Here in Texas:
Cat = Cat / Kitty
Pencil Eraser = eraser
sneakers/ tennis shoes = runnin shoes
Pharmacy = walgreens
Pavement/ kerb/sidewalk = Street/ road / sidewalk
you guys = y'all, or "All y'all" when speaking to a group
I'm going to ____ = I'm fixin to ______
Soda/ Pop = coke (Coke usually means ANY soft drink)
Hello everybody = Howdy y'all (yes I do say howdy)
Yessir, Yessmaam (It's polite to say this to older people)
no money = broke as a joke
To regard or think of as/ Consider = reckon
There is so much more, I could go on all day.....
Originally Posted by KristinB /img/forum/go_quote.gif We use a few of them in Iowa also. I would hate to see the response a Canadian would get by calling a hardcore Southerner a Yankee. HAHA thems fightin words!!!! LOL
Cat = Cat / Kitty
Pencil Eraser = eraser
sneakers/ tennis shoes = runnin shoes
Pharmacy = walgreens
Pavement/ kerb/sidewalk = Street/ road / sidewalk
you guys = y'all, or "All y'all" when speaking to a group
I'm going to ____ = I'm fixin to ______
Soda/ Pop = coke (Coke usually means ANY soft drink)
Hello everybody = Howdy y'all (yes I do say howdy)
Yessir, Yessmaam (It's polite to say this to older people)
no money = broke as a joke
To regard or think of as/ Consider = reckon
There is so much more, I could go on all day.....
Originally Posted by KristinB /img/forum/go_quote.gif We use a few of them in Iowa also. I would hate to see the response a Canadian would get by calling a hardcore Southerner a Yankee. HAHA thems fightin words!!!! LOL
