"Might could" and "might should" are right up there with "y'all" and "fixin' to" as Southernisms I can't talk without. I also sometimes say "they's" when I mean "there's," but I've almost trained myself out of it, and it only comes out when I'm very tired or distracted.
Gunn: You ready? Fred: Is no an acceptable answer?
'Lineage'
Spike's Bitches 38: Well, This Is Just...Neat.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Susan W. - Nov 05, 2007 10:38:57 am PST #2688 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Emily - Nov 05, 2007 10:40:30 am PST #2689 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
According to this post,
The Oxford English Dictionary has "swan" as a verb, labeled U.S. slang, derived probably (it says) from northern England dialectal "Is' wan," literally "I shall warrant" = I'll be bound; later taken as a mincing substitute for "swear." The first use in print recorded in the dictionary is from the year 1823.
Kathy A - Nov 05, 2007 10:42:27 am PST #2690 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
A Southernism that fools me every time is when you ask a Southerner if they know where something's at, and they reply, "I sure don't!" Northerers I've known only say "I sure do" and never use the negative, so it's confusing when you're expecting something helpful at the beginning of the sentence, only to be skunked out by that final "don't!"
Connie Neil - Nov 05, 2007 10:42:57 am PST #2691 of 10002
brillig
"a mincing substitute". That's a lovely phrase.
Laga - Nov 05, 2007 10:45:19 am PST #2692 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Hooray! I finally got a Cook's Illustrated test recipe that I can actually make.
I didn't realize the breaking your ethnicity into fractions was a Chicago thing. My Mom is from Chicago but she totally does the small talk with strangers thing. Maybe that's just Mom but my friend John, also born and raised in Chicago usually manages to get the life story of every cab driver.
hippocampus - Nov 05, 2007 10:52:42 am PST #2693 of 10002
not your mom's socks.
I think it's the strike, but I am earwormed with "Sister Suffragette" from Mary Poppins. "our daughter's daughter's will adore us... and they'll sing in grateful chorus..."
Laga - Nov 05, 2007 10:54:26 am PST #2694 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Unfortunately I just clicked on the video for Kenny Loggins' Danger Zone after following a link from Buffista Music. It's a bad day for earworms.
Zenkitty - Nov 05, 2007 10:56:47 am PST #2695 of 10002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
The only Southernisms I still use (I think) are y'all (perfectly good word) and "going to". Eventually I'm going to train myself out of saying "going to".
Sometimes I say "I ain't" but mainly to argue with people about its correctness. I maintain it's the proper contraction of "am not". Archaic matters less than correct.
Laga - Nov 05, 2007 11:00:59 am PST #2696 of 10002
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I've never lived in the south but "y'all" is just too handy not to co-opt.
erikaj - Nov 05, 2007 11:04:34 am PST #2697 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
wrod, y'all.