I shore am like to starve to death for some cornbread and buttermilk. That biscuits and gravy and side meat fer breakfast done gone airs ago. I shore hope grannys gonna make sum nanner puddin thisevenin. And if we've got a lick o sense it'll be gone long fore that preacher shows up. Y'all know how he can put it away. :0).

Yep..that bout sums it up, sho as month of Sundays. I believe I have heard just about all the sayings that have ever been uttered by southerners...I grew up with great aunts and uncles, people don't say things like they did back when...
Slower than molasses, sight em by tree to see if they movin, that boy forgot to bake his cake afore he cut it. lol

I've been southern for over fifty years and if all yall have read any of my posts then ya sho nuff know I'm from the most southen pahts of Gahja. If ya have spoken with me you danged sho nuff well know I'm southen...

I don't gossip bout my neighbors, I tell the truth. If I say do say a bad thang bout one ufem I say God, luvem...ain't they precious? Ifn I take a liken I eat grits, eggs eyes shinin, bacon and ho cake for supper, sometimes with pancakes and surrip. If someone says they gonna have soft shell soup, they ain't talking crap...they talking turtle...and if they say going coon hunting then you better have that fryin pan hot, cause they gonna come back with a coon, rabbit or something to fry in lard or bacon fat.

If you're wondering how to mearsure a mess of greens it is the amount you can hold between your hands without dropping any...like holding a basketball, even if you only have two people eating...a mess is a mess. Family determines how big a mess you need...four people two messes...
I knew those farmin days would pay off one day...I hated working in those green fields...pulling...cleaning, wet, cold...cold, wet...

I call a person of ill repute a scallawag, rapscallion, filcher and tipstiller. I call a person that will wear his Sunday go to meeting suit on pull you out a ditch a good ole boy, and boy in his overalls having a good time a redneck...

I call anyone that can take a fishin pole or gun, kill and cook their food a person that will never go hungry...and I call people from the North...

Well, they just don't know no better, cause they ain't been taught... I love each and every one of them I know!

I've guilty of using the words 'fixin to' instead of the words 'about to'. Several years ago I became very aware of this when my sister became engaged to a properly articulate man. So, I trained myself to say the proper words. For example, instead of saying "I'm fixin to go to the store", I properly said, "I'm about to go to the store". It took me a while to cut out a word I had used improperly for "30 some odd" years. BTW, would "some odd" also be a southernism?
I laughed at the little old lady "ism" because about a year ago, my husband cut off one of those little old Southern ladies with his big, extended cab, diesel Ford truck. He needed to get in her lane quickly. So, he sped up and changed lanes closer to her than he intended, therefore cutting her off. This dear, little old lady, who could barely see over the steering wheel, sped up, changed lanes, and as she passed my husband, lifted her little ol' arm up high and proceeded to flip him the bird with her little ol' middle finger. So, beware of sweet little ol' spunky Southern women.
As far as y'all goes, this southern lady has never used it as a singular personal pronoun. I only use it as a plural personal pronoun. So, I guess I'm ok, grammatically speaking that is.

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Sorry, Chemar.

Those were some of the cleanest Redneck jokes I've read. But, I do understand. Please forgive my poor judgement. I prefer good, clean jokes myself. I guess I misjudged.

I think people from the South completely understand Redneck jokes because we are all stereotyped as such.
But, I do think I have a good feel of this forum now and will just continue to read and learn.

If I offended anyone out there, I ask your forgiveness.

I hope this is a blessed day,
Tonya

Jeet yet? Juant to? Take care not to tump that buttermilk.

Oh my stars and gardens! Y'all took me back, and it was wonderful.

Thank you from the bottom of my pea picken heart!

love, Love, LOVE THIS!

Being southern doesn't mean I'm not well educated or I'm stupid. I say ain't, y'all, fixin, and I reckon. I bless a lot of hearts. I might even piddle around from time to time. I might refer to my pants as britches and that's okay! If you're proud to be sweet, sassy, and southern, go ahead and click like right smack dab on this status! All Proud Southern Girls repost, its ok honey !! God Bless ya'lls peapicken hearts!

Thanks for the "Southern-isms"- my family's all from the South, I spent many a Summer staying with relatives in NC when I was growing up.

I use "ya'all" and "fixin to..." in my daily speech, simply because it feels comfortable, and the best way to express the thought.

-tnt in Southern California

I understood all of that!