Gosh—it’s hard to put in writing the way we tawk!
We certainly use the pronoun “Y’ALL” (pronounced YAWL)—a lot. Many times, we drop the last letter in a word—we say “puddin” instead of pudding or “nuthin” for nothing, for instance.
Of course, there are regional accents within the state. My accent is mostly southeast-or Piney Woods Texan.
Maybe some other Texan will chime in here to add somethin’....LOL!
Well, I’ve certainly had to use words like ‘mater’ for tomatoes, and drop the ‘g’ from ‘ing’ words with my relatives and where I now live. I was just wondering if there were any specific regional peculiarities re: Texas that we Georgians don’t use.
Not germain, but something I like to reckon to Texas is guns and civilians....an online video about a store in Texas and a bunch of shoppers hearing a car backfire outside. Before you know it, they’ve ALL drawn their big caliber weapons lookin’ to smoke the perp.....anything like that?
My dad’s second wife grew up in Texas. She never said “y’all”, but I got to know and love that accent. Met a guy on a plane once, we spoke briefly and I said to him “you’re from Texas, aren’t you?” He was, LOL.
And then we do say "Yes mammm, No, mammmm", "Thank ya mammm" very well and everyone is EXPECTED to use it.
Does Mitt use YUSE (same meaning as You All) or yusens when in PA or up north?
It is hard to place our accents because we don’t got much to say and we got all day to say it.