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Southern phrases I just don't get...

Example #1

"Had a big time today at the cow tippin festival"

----- Why is it a "big" time?

Example #2

"I'm almost done with my homework ma!"

"How much do you like?"


----- I always thought it was "lack"

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Re: Southern phrases I just don't get...

  • Don't get me started on "rurn't".

    I rurn't the chicken.

    Or the infamous, "I'm all stove up?"

    Wth, does that mean?  Stove up?

    After a huge debate with hubby that this is not in the English language it means that his joints and muscles are feeling cramped.  Why not just say I feel tense, cramped.  Gah, southern twang makes me sick. 

    Yes I have a slight southern accent but I don't participate in that nonsense speak and slaughter of the engligh language.

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  • i work with this guy who is about as southern as it gets, and i'm pretty sure he just makes up his crazy phrases as he goes along. because 90% of them don't make sense, the other 10% sound perverted but are supposed to be innocent
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  • Yeah, I'm way too northern for those.
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  • Big is synonymous with grand.  Big time = grand time = good time. 

    The second one I don't think i've ever heard it before. 

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  • I HATE rrrrrrrrnt! MrG will say it JUST to annoy me for fun. ::rips hair out::
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  • I'm southern and dont use any of those phrases.  I do use ya'll and fixing to though!!

    I'm fixin to go to the store ya'll!

  • imageBallSox:

    Big is synonymous with grand.  Big time = grand time = good time. 

    The second one I don't think i've ever heard it before. 

    Ah. Thank you friend.  That makes a little more sense. (just a little)

    ;)

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  • I've heard of the "big" time, but none of those other phrases.  The one that gets me is that people around here call shopping carts buggies or bags.  It really annoys me.
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  • I enjoy "over yonder" 

    "Hey Y'all I'm fixin to go to the piggly wiggly.  We're meetin up with my mom'n'em for a grand time in the park over yonder" 

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  • The one I can't stand is one my sister uses..I am going to go "crank" my car. That one really gets on my nerves along with the "buggies" which is a cart.

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  • imagejbyoung:

    Don't get me started on "rurn't".

    I rurn't the chicken.

    Or the infamous, "I'm all stove up?"

    Wth, does that mean?  Stove up?

    After a huge debate with hubby that this is not in the English language it means that his joints and muscles are feeling cramped.  Why not just say I feel tense, cramped.  Gah, southern twang makes me sick. 

    Yes I have a slight southern accent but I don't participate in that nonsense speak and slaughter of the engligh language.

    No, we wouldn't want to do that. 

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