe after the "a" would mean you're leaving out part of the word "all," which is not the case, hence "y'all."

Bunny, the Southern Grammar Nazi, ducks quietly out of the thread now.

I would love to hear a audio file of you saying

 

[Snoozebutton2]

Do you call a refrigerator..... a refrigerator..... or an icebox?



pet

Neither call it a fridge. But closer to two syllables with house.

 

[Snoozebutton2]

92% Dixie. Is General Lee your grandfather?!

I'm slipping but it's all subways fault. As call them sandwiches subs not po boys lol.

 

[WriterDom]

The test is biased. You kind of know what the right answer (or wrong) is. Desert Rose did get a kick out of me saying I'm fixing to go somewhere.

 

[WriterDom]

You close to Greenville, S.C.?

Snooze is a horndog.

 

[Nookiehunter]

Here in the South, we take our water towers seriously! Football games have been waged to see who wins the right to paint them. The Peachazoid in Gaffney, SC is a must-see on I-85.

As an aside, Happy Birthday, Evil Geoff, a week early.

If you have never climbed a water tower and painted it, you aren't a true Southerner. You are a dyed in the wool Southerner if you got arrested in the process, especially if you were caught with your girlfriend and had to explain it to her daddy.

Nookiehunter

 

[BiBunny]

If you have never climbed a water tower and painted it, you aren't a true Southerner. You are a dyed in the wool Southerner if you got arrested in the process, especially if you were caught with your girlfriend and had to explain it to her daddy.

Nookiehunter

True story? If it is, I think we need to hear details!

 

[Nookiehunter]

True story? If it is, I think we need to hear details!

True story, but a long time ago. I was in high school in the late 60's. Our football team had just won a big game and my girlfriend and I decided the school water tank needed painting. We were up there painting it when a bright light was shone on us and a gruff voice hollered, "Y'all get on down from there." Then he hit the siren on his sheriff's car.

We walked down the steps and he knew our parents and made us go over to the girl's house and explain it all to her parents. I think the sheriff and her dad about busted a gut trying not to laugh.

Nookiehunter

 

[Chris_Xavier]

Didn't get busted on a watertower...

but I did get busted when I went down an old rock road at the end of the street my grandparents lived on. Was with a girl.. and it was late at night.. and ...

 

[buxxxom]

I have a pic took of but too big a file to upload. It's also been called the ass tower lol.

And for GOOD reason!

 

[buxxxom]

Do you call a refrigerator..... a refrigerator..... or an icebox?



pet

The refrigerator is called a refrigerator, or sometimes simply a fridge.

Hey, y'all! On the long test, I scored 94% Dixie! Is General Lee my grandfather?

On the short test, I was only 76% Dixie, with a neck a little rosy.

 

[buxxxom]

When you say "house"....is it one syllable or two? as in sounds like "hows-a"



pet

Kind of one long, round syllable. No distinct separation, but more like hows, and softer, with the o sound from the back of your throat.

 

[Snoozebutton2]

Snooze is a horndog.

No Sir, don't pretty it up I'm a shameless whore. lol

 

[Snoozebutton2]

And for GOOD reason!

But makes it easy to find the Fatz Cafe under it and they got killer cheese fries. Who can help me eat some??? lol

 

[LadyAria]

You close to Greenville, S.C.?

Yes, reasonably so. Though I'd have to look at a map.