Posted on 06/20/2014 8:53:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I follow #4.
We are now celebrating our ninth year on our little acre homestead here in GreenAcres, located in rural NWGA...loving (almost) everything about the area and the culture.
I even scared myself one time (one time only!) in a restaurant counter transaction with a female when the term "darlin'" (as in "Thank you, darlin'!") came out of my mouth spontaneously. I was so stunned that I had to ask my wife if that really did happen or was I hallucinating...
Other than that I am still unable to spontaneously use the terms "y'all" or "fixin'ta" as well as dropping the use of forms of the verb "to be"...as in: "The car needs fixed..."
Can't imagine willingly returning to living in Philly or Boston.
Gee... I’m really shocked at this given how we are portrayed in the media................................................
Y’all is very normal. Fixin is very southern. I went to school in Auburn (grew up in Atlanta) and after a year I was saying “fixin”. Lost it after moving back to Atlanta. I still say y’all and always will.
I agree. Jude Law's Southern accent was extremely good in Cold Mountain.
I remember that...yes, it was.
For example, Michael Caine in "Secondhand Lions."
"Now, you boys 'bout to let them teenage hormones get you in a world o' trouble..."
If you’re shopping for a retirement place my bio page..history, pics of TX.
Have you ever had really good grits? There are some dreadful creations masquerading as “grits.”
A lot depends on how the grits are made and how they are processed. The best are stone ground served with cracked black pepper, salt and lots of butter (see nearby Butter thread today) and/or red eye gravy. And crispy bacon on the side, of course.
If you don’t like them that way, then you probably never will...
Should read ‘see my bio page.’
I think there’s a similarity in cadence between British English and southern English that makes it easier to transpose between the two. (Although personally I never found Vivien Leigh’s accent very convincing as Scarlett...)
20 years out of NC but someone on the phone yesterday asked if I were British. I had to drawl to prove I wasn’t.
If you’ll notice on the next few CW threads the typical crowd of Northern and Southern apologists always appear and are but a minute fraction of the total FR population.
Do people really do that? Sure, some people may think there's an undifferentiated "South" somewhere, but even Northerners are pretty savvy about the differences between North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, or Louisiana and Mississippi -- even if it's only the difference between the one where the banks or Atlanta or the Cajuns are and the other one. Northerners do seem a bit more aware of differences between Southern states than they do Western states, if only from long car trips to Disney World.
Ironically, it may be more Southerners who promote the idea of a "solid South" who lump together very different states and areas together than Northerners.
Texas is neither southern nor western. Texas is Texas.
Many lakes and water sports in and around B'ham.
The Panhandle coast is 5 or 6 hr drive, but no more beautiful beaches to be had than Destin, Panama City, FL and Gulf Shores, AL.
In fact, I rent beach lodging and have some in Panama City and Destin July and Aug.My husband and I used to travel 10-12 weeks of year, but he is gone and I just do a few now and rent the rest.
Hope you check AL out.
The B'ham area has Birmingham Southern Univ. Univ. Al at B'ham, Sanford Univ., and Montevallo.UAB known for medical, B'ham Southern great music educ. Montevallo and Sanford lib. arts and Sanford law.
About the phrase "dam Yankee". I learned it at boarding school in TX. My civics teacher said it was just one word-damyankee. --Sorry! I couldn't resist.
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They need to visit Huntsville, AL. I am proud to have called it home since 1966.
I posted something about Huntsville. I have lived here since my late husband graduated from MS State in 1966. Look up www.aztechnolgy.com. He had a dream and now our daughter, her husband, son, daughter and friends are keeping his dream alive.
Check out Huntsville, AL. It is in the state but very different.
The legendary Scarlett O'Hara was a Brit!
Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama. Sugar white beaches. I love the gulf!
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