Southern speak

And it's Co-Cola ... Not Coca Cola ...

You're welcome anytime, friend ... See my previous post (#11) about driving in the snow down here ...

I'm from Maryland which technically is south since we are below the mason Dixon line......but apparently I'm still considered a Yankee because I lived in Alabama for six months where everyone kept calling me a Yankee lol

Um ... Er ... What's a "scouser" ... ?

Thanks!

Well, now, Alabama ... See, That's a whole other issue ... !!!

The origninal cowboys were in Florida Do Y'all no dat?

Actually Lizardlady I was thinking about the north and actually there are a lot of different accents in the north too. There are the New Yorkers, and Mass is different as well as New Hampshire has a different accent and even Main. So basically where ever state one goes, I think that there is a little bit of a different accent.

Open Eyes

Apparently if you ask different countries they say that us Californians have an accent. I guess our lack of accent is an accent?

o.O

Oh, OpenEyes, no arguement from me that there are different accents around the country and around the world. I actually enjoy differnet accents.

I hate "put on" accents of all kinds. I can spot a phony Southern US, and a phony British as well. They both get on my (dayum) nerves.

My roots are in Kentucky, and I also lived at different points in Louisiana, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee. As I understand it, the OP's rant is not about Northerners using certain words. It was about Mitt Romney in particular, affecting an imitation Southern accent because he was touring the South scouting for votes. One does not schmooze up to Southerners by trying to mimic them. There is more to us than saying "y'all" and eating grits. Anyone who doesn't realize that is not worthy of my vote.

Other ways to irritate me when faking a Southern accent include dropping all final G's from all qualitative nouns. We often drop the G from "nothing" and sometimes from "something," but never from "everything" or "anything." (Some of us drop the Y from "everything," but not the G.) And we DO know how to pronounce the letter R, so knock it off with trying to sound Southern by saying, "Ah dew de-clay-uh, Ah nev-uh huhd of such a thang."

(In all the time I've spent in the South, never once have I heard in real life a person saying, "I do declare." Only in the movies.)

I dislike the south.

Or maybe the bugs. There are a lot of them.

them gators too I reckon

Yes Cowboys are real but not confined to just the south. In large parts of the west that raise beef cattle, cows have to be migrated from one area to another in order to be able to graze. Also in the old days there were no 18 wheelers or trains to transport cows to market, so they had to be "driven" or herded by people from horseback, those here who were involved in that industry were called Cowboys, in Australia they are known as "Drovers"

If you have never seen City Slickers, with Billy Crystal its a fun movie that looks at Cowboys from an urban perspective.

Is it the heat? ...

We have A/C you know ... !!!

Simply Hate them Gators!

Those dadburn Tigers too!

Go Dawgs! ...

His name starts with a Jefferson and ends with a Davis.

btw, they are "calboys"..

Timgt5 thank you for the minny laffs

Lovebirdsflying you hit it. I don't object to people using "Southern" words or phrases. My original complaint was about people, like Mitt, faking "Southern". Mitt was trying to earn votes, instead, IMHO, he insulted us.

Good point but I believe it's even worse that he (they) want to convince you that they share your beliefs/concerns and that they face similar problems and that if you help them into office they are going to address those issues.
No comment on Southern culture in general

I am bilingual; I speak either Sussex Cockney Accent" or, posh. Depends on who is paying the restaurant bill.

G. Girls
R. Raised
I. In
T. The
S. South

that be me-a Virginia ham
sorry don't follow romney anyway.

Truth is the southeners seem to me to be clever in how they kinda "own" Y'all. This is because in the North, we have no way to state the second person plural in English, cept you all. To avoid seeming "southern" we need to say gibberish like "you guys" or "people"

Whoever stigmatized "y'all" for northerners was true genious. lol

brook from maine (union all the way) peace

When "Yankee" appeared in the thread, I knew from experience nothing good would come of it.

But something good has come of it. The rest of us are having fun. Did someone kick a sore spot?

Yes, I know, we Southerners can be a bit snobby sometimes toward Northerners. There is something called "Southern pride," and some of us overdo it; those that are still fighting the Civil War, for example. I myself have noticed that fully 1/4 of all country songs on the radio nowadays are about how great the South is, and how superior the singer is for being from there. "American by birth. Southern by the grace of God." It makes me sick too. Nobody should be looked down on.

But let's not fight that. Let's just have fun. If you want to take a few pokes at Southern accents, Northern accents, or British or Aussie accents, please feel welcome to join in.