Ive lived in the south my whole life.. ive never heard that before. Ive always heard people call everything that isn't a sedan a truck but call an actually truck a "pick-up"
I’m thinking it’s wordplay. When Moms would go grocery shopping and little girls would push their baby buggies, the shopping cart became known as a buggy.
I agree with Lauryn Leist...it's a cart!! A buggy is a horse-drawn carriage used as transport before we had automobiles LOL 😂 I think it's cool tho hearing the different words used... I'm from Seattle, but was stationed in Louisiana and Texas while in the Army. Honestly drove me NUTS at first hearing everyone say "y'all" all the time, and they'd look at me funny for saying "you guys"...but it was all good fun...😏💖💓
British people: We call the turn signal on cars “indicators” because they indicate which way we are turning. Americans: wE cAll tHeM bLiNkErS cUz tHeY gO bLiNk-bLiNk🤠
I'm from Wisconsin and when I was in basic training in the army I walked into the barracks and I said, where do you guys want to go tonight? The guys were from the South and they said we immediately knew you were from the North when you said "you guys". I enjoyed your video, thanks for posting it.
In my part of Virginia it’s not, “would you like to come to my house for dinner?” It’s “y’all wanna come over & have groceries?” LOL we don’t cook food either. We make groceries.
This is a great video!!! I'm a Wisconsinite and have been watching videos about WI "accents" because a Californian recently told me that I have a "cute Wisconsin accent" so I'm like, I dont have an accent...I just say things differently, lol. I can relate to everything Wisconsin
Growing up the first ATM's in my area were called 'TYME' machines. Take Your Money Anywhere. They were used in four states for a while. To this day many of us still call them TYME machines. Moved to California for a spell (southern term?) and went to pay for my groceries but was short on cash. Told the cashier I'd be right back after I went to the TYME machine. Lot of crazy looks until I realized why and explained myself.
I know exactly how you feel. I'm a Wisconsinite ( originally the Sheboygan area but now live in the Appleton area) married to a guy from Arkansas. When we first got married, I would have to stop and think of what the hell it was that he was trying to say! I'm used to it now. I have finally got him to say cart instead of buggy! Oh and he now calls them soda. Man.... it was aggravating (when we lived in the south) when I'd ask for coke, and would then get asked "what kind of coke?" "Uh.... coke?" Hell there were so many times people would talk to me, and I wouldn't have a clue what they were saying.
I guess people don't understand the heritage of the South. The accent is because of the Scottish/ Irish influence. Wisconsin has Northern European influence. I have never heard the coke thing. If I ask for a coke I get a coke, a sprite, I get a sprite so on and so forth. One question, what is a hoose ?
How funny! I'm from Wisconsin a little village called oxford and am married to a man from Arkansas. The first time he gave me directions and told me to go down the holler and hang a right. I had no clue to holler down what. Ha ha! It's a challenge to understand a lot because they shorten everything and expect you to figure out the rest.
In my part of Wisconsin, people say Water Fountain or Drinking Fountain. I've heard bubbler, but no one says it where I'm from. Maybe it's because I'm on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota. 😂 IT DOES NOT MAKE BUBBLES, IT HAS WATER AND YOU DRINK FROM IT. 😂
I'm from the fox valley in Wisconsin and lived down near Chattanooga for about 5 years. This video was awesome because I can hear it. But I call it pop or coke, I do the laundry and it's a drinking fountain. A few other things I kinda switch through.
I grew up in Green Bay grew up and moved to Tennessee, 30 min south of Nashville. Lived there for 9 years. Now I've moved back... And I'm feeling this so hard!!! Lmao can you imagine, I say all the words a yanky says but with a country tone. When I get protective my southern accent comes out and when I get excited or energetic my yank makes an appearance. I love it. The hardest thing for me to get used to was " in a minute, or it'll take a min" a minute could be anywhere from one minute to like many days depending on what your talking about....or warsh. It's a tie.
Nice video! And remember folks that thing you use to cover your pickup box, in wisconsin it's called a truck topper and in Tennessee it's called a camper shell lol. I'm from wisconsin and just moved to Tennessee and still learning the southern talk
I'm from Georgia. Some small differences with me vs the Tennessee guy. Pointing something out in the distance is "over yonder". And I say "say what?" instead of "do what?" when asking someone to repeat themselves. And I've never really called a valley a "holler" (but I'm not from the mountains). Other than that it's pretty much the same.
The hollar comment had me in stitches. Spot on vid from the gent just out of Nashville, so relatable. I wonder if folks up north calls a meat and 3 places that, we do in these parts, or restaurants or diners. Hope there's more like this one as it came on feed, will have to see. If not, plz do include the idea to do more of this sort, to your list of ideas for future uploads. Enjoyed watching, thanks.
You two scare me, I'm a truck driver that lives in Wisconsin but travels through the south. I find mysel6says a mixture of both of these "styles " of speech. Never realized until now that I've be saying "do what" almost my entire life.. I'm from California originally. Thus was awesome good job on this
Nashvillan here!!! Honestly I didnt realize how (we) pronounce words until I watched this I thought everyone spoke like us 😂😂😂 BUT IM PROUD TO BE FROM THE SOUTH AND HAVE MY TWANG AND PRONUNCIATIONS much love from old hickory Tn 😘😘
I am from SE Texas (Beaumont/ Pt. Arthur area: 80 mi east of Houston, 45 min west of LA, 45 min from the Gulf). I married a man from Conroe (40 mi North of Hou). He said tar, tire & tower exactly the same way. I would have to look around to figure out which one he was talking about. I never thought anything about "fixin' to" until I had an Indian neighbor who pointed it out to me. And calling them all "cokes" is us trying to sound more sophisticated. Until at least the mid-1960's, they were all "sody wadders" (soda waters) .
I'm from Sheboygan Wi. We say bubbler. Kohler Co. made a drinking fountain and the and the model was named bubbler. When I travel, I always get asked what part of Canada are you from...great video
Kristen Long, I know right where you're coming from. I"m from Michigan, my husband is a Texan, as is his whole family/ We met both working at the same place in New Mexico, moved to California where his family had moved and within a month I sounded just like his mama. It's been 34 years now, we've moved to Nevada, his family is all gone and I still say "I'm fixin' to go inta the Walmart, y'all need anything?". Him: "Yup, we need some eggs and corn bread mix." Me: "Gotcha covered, suge, I'll throw some in the buggy."
Laundry vs. wash. This is how you know he's from the big city. Where my parents are from smalltown TN, it's pronounced warsh, as in 'war' with sh added. My background: born in that smalltown TN area, but grew up in Cincy.
I had a guy from Illinois ask me if I could hear myself talk. I'm from Alabama and definitely have that deep South accent. What got me was that he was in my neck of the woods when he asked me that. I just said, "you're the one who sounds funny because you're in my territory". My husband is from Illinois. The first time we went shopping I said "I'll get a buggy". He said "what???" I said "buggy". He said "it's a cart, not a buggy". I said "not where I'm from". Funny.....
What a great video I love it thank you so much for an education I'm a northerner living in North Carolina and I really appreciate this eye opening talk.
Ok im from wisconsin (eau claire to be exact) but some things other people say like calling it pop instead of soda, bubbler instead drinking fountain and more
I am a native of Columbia South Carolina. I raised my daughter here. My daughter lived in Chicago for 5 years while she worked on getting her bachelor's and Master's. She did have a bit of a Southern accent. Maybe more than a bit for the good people of Chicago. She was dismissed from a job as a waitress in an upscale restaurant because of her southern accent. She would get teased on occasion for terms she used which were different from those of Chicago natives. One example, she said chill bumps and Chicago native said goosebumps. She's a sweet and caring person. I don't think she even knows how to insult someone. Anyway, as a mom, I could see her pain. Anyway, she married a Chicago native and they are happily married with two sons ages 7 and 5. Her husband was able to open an office here in Columbia and continue to work for a company in Chicago. Probably for 10 years now. I suppose we all have and infinity for where we grew up. I'm glad that she came home and that her husband is acclimated to our Southern Culture. I like to hear their 7 year old speak with a Southern drawl. I actually encourage the exaggerated accent for my own entertainment. He makes me laugh a lot. However, I'm not quite sure it's discernible In his everyday speech. Anyway, they have made their home in a university community because they enjoy diversity and wish that their children Learn to enjoy it as well. the public elementary school that they attend has students from all over representing 40 Nations worldwide. they're learning a lot about different cultures and sometimes pass new knowledge on to me. I like to celebrate all languages and cultures.
Really good chemistry from ya'll.. As a Tennessee boy from middle tn we classify a group as "All Ya'll" althought ya'll means more than one! We still add the "all" anyways!
A sack is made of burlap or some other strong fibrous material woven together. Used to hold feed, grain or potatoes. “The wash” isn’t that popular of a phrase anymore. Started to convert to laundry in the 70’s. We have “Up nort” for any place north of your location. Otherwise it’s “Going to” or “Going down to”.
When I lived in Pennsylvania they would say “you’s” instead of y’all. As in , you’s want to go to the lake? Or when you would ask a question about a topic that a person did not know the answer to they would reply with the phrase “ I don’ think”. As in “ well Tom is it time to get the oil changed in your truck? His response, “I don’t think”. As in, I don’t think so, it was just changed not long ago. Crazy stuff like that.
My family used to set up at the flea market in Crump, TN - and, people there called bags "bags". No one was like "Y'all need a sack for that?" Also, living my life in MS, we called shopping carts "carts" - except those electric ones disabled people ask for, which we call a "zoom buggy".
Every summer at Kiddie Korner we had the Doll Buggy Parade. Course mose kids road bikes. It's a bubble. The water bubbles up so you can drink it. It's also what Kohler put on the sides of them when they made them. Soda all day long and if something is in the floor you're gonna need a new floor. I know most of these about how people talk I've been to lost of places in this country. One thing I got from my kids was washing the dishes meant just that. Where growing up it meant clean up the kitchen. I say y'all alot more these days than you guys. Ask him about the U.P. sometime! No one outside Wisconsin knows what that is. Evidently we say milk funny too. I agree with him about the peacan pie though. Hello from Racine!
This video was so entertaining! I came from NE, PA to KS and I had to get used to the different words and phrases used here, so I laughed through the whole video! Ty for the laugh!!!
I so understand! I'm from Wisconsin (from Madison, aka MadTown!) My grandparents and their siblings are from Southwestern Missouri... I"ve heard many of these... Thank you both for being such good sports :)
You guys, as a fully bilingual French Canadian, is funny how some of the South expressions seemed to have been influenced by the Acadian French from the 1700's. Thanks Y'all!
My boyfriend is from southwest Texas, like on the Mexico border and he always says "get down from the car" instead of "get out of the car." Being from east Texas myself, I have more of a "traditional" southern accent. I used to work in a restaurant during college (in a different region of TX) and people would tell me I had a "Houston" accent, which I didn't know was even a thing... and yes I'm from the Houston area. My roommate in college is from Minnesota and my ex is from Upstate NY so I'd actually picked up some Northernisms from them over the years.
Menasha born and raised, OTR driver I'd go down south on a run and ask where the bubbler is I get funny looks, a water fountain is an outdoor decoration lol
Good point about a water fountain being an outdoor decoration I'm from New York and we say water fountain I think that's what they say here in North Carolina I'm going to have to check on that
North Central Tennessee here...say on the floor, put away and puh-can or pee can, cart not buggy, say, up in, to say, in something....it's all over the place....my younger relatives don't have an accent really and I can sound posh for a job interview or something...but if I'm around Southern folks I will get down home...✌
I didn’t hear any Midwest from her at all (accent wise) at first but at the end when she said “on top” I thought THERE IT IS! Lol! His accent isn’t extreme but it’s definitely there. Add a few decades of cigarettes and whiskey and he sort of sounds like my grandpa
Im born and raised Tennessee. Grew up in a very rural town called Sale Creek. It's the last city in north Hamilton county. Hamilton county is the county Chattanooga is in. Now that's a country accent. We don't say sour even like Nashville. The way we say it is like the word mare only with an s is the only way I know how to explain it. Sale Creek Tennessee accent is much like the Appalachian accent of old country folk. At the least the folks who were born and raised there and gave never moved away. And we say bag a lot. Sometimes sack but mostly bag. And they say flowers "flares". And over yonder, yander, and yunder. And up there is shortened to up 'er. My accent isn't 100% sale Creek because I was born in Chattanooga and didn't move to Sale Creek until I was 8. I remember when I was in 5th grade my teacher circled a word I had written in red with an angry face beside it and the correct spelling beside it. The word was backwards and I spelled it "backerds". I never got it wrong again.
Bubblers are drinking fountains. Being an older guy I remember in Appleton WI our elementary school had white porcelain drinking fountains that had been in the school from the early 1900's - these were supposed to be clean water for kids and dogs. The kohler company made drinking fountains and most of them were in the schools branded I think as bubblers in WI - I do know finding a water fountain in some poor areas was as difficult to find as a public bathroom that catered to all races in the south. So in the south a water fountain may be just that a park fountain or something but not a northern drinking fountain.
Yes! I lived in northwest Wisconsin for 10 years, and on certain words I really did sound like a Canadian, especially when I said “dollars.” (DAWL-ers). Oh ya. You betcha.
funny, I’m from Massachusetts and I say laundry. but we replace words like “very” with “wicked” and I didn’t know it was just a New England/Massachusetts thing until I moved to the south and people cracked up every time I said it
I am from west central WI & I say pecan properly ( emphasis on last syllable). That & the drinking fountain r about the only thing that they say correctly, imo ! ( " doing the laundry" , too. We called it wash often in our family too. "Did u do the wash yet?" "Is the wash done?" " The wash is in the dryer". So, it apparently is a WI thing.
Also, In my experience, many who do know to say pecan properly, say it the other way on purpose sometimes, like, the way folks do when they're being good-humored & socialable at Thanksgiving, maybe take on a ( WI version of a ) southern drawl, for the cadence of how it sounds to say " I brought my famous Pee-can pieh ! Who wants some ? " ( with that slight drawl & the equal emphasis & tone on all syllables & words).
haha this is cute. I live near Raleigh with my parents and moved down here from WI and I’m always teasing my friends and coworkers about the way they talk lol. Yeah, I feel like I say laundry vs wash lol
wow butthurt much? lol I moved here to help take care of my dad who recently became paralyzed. I love NC and tease my coworkers lovingly lol. Your problem if I annoy u.
I’m from Appleton. Hi how are you all doing? Or y’all doin. My friend is from Texas and the first time I heard “no bigger than a minute “ I was like what did you say. Or “ over yonder. Now I know what they mean.
It was entertaining to hear both of your accents. I'm from California the melting pot "Silicon Valley". I suppose there are many accents here. I don't think I have one but I probably sound funny to you guys. Angel from The Bay
me, as a non native speaker, when studying english "is it IN the floor or ON the floor? I should know that, maybe I have to study more".. and then I watch this and discover that not even you americans have it figured out 😂. At least now I know if I ever say it wrong when talking to a native speaker, I can always use the excuse "oohh I'm sorry, I'm from the south! We say it like that there" 😂😂
Wow it’s been a year since I saw this clip and I just watched it again ha ha still a great video I’m finsta put the groceries up ha ha ha .... too funny y’all
I'm from the south but live up north now. The first time I went in a store to ask where there buggies were they looked at me like I was from another planet! Took me 3 times to finally get them to understand what I was looking for! LOL 🤣😂😄
I'm from Milwaukee, my wife is from Wilmington, and just today she said "I was thinking" then stop talking ...I was like what? She said no that was it. She claims a southern can say things like "Soooo" and "You know what" and then say nothing....argh. so confused
From Kentucky and I agree 95% with Tennessee but never heard buggy before. My mom was from rural KY and my dad rural TN. It was shopping cart. But they were rural in 50s so prob didn't exist then. 😂
I am from Wisco, and a 'buggy' to me is a what you push your baby around in, 'baby buggy,' or 'buggy' for short. Not sure if that is a Wsco thing though, might just be me or my area of Wisco, not entirely sure.
In wisco we don't have east and west, we have towards the lake and away from the lake
Is it in the middle? Like, why?
Emily Hamilton and “up north” 😂
Cali here, wisco wako all still wack 'o
Wiscovina?
It's up north and not up north lmao
The first “water fountain” was made by Koehler in Wisconsin. It’s called a bubbler. A water fountain is something you toss coins in
No, you throw a coin in a fountain. You drink from a water fountain
What is it bubbling???? Its a water fountain
It’s a goddam bubbler get it right
Born & raised in western WI in a county bordering the st.croix river. I’ve never heard it called a bubbler. It’s a drinking fountain.
Kohler
I'm from Wisconsin and it drives me absolutely nuts when someone says "buggy". A BUGGY IS A HORSE-DRAWN WAGON😂 NOT A SHOPPING CART
Ive lived in the south my whole life.. ive never heard that before. Ive always heard people call everything that isn't a sedan a truck but call an actually truck a "pick-up"
I’m from Massachusetts and I feel that on a spiritual level
I’m thinking it’s wordplay. When Moms would go grocery shopping and little girls would push their baby buggies, the shopping cart became known as a buggy.
I agree with Lauryn Leist...it's a cart!! A buggy is a horse-drawn carriage used as transport before we had automobiles LOL 😂 I think it's cool tho hearing the different words used... I'm from Seattle, but was stationed in Louisiana and Texas while in the Army. Honestly drove me NUTS at first hearing everyone say "y'all" all the time, and they'd look at me funny for saying "you guys"...but it was all good fun...😏💖💓
Here its something u shop with
British people: We call the turn signal on cars “indicators” because they indicate which way we are turning.
Americans: wE cAll tHeM bLiNkErS cUz tHeY gO bLiNk-bLiNk🤠
I'm from Wisconsin and when I was in basic training in the army I walked into the barracks and I said, where do you guys want to go tonight? The guys were from the South and they said we immediately knew you were from the North when you said "you guys". I enjoyed your video, thanks for posting it.
Steve Balistreri want to go? What kind of basic training were you in? That’s some cupcake shit
Say yall in Wisconsin and you will be made fun of instantly
Steve Balistreri . in ghana, we use the same phrase
Alejandro Juarez-Rea hahaha exactly what I was thinking! Some Mickey Mouse shit!
Obviously the proper term instead of you guys is youse. Where do youse guys want to go?
In my part of Virginia it’s not, “would you like to come to my house for dinner?” It’s “y’all wanna come over & have groceries?” LOL we don’t cook food either. We make groceries.
Haha! Really? I've never heard that! Thanks for sharing!
@Kyril J In Scotland to go grocery shopping is to "get my messages".
This is funny!
We in Wisconsin would say "did ya wanna come by me er no?"
Tennessee folks are awesome. Just so laid back and everything. Wisconsin folks be extra chipper and talk loud in public when they talk to each other.
This is a great video!!! I'm a Wisconsinite and have been watching videos about WI "accents" because a Californian recently told me that I have a "cute Wisconsin accent" so I'm like, I dont have an accent...I just say things differently, lol. I can relate to everything Wisconsin
Im from Green Bay and he is right we make all our vowel sounds really long. Its why everyone thinks we sound Canadian because they do it too.
Growing up the first ATM's in my area were called 'TYME' machines. Take Your Money Anywhere. They were used in four states for a while. To this day many of us still call them TYME machines. Moved to California for a spell (southern term?) and went to pay for my groceries but was short on cash. Told the cashier I'd be right back after I went to the TYME machine. Lot of crazy looks until I realized why and explained myself.
In Wisconsin we have Amish that drive actual buggies.
I know exactly how you feel. I'm a Wisconsinite ( originally the Sheboygan area but now live in the Appleton area) married to a guy from Arkansas. When we first got married, I would have to stop and think of what the hell it was that he was trying to say! I'm used to it now. I have finally got him to say cart instead of buggy! Oh and he now calls them soda. Man.... it was aggravating (when we lived in the south) when I'd ask for coke, and would then get asked "what kind of coke?" "Uh.... coke?" Hell there were so many times people would talk to me, and I wouldn't have a clue what they were saying.
Haha I love it! Thanks for watching!
I guess people don't understand the heritage of the South. The accent is because of the Scottish/ Irish influence. Wisconsin has Northern European influence. I have never heard the coke thing. If I ask for a coke I get a coke, a sprite, I get a sprite so on and so forth. One question, what is a hoose ?
Les Mach do what? Hoose?
Les, I'm glad you brought up the influences of the accents because I actually learned this not too long ago. You are absolutely correct :)
How funny! I'm from Wisconsin a little village called oxford and am married to a man from Arkansas. The first time he gave me directions and told me to go down the holler and hang a right. I had no clue to holler down what. Ha ha! It's a challenge to understand a lot because they shorten everything and expect you to figure out the rest.
In my part of Wisconsin, people say Water Fountain or Drinking Fountain. I've heard bubbler, but no one says it where I'm from. Maybe it's because I'm on the border of Wisconsin and Minnesota. 😂 IT DOES NOT MAKE BUBBLES, IT HAS WATER AND YOU DRINK FROM IT. 😂
I'm from Alabama and can tell y'all Hubby is right on all counts.
Haha! I'll let him know. Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting!
Kelly The eBay Sock Queen Don’t understand
Except pi-cahn. I've always said pee-can, because Mom said it that way.She was from N Carolina.
I'm from MS/AL, and I can say he's off on a few.
Well not like YOU aren't biased? Also you talk strange and that's a fact lol
U guys r so adorable!! It's fascinating to hear different words used from different regions for the same thing...thx for sharing this!! ☺️💖💓
I'm from the fox valley in Wisconsin and lived down near Chattanooga for about 5 years. This video was awesome because I can hear it. But I call it pop or coke, I do the laundry and it's a drinking fountain. A few other things I kinda switch through.
the tennessee one is just so accurate it’s amazing
I’m from the Appleton area in wi too! My husband is from bowling green area in Kentucky. I can totally relate to this!!
Just wanted to be the 200th comment and to say I love mt Southen talkin' ways. Born and raised in the GA.
Oil and tire examples were the biggest surprise to me- WOW Need to visit TN.
Heyyyy nice to see a fellow wisconsinite
I grew up in Green Bay grew up and moved to Tennessee, 30 min south of Nashville. Lived there for 9 years. Now I've moved back... And I'm feeling this so hard!!! Lmao can you imagine, I say all the words a yanky says but with a country tone. When I get protective my southern accent comes out and when I get excited or energetic my yank makes an appearance. I love it. The hardest thing for me to get used to was " in a minute, or it'll take a min" a minute could be anywhere from one minute to like many days depending on what your talking about....or warsh. It's a tie.
Nice video! And remember folks that thing you use to cover your pickup box, in wisconsin it's called a truck topper and in Tennessee it's called a camper shell lol. I'm from wisconsin and just moved to Tennessee and still learning the southern talk
Chicagoan here.... she speaks just fine except for the fact ... it's pop (the cold drink)
I'm from Georgia. Some small differences with me vs the Tennessee guy. Pointing something out in the distance is "over yonder". And I say "say what?" instead of "do what?" when asking someone to repeat themselves. And I've never really called a valley a "holler" (but I'm not from the mountains). Other than that it's pretty much the same.
I'm from Oak Creek/ Milwaukee/ Wisconsin and I say bubbler and shopping cart.
I'm from Wisconsin and everything she said I say to. I was shocked at the buggy part. This video was very interesting.
The hollar comment had me in stitches. Spot on vid from the gent just out of Nashville, so relatable. I wonder if folks up north calls a meat and 3 places that, we do in these parts, or restaurants or diners. Hope there's more like this one as it came on feed, will have to see. If not, plz do include the idea to do more of this sort, to your list of ideas for future uploads. Enjoyed watching, thanks.
You two scare me, I'm a truck driver that lives in Wisconsin but travels through the south. I find mysel6says a mixture of both of these "styles " of speech. Never realized until now that I've be saying "do what" almost my entire life.. I'm from California originally. Thus was awesome good job on this
Im from The fox Valley area too!
Nashvillan here!!! Honestly I didnt realize how (we) pronounce words until I watched this I thought everyone spoke like us 😂😂😂 BUT IM PROUD TO BE FROM THE SOUTH AND HAVE MY TWANG AND PRONUNCIATIONS much love from old hickory Tn 😘😘
I'm from N Florida. We had a family from Wisconsin move in. They pronounced it Wis- CAAHN -Sen. Used to grin whenever they would say it.
Never argued with Wisconsinites about how to pronounce Wisconsin.
my grandpa took me to an old fire tower this summer and that would be pronounced "far tar"
Haha! That's great!
I am from SE Texas (Beaumont/ Pt. Arthur area: 80 mi east of Houston, 45 min west of LA, 45 min from the Gulf). I married a man from Conroe (40 mi North of Hou). He said tar, tire & tower exactly the same way. I would have to look around to figure out which one he was talking about. I never thought anything about "fixin' to" until I had an Indian neighbor who pointed it out to me. And calling them all "cokes" is us trying to sound more sophisticated. Until at least the mid-1960's, they were all "sody wadders" (soda waters) .
I'm from Sheboygan Wi. We say bubbler. Kohler Co. made a drinking fountain and the and the model was named bubbler. When I travel, I always get asked what part of Canada are you from...great video
Kristen Long, I know right where you're coming from. I"m from Michigan, my husband is a Texan, as is his whole family/ We met both working at the same place in New Mexico, moved to California where his family had moved and within a month I sounded just like his mama. It's been 34 years now, we've moved to Nevada, his family is all gone and I still say "I'm fixin' to go inta the Walmart, y'all need anything?". Him: "Yup, we need some eggs and corn bread mix." Me: "Gotcha covered, suge, I'll throw some in the buggy."
Laundry vs. wash. This is how you know he's from the big city. Where my parents are from smalltown TN, it's pronounced warsh, as in 'war' with sh added. My background: born in that smalltown TN area, but grew up in Cincy.
I had a guy from Illinois ask me if I could hear myself talk. I'm from Alabama and definitely have that deep South accent. What got me was that he was in my neck of the woods when he asked me that. I just said, "you're the one who sounds funny because you're in my territory". My husband is from Illinois. The first time we went shopping I said "I'll get a buggy". He said "what???" I said "buggy". He said "it's a cart, not a buggy". I said "not where I'm from". Funny.....
What a great video I love it thank you so much for an education I'm a northerner living in North Carolina and I really appreciate this eye opening talk.
Ok im from wisconsin (eau claire to be exact) but some things other people say like calling it pop instead of soda, bubbler instead drinking fountain and more
Hey 👋🏼 to another from Eau Claire! It’s grocery cart & putting the groceries away! 🤣
In South Georgia: going to = fixin'= becomes "fittin'.' As in: "I'm fittin' to go shopping."
Same in good ole TN
Lol I live in Tennessee too!!! Love this video! I say stuff just like your husband does!! Hilarious!!
I am a native of Columbia South Carolina. I raised my daughter here. My daughter lived in Chicago for 5 years while she worked on getting her bachelor's and Master's. She did have a bit of a Southern accent. Maybe more than a bit for the good people of Chicago. She was dismissed from a job as a waitress in an upscale restaurant because of her southern accent. She would get teased on occasion for terms she used which were different from those of Chicago natives. One example, she said chill bumps and Chicago native said goosebumps. She's a sweet and caring person. I don't think she even knows how to insult someone. Anyway, as a mom, I could see her pain. Anyway, she married a Chicago native and they are happily married with two sons ages 7 and 5. Her husband was able to open an office here in Columbia and continue to work for a company in Chicago. Probably for 10 years now. I suppose we all have and infinity for where we grew up. I'm glad that she came home and that her husband is acclimated to our Southern Culture. I like to hear their 7 year old speak with a Southern drawl. I actually encourage the exaggerated accent for my own entertainment. He makes me laugh a lot. However, I'm not quite sure it's discernible In his everyday speech. Anyway, they have made their home in a university community because they enjoy diversity and wish that their children Learn to enjoy it as well. the public elementary school that they attend has students from all over representing 40 Nations worldwide. they're learning a lot about different cultures and sometimes pass new knowledge on to me. I like to celebrate all languages and cultures.
please do more videos like this! I’m learning English and it was very interesting and helpful for me. Thank you!
Really good chemistry from ya'll.. As a Tennessee boy from middle tn we classify a group as "All Ya'll" althought ya'll means more than one! We still add the "all" anyways!
I'm from Wisconsin. We add a whole extra syllable to "oil". Oy-yal. I have no idea why!
Wow. I'm from Dunn co. & we just say " Oy-il" ( but, not overly enunciated ).
Lol I’m born and Raised Louisiana living in New York and omg so many of these are so true!!! 💕
A sack is made of burlap or some other strong fibrous material woven together. Used to hold feed, grain or potatoes.
“The wash” isn’t that popular of a phrase anymore. Started to convert to laundry in the 70’s.
We have “Up nort” for any place north of your location. Otherwise it’s “Going to” or “Going down to”.
sooo fun, i enjoyed it. you guys are cute!!!
When I lived in Pennsylvania they would say “you’s” instead of y’all. As in , you’s want to go to the lake? Or when you would ask a question about a topic that a person did not know the answer to they would reply with the phrase “ I don’ think”. As in “ well Tom is it time to get the oil changed in your truck? His response, “I don’t think”. As in, I don’t think so, it was just changed not long ago. Crazy stuff like that.
My family used to set up at the flea market in Crump, TN - and, people there called bags "bags". No one was like "Y'all need a sack for that?"
Also, living my life in MS, we called shopping carts "carts" - except those electric ones disabled people ask for, which we call a "zoom buggy".
Every summer at Kiddie Korner we had the Doll Buggy Parade. Course mose kids road bikes. It's a bubble. The water bubbles up so you can drink it. It's also what Kohler put on the sides of them when they made them. Soda all day long and if something is in the floor you're gonna need a new floor. I know most of these about how people talk I've been to lost of places in this country. One thing I got from my kids was washing the dishes meant just that. Where growing up it meant clean up the kitchen. I say y'all alot more these days than you guys. Ask him about the U.P. sometime! No one outside Wisconsin knows what that is. Evidently we say milk funny too. I agree with him about the peacan pie though. Hello from Racine!
I live in SWest TN and my mind was blown with the in the floor part. Because it's not really in the floor it's on it.. MY LIFE IS A LIE
This video was so entertaining! I came from NE, PA to KS and I had to get used to the different words and phrases used here, so I laughed through the whole video! Ty for the laugh!!!
Thank you Carol! Thank you for watching! Glad we made you laugh!
I so understand! I'm from Wisconsin (from Madison, aka MadTown!) My grandparents and their siblings are from Southwestern Missouri... I"ve heard many of these... Thank you both for being such good sports :)
I am from California and am a mix of the 2 of you. LOL. Nice video. :-)
Thank you for watching Maricela!
You guys, as a fully bilingual French Canadian, is funny how some of the South expressions seemed to have been influenced by the Acadian French from the 1700's.
Thanks Y'all!
My boyfriend is from southwest Texas, like on the Mexico border and he always says "get down from the car" instead of "get out of the car." Being from east Texas myself, I have more of a "traditional" southern accent. I used to work in a restaurant during college (in a different region of TX) and people would tell me I had a "Houston" accent, which I didn't know was even a thing... and yes I'm from the Houston area. My roommate in college is from Minnesota and my ex is from Upstate NY so I'd actually picked up some Northernisms from them over the years.
Menasha born and raised, OTR driver I'd go down south on a run and ask where the bubbler is I get funny looks, a water fountain is an outdoor decoration lol
Good point about a water fountain being an outdoor decoration I'm from New York and we say water fountain I think that's what they say here in North Carolina I'm going to have to check on that
North Central Tennessee here...say on the floor, put away and puh-can or pee can, cart not buggy, say, up in, to say, in something....it's all over the place....my younger relatives don't have an accent really and I can sound posh for a job interview or something...but if I'm around Southern folks I will get down home...✌
Greetings from Kaukauna WI. Great video.
I didn’t hear any Midwest from her at all (accent wise) at first but at the end when she said “on top” I thought THERE IT IS! Lol! His accent isn’t extreme but it’s definitely there. Add a few decades of cigarettes and whiskey and he sort of sounds like my grandpa
Im born and raised Tennessee. Grew up in a very rural town called Sale Creek. It's the last city in north Hamilton county. Hamilton county is the county Chattanooga is in. Now that's a country accent. We don't say sour even like Nashville. The way we say it is like the word mare only with an s is the only way I know how to explain it. Sale Creek Tennessee accent is much like the Appalachian accent of old country folk. At the least the folks who were born and raised there and gave never moved away. And we say bag a lot. Sometimes sack but mostly bag. And they say flowers "flares". And over yonder, yander, and yunder. And up there is shortened to up 'er. My accent isn't 100% sale Creek because I was born in Chattanooga and didn't move to Sale Creek until I was 8. I remember when I was in 5th grade my teacher circled a word I had written in red with an angry face beside it and the correct spelling beside it. The word was backwards and I spelled it "backerds". I never got it wrong again.
Love the st. Norberts college Shirt my sisters went there
One of the WEIRDEST nouns I had to live with when I moved to Wisconsin (Milwaukee) was "bubbler" (Water Fountain).
Yes, definitely a very strange thing for Wisconsin! I did not realize this until I went to college haha. Thanks for watching!
It's a bubbler. A water fountain is what you pitch pennies into. Thank goodness I'm here to correct you poor unfortunate soul!
Bubblers are drinking fountains. Being an older guy I remember in Appleton WI our elementary school had white porcelain drinking fountains that had been in the school from the early 1900's - these were supposed to be clean water for kids and dogs. The kohler company made drinking fountains and most of them were in the schools branded I think as bubblers in WI - I do know finding a water fountain in some poor areas was as difficult to find as a public bathroom that catered to all races in the south. So in the south a water fountain may be just that a park fountain or something but not a northern drinking fountain.
I just can't say bubbler
BADGUY 1 ay my boy from milwaukee
I'm Canadian, and she does sound very Canadian!! 🍁
Yes! I lived in northwest Wisconsin for 10 years, and on certain words I really did sound like a Canadian, especially when I said “dollars.” (DAWL-ers). Oh ya. You betcha.
Southern Accents are so much warmer and welcoming.
My boyfriend and I disagree over on the floor vs in the floor I'm from green Bay and hes from a small town in TN lol so this video hit home 😅
Y’all are too stinking cute. Here in Louisiana we have a little different Southern slang but a lot of it is the same.
Lordy my family from Mississippi nd moves to Wisconsin so I have a nice mixture of both accents. People are always confused when I talk 😂😂😂
Im the opposite, grew up in Wisconsin and moved to Tennessee. Lol my accent changes with my moods...lmao!😂
Great video guys! Really enjoyed watching AND learned something to boot :)
I'm from west Virginia and I live in Boone county wv USA
I'm west Virginian and Christian
I live in wisconsin and I call a bubbler a water fountain I also say I'm gonna go do laundry. Everything else was the same
Thank you for watching!
If you say water fountain you are not from Wisconsin.
Slice Born n raised Wisconsinite n I say water fountain as well as many other from where I’m from..
@@slice40 In northern Wisconsin we say water fountain not bubbler and pop not soda.
In Canada, we say Water Fountain took and Put up
This was so much fun watching. Great job
funny, I’m from Massachusetts and I say laundry. but we replace words like “very” with “wicked” and I didn’t know it was just a New England/Massachusetts thing until I moved to the south and people cracked up every time I said it
They cracked up because they found it to be wicked funny. 😉
I am from west central WI & I say pecan properly ( emphasis on last syllable). That & the drinking fountain r about the only thing that they say correctly, imo ! ( " doing the laundry" , too. We called it wash often in our family too. "Did u do the wash yet?" "Is the wash done?" " The wash is in the dryer". So, it apparently is a WI thing.
Also, In my experience, many who do know to say pecan properly, say it the other way on purpose sometimes, like, the way folks do when they're being good-humored & socialable at Thanksgiving, maybe take on a ( WI version of a ) southern drawl, for the cadence of how it sounds to say " I brought my famous Pee-can pieh ! Who wants some ? " ( with that slight drawl & the equal emphasis & tone on all syllables & words).
My Wisconsin mother told me that a pee can is what you keep under the bed when you don’t have indoor plumbing. I strictly say Pe-Kahn
haha this is cute. I live near Raleigh with my parents and moved down here from WI and I’m always teasing my friends and coworkers about the way they talk lol. Yeah, I feel like I say laundry vs wash lol
wow butthurt much? lol I moved here to help take care of my dad who recently became paralyzed. I love NC and tease my coworkers lovingly lol. Your problem if I annoy u.
Everywhere we go camping is up north..
Always end a ? With "er no?", i,e; " we going to the bar, er no?
"Can ya come here once?"
I'm from Tennessee and I definitely talk like a southerner, except for the grocery bag one 😂
The majority of these are spot on for Wisconsin, although I am influenced by my parents NY accents.
I’m from Appleton. Hi how are you all doing? Or y’all doin. My friend is from Texas and the first time I heard “no bigger than a minute “ I was like what did you say. Or “ over yonder. Now I know what they mean.
cute couple enjoying your linguistic differences; enjoyed your video!
Thank you!
It was entertaining to hear both of your accents. I'm from California the melting pot "Silicon Valley". I suppose there are many accents here. I don't think I have one but I probably sound funny to you guys. Angel from The Bay
me, as a non native speaker, when studying english "is it IN the floor or ON the floor? I should know that, maybe I have to study more".. and then I watch this and discover that not even you americans have it figured out 😂. At least now I know if I ever say it wrong when talking to a native speaker, I can always use the excuse "oohh I'm sorry, I'm from the south! We say it like that there" 😂😂
I am from Pakistan 🇵🇰 and it sounds so informative and funny at same time. When I speak english i use mix of north and south.
I live in southern GA and I agree with the way she says pecan
Lived in Texas for a short while and got made fun of so much for the Wisconsin accent when I said bag.
Ugh yes. That word has been my plight here in TN haha!
I apparently have the perfect mix of random Southern, yooper, and wisco accent... from Oconto area.
This Wisconsinite is finding that Nashville native hilarious. LOL "in the floor"??? Oh, my God!!! I've gotta move to Nashville!!!
chrisgast haha! It's the best. Thanks for watching :)
Oh Nashville is awesome
Wisconsin representing
Go badgers, Go Packers
Great video you two.
Thank you so much for watching! Go Badgers! Go Pack Go!
Slice WHOO!
Wow it’s been a year since I saw this clip and I just watched it again ha ha still a great video
I’m finsta put the groceries up ha ha ha .... too funny y’all
Wow 6 years ago, I commented
Awesome!!!!
Party on!!!!
I'm from the south but live up north now. The first time I went in a store to ask where there buggies were they looked at me like I was from another planet! Took me 3 times to finally get them to understand what I was looking for! LOL 🤣😂😄
I honestly would have thought you wanted one of those electric motor carts for some reason.
Great video!!! Laughed so hard 😂
We say hawg, lawg dawg ,love the south from bama.but i have yankee cousins in Illinois.and my cousin derrick cracked me up when he would talk
Get it .I'm from Wisconsin, fox valley , and my wife is from mountains of North Carolina
I'm from Milwaukee, my wife is from Wilmington, and just today she said "I was thinking" then stop talking ...I was like what? She said no that was it. She claims a southern can say things like "Soooo" and "You know what" and then say nothing....argh. so confused
JJ Hesley so true! I do it all the time! Bad habit. #TexasGirl
@@JulySummertime Bill Engvall did a joke on that. Texans say things like "I tell you what!" That's it. There's nothing more.
Well, in East Tennessee we call the "bag/sack" a tote.
My husband is from TN and I'm from WI Fox valley area too!!
From Kentucky and I agree 95% with Tennessee but never heard buggy before. My mom was from rural KY and my dad rural TN. It was shopping cart. But they were rural in 50s so prob didn't exist then. 😂
I thought buggy was a normal thing?! 😂
It is! In the South! :)
I am from Wisco, and a 'buggy' to me is a what you push your baby around in, 'baby buggy,' or 'buggy' for short. Not sure if that is a Wsco thing though, might just be me or my area of Wisco, not entirely sure.
Im from South we call it stroller
Kayla Caswell I was incredibly shocked when I heard buggy. I was just sitting there completely surprised
Rebecca Bell Wisconsin calls it stroller. I live there.
Spent some time in Greenbrier and Springfield. . . Canadians say eh, WIs say hey. . . Aahn the floorboard. . . Hahaha