for my southern friends
03-28-2011, 08:44 AM
#51
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Location: Houston County, GA
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Oh yes! You can also "carry" your car to the mechanic. Tea is always made sweet. All soda is coke. The best things I hear in Middle Georgia is the children saying "Yes mam and Yes sir". Family is always #1.
03-28-2011, 09:23 AM
#53
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Location: Huntsville, AL
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Neither, to me it's "coke".... or "coffee".... but I'm fixin to put some socks on and you heard me right, it's not stockings here...
When I worked up in VT (Stowe area), they knew I wasn't from there, not just by the AL tag but that I would drive around their pot holes in the road....haha
When I worked up in VT (Stowe area), they knew I wasn't from there, not just by the AL tag but that I would drive around their pot holes in the road....haha
03-28-2011, 10:52 AM
#55
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Location: Bay Area near San Francisco
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My friends daughter went to Japan about 15 years ago to teach English to Japanese businessmen wanting to do business in the U.S. Of course, being from Mississippi, she taught them to say "Y'all", "Fixin' to" and a couple of other things. Once in a while I envision one of her students in a hard negotiation with Donald Trump saying "Ya'll ought to know I was fixin' to do that." Can't you just see Trump's hair lifting up.
03-28-2011, 11:16 AM
#56
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Location: Southeast Michigan
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I was raised in Montana before I married a fellow in the Air Force. We would have a coke, rootbeer, an orange or a cherry pop -- not much choice in those days! When we lived in Connecticut I was surprised to find out that sodas didn't have ice cream in them. When we lived in Biloxi, a neighbor with cajun background would have to get home to pass the vacuum or the broom. That was thought provoking. After wandering all over, we're in Michigan now and I get questioned on why my Dawn's sound like Don's. Go figure. However, thanks to all the traveling, it's become a challenge to try to pick out where someone is from just by listening to them talk -- it's fun!
03-28-2011, 11:31 AM
#57
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by Melinda in Tulsa
Originally Posted by MommaDorian
When referring to Coke, Pepsi, etc. do you use the term Pop or Soda?
I'm a 'pop' kinda girl. :)
I'm a 'pop' kinda girl. :)
:thumbup:
03-28-2011, 11:47 AM
#60
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ohio, USA
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My DH's mother was born and raised in Bay Minette, Alabama so he is a mix of northern speech and southern. He absolutely refuses to say rinse it, instead it's wrench it. And poison is porson. We are always fixing to do something, and it just ain't fittin to do other things. We carry his Mama to the beauty parlor on a regular basis, well, we did, but she's passed away, bless her heart. Most times my MIL would say things like, She's a right nice girl even though she is a bit on the homely side, bless her heart.
We love Alabama. It's like home to me now, even though we don't visit y'all near enough. But we're fixin to change all that since this past winter. :-D
We love Alabama. It's like home to me now, even though we don't visit y'all near enough. But we're fixin to change all that since this past winter. :-D
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