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Kat:
 
Things we say in the South..........  

~You don't take someone somewhere - you carry them, "I carried Momma over to the doctor yesterday."

~You don't turn off the lights you cut'em on off.

~The electricity bill is called the "light bill"

~All carbonated drinks are a "coke" - might be orange, grape, root beer or Co-cola.

~Southern women know everybody's first name - Honey, Darlin', Shugah.

~A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

~If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.

~Onced and Twiced are words.

~It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!

~Jaw-P? means "Did yall go to the bathroom?"

~People actually grow and eat okra.

~Fixinto is one word. It means I'm fixing to do that.

~"They'll be here directly" means they are on the way.

~When you say 'over yonder' you means over there.

~There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there is supper.

~Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar.

~Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.

~The word jeet is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"

~You don't have to wear a watch, because it doesn't matter what time it is, you work until you're done or it's too dark to see.

~You dont PUSH buttons, you MASH em.

~No, Jew? is a common response to the question, "Did you bring any beer? "

~You measure distance in minutes.

~You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.

~All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, animal or tree.

~You know what a DAWG is.

~You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car.

~You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Tonys, Tabasco and ketchup.

~The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports and motor sports, and gossip.

~There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.

~There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one's seen before.

~You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

~You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit a bit warm.

~You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.

~Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite pastime known as goin to Wally World.

~You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chicken stew weather.  

~Fried catfish is the other white meat.

~We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive, dag-nabbit.

Don't ya wish you were from the south  ;D

darren:
Kat, Howsumamandem??

Darren

cjwood:
i love the one about what a possum is. i can relate to so many of them. but, coming from south texas (i mean like 1-2 hrs from the mexico border) we have a whole nother set of sayings.  :D

darren, did your southern saying mean "hows your mother and all of them doing"?

claudia

darren:
Claudia, Yes. How's your mama and them doing.

Darren

Linny:
Yes, Kat, I do say some of those things and have heard them all my life although I grew up in Lexington which is a college town and not quite as accent/saying driven as the surrounding areas of KY.
A quick story. My husband was in NJ doing a baseball camp for my BIL and he told the kids that they could all have a pop when they were finished.
"Pop???, what's that??" You Northerners know that the word used is "soda" up there.  :D
So yes, coke is commonly used for all soft drinks but pop is too.  ;)

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