Posted on 12/10/2023 10:21:38 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Both accurate
7th gen Magnolia State native here
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There is a clear distinction amongst southerners from Amarillo to Wilmington and Lexington to Everglades City insofar as dialects and vernacular
Mid south versus Deep South
Appalachian versus Country versus southern accents
I can tell Deep South educated class drawl instantly versus mid south of the same class
Country accent is similar all over here
Texas has a more teeth together country sound except in the park cities or Alamo heights etc
Every state and and even areas inside each state has their own slang. And some of it goes all the way back to the first people who cane here in Colonial Days.
I'm not certain IF it is still true, but at one time, American Elite boarding schools had their own slang and it didn't matter WHERE they were situated; it was the same. And it didn't matter WHERE the kids came from, nor their race, it was "BOARDING SCHOOL SLANG" ! LOL
I wasn’t born there, but in an Army hospital, but my father was, and we go back seven generations there, too. Direct descendents of a Revolutionary War veteran who settled there sometime before 1809 when the town was founded.
Until my grandfather’s generation, all dirt farmers, by the way, who sometimes had to depend on those aquirrels for meat on the table. :-)
I like how Johnny Depp, in his more verbose roles, gets away with ad-libbing over written script because his contributions are just better. Like in Pirates: At World’s End his men captured Will Turner and he said “”Send this pestilent, traitorous, cow-hearted, yeasty codpiece to the brig.”, perfectly illustrating my English teacher’s admonition that the English language is too rich with appropriate insults to lazily rely on cursing.
You’re too humble, as I saw you correctly identify exactly where people came from time and again based on their accents and speech patterns alone. Like an X-Man know one knows how to utilize.
I wonder if "put together a cake" (bake a cake) has Cajun origins too.
My family mostly farmers with few slaves usually just a family of them
East Mississippi
My wife fam were gentry
10,000 acre cotton plantation
Politically strong
Barksdale killed at Gettysburg
Course lost it all
Reach in the poke and get out ya’s fixin’s to roll a smoke. Where I keeps the tabackey.
“You’re too humble, as I saw you correctly identify exactly where people came from time and again based on their accents and speech patterns alone.”
My father had that same ability with Southern accents, it was uncanny. Maybe it’s a skill of Mississippi’s native sons. I have a very slight Tidewater accent from my Virginia youth but wardaddy managed to spot its telltale sign. 99.9% would never notice it at all.
My dads bestie
His VMI roomie from Richmond
Ran American Filtrona (worlds largest cig filters maker)for years as ceo then chairman
He had distinct “out” accent
I absorbed the sound
It’s a dead tell of lower Virginia folks if out sounds like a sharp “house” sound
I know that's what it says on the record, but it's not "Polk salad." Is it named for James K. Polk? And salads are raw.
It's "poke sallet." Sallet is another word for greens (turnip, mustard, collard, spinach, kale, rape) which are cooked good and greasy.
It's "poke" sallet because it's made from pokeweed.
My Mama loves it!
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