8 Expressions You’ll Hear in Texas: Learn some expressions that capture the charm, wit, and larger-than-life personality of the Lone Star State.

Word Smart ^ | 12/26/2024 | Bennett Kleinman

[Alas Babylon!]

These are all in the South from Texas onto Georgia.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Half of these are made up to spot Californian spies trying to blend in.

Won’t work. Your purple hair gives it away.

[Telepathic Intruder]

If you order a Coke in the White House, you have to go through Hunter or Harris first.

[DesertRhino]

“Bless Your Heart” is deep south where apparently it is a deep cutting insult or something. It’s pretty much unknown in Texas in that sense.

[anton]

As in “where can I git me a fishin license?”

[ladyjane]

Texans think all these sayings come from Texas?

Well bless their hearts.

[KierkegaardMAN]

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.

[struggle]

Might could comes from Mississippi/Alabama. Eudora welty had her 2nd grade teacher yell at her back in the 1920s about it in Jackson and it slowly became Texan parlance as people moved west from Mississippi.

[Organic Panic]

Y’all = singular

All’s Y’all = plural

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Many moons ago, a bunch of Pittsburghers moved to rural north Alabama to start a factory. The language gap was immense. The best one was the phrase “I don’t care to” do something. That meant “Yes, I will do that” in the local dialect, but to the ‘Burghers it meant “Nope - not gonna do it”. Almost got some folks fired before it got worked out.

[yuleeyahoo]

As a fifth generation Floridian, I have heard and used these expressions all my life. They are not uniquely Texan.

[steve86]

“The sun is as hot as all git-out”

We would say that when I was growing up in eastern WA — far from TX. Nowaday’s there some Texan influence via farmworker migration but there sure wasn’t then.

[mairdie]

all git-out was certainly part of my childhood, as was “Flush the toilet, Dallas needs the water.” Sherman TX grandfather, here.

[FamiliarFace]

And northern Florida!

[Libloather]

Momennems - where you go for Thanksgiving.

[Larry Lucido]

[Jamestown1630]

My best friend from High School grew up half in Mississippi, and half in Texas.

She was always using ‘might could’; and often said that something was ‘Big as Dallas’.

[mairdie]

Forgive me, grandpa, for not getting it right. So very many years and miss you desperately. “Pull the chain, Dallas needs the water.”

[FamiliarFace]

Guessing that Bennett Kleinman is a youngun that thinks he’s very clever. Smarter than his Boomer parents.