A list of 63 words by skipvia.
- fixin' towas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- nar'nwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- poke saladwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- hoppin' johnswas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- blackeye peaswas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- blackeyed peaswas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- plumb eat up with the dumbasswas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- quiet'nwas added by skipvia and appears on just this list
- race radiowas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- race musicwas added by skipvia and appears on just this list
- katie bar the doorwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- nigger toeswas added by skipvia and appears on just this list
- nar'nwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- boiled peanutswas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- blackeye peaswas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- blackeyed peaswas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- hoppin' johnswas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- dumb as a postwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- shit in his own sandboxwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- pokewas added by skipvia and appears on 54 lists
- poke saladwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- bless your heartwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- plumb eat up with the dumbasswas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- whuppingwas added by skipvia and appears on 4 lists
- rampswas added by skipvia and appears on 4 lists
- color crayonwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- ink penwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- sousewas added by skipvia and appears on 39 lists
- like towas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- butter beanswas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- soup beanswas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- succotashwas added by skipvia and appears on 36 lists
- i swanwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- ugly treewas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- ugly stickwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- white on ricewas added by skipvia and appears on 4 lists
- i declarewas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- goings onwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- gullahwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- comeback saucewas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- tractor pullwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- turkey shootwas added by skipvia and appears on 5 lists
- dirty ricewas added by skipvia and appears on 5 lists
- chitlinswas added by skipvia and appears on 7 lists
- collard greenswas added by skipvia and appears on 6 lists
- hominywas added by skipvia and appears on 31 lists
- gritswas added by skipvia and appears on 20 lists
- fried okrawas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- fried green tomatoeswas added by skipvia and appears on 6 lists
- peach cobblerwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- hush puppieswas added by skipvia and appears on 8 lists
- y'allwas added by skipvia and appears on 34 lists
- lawsywas added by skipvia and appears on 4 lists
- lawdywas added by skipvia and appears on 7 lists
- sweet teawas added by skipvia and appears on 4 lists
- iced teawas added by skipvia and appears on 5 lists
- unsweetwas added by skipvia and appears on 5 lists
- shouldnawas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- passable fairwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- hot'unwas added by skipvia and appears on 2 lists
- might couldwas added by skipvia and appears on 7 lists
- corn ponewas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
- skrinkwas added by skipvia and appears on 3 lists
reesetee commented on the list a-southern-season
Great list! I feel warmer already.
October 28, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
I just noticed how many of these words refer to food. Hmmm...
October 28, 2007
rocksinmypockets commented on the list a-southern-season
Road trip!!
October 28, 2007
palooka commented on the list a-southern-season
You haven't eaten until you've had skinned squirrel smothered with fried green tomatoes. It's more than passable fair!
October 28, 2007
chained_bear commented on the list a-southern-season
I think of insurance and umbrella as southern words, if you pronounce them with the accent on the first syllable, but they're not particularly southern (only the pronunciation).
October 28, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
Or passable fare...
October 28, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
That takes me home, c_b. "Surprise" is another one that is more commonly pronounced with an accented first syllable.
October 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-southern-season
Palooka--skinned squirrel? Excuse me, but.... *bleccch*
October 28, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
I think Palooka meant skrinked squirrel. Does that make you feel any better? :)
October 28, 2007
chained_bear commented on the list a-southern-season
Also, reesetee... Let it be said--squirrel *is* probably best eaten with the skin removed. Skinful squirrel is probably really awful.
October 28, 2007
sionnach commented on the list a-southern-season
There used to be a gourmet food store in Chapel Hill called A Southern Season. I wonder if it's still there?
(googles furiously) .. why, yes it is. All 60,000 square feet of it. Comforting to know that someone is catering adequately to the epicurean desires of triangle area residents.
October 28, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
I remember when A Southern Season opened in a small store in the Eastgate Shopping Center in Chapel Hill. I'm from Chapel Hill, and it's where I got the idea for the list name. It's still there, as you discovered, only much larger and yuppified. Still a nice place, though.
October 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-southern-season
You guys are Chapel Hillians? One of my best pals lived there fresh from getting her Ph.D. Loved the place when I visited. She's long gone from NC, unfortunately (for me).
October 28, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
I'm afraid you wouldn't recognize Chapel Hill anymore, reesetee.
October 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the list a-southern-season
Sadly, that's true of many places in the United States these days.
I guess it isn't sad in the sense that if a place is changing that much, it's got a pretty good economy. But it is true that a lot of towns are unrecognizable from what they were just a decade or a dozen years ago.
October 29, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-southern-season
Probably wouldn't, skipvia--and this was less than 10 years ago. I wouldn't recognize where I live now from 10 years ago, to tell the truth.
October 29, 2007
sionnach commented on the list a-southern-season
Hmmm. Somehow an earlier answer never made it on to this thread. I lived in Chapel Hill from 1979 to 1984, when I first came to the U.S. to go to graduate school. Fond memories of the town, of the graduate program, not so much.
October 29, 2007
chained_bear commented on the list a-southern-season
What was the grad program in, if you don't mind saying, sionnach? Signed, nearly went there for grad school for history.
October 29, 2007
sionnach commented on the list a-southern-season
c_b: It was in mathematical statistics (as opposed to biostatistics). A seriously messed up department, complete with psychopathological faculty members, a long-simmering rift which split the faculty down the middle, a dark mysterious secret (the suicide by gunshot of a former chairman in the faculty lounge) and a long-established tradition of mistreating the graduate students.
Ah, good times!
October 30, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
Well, I swan...
October 30, 2007
chained_bear commented on the list a-southern-season
"I fail to see how that's particularly unusual among graduate school departments," she sniffed delightedly.
October 30, 2007
reesetee commented on the list a-southern-season
Sionnach, are you sure you're not confusing grad school with a Faulkner novel you read? ;-)
October 30, 2007
chained_bear commented on the list a-southern-season
Suggestion, skipvia: bless your heart. In my experience, southerners say "bless his (or her) heart" when a yankee would more likely say, "the asshole." For example, "That older gentleman who lives next door, bless his heart, he's temperamental about the kids making noise."
November 21, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
How very genteel of you, c_b, and how very appropriate for this list.
You might also hear someone say "That Maola Braxton, bless her heart, is plumb eat up with the dumbass."
November 21, 2007
oroboros commented on the list a-southern-season
Shouldn't that be et up?
November 21, 2007
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
Good point, oroboros, at least in some parts of the South.
November 21, 2007
wordlover42 commented on the list a-southern-season
What about "fixin' to"?
June 20, 2009
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
"Fixin' to" goes straight to the list, w42. Bless your heart.
June 20, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the list a-southern-season
Any thoughts on brang and brung?
March 1, 2011
fbharjo commented on the list a-southern-season
Darn tootin', I'all shootin', Wye Ile beaten' biscuits for shure (shore). My father grew up on the Eastern shure (Shore) before the West (rest). What has become of brang and brung?
March 1, 2011
skipvia commented on the list a-southern-season
Brang and brung are pretty much interchangeable, as in "It was brung up yesterday" and "It was brang up yesterday." No diffyraunce.
March 1, 2011
fbharjo commented on the list a-southern-season
All the more reason for a Southern season with a reason! Viva la deftyrance!
March 1, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the list a-southern-season
Sometimes it's nice to know I'm not alone. Thank you, skipvia.
March 1, 2011