(07-10-2014 03:04 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(07-10-2014 12:51 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 10:35 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 08:20 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 07:03 PM)BucFyre Wrote:  lol I say all of those things including buggy. The guy I'm seeing regularly mocks me for the usage of buggy.

I use 'em all myself, Buc. Although I sometimes hit the button, flip the switch, or pop a window up. I also sometimes call a bag a poke, and a suitcase a grip. But those last 2 are still in use in the West Virginia back country. It's not really a southern thing.

I'm young and I try to keep those words alive with my generation. Including commode for toilet.

How do you feel about millennials embracing the phrase "you guys?"

Wasn't aware they(we?) did. But have no opinion on it.

I generally stick with y'all, unless there's a very large crowd, in which case it's all y'all.

It is more correct to address a group of girls with "y'all" than it is to address them as "you guys."

I grew up in South Buffalo. Does that count?

(07-09-2014 08:28 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

I wished that map was more accurate, in WPA we say buggy.

What's so bad about buggy? It's less of a mouth full than shopping cart.

I just call it a cart.


Speaking of a mouth full of words...if you're to say "I'm going to grab a shopping cart" how many of you pronounce it exactly as it's spelled? How many would say "I'm gonna grab a shoppin' cart"?

Get a buggy is easier.

(07-10-2014 12:51 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 10:35 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 08:20 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 07:03 PM)BucFyre Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 06:53 PM)AngryAphid Wrote:  I could never be completely Southern.

The violent vernacular of mashing buttons, cutting off lights or cracking windows is a bit
too much for me. Heck! I still cringe when I hear someone use “buggy” for a shopping cart.

lol I say all of those things including buggy. The guy I'm seeing regularly mocks me for the usage of buggy.

I use 'em all myself, Buc. Although I sometimes hit the button, flip the switch, or pop a window up. I also sometimes call a bag a poke, and a suitcase a grip. But those last 2 are still in use in the West Virginia back country. It's not really a southern thing.

I'm young and I try to keep those words alive with my generation. Including commode for toilet.

How do you feel about millennials embracing the phrase "you guys?"

At 32 I'm on the old end of the millennials group and I have never once said "you guys". It's always been "y'all" or as bitcruncher mentioned "all y'all"

(07-10-2014 08:20 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  What's so bad about buggy? It's less of a mouth full than shopping cart.

I just call it a cart.


Speaking of a mouth full of words...if you're to say "I'm going to grab a shopping cart" how many of you pronounce it exactly as it's spelled? How many would say "I'm gonna grab a shoppin' cart"?

Guilty!

(07-10-2014 09:45 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Get a buggy is easier.

+1

(07-10-2014 08:14 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 08:28 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

I wished that map was more accurate, in WPA we say buggy.

There is going to be carry over and variations in all states. That map just indicates where it is most likely you will hear those terms.

(07-11-2014 07:39 AM)BucFyre Wrote:  

(07-10-2014 08:20 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  What's so bad about buggy? It's less of a mouth full than shopping cart.

I just call it a cart.


Speaking of a mouth full of words...if you're to say "I'm going to grab a shopping cart" how many of you pronounce it exactly as it's spelled? How many would say "I'm gonna grab a shoppin' cart"?

Guilty!

(07-10-2014 09:45 PM)bitcruncher Wrote:  Get a buggy is easier.

+1

My wife calls it a buggy, but she calls the place in
which she places it after shopping the shopping cart return.

Go figure?

I always just call it a cart. When I think of buggy I think of a baby buggy with the part of a roof on it for shade.

I do tend to say "you guys" even though I'm older than millennials. And even if it's mixed company. And where I'm at we tend to drop the last word, like "we're going to the store, you wanna come with?"

(07-10-2014 08:14 PM)ClairtonPanther Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 08:28 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

I wished that map was more accurate, in WPA we say buggy.

I've never, repeat NEVER, heard wagon used in New York. It's shopping cart. Maybe they use wagon in Greenwich Village, but that's it.

A friend was on a road trip with his wife somewhere in the midwest when he developed minor car trouble. It was something he could handle himself so he found an auto parts store, just before closing time.

As he and his wife were standing at the counter, discussing the part with the guy on the other side, someone else started turning the lights off.

Friend's wife says, "Are y'all fixin' to close?"

Counterman replies, "Ma'am, we don't fix clothes here. This is an auto parts store."

I got 95%. No idea which one I missed.

(07-09-2014 08:30 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 06:53 PM)AngryAphid Wrote:  I could never be completely Southern.

The violent vernacular of mashing buttons, cutting off lights or cracking windows is a bit
too much for me. Heck! I still cringe when I hear someone use “buggy” for a shopping cart.

My aunt in Alabama

"Y'all want to go to the store? I'll carry."

That's one I can't get on board with.

I say "carry" in that sense all the time. Another favorite is "Fixin' to".

I had an employee that was always late for work, she’d call the office and say
“I’m fixi'n to get ready”… which was her way of saying she was still in bed.

(07-15-2014 12:05 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 08:30 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 06:53 PM)AngryAphid Wrote:  I could never be completely Southern.

The violent vernacular of mashing buttons, cutting off lights or cracking windows is a bit
too much for me. Heck! I still cringe when I hear someone use “buggy” for a shopping cart.

My aunt in Alabama

"Y'all want to go to the store? I'll carry."

That's one I can't get on board with.

I say "carry" in that sense all the time. Another favorite is "Fixin' to".

Here's one that is common around here

"I'd like to never" got that lid off the mayonnaise jar.

Or the word “even“ used as emphasis.
“I don’t even know where my car keys are”

(07-15-2014 01:38 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-15-2014 12:05 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 08:30 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 06:53 PM)AngryAphid Wrote:  I could never be completely Southern.

The violent vernacular of mashing buttons, cutting off lights or cracking windows is a bit
too much for me. Heck! I still cringe when I hear someone use “buggy” for a shopping cart.

My aunt in Alabama

"Y'all want to go to the store? I'll carry."

That's one I can't get on board with.

I say "carry" in that sense all the time. Another favorite is "Fixin' to".

Here's one that is common around here

"I'd like to never" got that lid off the mayonnaise jar.

How about "it ain't no nevermind," or "I ain't never"?

And of course, there's always "fair to middlin'" as an answer to the question of "how are you?".

(07-15-2014 01:38 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-15-2014 12:05 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 08:30 PM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  

(07-09-2014 06:53 PM)AngryAphid Wrote:  I could never be completely Southern.

The violent vernacular of mashing buttons, cutting off lights or cracking windows is a bit
too much for me. Heck! I still cringe when I hear someone use “buggy” for a shopping cart.

My aunt in Alabama

"Y'all want to go to the store? I'll carry."

That's one I can't get on board with.

I say "carry" in that sense all the time. Another favorite is "Fixin' to".

Here's one that is common around here

"I'd like to never" got that lid off the mayonnaise jar.

Yeah, I hear that one from my aunt from time to time. BTW, how you say "aunt" can tell about one's "southerness". I pronounce it as "ant". It's funny though, I find myself slipping back with the southern slang when I go home. When I'm up here in VA, I don't tend to use the slang as much. It's not a conscience decision, just the way it works out.