Me either. I think it’s mainly just a good guessing game video. No actual southerner would “TDWH” - doesn’t roll off the tongue or communicate as colorfully as the actual expression. IOW, Southern Abbreviations: that dog won’t hunt.
They aren't used. The title is confusing tho. I think this was meant as they are making acronyms from our phrases and wanted to see who could guess, not that they are actual acronyms that exists in common use
For those that don't know the difference. An acronym can be pronounced like a word. NASCAR, NASA, LOL, etc... If you must say each letter individual then it is only initials.
Never heard any of these abbreviations heard all the sayings and no they are not acronyms, I’ve been in manufacturing and they love their acronyms and buzz words at least management and HR do.
@@huntjl88 You can doubt whatever you wish. No, we didn't squish everything together into a bunch of CAPITAL letters, we have always used the sayings/expressions, though. So sorry that I didn't explain things so that you could clearly understand.
The funny thing is, I totally said "Hey y'all hey" too when I saw HYH at first! I was able to get all of them (especially with the hints) except Cain't Never Could (which I don't say, or hear very often).
I got barking up the wrong tree and hold your horses, but I've never seen them as acronyms. Most of my family still lives in the south and I haven't seen them use these either.
i have lived there my whole life and i have never heard more than half of these, and have never seen the ones i have heard abbreviated. then again i don't socialise that much so that's probably why
yeh, Southerners slow down speech cuz they instinctively hope it will result in the air molecules around them also slowing down, thus resulting in cooler weather
Ain’t is quicker than are not, whatcha is quicker than what are you, y’all is quicker than you all…I think we do speed up our speech quite a bit now that I think about it😂
Correct!!! From the Dictionary app: 1. a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps,OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation. 2. a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately; an initialism.
I've never seen any of these abbreviated. The two southern words I love best are "yonder" and "yunder". They're so useful that I wonder why the rest of the US doesn't use them. Need to know where your husband is? He's over yonder in the field. Can't find your keys? You left 'em in yunder on the counter. Yonder = over there (greater distance). Can also be used to indicate something or someone is outside rather than inside (He's out yonder). Yunder = over there (shorter distance) Can also be used to indicate when something or someone is in the same building, but in different room (The kids are in yunder)
whoa whoa whoa, I live in the north and when I saw QBU I said "quit being ugly" as a joke and when that woman first said it, I laughed my butt off thinking we had the same mindset.. but then I was right??? whoa.
So, I got "OY" super fast, but not because I knew it. My thought process took the route of I yell out 'OY" when I try to get someone's attention...over yonder. Like: "Oy, you! Get over here." My mind is a confusing and scary place to be sometimes.
This was great. There are some of those phrases my mother and grandmother used to say in the Ottawa Valley. I really did love "Cain't never could" and I will use that one on my grandson.
It is interesting to hear the various southern drawls heard. I’d love to hear where each person originates from. All of you sound southern but not from the same place.
I was astonished to see MTAWH in this video, because I have literally never heard anyone use that phrase except for my mother. I always assumed that she made it up.
I don't know if it's just my family or actually a Pennsylvania thing, but as soon as they said HYH had to do with horses I knew exactly what it was lol.
QBU was the first one I actually figured out, and figured out way ahead of the participants. Never would have thought about anybody interpreting it literally to be about appearance.
Are they really acronyms if nobody uses them? Especially "southern" acronyms? I'm a 20 year transplant and even in my first year I never would have thought to write any of these as an acronym. I'm not sure any of them could be noted as particularly southern anyway.
These are the English speaking translations Over Yonder : over there TDWH : that dog won’t hunt ( that won’t do ) APAAP : as pretty as a peach ( referring to the beauty of a young lady , usually said by grandma) HYH : hold your horses ( wait a minute ) CNC: CAINT NEVER COULD ( I was not built for that never will be built for that so STOP ASKING ME ABOUT IT ) MTAWH ( madder than a wet hen ) : you about pissed me off to the point where I can no longer take it and I’m going to cuss you straight down if I don’t leave the vicinity QBU ( quit being ugly): stop being angry BUTWT ( barking up the wrong tree ) it’s bout to get ugly in 5 seconds so you better leave the vacinity IMMEDIATELY
Whoa, are those all really Southern phrases?? I knew pretty much all of them, without the hints. I am not even Southern. Born and raised on the "left" coast. Only lived in the South for one year. 😂 🏆
I've been a Southerner for 64 years and even though I know and have used most of those phrases, it took me a bit of time to figure out a few and some I didn't until they were revealed. LOL
Way back in the 80's I had a college professor with a terrible stutter. His favorite was: 'KDCSA'. (King Daddy Cool Strikes Again). God I miss that guy!
On Little House on the Prairie, Laura tells Adam to hurry back at the school of the blind kids, cause Mary's waiting for him and is MADDER THAN A WET HEN!
I moved to Ohio from NC 10 YEARS ago. I was joking with a friend, and told him if he did leave me alone I would knock him upside his tator. THE WHOLE HOUSE GOT SO QUIET, I HEARD CRICKETS.😆
So many good ones, that are more common: "Right as rain," "bless your heart," "this, that, and the third," "as all get-out," "sweating like a sinner in church."
I say every last dang one of these. I don’t abbreviate them because then I can’t yell them to get my point across, and I think it’s impossible to convey a proper southern attitude when texting. Only emojis can do that.
One of the most southern things in this video is the dad managing to subtly mention how good of a baseball player his son is
Yeah, that was cute.
Both and raised in the South. While I know all of these phrases, I’ve never seen any of them abbreviated.
Same here. Oy is what we say if we stump our toe or something. It’s like ouch. Over yonder is something else.
NEVER
Me too!
I was so waiting for "B.Y.H"....and Bless y'all's hearts, it never came!🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤣🤣
I was waiting for that one too
same here
What does it mean?
@@JY-um4su depending on tone and context, everything from "i'm so sorry" to "f*$k you and the horse you rode in on."
@@JY-um4su Bless Your Heart....you really don't know🤦🏾♀️Well I'm not telling🤣🤣😉
I've never seen ANY of these slangs abbreviated lol
Looks like it's bout time to start usin em....
Me either. I think it’s mainly just a good guessing game video. No actual southerner would “TDWH” - doesn’t roll off the tongue or communicate as colorfully as the actual expression. IOW, Southern Abbreviations: that dog won’t hunt.
They aren't used. The title is confusing tho. I think this was meant as they are making acronyms from our phrases and wanted to see who could guess, not that they are actual acronyms that exists in common use
Southern born and bred, heard all these phrases never seen anyone abbreviate then in texts!
@@pamelajackson6954 exactly... 63 years and never heard a single one
Why would we use acronyms when these phrases are so awesome!
For texting.
For fun!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
We don't
@@johnw2026 Only a jasper would do that.
As a non American..I just love the way southerners speak. Down with the acronyms, I wanna hear every word just how its spoken.
Okay, so... we need to have a little talk about the difference between acronyms and initialisms.
**applause** THANK YOU! Grammar nerds showing up! 👏❤😁
For those that don't know the difference. An acronym can be pronounced like a word. NASCAR, NASA, LOL, etc... If you must say each letter individual then it is only initials.
@@huntjl88 exactly. And some (like NES) can even be both, depending on how you say it.
I know, I just... let it go 😂
Never heard any of these abbreviations heard all the sayings and no they are not acronyms, I’ve been in manufacturing and they love their acronyms and buzz words at least management and HR do.
Southerners are more inclined to turn a one syllable word into a 3 syllable word than to shorten it.
Facts
Ask one to say oil vs all can't tell the difference
Exactly!
😂
And as a Southerner, I approve this thought! You're welcome!
I've said every one of those expressions but never as an acronym.
That’s not the point lol it’s a challenge to them to guess what the phrase is in acronym form
I'm 66 years old,lived in the South all my life ,ain't never herd of those acronyms
You've got one year on me, and as someone born in Alabama and raised in the Florida Panhandle, we've always used them.
Maybe the idea is that they added a challenge of abbreviating typical southern phrases
@@ladybee883 I doubt very seriously about that. As they had ZERO acronyms. NASCAR is an acronym TDWH or QBU are not.
@@huntjl88 You can doubt whatever you wish. No, we didn't squish everything together into a bunch of CAPITAL letters, we have always used the sayings/expressions, though. So sorry that I didn't explain things so that you could clearly understand.
@@ladybee883 So you're saying you used the sayings? Not some BS like TDWH. OK I'm from Georgia and knew and have used all the sayings too.
I knew every phrase but never knew anyone to abbreviate them in such a way so I felt like an idiot this whole video
Fully agree.
That's cuz folks down south are talkers. Story tellers. Always have been.
Because how many times do you see an acronym out of context for the first time? Most times you can decipher a common phrase if used in context.
I felt like the creators of the video were the idiots
Nope don't know anyone who uses these acronyms face to face online maybe
"Biscuits under the wilderness tonight, it's very romantic" got me
Well, I got "hold your horses" without needing the hint, but that was the only one; not sure whether to be proud or ashamed...
Be proud! I got about 50/50 bit didn't get that one😉
I also only got hold you 🐴
Same, what’s wrong with us?
The funny thing is, I totally said "Hey y'all hey" too when I saw HYH at first! I was able to get all of them (especially with the hints) except Cain't Never Could (which I don't say, or hear very often).
I got barking up the wrong tree and hold your horses, but I've never seen them as acronyms. Most of my family still lives in the south and I haven't seen them use these either.
Nope, we always used words ...
@@intercat4907 Exactly.
WOADB-Water Off A Duck's Back-Jinkx Monsoon
Lived in South Carolina for 12 years. Heard every one of these sayings on a weekly basis!
i have lived there my whole life and i have never heard more than half of these, and have never seen the ones i have heard abbreviated. then again i don't socialise that much so that's probably why
Joining the chorus here: we say this stuff. Never turned it into a spelling bee.
This felt very reminiscent of trying to figure out a message on a pager back in the day. Yes, I just showed my age.
What a minute. Got to call a technical foul. Acronyms are to speed up speech. Talking faster is downright anti-southern.
Ha ha! Yup 👍
These are for texting.
yeh, Southerners slow down speech cuz they instinctively hope it will result in the air molecules around them also slowing down, thus resulting in cooler weather
Ain’t is quicker than are not, whatcha is quicker than what are you, y’all is quicker than you all…I think we do speed up our speech quite a bit now that I think about it😂
To be fair we do use yall
Reducing these poetically descriptive phrases to lame acronyms is a sin.
When someone's acting a fool. "You better CYM." Call Your Mama.
the acronyms, with no context, its hard.
Georgia born here- and I grew up hearing (and repeating!) these from most of my family!
These are not Acronyms, they’re abbreviations. Acronyms can be pronounced such as SCUBA.
Correct!!! From the Dictionary app:
1. a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words and pronounced as a separate word, as Wac from Women's Army Corps,OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.
2. a set of initials representing a name, organization, or the like, with each letter pronounced separately; an initialism.
That's cuz we don't really use acronyms in the south. Only one I use regularly is SSDD, when someone asks how's it going.
What’s that mean? Apparently I ain’t southern
& WWJD .
@@pizza_dr.pepper06 same shit different day
I’ve heard almost all these phrases but never once heard them as acronyms
Them hardly knowing any of these is prime evidence that us southerners don’t actually use these old saying much less acronym them when texting.
We use them, just, as you say, not when texting. We use them when actually talking to someone - or in an email.
I've used all of them, although I love using "Bless your heart". I just wouldn't ever use them as an acronym, never even heard of such a thing.
My mom used to say madder than a wet hen all the time. Now I have it on a t-shirt.
I've never seen any of these abbreviated. The two southern words I love best are "yonder" and "yunder". They're so useful that I wonder why the rest of the US doesn't use them. Need to know where your husband is? He's over yonder in the field. Can't find your keys? You left 'em in yunder on the counter.
Yonder = over there (greater distance). Can also be used to indicate something or someone is outside rather than inside (He's out yonder).
Yunder = over there (shorter distance) Can also be used to indicate when something or someone is in the same building, but in different room (The kids are in yunder)
whoa whoa whoa, I live in the north and when I saw QBU I said "quit being ugly" as a joke and when that woman first said it, I laughed my butt off thinking we had the same mindset.. but then I was right??? whoa.
Grew up hearing Hold your horses and my dad was from Kansas. Live in N Idaho and had people look at me funny for an explanation all my life.
54 TN southerner; and I have said some of these, heard these; yet, *NEVER* used or seen these in text or chat.
So, I got "OY" super fast, but not because I knew it. My thought process took the route of I yell out 'OY" when I try to get someone's attention...over yonder. Like: "Oy, you! Get over here." My mind is a confusing and scary place to be sometimes.
I managed to guess three of em, but have obviously heard all of them.
I think it's actually "As pirty as a peach". 😄
You get extra points!
Purty as a peach y'all.
The only one I had never heard before was 'Cain't Never Could'.
Cain’t never could do nothin’ is how I’ve always heard.
Georgia. Southern Alabama. Louisiana.
@@jjjackson5183 Tennessee
I heard it phrased this cain't never could till you try
This was great. There are some of those phrases my mother and grandmother used to say in the Ottawa Valley. I really did love "Cain't never could" and I will use that one on my grandson.
I guess we don't do acronyms in TX.
I guess so
We don’t in Alabama
We don’t in TN either.
Nor NC
We don’t at all in the south.
I haven't heard a single one of these acronyms. I have heard the little phrases/sentences that they are short for though.
We say "Hold Your Horses" in the UK! I think I've heard "Pretty as a Peach", "Barking Up the Wrong Tree" as well!
We also use As Proud as a Peacock.
It is interesting to hear the various southern drawls heard. I’d love to hear where each person originates from. All of you sound southern but not from the same place.
Out West we say "Madder than a Wet Hen on a Hot Rock" so you left off part of it.
I've been in the west for better than 10 years, never heard that but madder than wet hen I have in the south and sometimes they said red hen.
No we didn’t. Y’all just add unnecessary stuff on the end. So STIYPASI! 👇🏻
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it! 😂😂
@@biggunchaviers2535 Our community moved west from VA, KY, TX, OK and Missouri. Our roots are Southern.
It's "madder than a stripped snake". No idea where y'all getting this hen shit from.
CNC...
in the DPRK, they are machines that helped boost our missile program. We even did a whole song about CNCs
I've sometimes said I was mad enough to "bite nails and spit bullets ".
I got a few of them. The hints helped
Got one for ya.. WBMB! Well butter my biscuits! Love the channel!
I was astonished to see MTAWH in this video, because I have literally never heard anyone use that phrase except for my mother. I always assumed that she made it up.
Kevin is like a Southern Arthur the Aardvark! 🤣
Who uses these as acronyms? I hear all of these, but no one makes them into acronyms.
I don't know if it's just my family or actually a Pennsylvania thing, but as soon as they said HYH had to do with horses I knew exactly what it was lol.
BUTWT can also be "bit under the weather today"
Oh I knew every one except the dog won’t hunt. Except I didn’t know any of the acronyms lmao! Gotcha didn’t I? You thought I guessed them all! 😂😂😂😂
Y'all need to move the studio outside. Everyone of ya is pale! Need some glorious southern sunshine.
@john wallace ikr they need to hth wtbs.
@@Yellow-Rose Agreed. They scratching hard and coming up empty.
the man was so cute about "cant never could".. the good people of the south are so sweet 💖
I love the lady with the side part in her hair. Her attitude is so awesome.
Mtawh- "make the aardvark wash hands." 😂🤣😂 It's a Covid thing.
I love that I am a Southern Peach ...I have grown up using the Saying’s... not the Acronym’s...We Just said what We Meant ....As Nice as Possible...🍑
Cookin' and crochetin' If it isn't, it should be. 😂😂😂
QBU was the first one I actually figured out, and figured out way ahead of the participants. Never would have thought about anybody interpreting it literally to be about appearance.
Same here!!!
Are they really acronyms if nobody uses them? Especially "southern" acronyms? I'm a 20 year transplant and even in my first year I never would have thought to write any of these as an acronym. I'm not sure any of them could be noted as particularly southern anyway.
Yeah - if I make up an acronym right now, it’s still an acronym. Or IIMUAARNISAA :)
@@s.b.1814 Technically, sure...
I use all of these, sometimes in the same sentence. However, the only one I got without a hint was OY.
This was fun y'all.
Make That Aardvark Wash Hands … I laughed so hard I shit myself
Make the aardvark wash hands! I'm dyin' here!!! lmao
These are the English speaking translations
Over Yonder : over there
TDWH : that dog won’t hunt ( that won’t do )
APAAP : as pretty as a peach ( referring to the beauty of a young lady , usually said by grandma)
HYH : hold your horses ( wait a minute )
CNC: CAINT NEVER COULD ( I was not built for that never will be built for that so STOP ASKING ME ABOUT IT )
MTAWH ( madder than a wet hen ) : you about pissed me off to the point where I can no longer take it and I’m going to cuss you straight down if I don’t leave the vicinity
QBU ( quit being ugly): stop being angry
BUTWT ( barking up the wrong tree ) it’s bout to get ugly in 5 seconds so you better leave the vacinity IMMEDIATELY
I've been Souther all my 50 something years and other than TGIF we NEVER used acronyms !!
😊 Thanks! That was a fun guessing game! I got two right and both of them only after the visual clue. 🤗
Barking up the wrong tree.
Pretty as a peach. 🍑
Hold your horses, the elephants are coming! Is the historical origin of the phrase from when the circus parade came thru town. :)
🦋 ALL OF YOU HAD ME ROLLIN' 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I got 'em all, though I've never seen them as acronyms
Biscuits under the wilderness tonight, was the original working title for the Elton John song "Can You Hear The Love Tonight."
That Dog Won’t Hunt is an East Texas phrase. The movie Bernie has some great examples of East Texas southernisms.
6:00 - My GIRL! I was doing the SAME THING watching this! 😂 (Didn't help me either 🤣)
PTO = Plum Tuckered Out
FT = Fixin To
This Louisiana girl loves this . Y’all too cute lol 😂
Whoa, are those all really Southern phrases?? I knew pretty much all of them, without the hints. I am not even Southern. Born and raised on the "left" coast. Only lived in the South for one year. 😂 🏆
Hi 🙋♀️ this is a very nice 👍🏻
I've been a Southerner for 64 years and even though I know and have used most of those phrases, it took me a bit of time to figure out a few and some I didn't until they were revealed. LOL
have heard every single saying many many times..... and a total of zero acronyms........ ever..
Way back in the 80's I had a college professor with a terrible stutter. His favorite was: 'KDCSA'.
(King Daddy Cool Strikes Again).
God I miss that guy!
Wow I moved up north 30 years ago and was able to get them all.
Definitely haven't used acronyms for any of these.
I was waiting for BYH ... Bless Your Heart
On Little House on the Prairie, Laura tells Adam to hurry back at the school of the blind kids, cause Mary's waiting for him and is MADDER THAN A WET HEN!
MTAWH?? Isn't that the sound that the late Dinah Shore use to sign off at the end of her show? hehahahah
4:21 you called? yes I crochet while I cook 'cause cooking can be stressful and it helps me relax so I don't freak out
Can I buy a "quit bein ugly" shirt paying with a gallon of Chick-fil-A tea?
I moved to Ohio from NC 10 YEARS ago. I was joking with a friend, and told him if he did leave me alone I would knock him upside his tator.
THE WHOLE HOUSE GOT SO QUIET, I HEARD CRICKETS.😆
BUTWT... "been under the weather today". I would have demanded partial credit for that.
So many good ones, that are more common: "Right as rain," "bless your heart," "this, that, and the third," "as all get-out," "sweating like a sinner in church."
I say every last dang one of these. I don’t abbreviate them because then I can’t yell them to get my point across, and I think it’s impossible to convey a proper southern attitude when texting. Only emojis can do that.
"Taking down waffle house" had me cracking up. I didn't get any of those.
In the south we speak in sentences not acronyms.
APAAP is also As precious as a pup
Someone once told me I was cute as a 3 legged pup
@@Cindyd-k3e oh my, I am not sure where to go with that...I guess it's better than some guy in a bar referring to me as an angry ex-nun?!?!
@@DarbyAlexanderFarms yeah, I think that's different
BYH. (Allayalls.) Somehow, the hen at our house was always old (ol') as well as wet.
The acronyms are more what the younger generation use, while we older Southerners still say each word like yer ‘pose to
Coming from Australia I was proud that I got some of these
I have never seen anyone use acronyms for these phrases, just saying.
Do y'all know the ad before this video is for plant-based pork rinds??? Is that even legal in the south????
Blasphemy!
No
Never heard of them that way. The actual phrases yes! No one uses them that way!