Matt is actually correct. There was a study done by a linguist and Appalachian southerners accents are closer to Old English than the rest of the U.S. dialects.
Also depends on the drawl of the region. My 'Bama born parents were raised in TN. Their accents are slightly different than my LA (that's lower Alabama) relatives compared to the Cajun born & raised ones. Then there's my Geechee ainties who speak Gullah and that's just a whole nother world of encyclopedic proportions 🤣
"Soda" came from the Soda fountain or Soda shop where one could get the fizzy drinks before the times when they were packaged and distributed. Like old Soda water bottles from the cartoons. "Pop" comes from the sound the cans made when opened since folks not in the south only had canned soft drinks when they were first introduced.
The part about pop isn't accurate. Soda bottling in the north started in 1839 while soda canning did not come along until the 1930s and was still very rare into the 1960s. The north had over 100 years of bottled soda before the can took the markets. So it was not called pop because they didn't have bottled soda at first.
I don’t even know what to say. Love this! I’m from a weird microcosm in Utah where lots of people from the South moved here while I was in high school. We wave at people we don’t know, have people with and without accents and understand them, I love grits-especially with cheese, love hominy and fried okra, we drive in snow but aren’t so good in heavy rain. Keep it coming whenever you want.
I lived from age 10 until my early 30s in the South (Georgia, then moved to Utah, where I've been for 15 years now). So, of course I'm now curious about this town! Do the people there still have a southern influence from the influx of Southerners those years ago?
I love how southerners ask about your mama. Going to a small town store where I know no one - I am gonna ask the clerk how their mama is doing today. It is just polite and it is what we southerners do. It shows we like you
As far as 'are Southerners less educated' from a NYer raised by 2 Alabama born, TN raised folk, (one who earned a full scholarship to Tuskegee). It was just 'normal' for me to know that my aunts had Masters degrees in education, doctorates in finance, & uncles who worked at the Space center after retiring from the military. I LOVED going to work @ Brooklyn Civil & getting my cheese grits & scrambled eggs from a little bodega a block away (I couldn't find them made correctly anywhere else & the grits wouldn't 'keep' in my thermos during my commute in) I'd just tell them, 'it's a Southern thing' & this was in early '90s😉
I think it's some parts of the south where there is a high water table like the southern 2/3rds of Florida and around New Orleans where they don't have basements. Otherwise it's what is the common for what the local builders want to do. In my part of the northern Midwest it's the builders water table or if there is a lot of stone preventing basements.
As a born and bred Southerner all my life, it was weird when I was stationed up north or west in the navy. I always got weird looks when I always called every ma'am or sir and held doors open etc. It's just how Southerners are raised, not that it doesn't occur everywhere else but when you're here you're family. Funny thing is is drove better in snow (never did before) when I was in MD than some northerners 🤣
If you grew up with a Southern accent, you will never get rid of it. You can hide it or adopt the accent of the region you're living in, but it will always sneak back. My wife's best friend from highschool (we're from Tennessee) married and moved to Michigan. Her husband is from Illinois. On occasion she will talk to her sister or my wife. When her husband comes home he asks who have been talking to today? Because here accent completely comes back. Lol
I think folks are askin’ all these questions cuz they secretly wanna move down here and steal our family recipes for nanner puddin . And maybe shrimp n grits too. There’s been too much plunderin of the recipe box and things show up in the dangdest non southern places with weird things added to them, like avacado cream corn and sweet potato kale casserole. Or the trusty breakfast casserole made with keen-wah, fake cheese and impossible sausage. I got a whole church yard of relatives spinnin in their graves. Guard the recipe box! You can’t trust people that don’t drink sweet tea.
I love southern food, but I hate any kind of tea lol I was born in Florida and moved up to Massachusetts and I love it here! However, the main reason I don’t want to move south is because I’m Gay and all my southern relatives are homophobic (except for my aunt and her family) and are batshit crazy 🫠
You’ve now made me wonder how well strawberries would work instead of bananas for that pudding, but I digress. That’s something you experiment with once to satisfy your curiosity, and possibly never touch again. That said, food is an art and a craft. It is meant to be shared, adapted, and changed. Traditional recipes are also very tasty, and deserve to be kept and remembered.
On the basement question. Soil/ground type and water concentration determines when a base is approved. New Orleans is entirely in a cad. 10 flood zone. So, there are no basements under any sercomstance.
Why can't Southerner's drive in snow? Well when I see where a 70 car pile up in Wisconsin is due to ice/snow I don't really think Northerners can either lol...
In (central) Texas, we don’t have basements because you dig down 2 feet and then you hit solid limestone, so to dig a basement is crazy expensive, and not that many people want to fork out that much money just to have some more space to park junk.
I have to say that I believe that our accents have been watered down by exposure to other regions of the country through mass media outlets or, in my case, living in a region that has a lot of people from all over the country and being exposed to it on a daily bases. I'm from Coastal Mississippi where we have a major shipyard and several military bases so we have people from all over coming to work here. But I have always heard that the rest of the State of Mississippi doesn't consider the coastal counties as being part of the state, being emphasized by the fact that even AT&T gives the Coastal counties its own area code. When I went to school we had a girl move into the area from Boston and we would talk to her just to hear her accent because she spoke what they called the King's English. 50 years later I took a trip to Boston and when visiting merchants and attractions expecting to hear many people with the same accent she had but was kind of disappointed when most of the people there sounded like me for the most point. But then I have been told that I don't sound as Southern as many of the folks around me even though I have spent my whole life here. I honestly have no explanation why I would sound different... Anyway, I really love your videos and also the fact that we can make fun of ourselves whereas other regions so many people get offended by the littlest of things. Keep up the good work and keep the stories coming. Love y'all!!
When I was a kid in Mobile Alabama in the 60s, a common question on the playground was, “Are you a Yankee or a Rebel?” Apparently, the Civil War was not over.
It’s funny we don’t realize we have accents! We were at an event in Virginia and a couple was at the table with us. He literally propped both elbows on the table. Chin in them and watched every word that came out of my mouth. Then told me he loved my accent! What accent?😂😂😂😂😂😂
So.... 😂 hold a min cause 😂 I'm from the south and finally got my turn in drivers ed to drive. It started snowing for the first time in like 5 years. I pulled over in a safe area and was like what do I do?! My instructor (who grew up in Jersey) was like keep driving. I legit said I want a second opinion cause you sir are not from here. 😂😂😂
Speaking about the education factor: once, when I was living in Wisconsin, there was a coworker that came up to me and literally said, "wow, you're very smart despite your accent," in front of God and everybody. I politely told him he needed to step away from me.
Im from Florida and havea pretty nonregional accent, but I do say oil like a southerner. Nust one of those words. Most of the stuffbrought up in these vids I either agree with (grits arent great and I never in my life heard of banana mayo sandwiches) or its just baffling like "why do you like biscuits so much." Just a bizarre question from my perspective....who doesnt love a great biscuit?
A coworker grew up in Maine near the Canadian border and had never met a southerner. When he joined the marines, he visited the south for the first time for basic training in South Carolina. He kept looking at people's feet and was surprised that all the southerners wore shoes since he had heard they did not. It was also the first time he met a black person. Talk about a yokel.
Southerners can't drive in the snow for the same reason people in Seattle can't drive in a thunderstorm. I was shopping around 3 PM in the summer in Seattle. A thunderstorm blew in. Everyone in the shop was freakin' out like a level 5 hurricane was coming in except for myself and one other woman. Both of us started giggling at the ridiculous women. I looked at the other giggle and said, "Tennessee. You?" She answered, "North Carolina." and we laughed out loud! Thunderstorms are daily occurrances in the South in the summer." Yes, they have flooding from one thunderstorm, but I handled that like a pro, too!
Well, that all my family and cousins are married to northerners. Even though we're southerners. Probably because we're good at Truck driving and they like my cousins.
I'm used to live in New Mexico and I went to NYC. While I was there this lady asked me several questions. Where's New Mexico and it's part of Mexico? Do you have electricity, running water or roads? When I answered her questions she was shocked. She honestly didn't believe that NM was part of the United States. So I guess it just depends on what area of the US you're raised you're going to some preconceived ideas about other parts of the country. Education system has failed in so many ways and it's still failing.
Yankees was a derogatory term from the British empire that was ment to disparage the separating colonists. Then the colonists embraced it. I was born and raised in Alaska and am currently living in the midwest. When I think of Yankees I'm thinking of the east coast.
I wish they would ask northeners why they always want to know where the cemetiers are in the south worked and lived the north for almost 20 years and they always asked me that
I'm a west coast transplant and the way people here seem to know who you are through who your relatives are and how everything's connected seems to me to be a uniquely southern thing. I never experienced it before anyway. Here's an example: we lost my mother in law a few months ago. They had been at the same credit union for decades, and of course after she passed we had to do the usual paperwork involved at the bank, death certificate, take her name off the accounts, close the credit card that was in her name etc. They were very sympathetic of course, that's normal. Well, a couple weeks ago my husband got a paper check in the mail (weird I know!) and we went to deposit it--we use the same bank. We were in the drive up lane, like the third one over from the window, so not like we were face to face with the teller or could even see her. She gets the check from the little tube and as she's processing it asks "How's Mr.(FIL) doing? We're so sad about Miss (MIL) I hope he's getting along okay." We were kinda shocked, we do 99% of our banking and bills online so it's not like we go into the bank and know the employees. But this lady saw his name on the check, knew who his dad was, and remembered that his mom had passed and genuinely seemed to care how we were doing. That's not something I ever experienced until I moved here.
To be honest, I'm surprised that you didn't get a sympathy card from them. Did people bring food like they do in my area?This is why I love the South, the friendliness. Of course it also means everyone knows your business but that's ok with me. May I please suggest Jeanne Robertson's "don't send a man to the grocery store" on UA-cam. She is the epitome of the southern lady and a humorist. It focuses on the requirement to take food when someone is sick or passes. Hilarious but true.
I don't think it's uniquely a southern thing. I was born on Guam, but lived around the states. With how my family from Guam and how I've lived, I've been able to laugh a lot and relate to a lot that has been shown on this channel.
I'll speak for California and the West Coast as well as for those from other REAL cities... A) Nobody asked you to move to the West Coast B) In-N-Out is NOT good. STOP praising it. It doesn't endear you to anybody in California. It just shows you're a tourist. Just visit Universal Studios and Disneyland...
My mother's cousin grew up in Georgia. Was sent up north one winter by a company he worked for. His coworkers didn't want to believe him when he told them he'd never been out of Georgia before then because of how well he handled driving in the snow, and on icy roads. He asked them if they had ever driven on a Georgia red clay road after it had just gotten done raining, or while it was raining
@@melissapyle7879 on the flip side, my incredibly white Yankee father (grew up in PA, WV and almost exclusively OH) taught me (native American born in Ohio and raised in NC) taught me to drive on NC ice He even showed him off with a couple donuts. He wasn't a country boy; I, however, was a city girl. He was a city boy that just knew how to drive.
What no one bothers to discuss is the fact that northern snow and southern snow are different. Northern snow is usually dry and it packs down to a hard surface on which you can drive. Southern snow is slush on top of 2 inches of black ice. No one can drive safely on black ice. And those people flying off the shoulders and killing people in the southern snow?? Almost always northerners who think they're smarter than everyone else.
Your not getting out of red clay literally the whole state of north carolina is red clay. Hope you got AAA if you get stuck after a rainstorm your screwed.
So the "when" vs. "whenever" thing, I think the question was probably aimed at people who say "Whenever you go to the store..." instead of "When you go to the store..." and it's about managing expectations. If you ask someone to pick up milk "when you go to the store", there's an assumption that a trip to the store is imminent, or it's being strongly suggested that you go to the store right now. If you ask the same thing, but say "whenever you go to the store", the immediacy is removed and you're just asking for milk to be added to the shopping list for the next scheduled Walmart run.
I grew up in California but have lived my whole adult life in the south, so I've actually lived here longer than i did in California. I remember back when my husband and i decided to buy a house out in the country, all of my friends were really concerned about how i was going to use the bathroom, or how we were going to have lights. I live like 15 minutes outside of a large city in Tennessee. It's ok guys, we have plumbing and electricity. I even had one friend ask how i was going to buy groceries. I told them i planned on hunting and gathering, and if that didn't work out, i would just get in my car and drive to the grocery store 5 minutes from my house.
Yo. Y’all talked about banana pudding and I was like “damn they’re right. I could go for some banana pudding right now. Hold up. Don’t I got some in the fridge?” Update: I am now eating banana pudding and can confirm I am happier 😋.
@@janesharp4341 Oh! I thought the triple size spoon was so I didn't need a bowl🤣 And I thought the silver one w holes was to help add air so I could breathe without taking it from my mouth 😂
About basements: First, a building's foundation has to be below the frost line, the deepest point where the ground freezes. Up north, once you dig down several feet to the frost line, you might as well put in a basement. Down south the frost line is only about a foot deep, so digging deeper to add a basement is more expensive than adding a second floor or a larger first floor. Second, the water table answer is also valid.
@@Arkay66 or like where I live our soil is clay so a basement is pretty expensive to dig for. We would love to have them because it's cooler but the upfront cost is whew!
Yet another concern is of expansive soils. Horses up and down the I-35 corridor in Texas don't have basements because the soil will put pressure on, crack, and eventually destroy concrete foundations when it absorbs water. It's gotta go somewhere!
My house has a basement but I'm not sure it was a well thought-out feature to add during the construction. Most of the time, it's fine, but when a heavy rain hits it can leak pretty badly. We see a lot of rain here at the foot of the Appalachians.
I was born in Tuscaloosa and live in a small town in Texas now. My favorite idiosyncrasy in the south once someone pointed it out is our habit of contracting words excessively. The best example is “Y’all’d’ve” a contraction of “You all would have.” Used in a sentence, “Y’all’d’ve gotten hurt if you got drunk and started jumping into the creek.”
I love how we do that, and understand it. I had to explain what "me'er" meant to my child's teacher (we moved to a north/Midwest location for a time). My child had used it in class, and she had overheard, but wasn't sure of what it was. I explained it was "come here", chatted with her a few minutes, then without thinking about it, hollered at my lil one to "me'er". She was able to see it in action at least, lol.
My dad is from Vermont. Dinners were quiet and very dignified. No elbows on the table. The first time he ate with my moms family, he didn’t get to eat because there were so many conversations going on he just kept saying ‘excuse me’ and no one heard him. 😂😂😂
My husband is a Southern California native. When we were dating, and then married he like to eat dinner with my family. We talked a lot, laughed a lot. His family did not, ate in almost silence. How sad it was to eat with them.
@@nancykilbourn836 My family is Swiss German and the dinner table is the big gathering place. You eat, talk, then rest for more. None of this "have dessert in the living room". My Mom's family was quiet at the table, which drove her nuts to eat with the inlaws. Note, that we are Northerners.
Since you asked so politely, my momma is feeling much better after her injection appointment for the arthritis in her hands! She’ll be right as rain tomorrow for when she plays the piano at the Wednesday night church service 🥰
Once in a college art history class we went to a museum of southern artists. The woman at the museum said "Now these are our "oil" paintings." But what this yankee heard was "Now these are our all paintings." I was taking notes and I asked the person next to me what was the name of the artists because I didn't get the name.... lol It took me a bit but as she continued the lecture I figured out she had said "oil" not all.
In colonial days, most of the people who settled in the south already spoke English, whereas most of those who settled in the North had to learn English. A Southern accent is closer to a British accent than most folks realize. (Look at some SNL videos of Dan Ayckroyd imitating Jimmy Carter, and how he slips into British a lot.)
I've never heard it presented this way, but this is so true! Most white people in the South especially are very likely descended from people from the UK, and while the English accent they use isn't exactly the same, they have the same "source" accent, so to speak. Whereas (this is just one example!) both sides of my family trace back to the area surrounding Lake Superior, as part of the Nordic countries' immigration pattern. The "Minnesotan" and "Yooper" accents, are both time-altered versions of the way Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish people pronounced English when they were first learning it.
Interesting that you think our French and Spanish ancestors who settled the South already spoke English. Just for fun... please explain the Cajun accent.
I love the South because: 1) The people are genuine. 2) Life is slower and enjoyable. 3) The food makes you pass out into a deep sleep. 4) Folks appreciate us who are in the military. 5) Again, sincere people.
Some of us have an appreciation for the military that toes the line of hero worship. It's me. I have an appreciation for the military that toes the line of hero worship.
Sincerity is a four letter word in a world dominated by cynicism, which is probably why many interpret southern sincerity as some kind of social ill. Personally I find sincerity quite refreshing.
A little bit of Googling on the military aspect shows that the south-eastern states specifically contribute more than their fair share of the population as armed services recruits. We appreciate ya'll more partly because we've got family who served or are actively serving. Lot of generational military families down here.
Southerners are flat out more polite. I say this as a person that was born & raised in the north. I have family in TN, KY, NC & AR. When we are traveling to the south, I intentionally don’t pack everything we will need. I enjoy shopping in the south. No one grunts at you. No one shoves you out of their way. No one swears at you for being in their way. Shopping in the south is great. People smile. People say things like excuse me, please, thank you & yes ma’am/sir. They smile at you. Southern customers help others find things. I could go on for a lot longer. Basically shopping in the north =🤬. Shopping in the south = 😁
So true, my bowling partner told me today that I was mean, (I don't remember what I said that that prompted that) and I agreed, I am mean but I am very polite so I have that going for me.😅
We had a cousin from Boston visit us in TN. She went in a drug store for a bottled water and was gone way too long. She came out apologizing, when she went to pay the cashier literally took the bottle and put it back saying, "oh no honey, that water is $1.29! Here, let me get you the 2 for a dollar bottled water!" She was shocked!
My mama's doing all right, considering she just turned 90 and has a crap ton of health problems. Thank you for asking. If I tried to go into "all 'em" it would take too long and fill up my word quota. My mama is from East Texas, so that's the part of Texas that is most "Southern", and she pronounces oil as "ah-wul." Seriously. We used to razz her about it like crazy (I grew up in West Texas and we just said "oy-ul" like everbody else.) Mama also double-joints a lot of words, so she says "way-ull" for "well". My son is a linguist and he could answer why all this is, but he's an adult now and on his way home from church so I'm not gonna call him while he's driving. (I watched church online, got my own health issues.) No basements in some parts of the South because the bedrock is too hard and too close to the surface to dig out without dynamiting. And maybe that flooding thing is a deal in some places, too. Southerners talk a lot because we have a lot to say and we're generally very social. Also, maybe a lot of us have ADHD. (Look up "ADHD infodumping.") Many of the top universities in the country are in the South, and I guarantee they're not mostly populated by Northerners. So a dang awful lot of us are WELL-educated, thankyouverymuch. Y'all Northerners stop worrying about us and take care of your own business. You're always welcome to come visit or move here, but please behave. Don't make us sic our Southern mamas on you.
Welcome to visit maybe, but moving here a lot of them want to change our culture and everything else about their new home - so maybe just visit and then go back to your big city rat race
As a southerner with ADHD whose mama is from East Texas and is only 5 years younger than yours, I almost did a double take to make sure I didn't write this myself. And my mom is fine, considering she just found out she's now on TikTok!
I use this channel as a whole as an educational tool. I'm a northern Midwesterner by culture and blood (5 generations) but I have been adopted by a southern mama. She used to be my MIL but we get along better than she does with my ex that is her blood kid. Also, I have custody of her only grandchild, so there's that. I use this to understand where she's from (born and bred Alabamian).
My mom's neighbor was like that with her daughter in law. She was furious at her son for divorcing her favorite daughter-in-law. They remained close for a long time. Alabama! Best state ever (don't listen to Mississippi lol)
My Mom is doing very well thank you. She’s got a whole mess of chickens that are just coming into their eggs now and she thinks the tiny eggs are super cute. How is y’all’s Mommas doing?
As a native Texan (yeah I know Texas is confused about where it fits) sir and ma'am are a must. Being friendly is who we are. I now live up North and wow are the people not so friendly. I get homesick and watching your videos lifts my spirits. Keep up the good work!
Northerner here. I'm so sorry we're a colder bunch. It's definitely true. I'm so enamored with Southerners when I visit my boyfriend who lives in Nashville. The North is friendly but in a different way. (I felt the same way about Germany when I lived there; to most Americans, they are cold and unfriendly, but if you get to know them, they have a very defined friendly and humorous side. No question about it.)
I love the Miss first name. The way I was brought up, that is to be used for any unrelated woman that you’re on a friendly, or somewhat familiar basis: friends of parents, ballet instructors, Girl Scout leaders, etc. Since leaving the South, and most recently Texas, I can only recall being called Miss Saundra once. I think it is such a friendly and respectful term. I wish it were used more often, in more places. I still use it all the time. You can take the girl out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the girl. 😉
I'm called Miss at my office, at first tried to make it stop but gave up five or six years ago. It's a term of respect with a little endearment mixed in. :)
Interestingly, at the church I went to when I was living in Arizona, we had the kiddos call their Sunday school and other teachers "Miss" Whoever. Of course, several of us there were Southern ex-pats, so maybe that's why. I don't think it was an Arizona thing. In my "mama's group" we had two Texans, a Mississippian and an Okie, so there was a lot of Southern influence.
The term Yankee originated as a derogatory term referring to the people who created and formed the United States of America, the British redcoats used it as a slur suggesting the American people were simpletons they would beat into submission, and they would sing Yankee Doodle Dandy to mock the patriots. The patriots however after they started defeating the British troops adopted the song to mock the British redcoats. The origin of the word Yankee isn’t known for sure, though some believe it came from the Dutch who hated the English settlers and referred to them as janekke, which was purportedly an insult. The Dutch colonized what was first called New Amsterdam, they were bankers, and tried imposing slavery of the Indian tribes, who they were very antagonistic to. They were utter failures in their attempt to be successful and New Amsterdam was taken over by English settlers and eventually became New York.
And none of the New Yorkers gave a poop over being “British “because they didn’t like Stuyvesant Plus the Brits didn’t mess with the businesses so no one was mad. (NYC Documentary)
I used to think Macaroni was the name of the feather. About 20 years ago, I learned the history of the song. Maybe we call Northerners Yankees because more of them were Patriots. Many Southern states had more Loyalist than Patriots. My mom's family from both sides lived in North Carolina at the time. One side was Loyalist and the other Patriot (they lived in different areas, they didn't know each other). I could be in the DAR but that's not something that interests me. I could be in the DAC but I'm not interested in that either. My mama's mama's family lived in TN at the time of the Civil War, they fought for the Confederacy (They were the Loyalist family). My mama's papa's family still lived in NC. They didn't fight as many in that area of NC didn't. They were tobacco farmers. Slavery wasn't common in that area.
Yall always make my day! I laughed so hard at the food bit because it's true. Found out yesterday that my MIL is making dinner for us today, for our weekly family visit, and I have been thinking about it since then. And I'll be thinking about it afterwards, until I step outside in the humidity and reach a level 10! 😂😂😂
Loved this vid, y'all. 😎👍 Y'all should put together an episode with a Southerner, a Northerner, a Midwesterner, a West Coaster, an English person, a European, an Australian, a Japanese, a Chinese, an Indian (from India), a Spanish person, a Native American, etc and all talk about various slangs and phrases that they use. I bet that would be both interesting to compare and might even be humorous at the same time. 😁
lol not mad at whats said here but I "sigh" because as always Pacific Islanders are left out. lol. no we are not Asian. and no we are not just Hawaiian or Samoan. but cool. We'll definitely bring food around and invite everyone though.
Ha! I struck up a chatty conversation with the librarian at my daughter’s school and halfway in, I realized she must be from the North - she’s looking at me like, “why are you talking to me about the book your daughter took out last week, and how do I get out of this?” 😂😂😂 What can I say? We aim to be friendly, sorry if it’s too much for you!
ANYONE who calls coke "pop" I question their intelligence. I've actually caught a 3 day Facebook ban for commenting on a meme that portrays coke as unintelligent and pop as intelligent and commented that op was unable to spell coke or pop because he clearly is the one mentally deficient for confusing which is which. I'm willing to die on this hill.
Its where you live in the country .in the midwest and where i live in the northern plains we say "pop" .ive used the term "soda" a couple times ,it just felt wrong and it confused people
@@MintersFreshers The pothole down the road from me only got fixed because NYDOT hit it with their line painting trucks and realized it was on the corner of two state roads and they couldn’t bum it off on the town. The potholes are terrible. It would be easier if they had an online form you could submit with pictures and location details about said potholes.
This! I come from PA we have a Philadelphia accent, central PA accent, PA dutch accent, and a western PA accent. All within the same state. We also are split on pop and soda.
My friend from Georgia was in the Army in the early 60's. He had convinced some Army buddies from Brooklyn that in order to get to Atlanta, you took a plane to Chattanooga and then had to take a stagecoach to Atlanta.
Driving in the snow is a skill. Driving in melted snow that re-froze into ice isn't safe no matter who does it. That's what we get in Georgia. Of course, most people near Atlanta aren't actually Southerners.
You know what my favorite thing is? Seeing northerners whizz past my house in the snow and then the next day seeing 20 abandoned vehicles on the side of the road. It's not really possible to traverse snowy and icy roads without salt no matter who ya are 😄
When I lived in pensacola Florida, we had ice storms. It would rain on a very cold day, and the rain would freeze as soon as it hit the ground, and then the temperature would drop even further, causing everything to be coated in ice. It looked cool, but was sketchy, because the stairs for my high school were outside of the building.
"Why can't southerners drive in snow?" That's silly because here in the north every year when we get the first real snow fall there are accidents everywhere as we find out drivers have completely forgotten how to drive in the snow since last winter. Maybe not Alaska.
Yep. The first snow is the same everywhere. Thats were the cars with bald summer tires and the people that think it isn't so bad...only 6 inches....except it is 6" atop an ice sheet that formed on a road that was 60F at sunset yesterday. Typically below Ky we only get a first snow...so there is chaos. We just stay home, since i have a steep gravel road.
People at higher elevations in the Appalachians seem to handle snow pretty well, even when it’s the first snow of the season. Then again, you’re constantly getting practice with rough terrain and/or rain too. Not to mention that we have equipment up here to handle it.
@@AlphaWolf096 i live in the Apps in a national forest. I don't drive until the melt begins if it is the classic snow...70 degree then rain then 25F then 40 then 6" of snow then 15F...that's walk in the woods days and work from home. If it's a clean snow...30F dry roads, snow of 8", stays below 32....pffft that's nothing. I do have tire chains for the forestry road. They make me remove them when i hit the county pavement. You're right, we do get lots of cold rain, black ice, fog practice on switchbacks over 1200ft cliffs... that warms us up for the snow. About 5 days of snow every 2nd or 3rd year. They don't usually plow up here in NC, but they sand and gravel the major roads so you can lose a windshield. More serious snow in KY and the western Virginias. City and suburb folks down in the lowlands are terrible. They're used to straight, lit and well drained roads. They go nuts in even a hard rain.
It's true, northerners forget how to drive in the snow every year. That first big snow, most people spin out or crash or slide. Then they remember 'oh yeah, snow.'
Whenever someone asks me why I call all soda Coke I say, "Because Coke is from here?" Since I'm from Georgia, and well Coke is from Atlanta. The Oil one had me laughing though, I say words with oi as OL so soil becomes sol, etc. Great video y'all, keep up the hilarious work. :)
I was raised in Maryland by Hoosier parents, and I always said Coke. Go to a restaurant and you order a Coke and the person taking your order would say, "What kind?" I quit that when I moved and got Coca Cola every time.
I live in Columbus and my childhood was on base Ft.Benning so then the Infantry Museum was my playground and now hey come on down and live the experience of it brings
Born and raised in upstate New York and at the age of 25 I chose the The South and I’ve never had any regrets and just to test that theory I went back to my hometown lived there for a couple years hated it and I was welcome back home as a hurricane was coming into Florida and all I could think was I’m home😎🥰
I’m a southerner born and bred and I guess I didn’t realize “whenever” was a problem for northerners to understand like they can’t understand “fixin”. Uh, glad I follow y’all so I can become better educated. Love your channel!
Whenever is totally normal in the northwest I think almost every single one of these questions are made by those in New York City where they make that awful salsa 😂
But when Notherners try to use y'all and can never pronounce it right , but feel they've adopted not only a Southern accent - but the Southern language as well - SIGH. No - Just stop. Please, for the love of God stop!
@@fidgetssailing4725 how can you mispronounce y’all? You see I grew up first 11 years of life in Arkansas then the next 17 or so in Washington state and the next 11 in Texas. Nobody thinks they have a southern accent because they say the word y’all.
@@Thumper68 Hmm well that was your experience - mine was in talking to people from NY, NJ and Chicago - they do mispronounce it as it still sort of sounds like two words they're combining instead of one word
@@fidgetssailing4725 Yeah, they still say "you all" but just take out the space and squish them together. If you really want to get 'em going, just borrow the word "you'ns" from the Appalachian mountain folk.
I had a teacher in AP History high school and she'd tell us we needed to say we were from KY because we lived real close to Cincinnati OH so most of us would say Cincinnati. She said we needed to represent our state and show people we weren't a bunch of hicks. I took that to heart, because I have a beautiful state and yeah sure maybe some people are dumb but dumb people are everywhere
Tbh I think the "why do southerners talk so much?" Question was actually asked in the way of like talking to strangers. For example in the south walking by ur neighbor or maybe just passing someone you wave and say hey or oh how's ur day when you're in line somewhere. Or talk to someone in the grocery store for no reason. Whereas northerns don't do that. I see the answer as just southern kindness.
I think you're right. I moved to the South from the northern Midwest, and the thing I kept telling my friends back "home" was "People make EYE CONTACT when you pass them on the street! They say hi!" I've lived in New England, too, and if you talk to people you don't know in the grocery store they think you're some sort of creepy person. It is really too bad. Glad to be here!
Indeed, indeed. You can have full blown conversations with strangers while waiting in line. Go to the theater, and you can make a new friend(s) with the fella(s) beside you during the commercials! Pass some people on the street or in the store, and you get a smile, a nod, and a "How're ya doing?" We're a friendly sorta folk down here, with exceptions of course. I drive across the country for a living, and it was a shock to go up north and NOT be able to chat with folks randomly, or even get a returned nod!
We were taught it's the polite thing to do, which caught me off guard after I moved to the west coast and found that people back away from you as if you just asked them to lick the anthrax in your hand if you simply say hello.
My husband told me that me holding doors open for people, randomly talking to others, and just smiling at strangers would creep out or make a northerner suspicious of me. It breaks my heart that people up north would think me suspicious just for striking up a conversation. 😢
Matt is actually correct. There was a study done by a linguist and Appalachian southerners accents are closer to Old English than the rest of the U.S. dialects.
I was just about to say this.
Yep
The southern accent is just the British accent played at half speed, or the Southern played at 2x speed is British. Try it.
Also depends on the drawl of the region. My 'Bama born parents were raised in TN. Their accents are slightly different than my LA (that's lower Alabama) relatives compared to the Cajun born & raised ones. Then there's my Geechee ainties who speak Gullah and that's just a whole nother world of encyclopedic proportions 🤣
There are many Southern dialects. Each is interesting and lovely.@@kimberlycoltrainrsrccr2626
"Soda" came from the Soda fountain or Soda shop where one could get the fizzy drinks before the times when they were packaged and distributed. Like old Soda water bottles from the cartoons. "Pop" comes from the sound the cans made when opened since folks not in the south only had canned soft drinks when they were first introduced.
The part about pop isn't accurate. Soda bottling in the north started in 1839 while soda canning did not come along until the 1930s and was still very rare into the 1960s.
The north had over 100 years of bottled soda before the can took the markets. So it was not called pop because they didn't have bottled soda at first.
@@jacobnash9755 It's because bubbles POP......
I would imagine also the seectuon was limited specifically to just coke giving us our beloved slang
We called it soda-pop in my family in the 90s here in Oregon. Nowadays everyone usually says soda, or the name of the drink.
As a Northerner who has lived in the South for 17 years I absolutely loved this 😂
I am from the Northwest and I love this channel because it’s fun to learn about different countries.
😂
Like that socialist country of Washington state…
@@joshwells3933 I’m actually from Idaho but I live in Seattle. Still very red though.
Hum…the War of Northern Aggression was fought so the South wouldn’t become its own country. The South is still part of the US.
😂😂😂 Thank you for the laugh!!
I don’t even know what to say. Love this! I’m from a weird microcosm in Utah where lots of people from the South moved here while I was in high school. We wave at people we don’t know, have people with and without accents and understand them, I love grits-especially with cheese, love hominy and fried okra, we drive in snow but aren’t so good in heavy rain. Keep it coming whenever you want.
I lived from age 10 until my early 30s in the South (Georgia, then moved to Utah, where I've been for 15 years now). So, of course I'm now curious about this town! Do the people there still have a southern influence from the influx of Southerners those years ago?
I love how southerners ask about your mama. Going to a small town store where I know no one - I am gonna ask the clerk how their mama is doing today. It is just polite and it is what we southerners do. It shows we like you
As far as 'are Southerners less educated' from a NYer raised by 2 Alabama born, TN raised folk, (one who earned a full scholarship to Tuskegee).
It was just 'normal' for me to know that my aunts had Masters degrees in education, doctorates in finance, & uncles who worked at the Space center after retiring from the military.
I LOVED going to work @ Brooklyn Civil & getting my cheese grits & scrambled eggs from a little bodega a block away (I couldn't find them made correctly anywhere else & the grits wouldn't 'keep' in my thermos during my commute in) I'd just tell them, 'it's a Southern thing' & this was in early '90s😉
I think it's some parts of the south where there is a high water table like the southern 2/3rds of Florida and around New Orleans where they don't have basements. Otherwise it's what is the common for what the local builders want to do. In my part of the northern Midwest it's the builders water table or if there is a lot of stone preventing basements.
I wear flannel plaid shirts in winter cause my dad wore 1 I love them
As a born and bred Southerner all my life, it was weird when I was stationed up north or west in the navy. I always got weird looks when I always called every ma'am or sir and held doors open etc. It's just how Southerners are raised, not that it doesn't occur everywhere else but when you're here you're family. Funny thing is is drove better in snow (never did before) when I was in MD than some northerners 🤣
If you grew up with a Southern accent, you will never get rid of it. You can hide it or adopt the accent of the region you're living in, but it will always sneak back.
My wife's best friend from highschool (we're from Tennessee) married and moved to Michigan. Her husband is from Illinois. On occasion she will talk to her sister or my wife. When her husband comes home he asks who have been talking to today? Because here accent completely comes back. Lol
I've never checked Google for anything about northerners. Bless their hearts.😅
I think folks are askin’ all these questions cuz they secretly wanna move down here and steal our family recipes for nanner puddin . And maybe shrimp n grits too. There’s been too much plunderin of the recipe box and things show up in the dangdest non southern places with weird things added to them, like avacado cream corn and sweet potato kale casserole. Or the trusty breakfast casserole made with keen-wah, fake cheese and impossible sausage. I got a whole church yard of relatives spinnin in their graves. Guard the recipe box! You can’t trust people that don’t drink sweet tea.
🤣 so true!
I love southern food, but I hate any kind of tea lol
I was born in Florida and moved up to Massachusetts and I love it here! However, the main reason I don’t want to move south is because I’m Gay and all my southern relatives are homophobic (except for my aunt and her family) and are batshit crazy 🫠
I don't care for overly sweet tea (prediabetic) but all them recipe add-ins sound 🤮.
You’ve now made me wonder how well strawberries would work instead of bananas for that pudding, but I digress. That’s something you experiment with once to satisfy your curiosity, and possibly never touch again.
That said, food is an art and a craft. It is meant to be shared, adapted, and changed. Traditional recipes are also very tasty, and deserve to be kept and remembered.
My momma is right next to me. She says hi and is glad you asked.
Also she needs quiet.
That banana puddin' joke came out so fast, my snort that quickly followed was nearly painful.
On the basement question. Soil/ground type and water concentration determines when a base is approved.
New Orleans is entirely in a cad. 10 flood zone. So, there are no basements under any sercomstance.
Why can't Southerner's drive in snow? Well when I see where a 70 car pile up in Wisconsin is due to ice/snow I don't really think Northerners can either lol...
TY for the lesson in grits prehension 👍🏽
Southerners talk so much because we are story tellers.
And Boy do we have the stories to tell! 🥴🕺🏻😁🍗🥰💃🏻
45 seconds into this video and I already liked the video!! Y'all are great, I loved this video!! She's pretty good, but I always worry.
The water table in my area is about 6 feet down when not flooding. I would love a basement, but it's not practical.
In (central) Texas, we don’t have basements because you dig down 2 feet and then you hit solid limestone, so to dig a basement is crazy expensive, and not that many people want to fork out that much money just to have some more space to park junk.
I'm right down 280, and mommer and them good guys thanks for asking.
The “oil” “ol” thing is, I think, more of a Texas thing! 🤠😂
While working on a car I heard " hey Uncle oil hand me a can of Earl."
I have to say that I believe that our accents have been watered down by exposure to other regions of the country through mass media outlets or, in my case, living in a region that has a lot of people from all over the country and being exposed to it on a daily bases. I'm from Coastal Mississippi where we have a major shipyard and several military bases so we have people from all over coming to work here. But I have always heard that the rest of the State of Mississippi doesn't consider the coastal counties as being part of the state, being emphasized by the fact that even AT&T gives the Coastal counties its own area code.
When I went to school we had a girl move into the area from Boston and we would talk to her just to hear her accent because she spoke what they called the King's English. 50 years later I took a trip to Boston and when visiting merchants and attractions expecting to hear many people with the same accent she had but was kind of disappointed when most of the people there sounded like me for the most point. But then I have been told that I don't sound as Southern as many of the folks around me even though I have spent my whole life here. I honestly have no explanation why I would sound different...
Anyway, I really love your videos and also the fact that we can make fun of ourselves whereas other regions so many people get offended by the littlest of things. Keep up the good work and keep the stories coming. Love y'all!!
I always got a kick out of being called "Miss Lexi's Mom" when my daughter was growing up.
It's all good. I'm from Utah and we cut the T's in our words short. We all have our special way of saying things.
When I was a kid in Mobile Alabama in the 60s, a common question on the playground was, “Are you a Yankee or a Rebel?” Apparently, the Civil War was not over.
It’s funny we don’t realize we have accents! We were at an event in Virginia and a couple was at the table with us. He literally propped both elbows on the table. Chin in them and watched every word that came out of my mouth. Then told me he loved my accent! What accent?😂😂😂😂😂😂
Mommas doin good, Thank you for asking.
The proper way to eat grits is with plenty of butter;,salt and pepper with bacon or sausage crumbled up in them and eggs over easy mixed in
Yes! Banana pudding is Southern happiness!
"Because we have banana puddin" is the best answer to everything!
Daddy didn't talk much at all, but when he did you better listen because is was something important you needed to know
So.... 😂 hold a min cause 😂 I'm from the south and finally got my turn in drivers ed to drive. It started snowing for the first time in like 5 years. I pulled over in a safe area and was like what do I do?! My instructor (who grew up in Jersey) was like keep driving.
I legit said I want a second opinion cause you sir are not from here. 😂😂😂
Oh cool, this is filmed in Birmingham? I wish I could be part of it!💚🌻🌾
Speaking about the education factor: once, when I was living in Wisconsin, there was a coworker that came up to me and literally said, "wow, you're very smart despite your accent," in front of God and everybody. I politely told him he needed to step away from me.
Ha- Hearing “Southerners don’t talk slow” (as I need to watch this channel at 1.5x)
Im from Florida and havea pretty nonregional accent, but I do say oil like a southerner. Nust one of those words. Most of the stuffbrought up in these vids I either agree with (grits arent great and I never in my life heard of banana mayo sandwiches) or its just baffling like "why do you like biscuits so much." Just a bizarre question from my perspective....who doesnt love a great biscuit?
We don't have basements in Florida because we're barely above sea level
We do it because we are afraid. They will hit you. 😆
You guys need to point out that Southerners are way more friendly than anybody else on the planet.
Cause Coke is all that matters when it comes to soda. 💯 Yeah I said it!
That's funny that y'all film these in Birmingham I live in Evergreen and my union hall is in Bessemer
I think most Yankees secretly want to be southern especially during winter lol
A coworker grew up in Maine near the Canadian border and had never met a southerner. When he joined the marines, he visited the south for the first time for basic training in South Carolina. He kept looking at people's feet and was surprised that all the southerners wore shoes since he had heard they did not. It was also the first time he met a black person. Talk about a yokel.
Southerners can't drive in the snow for the same reason people in Seattle can't drive in a thunderstorm. I was shopping around 3 PM in the summer in Seattle. A thunderstorm blew in. Everyone in the shop was freakin' out like a level 5 hurricane was coming in except for myself and one other woman. Both of us started giggling at the ridiculous women. I looked at the other giggle and said, "Tennessee. You?" She answered, "North Carolina." and we laughed out loud! Thunderstorms are daily occurrances in the South in the summer." Yes, they have flooding from one thunderstorm, but I handled that like a pro, too!
My momma is doing great. Just subscribed, have a wonderful day. :-)
All Southerns call soda Coke, because we don't drink Pepsi down here!
My Mama's doing just fine, thank you for asking sweety ☺
Well, that all my family and cousins are married to northerners. Even though we're southerners. Probably because we're good at Truck driving and they like my cousins.
I'm used to live in New Mexico and I went to NYC. While I was there this lady asked me several questions. Where's New Mexico and it's part of Mexico? Do you have electricity, running water or roads? When I answered her questions she was shocked. She honestly didn't believe that NM was part of the United States. So I guess it just depends on what area of the US you're raised you're going to some preconceived ideas about other parts of the country. Education system has failed in so many ways and it's still failing.
In Florida the aquifer is too high for a basement
"Y'all is in the Bible." Hahahaha!!!
Every answer should be " Because we are better than you"
Northerners can’t drive in the rain so it evens out 🤣
Yankees was a derogatory term from the British empire that was ment to disparage the separating colonists. Then the colonists embraced it.
I was born and raised in Alaska and am currently living in the midwest. When I think of Yankees I'm thinking of the east coast.
Southerners are happy.
Momma and them are fine thanks for askin.
Hell yeah we have basements! We have tornadoes! 🙃
very few people drive good in snow no matter where they live.
I wish they would ask northeners why they always want to know where the cemetiers are in the south worked and lived the north for almost 20 years and they always asked me that
And we have the best beaches. Okay, I am talking about Southern California, I just realized.
I'm a west coast transplant and the way people here seem to know who you are through who your relatives are and how everything's connected seems to me to be a uniquely southern thing. I never experienced it before anyway. Here's an example: we lost my mother in law a few months ago. They had been at the same credit union for decades, and of course after she passed we had to do the usual paperwork involved at the bank, death certificate, take her name off the accounts, close the credit card that was in her name etc. They were very sympathetic of course, that's normal. Well, a couple weeks ago my husband got a paper check in the mail (weird I know!) and we went to deposit it--we use the same bank. We were in the drive up lane, like the third one over from the window, so not like we were face to face with the teller or could even see her. She gets the check from the little tube and as she's processing it asks "How's Mr.(FIL) doing? We're so sad about Miss (MIL) I hope he's getting along okay." We were kinda shocked, we do 99% of our banking and bills online so it's not like we go into the bank and know the employees. But this lady saw his name on the check, knew who his dad was, and remembered that his mom had passed and genuinely seemed to care how we were doing. That's not something I ever experienced until I moved here.
To be honest, I'm surprised that you didn't get a sympathy card from them. Did people bring food like they do in my area?This is why I love the South, the friendliness. Of course it also means everyone knows your business but that's ok with me. May I please suggest Jeanne Robertson's "don't send a man to the grocery store" on UA-cam. She is the epitome of the southern lady and a humorist. It focuses on the requirement to take food when someone is sick or passes. Hilarious but true.
It's an art
I don't think it's uniquely a southern thing. I was born on Guam, but lived around the states. With how my family from Guam and how I've lived, I've been able to laugh a lot and relate to a lot that has been shown on this channel.
We are very thoughtful here
I'll speak for California and the West Coast as well as for those from other REAL cities...
A) Nobody asked you to move to the West Coast
B) In-N-Out is NOT good. STOP praising it. It doesn't endear you to anybody in California. It just shows you're a tourist. Just visit Universal Studios and Disneyland...
My mother's cousin grew up in Georgia. Was sent up north one winter by a company he worked for. His coworkers didn't want to believe him when he told them he'd never been out of Georgia before then because of how well he handled driving in the snow, and on icy roads. He asked them if they had ever driven on a Georgia red clay road after it had just gotten done raining, or while it was raining
Country folk know how to handle a lot of different situations..
@@melissapyle7879 on the flip side, my incredibly white Yankee father (grew up in PA, WV and almost exclusively OH) taught me (native American born in Ohio and raised in NC) taught me to drive on NC ice
He even showed him off with a couple donuts.
He wasn't a country boy; I, however, was a city girl. He was a city boy that just knew how to drive.
That Clay is scary!
What no one bothers to discuss is the fact that northern snow and southern snow are different. Northern snow is usually dry and it packs down to a hard surface on which you can drive.
Southern snow is slush on top of 2 inches of black ice. No one can drive safely on black ice. And those people flying off the shoulders and killing people in the southern snow?? Almost always northerners who think they're smarter than everyone else.
Your not getting out of red clay literally the whole state of north carolina is red clay. Hope you got AAA if you get stuck after a rainstorm your screwed.
So the "when" vs. "whenever" thing, I think the question was probably aimed at people who say "Whenever you go to the store..." instead of "When you go to the store..." and it's about managing expectations. If you ask someone to pick up milk "when you go to the store", there's an assumption that a trip to the store is imminent, or it's being strongly suggested that you go to the store right now. If you ask the same thing, but say "whenever you go to the store", the immediacy is removed and you're just asking for milk to be added to the shopping list for the next scheduled Walmart run.
Yes!
Yep
Thank you! Snobby northerners
'Whenever' is the 'Whatever' of time.
You must be a linguist up north
I grew up in California but have lived my whole adult life in the south, so I've actually lived here longer than i did in California. I remember back when my husband and i decided to buy a house out in the country, all of my friends were really concerned about how i was going to use the bathroom, or how we were going to have lights. I live like 15 minutes outside of a large city in Tennessee. It's ok guys, we have plumbing and electricity. I even had one friend ask how i was going to buy groceries. I told them i planned on hunting and gathering, and if that didn't work out, i would just get in my car and drive to the grocery store 5 minutes from my house.
Wooo. Tennessee crew!
😂😂😂
Born and raised in Tennessee, and I haven't met a single person upset about being in the south. However one dude thought we had no phones.
@@KennyJohnson-ym6ux yeah we pretty much live in caves here in ga
My life started in California, also. Been living in Nashville for 50 years.
Yo. Y’all talked about banana pudding and I was like “damn they’re right. I could go for some banana pudding right now. Hold up. Don’t I got some in the fridge?” Update: I am now eating banana pudding and can confirm I am happier 😋.
Banana pudding is a holy sacrament in the South. I feel closer to Jesus after having a big ole bowl.
@@janesharp4341
Oh! I thought the triple size spoon was so I didn't need a bowl🤣
And I thought the silver one w holes was to help add air so I could breathe without taking it from my mouth 😂
That’s actually pronounced “ nana pud’n”.
@donjackson5522 Or bananer pud'n if you done be so-phisticated
About basements:
First, a building's foundation has to be below the frost line, the deepest point where the ground freezes. Up north, once you dig down several feet to the frost line, you might as well put in a basement.
Down south the frost line is only about a foot deep, so digging deeper to add a basement is more expensive than adding a second floor or a larger first floor.
Second, the water table answer is also valid.
And in some parts, we live on top of a rock ledge, which makes it real hard to dig a basement... I surely would love to have one, though...
@@Arkay66 or like where I live our soil is clay so a basement is pretty expensive to dig for. We would love to have them because it's cooler but the upfront cost is whew!
Yet another concern is of expansive soils. Horses up and down the I-35 corridor in Texas don't have basements because the soil will put pressure on, crack, and eventually destroy concrete foundations when it absorbs water. It's gotta go somewhere!
My house has a basement but I'm not sure it was a well thought-out feature to add during the construction. Most of the time, it's fine, but when a heavy rain hits it can leak pretty badly. We see a lot of rain here at the foot of the Appalachians.
We live in Rockansa … opps excuse me Arkansa so it takes drills and bulldozers to dig in the ground around here so no basements
I was born in Tuscaloosa and live in a small town in Texas now. My favorite idiosyncrasy in the south once someone pointed it out is our habit of contracting words excessively. The best example is “Y’all’d’ve” a contraction of “You all would have.” Used in a sentence, “Y’all’d’ve gotten hurt if you got drunk and started jumping into the creek.”
Omg I felt this comment on another level. I've never realized this is something I say until I read your words and said that sentence out loud 😅
Y'allda. If Y'allda listened to me we wouldn't have gotten lost.
I love how we do that, and understand it.
I had to explain what "me'er" meant to my child's teacher (we moved to a north/Midwest location for a time). My child had used it in class, and she had overheard, but wasn't sure of what it was. I explained it was "come here", chatted with her a few minutes, then without thinking about it, hollered at my lil one to "me'er". She was able to see it in action at least, lol.
@@terryk711 this is why the original comment stumped me for a sec. Because this is how it actually comes out of my mouth 😅😅
"Jeet yet? Puya sefuppa cheer and have a bite!" -quoting a Tennessean at suppertime when a friend shows up unexpectedly.
My dad is from Vermont. Dinners were quiet and very dignified. No elbows on the table. The first time he ate with my moms family, he didn’t get to eat because there were so many conversations going on he just kept saying ‘excuse me’ and no one heard him. 😂😂😂
My husband is a Southern California native. When we were dating, and then married he like to eat dinner with my family. We talked a lot, laughed a lot. His family did not, ate in almost silence. How sad it was to eat with them.
@@nancykilbourn836 My family is Swiss German and the dinner table is the big gathering place. You eat, talk, then rest for more. None of this "have dessert in the living room". My Mom's family was quiet at the table, which drove her nuts to eat with the inlaws. Note, that we are Northerners.
Since you asked so politely, my momma is feeling much better after her injection appointment for the arthritis in her hands! She’ll be right as rain tomorrow for when she plays the piano at the Wednesday night church service 🥰
now that is a Southern answer.
Y’all did a great job answering the questions. Pronouncing “oil” is definitely affected by the area where you grew up 😂
Once in a college art history class we went to a museum of southern artists. The woman at the museum said "Now these are our "oil" paintings." But what this yankee heard was "Now these are our all paintings." I was taking notes and I asked the person next to me what was the name of the artists because I didn't get the name.... lol It took me a bit but as she continued the lecture I figured out she had said "oil" not all.
For Oklahoma it's said without the "oy" sound. You say it from the back of your mouth.
Can confirm. It’s “ull” where I’m from.
I say it like “oy-ull” but sometimes there’s a little twang in there 😂
True. We were always led to believe that in Texas, they said "awl" as in, "my fam'lih is in the awl bidniss". And that may or may not be true.
As an Aussie I connect with Southern people so easily, I can tell by the accent if I’ll be able to relate. Love Southern people ❤️🐝
Y'all have more in common than you think with us.
As a southerner, I love y’all Aussies. Met a few and England last month and we have so much in common
I'm from Georgia and I have a delightful Aussie friend. She is 81 years young and feisty as hell. And I love to hear her talk.
I've heard it said that Australia is British Texas.
@@dmacarthur5356 I love that ❤️
In colonial days, most of the people who settled in the south already spoke English, whereas most of those who settled in the North had to learn English. A Southern accent is closer to a British accent than most folks realize. (Look at some SNL videos of Dan Ayckroyd imitating Jimmy Carter, and how he slips into British a lot.)
I've never heard it presented this way, but this is so true! Most white people in the South especially are very likely descended from people from the UK, and while the English accent they use isn't exactly the same, they have the same "source" accent, so to speak. Whereas (this is just one example!) both sides of my family trace back to the area surrounding Lake Superior, as part of the Nordic countries' immigration pattern. The "Minnesotan" and "Yooper" accents, are both time-altered versions of the way Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish people pronounced English when they were first learning it.
Interesting that you think our French and Spanish ancestors who settled the South already spoke English.
Just for fun... please explain the Cajun accent.
I love the South because:
1) The people are genuine.
2) Life is slower and enjoyable.
3) The food makes you pass out into a deep sleep.
4) Folks appreciate us who are in the military.
5) Again, sincere people.
Same bro
Some of us have an appreciation for the military that toes the line of hero worship.
It's me. I have an appreciation for the military that toes the line of hero worship.
Sincerity is a four letter word in a world dominated by cynicism, which is probably why many interpret southern sincerity as some kind of social ill. Personally I find sincerity quite refreshing.
@@thethrashyone How's it a 4 letta word?
A little bit of Googling on the military aspect shows that the south-eastern states specifically contribute more than their fair share of the population as armed services recruits. We appreciate ya'll more partly because we've got family who served or are actively serving. Lot of generational military families down here.
Southerners are flat out more polite. I say this as a person that was born & raised in the north. I have family in TN, KY, NC & AR.
When we are traveling to the south, I intentionally don’t pack everything we will need. I enjoy shopping in the south. No one grunts at you. No one shoves you out of their way. No one swears at you for being in their way.
Shopping in the south is great. People smile. People say things like excuse me, please, thank you & yes ma’am/sir. They smile at you. Southern customers help others find things.
I could go on for a lot longer. Basically shopping in the north =🤬. Shopping in the south = 😁
So true, my bowling partner told me today that I was mean, (I don't remember what I said that that prompted that) and I agreed, I am mean but I am very polite so I have that going for me.😅
We had a cousin from Boston visit us in TN. She went in a drug store for a bottled water and was gone way too long. She came out apologizing, when she went to pay the cashier literally took the bottle and put it back saying, "oh no honey, that water is $1.29! Here, let me get you the 2 for a dollar bottled water!" She was shocked!
They do where I live, but that's merely because New Jersey, New York, and Ohio have relocated to my State.
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That stuff you mentioned in the second paragraph is normal!?
My mama's doing all right, considering she just turned 90 and has a crap ton of health problems. Thank you for asking. If I tried to go into "all 'em" it would take too long and fill up my word quota. My mama is from East Texas, so that's the part of Texas that is most "Southern", and she pronounces oil as "ah-wul." Seriously. We used to razz her about it like crazy (I grew up in West Texas and we just said "oy-ul" like everbody else.) Mama also double-joints a lot of words, so she says "way-ull" for "well". My son is a linguist and he could answer why all this is, but he's an adult now and on his way home from church so I'm not gonna call him while he's driving. (I watched church online, got my own health issues.)
No basements in some parts of the South because the bedrock is too hard and too close to the surface to dig out without dynamiting. And maybe that flooding thing is a deal in some places, too.
Southerners talk a lot because we have a lot to say and we're generally very social. Also, maybe a lot of us have ADHD. (Look up "ADHD infodumping.")
Many of the top universities in the country are in the South, and I guarantee they're not mostly populated by Northerners. So a dang awful lot of us are WELL-educated, thankyouverymuch.
Y'all Northerners stop worrying about us and take care of your own business. You're always welcome to come visit or move here, but please behave. Don't make us sic our Southern mamas on you.
This was funny! Nailed it!
Welcome to visit maybe, but moving here a lot of them want to change our culture and everything else about their new home - so maybe just visit and then go back to your big city rat race
As a southerner with ADHD whose mama is from East Texas and is only 5 years younger than yours, I almost did a double take to make sure I didn't write this myself. And my mom is fine, considering she just found out she's now on TikTok!
@@tejaswoman Holy cow, TikTok? My mom can't even navigate a smartphone. (She's never been very techie)
Sorry but to visit is one thing but to move down here and try to us is another if you want to change us just stay up there
I use this channel as a whole as an educational tool. I'm a northern Midwesterner by culture and blood (5 generations) but I have been adopted by a southern mama. She used to be my MIL but we get along better than she does with my ex that is her blood kid. Also, I have custody of her only grandchild, so there's that. I use this to understand where she's from (born and bred Alabamian).
Roll Tide!
Sweet home!
Lucky you!
She's from the best state.
My mom's neighbor was like that with her daughter in law. She was furious at her son for divorcing her favorite daughter-in-law. They remained close for a long time. Alabama! Best state ever (don't listen to Mississippi lol)
My Mom is doing very well thank you. She’s got a whole mess of chickens that are just coming into their eggs now and she thinks the tiny eggs are super cute.
How is y’all’s Mommas doing?
As a native Texan (yeah I know Texas is confused about where it fits) sir and ma'am are a must. Being friendly is who we are. I now live up North and wow are the people not so friendly. I get homesick and watching your videos lifts my spirits. Keep up the good work!
I just moved back to Tx! We lived in OH for 17yrs and I agree most of them weren't that friendly! I'm glad to be back home!
I was born and raised in Michigan. I lived in Alabama, then LA, then Eugene. Then Michigan again and OUCH. RUDE.
Northerner here. I'm so sorry we're a colder bunch. It's definitely true. I'm so enamored with Southerners when I visit my boyfriend who lives in Nashville. The North is friendly but in a different way. (I felt the same way about Germany when I lived there; to most Americans, they are cold and unfriendly, but if you get to know them, they have a very defined friendly and humorous side. No question about it.)
I live in Fargo and most people are friendly here
as a man from Alabama we accept Texas as southern
I love the Miss first name. The way I was brought up, that is to be used for any unrelated woman that you’re on a friendly, or somewhat familiar basis: friends of parents, ballet instructors, Girl Scout leaders, etc.
Since leaving the South, and most recently Texas, I can only recall being called Miss Saundra once. I think it is such a friendly and respectful term. I wish it were used more often, in more places. I still use it all the time.
You can take the girl out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the girl. 😉
I'm called Miss at my office, at first tried to make it stop but gave up five or six years ago. It's a term of respect with a little endearment mixed in. :)
@@cdenese108 Excellent definition!
I always hated that in the south - I am not a miss and it just seems so patriarchal
Interestingly, at the church I went to when I was living in Arizona, we had the kiddos call their Sunday school and other teachers "Miss" Whoever. Of course, several of us there were Southern ex-pats, so maybe that's why. I don't think it was an Arizona thing. In my "mama's group" we had two Texans, a Mississippian and an Okie, so there was a lot of Southern influence.
Its called... MANNERS, folks!! Use em once in a while.
Came for the jokes, stayed for the spaceballs t-shirt 🤣
The term Yankee originated as a derogatory term referring to the people who created and formed the United States of America, the British redcoats used it as a slur suggesting the American people were simpletons they would beat into submission, and they would sing Yankee Doodle Dandy to mock the patriots. The patriots however after they started defeating the British troops adopted the song to mock the British redcoats. The origin of the word Yankee isn’t known for sure, though some believe it came from the Dutch who hated the English settlers and referred to them as janekke, which was purportedly an insult. The Dutch colonized what was first called New Amsterdam, they were bankers, and tried imposing slavery of the Indian tribes, who they were very antagonistic to. They were utter failures in their attempt to be successful and New Amsterdam was taken over by English settlers and eventually became New York.
The word originated from Dutch, meaning John Cheese. It was a slight, implying that cheese production was the only thing the Dutch were good at.
This explains where "Yankee" came from, refering to the colonists. Southerners calling Northerners "Yankees" is left over from the Civil War.
And none of the New Yorkers gave a poop over being “British “because they didn’t like Stuyvesant Plus the Brits didn’t mess with the businesses so no one was mad. (NYC Documentary)
I used to think Macaroni was the name of the feather. About 20 years ago, I learned the history of the song. Maybe we call Northerners Yankees because more of them were Patriots. Many Southern states had more Loyalist than Patriots. My mom's family from both sides lived in North Carolina at the time. One side was Loyalist and the other Patriot (they lived in different areas, they didn't know each other). I could be in the DAR but that's not something that interests me. I could be in the DAC but I'm not interested in that either. My mama's mama's family lived in TN at the time of the Civil War, they fought for the Confederacy (They were the Loyalist family). My mama's papa's family still lived in NC. They didn't fight as many in that area of NC didn't. They were tobacco farmers. Slavery wasn't common in that area.
Like the North tried to do to the South? 😊
Yall always make my day! I laughed so hard at the food bit because it's true. Found out yesterday that my MIL is making dinner for us today, for our weekly family visit, and I have been thinking about it since then. And I'll be thinking about it afterwards, until I step outside in the humidity and reach a level 10! 😂😂😂
Eat more vitamin c rich foods.
Enjoy your lovely meal and time with family!
Loved this vid, y'all. 😎👍
Y'all should put together an episode with a Southerner, a Northerner, a Midwesterner, a West Coaster, an English person, a European, an Australian, a Japanese, a Chinese, an Indian (from India), a Spanish person, a Native American, etc and all talk about various slangs and phrases that they use. I bet that would be both interesting to compare and might even be humorous at the same time. 😁
Lost in the Pond Lawrence for the Brit, and Old Fashioned AF his wife Tara for Midwestern/hoosier.
@@freedomcat Lost in the Pond, but yes. Excellent suggestions.
@@corvidsRcool I'm going to fix that. I blame Auto correct.
If you need a Midwesterner then Charlie Berens is the go-to.
lol not mad at whats said here but I "sigh" because as always Pacific Islanders are left out. lol. no we are not Asian. and no we are not just Hawaiian or Samoan. but cool. We'll definitely bring food around and invite everyone though.
Ha! I struck up a chatty conversation with the librarian at my daughter’s school and halfway in, I realized she must be from the North - she’s looking at me like, “why are you talking to me about the book your daughter took out last week, and how do I get out of this?” 😂😂😂 What can I say? We aim to be friendly, sorry if it’s too much for you!
Matt: "People say the guys down here dress like tablecloths..."
Cameraman: *aggressively zooms in to Matt and Ryan's collar shirts*
So much plaid 🤣
Must be whoever asked the question has never been to New England....plaid is everywhere.
@@queenbunnyfoofoo6112 the Midwest is pretty plaidy too, as far as I know
@@ThinWhiteAxe True 😄.
ANYONE who calls coke "pop" I question their intelligence. I've actually caught a 3 day Facebook ban for commenting on a meme that portrays coke as unintelligent and pop as intelligent and commented that op was unable to spell coke or pop because he clearly is the one mentally deficient for confusing which is which. I'm willing to die on this hill.
@itsasouthernthing
Its where you live in the country .in the midwest and where i live in the northern plains we say "pop" .ive used the term "soda" a couple times ,it just felt wrong and it confused people
Driving in snow in the north is a mandatory skill. They don’t shut things down around here unless they absolutely have to.
Don’t forget about the potholes
@@MintersFreshers or as some of us call them chuck holes.
@@MintersFreshers The pothole down the road from me only got fixed because NYDOT hit it with their line painting trucks and realized it was on the corner of two state roads and they couldn’t bum it off on the town.
The potholes are terrible. It would be easier if they had an online form you could submit with pictures and location details about said potholes.
@@LeadTrumpet1 it really would
But potholes combined with Boston traffic and you one hell of day
Got a 2015 Beetle through a winter storm warning to work and then found out I was supposed to stay home.
Fun fact almost every state has its own accent even some large states have different ones per area even if it's small
Then there’s the Midwestern states which have no accent 😂😂
@@MintersFreshers actually they do!
@@jacobrichardson611 it was a joke mate .-. Even my parents are from the Midwest and they say they have no accent .-.
Its called a joke 🤦♂️
This! I come from PA we have a Philadelphia accent, central PA accent, PA dutch accent, and a western PA accent. All within the same state. We also are split on pop and soda.
@@MintersFreshers oh I'm sorry! I didn't catch it lol...wooooosh
My friend from Georgia was in the Army in the early 60's. He had convinced some Army buddies from Brooklyn that in order to get to Atlanta, you took a plane to Chattanooga and then had to take a stagecoach to Atlanta.
😂😂😂
😂😂😂 sounds like something my papa would have said to his Army buddies
Driving in the snow is a skill. Driving in melted snow that re-froze into ice isn't safe no matter who does it.
That's what we get in Georgia. Of course, most people near Atlanta aren't actually Southerners.
You know what my favorite thing is? Seeing northerners whizz past my house in the snow and then the next day seeing 20 abandoned vehicles on the side of the road. It's not really possible to traverse snowy and icy roads without salt no matter who ya are 😄
Most people in North Atl metro are immigrants from tropical asian countries. They've never seen it till their first to third year here.
When I lived in pensacola Florida, we had ice storms. It would rain on a very cold day, and the rain would freeze as soon as it hit the ground, and then the temperature would drop even further, causing everything to be coated in ice. It looked cool, but was sketchy, because the stairs for my high school were outside of the building.
"Why can't southerners drive in snow?"
That's silly because here in the north every year when we get the first real snow fall there are accidents everywhere as we find out drivers have completely forgotten how to drive in the snow since last winter. Maybe not Alaska.
Yep. The first snow is the same everywhere. Thats were the cars with bald summer tires and the people that think it isn't so bad...only 6 inches....except it is 6" atop an ice sheet that formed on a road that was 60F at sunset yesterday.
Typically below Ky we only get a first snow...so there is chaos.
We just stay home, since i have a steep gravel road.
People at higher elevations in the Appalachians seem to handle snow pretty well, even when it’s the first snow of the season. Then again, you’re constantly getting practice with rough terrain and/or rain too. Not to mention that we have equipment up here to handle it.
@@AlphaWolf096 i live in the Apps in a national forest. I don't drive until the melt begins if it is the classic snow...70 degree then rain then 25F then 40 then 6" of snow then 15F...that's walk in the woods days and work from home.
If it's a clean snow...30F dry roads, snow of 8", stays below 32....pffft that's nothing. I do have tire chains for the forestry road. They make me remove them when i hit the county pavement.
You're right, we do get lots of cold rain, black ice, fog practice on switchbacks over 1200ft cliffs... that warms us up for the snow.
About 5 days of snow every 2nd or 3rd year. They don't usually plow up here in NC, but they sand and gravel the major roads so you can lose a windshield. More serious snow in KY and the western Virginias.
City and suburb folks down in the lowlands are terrible. They're used to straight, lit and well drained roads. They go nuts in even a hard rain.
@@STho205 Definitely seems like it depends what part of the mountains you’re in, then. I at least know Boone tends not to struggle too much with snow.
It's true, northerners forget how to drive in the snow every year. That first big snow, most people spin out or crash or slide. Then they remember 'oh yeah, snow.'
Whenever someone asks me why I call all soda Coke I say, "Because Coke is from here?" Since I'm from Georgia, and well Coke is from Atlanta. The Oil one had me laughing though, I say words with oi as OL so soil becomes sol, etc. Great video y'all, keep up the hilarious work. :)
Coke was invented in Columbus GA then first sold in Atlanta.
Yeah, sorry about that. I always forget where *exactly* it's from. But, thanks for reminding me!
Dr.Pemberton Columbus Ga.
I was raised in Maryland by Hoosier parents, and I always said Coke. Go to a restaurant and you order a Coke and the person taking your order would say, "What kind?"
I quit that when I moved and got Coca Cola every time.
I live in Columbus and my childhood was on base Ft.Benning so then the Infantry Museum was my playground and now hey come on down and live the experience of it brings
Born and raised in upstate New York and at the age of 25 I chose the The South and I’ve never had any regrets and just to test that theory I went back to my hometown lived there for a couple years hated it and I was welcome back home as a hurricane was coming into Florida and all I could think was I’m home😎🥰
I’m a southerner born and bred and I guess I didn’t realize “whenever” was a problem for northerners to understand like they can’t understand “fixin”. Uh, glad I follow y’all so I can become better educated. Love your channel!
Whenever is totally normal in the northwest I think almost every single one of these questions are made by those in New York City where they make that awful salsa 😂
But when Notherners try to use y'all and can never pronounce it right , but feel they've adopted not only a Southern accent - but the Southern language as well - SIGH. No - Just stop. Please, for the love of God stop!
@@fidgetssailing4725 how can you mispronounce y’all? You see I grew up first 11 years of life in Arkansas then the next 17 or so in Washington state and the next 11 in Texas. Nobody thinks they have a southern accent because they say the word y’all.
@@Thumper68 Hmm well that was your experience - mine was in talking to people from NY, NJ and Chicago - they do mispronounce it as it still sort of sounds like two words they're combining instead of one word
@@fidgetssailing4725 Yeah, they still say "you all" but just take out the space and squish them together. If you really want to get 'em going, just borrow the word "you'ns" from the Appalachian mountain folk.
I had a teacher in AP History high school and she'd tell us we needed to say we were from KY because we lived real close to Cincinnati OH so most of us would say Cincinnati. She said we needed to represent our state and show people we weren't a bunch of hicks. I took that to heart, because I have a beautiful state and yeah sure maybe some people are dumb but dumb people are everywhere
Trouble is all of world believes that Southern =stupid. Sterotyped to death Southern people all of the time.
Tbh I think the "why do southerners talk so much?" Question was actually asked in the way of like talking to strangers. For example in the south walking by ur neighbor or maybe just passing someone you wave and say hey or oh how's ur day when you're in line somewhere. Or talk to someone in the grocery store for no reason. Whereas northerns don't do that. I see the answer as just southern kindness.
I think you're right. I moved to the South from the northern Midwest, and the thing I kept telling my friends back "home" was "People make EYE CONTACT when you pass them on the street! They say hi!" I've lived in New England, too, and if you talk to people you don't know in the grocery store they think you're some sort of creepy person. It is really too bad. Glad to be here!
Indeed, indeed. You can have full blown conversations with strangers while waiting in line. Go to the theater, and you can make a new friend(s) with the fella(s) beside you during the commercials! Pass some people on the street or in the store, and you get a smile, a nod, and a "How're ya doing?" We're a friendly sorta folk down here, with exceptions of course. I drive across the country for a living, and it was a shock to go up north and NOT be able to chat with folks randomly, or even get a returned nod!
We were taught it's the polite thing to do, which caught me off guard after I moved to the west coast and found that people back away from you as if you just asked them to lick the anthrax in your hand if you simply say hello.
My husband told me that me holding doors open for people, randomly talking to others, and just smiling at strangers would creep out or make a northerner suspicious of me. It breaks my heart that people up north would think me suspicious just for striking up a conversation. 😢
@@firebladetenn6633 It's a sad reality with those Yanks, unfortunately.