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South Hill, Virginia

You guys from up north and on the west coast talk funny:P

1/6/2004 11:11:07 AM

Joliet, IL

We talk funny .
Tell us how we talk funny.
Funny how, like a clown, are we here to amuuuuuuse you
Brent. Tell us what's so f***ing funny about how we talk!!!
(that's my best joe pesci impersonation from "Goodfellas")

My sister moved from Chicago IL to Springfield IL,
just 3 hours south, and after 15 years in Springfield she
now sounds like a hillbilly. (no offense to those in the
south that do not live on a hill)

Like we call an automobile a "car" and
you guys call it more like a "core".

we say "you guys" and southerners are too lazy to
even annunciate 2 whole words and instead say "ya'll".

i don't think too many people up north "reckon"
their ideas because they are busy "thinking".
when i "reckon" something it is usually a car that is
smashed up.

we say "yep" and ya'll say "yup"

i have relatives from the north that have names like
Jim, Bill, Dave, and Mary and my southern relatives' names
are Cletis, Jesse Lee who goes by Junior, Thelma, Ida,
Opal, and Elry.

we use the term "fixing" to correct something like
repairing a car. ya'll put "fixins" on your fries.
how do condements become "fixins"?

... and ya'll say we talk funny.

lol. just givin' ya'll down south a good ribbing.
i reckon some of ya'll are now fixin to give me an
earful, i reckon.

and now i will post this while singing the
"Beverly Hillbies" theme song. lol.

1/6/2004 12:24:14 PM

Utah

yea i noticed that too brent...that's why i move to the pumpkin growing heaven called U-tar. :O

1/6/2004 1:23:18 PM

South Hill, Virginia

While we are on the subject Shaz what's with this "youse guys", "hoagies" and "pop"?

I went through a local drive in with my Pennsylvania born wife and the girl couldn't even understand the way she said "hot dog". I had to order for her. So, do we "hear funny" too?

The Southern dialect is pleasant and easy on the ears. Listening to you guys talk is like listening to someone raking his fingernails across a chalkboard:P

1/6/2004 1:24:34 PM

South Hill, Virginia

P.S. I have three cousins named Cecil, Recil and Trecil down in Arkansas. Easier to remember the name if'n they rhyme. Someone shoulda told Aunt Arby not to start with Cecil if she wanted to rhyme all their names.

1/6/2004 1:32:43 PM

Commack, NY

i know how to spell "wash"......but according to one of my best budd's, theres an "R" in there just before the "S". LMAO

1/6/2004 1:41:11 PM

Puyallup, WA

You guys just "break me up"! :>)

1/6/2004 1:48:39 PM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

What kills me is how "smart" all the northern folks are..I just cant seem to figure out why they all want to move down here and bring their automotive plants with them..there is a Saturn,Nissan,Toyota,Mercedes and Ford plant all with in a stones throw from here(we have really good throwing arms.) one plant is here from new Britain Conn..and a engineer came down back in the 70's with them..would you believe he told a group of workers here.."I drive a Toyota..I don't know if you know what that is or not.." my dad was in the group and spoke up..yeah we know what they are and we also have NBC here too..the saturnites as we call them some times come into my shop to get work done,and they just have a "air" about them,that just because they work at GM and are from Mich. they are a lot better that we are..I'm usually to busy to fix their junk anyway..or at least that what I tell them..

1/6/2004 1:51:44 PM

Massillon, Ohio

farmer, we all "worsh" our clothes too !!!

1/6/2004 1:56:52 PM

Joliet, IL

if'n. i love it. lol lol lol......

if'n ya'll grow a big'n i reckon you will warsh 'em
up real good before'n ya mosey 'em over yonder to the
big city of Mt. Pilot where they have one of them there
weigh off thingies. cecil and recil, ya'll go get me my
pillars, cushions, and rope to strap this big'n in
real tight-like so in doesn't go about rollin' around in
the truck like a bowlin' ball in a warsh tub. and trecil,
go'n fetch me my sodie cuz i worked me up some kind
of thirst wrastling that pumpkin on this here pumpkin lifting tarpaulin.

lol lol lol .........
brent, i'll keep running my fingers across the blackboard
just like i am running my mouth right now.

them there sound like fightin' words ya'll might say,
but i am just messin'.

1/6/2004 2:19:03 PM

Liverpool , England

Hey Guys,
You ALL talk funny...strange accents and half chewed words.Oh yeah Shazzy..it ain't blackboard.Race relations say we gotta call it a chalkboard here.

Alun.....and I aint gotta accent

1/6/2004 2:48:02 PM

Grants Pass, Oregon

Alun you are the one with the accent, we all talk normal lol I have spoke on the phone with you remember, you man have the accent, not us :)

1/6/2004 3:32:47 PM

South Hill, Virginia

I have to agree with blkcloud. We are just crawling with yankees down here. Of course most of them are in our prisons but there are still a bunch on the loose. Apparently their main goal is to come down here and straighten us out. Sounds good to me, maybe Virginia can become the next New Jersey......hmmmmm.... :)

1/6/2004 3:54:39 PM

Western NY

I remember my first Ohio tour. farmer scott told me i talk like a southerner and danny carlson told me i talk like a northerner. oh, and it's "pop", not soda. we've almost gotten into some pretty good fights in college with them "tourists". and from traveling to virginia a couple times, i can tell you that dang accent starts about halfway between altoona and the maryland border. i speak noraml. everybody else is weird. unless i spend too much time towards buffalo, and pick up some of that gawd awful pollack dialect. i gotta say i like the boston accent. you hear one of them coming and you know that's someone you can have a beer with!

1/6/2004 3:54:53 PM

Commack, NY

this is the best thread ever! LOL.....and you do have an accent andy! LMAO!!!

1/6/2004 4:38:25 PM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

like ole hank says..if the south would have won we'd have it made..bla bla bla and i'd put hank williams picture on 100 dollars bills....

1/6/2004 5:01:03 PM

Montoursville, PA

Jack Daniels was the first president of the United States was'nt he?

1/6/2004 5:09:26 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Good video Eh.

1/6/2004 6:00:38 PM

i win! national newscasters are taught midwest accents because it's the easiest to understand!

speaking of accents... anyone watch Average Joe last night? if you did, you'll know who i'm talking about when I mention the guy with the accent! I don't remember his name, but that was REAL

and i drink from a water fountain, not a bubbler. who thinks the water fountain is what's in front of the bank? who calls it a drinking fountain?

well, i'm going to go drink a POP and WASH my clothes. see Y'ALL later! LOL I guess we'll all see who has the accents when we get to Niagara...

1/6/2004 6:06:57 PM

ok now i thought of more fun stuff....

in comparing tom beachy and I (a few things i've noticed)....he has a "lane" and i have a "driveway" ......i see a pumpkin "way over there" and he sees a pumpkin "clear over there".....

and my dad says "yello" when he answers the phone.

i went to atlanta a few years ago, and the waitresses said what can i get for you "hunny"....or ....are you ready to order "sweetie"? in wisconsin they just ask to take your order...

1/6/2004 6:12:18 PM

[email protected]

Oooow dogggie. Them there's fight'n words Brent. Ya'll gits da prisn's cuz'n we'all don't want z'em. And that thereza deal wi dat. Just finished me some fixins & ooo doggie waznt day gooooood. Mmm hmmmm.

LOL

1/6/2004 6:16:54 PM

northern indiana

I just can't seem to sign on to this site without learning something. And all this time I thought it was sodi water. I also thought it was a winder that I looked out to see my pumpkin patch. Boy was I wrong! Guess I'll have to learn it all over again!LOL
Thanks guys great thread!
Eric

1/6/2004 6:31:39 PM

Norton, MA

It is most positively a water fountain. By the way gotta go pahk the caahhh in the pahhkkin louwt. Heeea in Bouwston we think allaya is so wieeed with youua eaccentin and junk. Yaa wieeed! LOL

1/6/2004 6:51:05 PM

Oz

>soda pop,,,mercedes benz,,,,aint so hard to figure that either shortened form is ok.
>blk cloud,,,when all them folks from down south went up to deee-troit,,it was no big deal.
why are plants here???lol union concessions.
if the "good ole boys" would not sell to yankee big biz they would not be here.
and more southern folks would leave the south.
>i came south for the second time cause i like the sun more than the snow.
>and in tennessee i can buy more land and pay less taxes.
smart?,,in that respect,,yep
>having grown up in a"mob" town i love where i am now, and most of the people i meet.
>barney fife said at a town meeting that "we defy the mafia".that is a quality i see in tennessee.
>i have traveled all over the states.
i love the different accents.
>and i can "twang" and "drawl"real well when i want to
or if know someone will treat me fair in biz.
>plus one tends to talk like those around them.
>please remember ,,,UNcivil war or not,,,WE ARE AMERICANS.

1/6/2004 6:53:43 PM

Sequim, WA

When I was in the Navy we had a bunch of young guys thrown together in my company from several different regions. One group from the Northeast, New Jersey to Maine and points in between, another bunch from Arkansas to the bayou's of Louisiana. They had so much trouble understanding each other they had to ask this Ohio boy to interpret for them. I've been on the West coast for most of the 25 years since then and these are the only people who sound "normal" to my ears anymore. Hell we can't even pronounce "beer" the same way in this country and that word is used for that beverage all over the world, sure they call it cerveza in Spanish speaking countries, but if you go to Mexico and order a beer you'll get one. I've heard it called "beer", "baere", and "beyah", and that's just here in the USA. I personally like the variety. Some accents are a little harder on the ears than others, but all are entertaining to me.

1/6/2004 7:00:05 PM

Indiana

Damn Its cold outside!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you can tell by the posts. PS. I think its the Canadians that talk funny.
Steve

1/6/2004 7:33:21 PM

Key West, FL

you guys down south are the ones that talk funny

1/6/2004 7:54:15 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Pop is pop not soda. Whiskey is rye.
And beer is Molson Canadian
http://www.iam.ca/

1/6/2004 8:35:48 PM

[email protected]

No such thing as beer. It's Ale, Stout, Porter, Lager, Cider, Bitter, Draught,.....mmmm..brb. Need another Ale.

1/6/2004 9:18:15 PM

Hayes, Virginia

This room is great.one thing the yanks have on us they grow bigger pumpkins. If only we had won the war then the north would be part of the south?!?. Then all the U.S Would be the south and Canada would be the north .Then the south would grow bigger pumpkins!!!!

1/6/2004 9:18:24 PM

Ontario, Canada.

Mr.D&ME, great.one = Wayne Gretzky
Steve, do you like to hoist a few brewskies, you hosier.
Get with the program guys. Think Canadian.........LoL
Have a good night all.
Russ.

1/6/2004 9:46:18 PM

Mill Creek West by god Virginia

wow and im down here from west by god virginia,drinking me a pop,wich i sometimes call a sody water while i am wonderin if maybe ill have a great punkin down yonder in my patch,and hell no my parents and forefathers never gave up when lee did,but we still got stuck with the (west) part i didnt want it i guessmaybe one day itll come out in the warsh course youall know us poor hillbillies and our tin shacks aint to smart about them there accents lol at least when i was younger an in the service i gotta here me a few different ones wow anyway docpipe yes jackdaniels was the first pres i think and maybe wildturkey or some good old west by god virginia mountain dew would give us all that southern drallllll!!!!!!!!!!!!burrhead

1/6/2004 11:01:05 PM

Ontario

It never ceases to amaze me that Americans seem to think we Canadians all have the same accent. Think about it. The second biggest country in the world and we all say eh and oot and aboot. Hey a lot do but there are lots of different accents up here. Have you ever heard someone from Newfoundland? There's no confusing them with someone from Saskatchewan. I think TV is responsible for eliminating a lot of different dialects and there may come a day when we all end up with that "Hi, I'm from anywhere" accent like those talking heads on the idiot box. Let's enjoy the differences while we still can. BTW I still can't figure out how those guys from Indy get all those extra "R's" in words...like " I gotta warsh my Dordge. ;0)

1/7/2004 12:13:02 AM

Indiana

Well, since I dont have enough money to waste on the video, I was expecting to hear about it. 30 some odd posts later, the best we got is how funny everyone talks?

Tom Beachy

1/7/2004 12:35:46 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

You have to hear me talking in English. To give you an idea: imagine a cross between an Iroquish indian and Tarzan trying to be polite in a Bostonian party!

Sorry Tom, I didn't see the video yet as well.

Carlos

1/7/2004 1:38:23 AM

ipswich, ma usa

How bout them Patriots!! As I scream in my best BOSTON accent. Brent insert Kennedy joke here _________.......LOL

John (5150)

1/7/2004 9:22:08 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

one of my older friends and i were traveling the back roads and shooting ground hogs one saturday evening and he wanted to stop and get some more beer..i aint got no money i tells him.."well you got check money!!" he replies..the same guy worked for the county bush hogging the right away..well one friday evening he was headed toward the alabama line(from tennessee) where all the beer joints are located and decided he would run in to use the bathroom..a few hours later he came out got on the tractor(still running) and continued bush hogging..right into alabama he was about 5 miles into the state when a deputy sherrif stopped him.on the way back to the county garage the deputy noted he had bush hogged somewhere between 25 and 30 mail boxes!!!!

1/7/2004 9:26:23 AM

Western NY

Cowpie, not all of us think all of you talk alike. If you've met both Andrew Papez AND Paul McIntyre, you know what i mean. quite a difference. oh, and i did meet a guy from upper michigan who sounded as "canadian" as any other i've ever heard. even thicker than a girl from manitoba i knew.

andy

1/7/2004 9:39:31 AM

[email protected]

Haaay Johnie (5150 in my best bronx accent). If dem Pat's get it dun I'll buya wunnadem Chivases!

1/7/2004 10:17:34 AM

Montoursville, PA

I know a guy who married a Southern Gal. All went well until she parked her blue tick, ball bat and loaded shotgun at the side of their bed.

1/7/2004 11:35:06 AM

Key West, FL

We talk normal over here

1/7/2004 2:59:34 PM

Joliet, IL

everyone talks pumpkin genetics...

well we all may not sound alike when we speak,
but i bet a lot of us have similar genetic make ups.
back before modern transportation, not too many people
traveled about thus giving each region specific traits
that still exist today in each of us.

(can anyone tell i am drunk with that "thus" i threw in back there. i ilove vacation days.)

what are your nationalities ya silly silly peop[le.

i am 1/4 polish...of course,
1/4 bohemian,
1/4 irish
1/8 english
1/16 dutch
1/16 american indian-cherokee

yes i am a mutt.

1/7/2004 8:06:56 PM

northern indiana

Is your nose cold too? I also am a mutt but not near as mixed. Cherokee, potowatamee, french and german. and yes I am a mess.
Eric

1/7/2004 8:21:56 PM

SE Qld Australia

really personally I reckon aussie's talk correctly do you know how hard it is to understand american chew up words mixed with a broken record

1/7/2004 11:16:59 PM

SE Qld Australia

I'm:
1/2 english
1/4 american indian-cherokee
1/4 unknown this that every thing

1/7/2004 11:24:57 PM

[email protected]

How come Austalian's call themselves Australians when they move to America?

1/8/2004 12:09:14 AM

Edmonton, Canada

The thing that always shocks me when Itravel to the U.S. is how comonly I'm referred to a y'all. Apperently y'all can apply to one person or 1000!

It's kinda weird, ehhh......

1/8/2004 10:24:59 AM

Deer Park WA

Smitty it's aboot making y'all feel welcome in Warshington.

1/8/2004 10:47:25 AM

Sask, Canada

Cowpie:

You are so right about those newfie's talking strange, they don't sound any thing like us Westerner's, hell for that matter neither do folk from Ontario or any one west of Main St. Winnipeg.

And us Westerner's don't refer to them as Americans, they are U.S. folk to us, as shown above in Smitty's comments U.S. not America. And we like to be called Canehdian not Canadian.

Since we are all different but good growing friends, I thought I would offer my support to the U.S. folk who got hit with B.S.E. we know what you are going through, hell we even sent you the damn cow, but what's funny is the infected cow was fed U.S. contaminated Feed. So To help you folks out we got cases of bumper stickers we don't need any more, sure they say "I Love Canadian Beef" but we gone and crossed out the Maple Leaf (Canadian) and put beside it the U.S. Flag.

We may even ship it down for free... eh?

TTYL
Ernie
Giant Veggies

1/8/2004 12:10:23 PM

canal winchester ohio

Got some Mad Cow humor.
I saw a sign in a local grocery store that stated that all their beef has went thru a strict anger management class. No Mad Cows Here.....LOL

1/8/2004 12:37:53 PM

I'm with Gordon... GO UTES!

About y'all....

"y'all" refers to one person only!

"all y'all" refers multiple persons

It should be noted that this is "better" that proper
english, as it has only "you" which refers to either.

While I live in Idaho, I have roots in Mississippi, so
I speak with authority.

all y'all grow a personal best! -Cliff

1/8/2004 12:43:13 PM

Key West, FL

I don't say y'all, only people from the south do and weirdos who wish they lived in the south.

1/8/2004 1:41:18 PM

Utah

I was wondering how long it would take before the down unders and up north folks would show on this thread... i'm still waiting for one group to be pulled in....

1/8/2004 2:33:39 PM

Western Pa.

I think Brent Richey talks funny.

1/8/2004 8:12:58 PM

Tipp City, Ohio

My grandmother never said y'all. But she would say "You'ins come and sit here next to me on the davenport" I said "But Grandma, You are just sitting on a couch"

1/8/2004 9:00:36 PM

Sequim, WA

Your grandma sounds like my cousins from southwestern Pennsylvania. Now that the Aussies have piped in, ever notice how the English and Aussies all sound American when they are singing? Somehow the accent gets lost when they pick up a guitar and want to make some money, er music.

1/8/2004 11:26:56 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

Cliff...you may have roots down here but you've been removed for too long. Maybe you should move back for awhile and get reaquainted :0)

1/9/2004 5:59:12 AM

Utah

you mean reantiquated... lol !

1/9/2004 8:57:31 AM

I'm with Gordon... GO UTES!

I'd like to... two feet of snow outside. Yes, I'd like to...

Cliff

1/9/2004 10:21:28 AM

Hayes, Virginia

Hey Russ who is wayne gretzky? what # NASCAR does he drive?

1/12/2004 7:03:37 PM