Posted on 12/26/2024 7:44:15 PM PST by SeekAndFind
That’s about right. That’s a Texas thing and not a Southern thing.
My Southern Baptist sister in law from Georgia says “bless your heart” a lot. You can tell when it’s genuine and when it’s not, based on her demeanor when she says it. She does say it plenty.
I’ve never heard of the biscuit one.
Shirley, you jest. East Texas is the Deep South.
Put it up means put it away, store it, etc.
Aside from the obligatory y’all, if you want to include everyone in your line of sight or get people’s attention, it’s “all y’all.”
Yes, we have some interesting colloquialisms.
I thought the secret call was, “The stars at night are big and bright...”
If they can’t finish the next verse, they are just visiting.
We live in East Texas…Y’all is mandatory for any type of communication.
‘Set down’ replaces ‘sit down’ as well. And howdy is a must-have in your Nacogdoches lexicon.
Now yer talkin’ my kinda language. I’m so grateful to be a born and bred Texan. My mommas people are from the east side of Highway 59 and daddy’s the west side (outta Lufkin of course).;)
Old phrase: Busier than a one-arm paper hanger (back when wallpaper was all the rage).
Any time I need somethin it’s always over yonder.
One of my aunts who was born, raised in New Orleans and never ventured out into the world used to say, “Bless His Little Heart,” all the time and it was always meant as affectionate and positive.
Australians says reckon a lot.
“Busier then a one legged cat trying to bury his turds on a frozen pond.”
I saw an email that had “50 things you never hear in the South, like “your hair is too big and who is Richard Petty.
Best example is Warsh:
*Go warsh your hands, warsh your hair and behind your ears.
*The warsh is flooded.
*Warshington DC, Warshington state.
Hardly isolated to Texas. Common in most of the southwest.
But, probably never heard in the benighted northeast.
Too funny,
Thank you!
My Pa used to use “all git out” but what Pa meant was clear the damn room now. :D
Now that’s funny!
There used-to-was a bridge to over yonder.
I have a friend that does that!
Another word I hadn’t heard until I moved to Texas was hooptie. Up north, we called them clunkers.
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