hey Ya'll I'm Fixin' to get me a Coke

I just moved back to MI from Texas. I loved Texas!!!!! Anyways i was raised in NC and we talked the same way you do! When i moved to MI I was about 10 years old. They MADE me go to speech class cause no one could understand my accent and the way i talked. it took 5 whole years for me to talk like they do here in MI. But i still talk the southern way half the time. Just without the deep southern accent.

oh my this is funny! We moved to Tennessee from Michigan and I have had this SAME convo with my kids (I am a high school teacher).

The biggest arguement that we have is the Coke one! I am trying to explain to them that COKE is a brand and that they should be saying Soda or Pop or Soda-pop. I say Pop and they think thats the funniest thing they have EVER heard.

Here in TN (not for all some still use "fixin") the new working for "fixin" is "finna"... it means the same thing and they say it like crazy. It drives me up a WALL. I make them correct it with "about to".

I think its a regional thing!

I spent some time in Kansas (originally from Buffalo) and I always say that "I am fixin to do somethin" My husband....being a smart *kitten*.........says "what are you repairing to do?" hysterical!

I was born in Yonkers, NY but lived first 12 years of my life in Monroe, NY which then was the country, 50 miles north of city. Then moved to GA. So been in south 30 years or so and have picked up on the Y'all for sure but get me around my N-yorker family and my Yankee accent comes out! Love the south but a Damm Yankee and proud of it! This is fun to see where everyone is from as lots of people don't stay where they were born.

I'm from the UK, and you all pretty much confuse me....!!

Although I'm sure you wouldn't have a clue what I'm talking about either!!:laugh:

Eh? We call it POP up here in Canada Coke is a brand name for Petes Sake

Me too!!!

I'm from the Buffalo, N.Y. area, and I've been stuck in G.A. for a little over 5 years & will be here until I finish my degree! It's been a great experience for me, as I met my Husband and we've had two children, but I miss home. My Husband is from Atlanta, and we couldn't be more different, regionally! He says "finin' to", as in going to do something, and I say "pop". Our accents are completely different! People look at me like I'm an alien when I speak in public. lol

I was born in Yonkers, NY but lived first 12 years of my life in Monroe, NY which then was the country, 50 miles north of city. Then moved to GA. So been in south 30 years or so and have picked up on the Y'all for sure but get me around my N-yorker family and my Yankee accent comes out! Love the south but a Damm Yankee and proud of it! This is fun to see where everyone is from as lots of people don't stay where they were born.

In Wisconsin we drink from a BUBBLER not a water fountain. A water fountain is something you throw your pennies in!

the accent sounds cute even just reading it! hahaha

I'm from NY and have been living in Florida for years.

Mash as in "mash the numbers on the phone"
do, fo, mo - door, for, more
"didn't pretty much do nothin"

LOL. I love it!

I'm originally from Jersey and I live inTexas...you can't imagine how I get teased about my accent! :laugh:

One of my good friends is from Nebraska and she has a funny accent...we'll tease her because she'll say something like "Bring it" and it sounds like "Breen it". She doesn't "hang out", she "hanes out". And a hanger isn't a hanger, it's a "haner". :laugh:

I've found that in Texas, most people either have no accent at all (even the Texas natives) or their accent is so strong I can hardly understand them!

I think the "melk" accent is funny. Also, my boss says mill instead of meal, dill instead of deal, and pell ell instead of pale ale. I've never heard that accent before moving to Texas!

I really like when people say "might could" (like "We might could go to a movie tonight.") It isn't part of my dialect, but I think it sounds pretty great.

I'm from South Carolina but I don't really sound like it. I still live in SC and people ask me where I'm from (yep, ended that phrase with a preposition) all the time.

So, while I tried hard in middle & high school to train away my southern accent, the things my high school friends from MI and NY mad fun of me for were the "might could" and "listen at" (instead of "listen to"). They said I talked all normally and then I'd catch them off guard when I threw in some southern crap like that. So, of course I trained myself out of saying those things, too. :laugh:

So, yeah, I've lived in SC all my life and I had never heard of the southerners calling soda "coke" thing until just a few years ago. And I've still never actually heard anyone do it. Or, maybe I have and I just assumed they were actually talking about Coke.

My 86 year old gramma says "kindly" instead of "kind of" or "sort of." For example, instead of saying "I kind of twisted my ankle" she would say "I kindly twisted my ankle."

Edit: I was just reading through others' responses, and, yep, people down here certainly say things like "mash" (instead of press) and "britches" (for pants).
Also, something we say here that I think varies a lot regionally is "cut off the light." I think I normally say "turn off," but, as explained above, I'm a linguistic anomaly in this region. Of course there is a lot of "fixin' to" and "ain't" and "y'all" here. "Tin" and "ten" are pronounced the same. I was a server at a very southern restaurant when I was in high school & we gave customers numbers as they ordered & then called their numbers to bring them their food (ugh). Once I was standing there yelling "TEN! NUMBER TEN!" over and over again and no one would come. Finally someone was like "What?" and I repeated "TEN" And the were like "TIIIIIIN?" and I said "Yeah, tEn." They hadn't understood what number I was saying because I was pronouncing it correctly! :noway:

And more:
And one thing my bf makes fun of me about is I apparently say "Mu*zimm" instead of "Mus*e*um." The other day, I noticed someone else saying it that way, too.

I also hear a lot of "a-- verbing" like "He was a-hootin' and a-hollerin.'"

And instead of "almost" or "nearly" a lot of people said "like to." Like... "I like to died."

And then there's this whole other language of southern ebonics. :noway: Last weekend, one of my neighbors repeatedly yelled "You is so ungrateful." And that's just one of the phrases I actually understood - about 75% of the time I have no idea what is being said. I hear people say all kinds of crazy stuff here. I can't help but wonder how in the world the sentences they say even formed in their heads. :laugh: They make talking & listening so much more difficult than it needs to be. I have never understood a word one of my uncles has ever said except "Hey Julie!" because his accent is so weird and thick & he talks so fast. I'm not even joking. :laugh:

I'm originally from Missouri. That's Missouree not Missoura.

I drink pop and eat breakfast, dinner and supper.

I now livei n "Warsh"ington State.

Didn't know until a few years ago (and I'm in my 50's) that I was mispronouncing Wisconsin. I pronounced it "Wes"consin. Apparently, "Wis" is supposed to sound like "wish" but without the h.

And "pin" is actually pronounced diffenently than "pen" according to my son.

I sit on a couch.

A number of years ago, I found out that I supposedly pronouce July wrong. As in the month of July. I pronounce in with a long u as in juju beans. My neice claims it's pronounced like Juh-lie.

I don't know, but I think Missourians need to teach everyone else how to speak proper English. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Just kidding. :bigsmile:

we call it pop in Canada, and we also have Ice tea, which I think is called sweet tea in some states? Ice tea is like the nestea or similar products, its cold and sweet. Sometimes I ask for Icetea in the States and I get cold TEA.. no sugar :huh: