Sholem! Ale-ychem! Sut Mae! Hej! Jambo! Buna Ziua! Terve!
Dzien' dobry! Ahalan! Jo Napot! Welkom! Bien-vindo! Hei!
Hallo'! Dia Dhuit! Kon-ni'chi'wa! An-nyong ha-se-yo!
Salve! Helo! Ni hao! Hallo! Dobry' den, ahoj! Gia' Sou!
Shalom! Namaste! Willkommen! Welkom! Bienvenue! Aloha!
Bienvenido! Benvenuto! Goddag! Xin cha'o! Ello-hay!
How many ways can it be said? Hello, Greetings, Welcome..!
Or as we say in the South.."Howdy! How y'all doin'?"
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At the risk of creating ANOTHER "How To Talk Southern/Redneck"
The following are words and phrases my family used.
As I lovingly remember....
"Southern by birth and the grace of God"
AINT: a blood relative
"come give Aint Smerelda a hug."
AWDUH: should do
"I awduh tell him off."
BLEEVE: intent or faith
"I bleeve I'll just mosey on home."
CHIMLEY: what smoke comes from
"I bleeve the chimley is stopped up."
COMIN-UP-A-CLOUD: approaching storm
"yall stay close. It's comin up a cloud."
DINNER: what the South eats while the
Northerners eat lunch.
"we'll have biscuits and beans for dinner,
then have a light supper."
EYETALYUN: native of Italy
"you don't have to be Italyun to like spaghetti.
EVERWHICHAWAYS: scatter
"them chikens flew everwhichaways."
FAVOR: resemble
"that boy sure favors his daddy."
FIXIN': prepare to
"it's fixin' to rain"
GOOD OLE BOY: any Southern male who
likes, huntin',fishin',hound dogs, beer,
pick-em-up trucks, and women.
HEEPA: great deal of
"you in a heepa trouble."
ID-IN-IT "genteel term for ain't
"mighty hot today, idinit?"
JEVVER: did you ever
"jevver see anything so silly?"
KINDLY: sort of
"I feel kindly sick."
LET ON: indicate knowledge
"don't let on you know."
LIKE TO: almost
" I like to died when I was sick."
MESS: an amount
"we'll cook a mess of peas."
Nome: No ma'am
"Johnny did you do this?" "Nome."
ORTA: should
"man you orta see her."
PICAYUNISH: fastidious
"don't be so picayunish about things."
POT LIKKER: liquid left from cooking greens
"sop the pot likker with biscuits."
QUIETUS: (pronounced kwi-EET-us)
"Mama put the quietus on that."
RIGHT SMART: a goodly amount
"she gained a right smart of weight,"
SINNER: in the middle
"have you been to the shopping sinner?"
SPITTIN IMAGE: looks like
"she's the spittin' image of her Mother."
TORECKLY: later
"ya'll go ahead, we'll be on toreckly."
UNNUTHER: one more
"here comes unnuther."
VITTLES: food
"be sure and put the vittles away."
WHITLEATHER: hide used to make harnesses
"this meat is as tuff as whitleather."
YANKEE DIME: kiss
"how 'bout a yankee dime, sugar?"
YANKEE SHOT: a Southern child's navel
"show 'em where the yankee shot ya Johnny."
YAWL (yall, ya'll) you all
NEVER USED TO MEAN JUST 1 PERSON
"yawl come back"
ZACTLY: exact
"this is zactly the way we say it in the South..at
least as I remember."
SMERELDA pronounced Esmerelda
"Scarlett O'Hara in another life"
Thanks
to my cousin Lois Trawick for the following.
English lesson:
"What a difference
a comma makes."
Students were asked
to punctuate the following:
"woman without
her man is nothing"
male response:
Woman, without her man, is nothing!
female response:
Woman! Without her, man is nothing!
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