Regional Dialects/Odd Sayings

[Stargazer]

I'm from Appalachia-South, not Deep South, but "gone to the house" or "go to the house" is common here.

It's used two ways. First, for someone that is beyond hope. A very derogatory beyond hope, though. You wouldn't use it for someone that was dying of cancer. It's more like a curse of sorts, used for someone you dislike intensely. Like if two people were talking about Survivor, one might say, "shane might as well go to the house with that last stunt he pulled."

It's also used in the way that you described, to comment on someone's departure. It depends on usage.

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[Lucy]

I'll echo Stargazer -- "going to the house" is common where I grew up. My grandfather especially uses it when he's leaving your house -- "Well, go on back to the house with us."

[queenb]

My favorite thread is back on page one!
We say "going to the house" here too, when we're leaving the job or whatever.
I was going to dig this thread up a while back but forgot; seems that someone thought it was so ignorant that one of the "American Idol" conterstants actually pronounced the "L" in 'salmon'...horrors! We all prononce the 'L' where I'm from, and I never heard anything about it until I was about 25 years old. Sorry, too late, and I still use the "L" , wrong or no!
Poor Phat; this Southern thing isn't getting any easier for you, is it?

[myrosiedog]

Originally Posted by phat32

I live in the Deep South, so I try to keep it in perspective, but I still think it's extremely odd.

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Regionalisms are everywhere, but its only in the south that people actually make fun of them or think they are derogatory. Why is that? We think "youse guys" up North talk funny too.


We say I'm going to town when we go to the store, post office or anything. I LIVE IN TOWN, so I don't have to actually drive from the country to the town, but we still say: I'm going to town for gas, be back in a few.

I also don't get my groceries put in bags. It's a grocery sack.

We also have supper at night. "dinner" is Sunday dinner served after church around 1 p.m. And I know people that call all lunch "dinner" even if its not Sunday.

We also don't have "visitation" at the funeral home either. It's always called the "viewing". Which I HATE. I don't want to "view" anyone that's dead.
Another funeral funny is the food people bring: Certain people in my home town were known for certain dishes they ALWAYS brought after someone died. You'd say: Carolyn's here with her funeral cake or Dee brought those funeral eggs and bert's on his way over with the funeral ham. Or: this funeral casserole is GOOD, I need the recipe.

We are weird in the South, but no weirder than the stuff people say elsewhere.

[Stargazer]

Oh gosh, rosie, I can say, to everything you posted. My mom confuses the heck out of my poor daughter by calling lunch "dinner" and the evening meal "supper". And Sunday dinner was indeed around 1pm.

I grew up hearing "sack" for "bag", but my grandfather went one farther. He called it a "poke".

[queenb]

Star, that's why you "shouldn't buy a pig in a poke", you can't see what you're really getting!
I love regional accents, even when I can't understand them. I think it's a shame that they seem to be getting lost as we become more mobile. Don't even get me started on those who attend classes to lose the accent!

[myrosiedog]

Originally Posted by Stargazer

Oh gosh, rosie, I can say, to everything you posted. My mom confuses the heck out of my poor daughter by calling lunch "dinner" and the evening meal "supper". And Sunday dinner was indeed around 1pm.

I grew up hearing "sack" for "bag", but my grandfather went one farther. He called it a "poke".

Someone sent me a quiz about how southern are you and one of the questions was what do you put your groceries in:
a) bag
b) sack
c)poke

I'll have to see if I can find it and post the link. It was funny. I was amazed to find out that I am only 88% Southern. I wonder what the other 12% was!




ETA: I found it. http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

So which are ya'll or Youse???

[lildago]

Originally Posted by myrosiedog

ETA: I found it. http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/yankeetest.html

So which are ya'll or Youse???

I say, "ya'll" and it says I'm 91% Dixie. I had fun reading all of the choices. You don't see too many "party barns" anymore!

[Stargazer]

83% Dixie. Do you still use Confederate money?

The funny part is that I grew up in the northern part of Kentucky. As I said before, that's Appalachia South, not Deep South. However the region I grew up in was isolated and rural for so many generations that the culture is much more "southern" than a lot of regions that are geographically further south. I think sometimes there's more of a difference between rural and urban than there is between North and South.

[Unklescott]

Damn, Ive been gone from Tennessee too long. I could have scored more southern but I didn't cheat.

74% Dixie. Your neck must be a little pink!