Posted on 12/26/2024 7:44:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I thought it did.
I got heavy roots in Kentucky. Any you’ins played in red dirt? Boy, I’ll tell ya.
A quick Spelling Bee ask someone to spell it without writing it down.
Waxahachie.
Then ask if they’ve ever been there ?
“Texans think all these sayings come from Texas?”
NO
the author of this BS
Bennett Kleinman is a New York City-based staff writer...also a freelance comedy writer....and thinks plain seltzer is the best drink ever invented.
LOL! Great pic!
“Reckon” turns up in England a lot as well.
Is everything both big and old in Texas like it is in Pensacola? For example, “I’m gonna get me a big ol’ truck for my job next week!”
“Cut off the light.” (turn out the light)
Castreau does have cattle, but he uses them to trample on people’s speech rights and gun rights, as well as freeze bank accounts of people he doesn’t like.
“New York?...... it’s bad for America”
I’m in Alabama. Most of East Texas was settled by Alabamians.
Coke??? Not in my part of East Texas. It’s Sody Water (pronounced Soa-dee Water) when i relocated there in mid 90s. That was hard to stomach. Even stores had signs on them advertising such. The term has been slowly fading away.
All in all, this list should be divided to local jargon. Half of them I never heard of or encountered when traversing the state.
Actually it's not. You walk into a shop alone and the attendant asks, how y'all doin'?
In the deep south where everyone used to know everyone and their families it was about being polite. How y'all doing is a question about the family not about you personally. Only a Yankee would think it was all about her.
I was born in SD. And now live near Chireno.
What a difference! No more gitchur coooat.
Answer the phooone. It’s coold ooout.
Love it. I also love how daddy is daddy even to strangers. Never my daddy. Just daddy. Daddy loves them buffets a mighty piece.
great find.
Or the , “the weather is so gnarly” comment
“Reckon
People in Texas don’t just think — they “reckon.” This classic Texan slang is used in a variety of ways, such as for making a prediction or guess, or expressing a strongly held belief. For instance, someone might say, “I reckon that it’ll rain later,” or, “I reckon it’ll take a few hours to fix the car,” or even, “I reckon that BBQ is my favorite type of food.””
Lots of people come from Texas and/or adopt their sayings. Perhaps even Paul.
Romans 8:18 (KJV)
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.”
I’ve known a few people that do. Even “soda pop.”
As a life long southerner I can guarantee that bless your heart is used but sparingly.
Bless your heart for thinking it’s made up.
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