I grew up all over the place until I was about 12 so I find myself interchanging some of those phrases. I might say either firefly or lightning bug as well as using either semi/tractor trailer/18 wheeler. I've never once uttered the phrase youse but I have occasionally said you all rather than y'all. I used to say cocola but these days its usually just coke I guess - I don't drink any of that crap anymore except root beer and I've never called it anything other than root beer.
I interchange Coke & cocola, but call all soft drinks one or the other. I’ve never called them a firefly in my life, and always say y’all.
My parents are from Long Island and I grew up in, what was at the time, an old Virginia culture. Everyone in VA used to make fun of my NY accent and my NY family made fun of my drawl. Only thing different between VA and NY on this list is tennis shoes vs sneakers and looks about right.
(10-13-2022 05:20 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ]I saw were our president misused the word dinner and wondered about other words….
https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
Note: I have never heard anyone in Kentucky say “you guys”. It’s y’all when you ’re talking to or about two or more people … damn Yankees
Are Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County still considered part of Kentucky?
I never in my life have called a soda a soft drink, it would seem odd to me. As a matter of fact depending on whom I am talking to the pronounciation of the word is different. Another word that I've never used is Pop for a soft drink. A cola in spanish is a tail, like, "la cola del diablo" the devils tail.
In the olden days there was a specific language enjoyed by "chicanos" and if you weren't in the barrio sect you wouldn't know what was being said, it was called "calo" which in a way was gangster talk. I still remember a lot of the words but have forgotten many. A shirt for instance in polite talk was camisa, in calo it was lisa.
(10-13-2022 06:10 PM)olliebaba Wrote: [ -> ]I never in my life have called a soda a soft drink, it would seem odd to me. As a matter of fact depending on whom I am talking to the pronounciation of the word is different. Another word that I've never used is Pop for a soft drink. A cola in spanish is a tail, like, "la cola del diablo" the devils tail.
In the olden days there was a specific language enjoyed by "chicanos" and if you weren't in the barrio sect you wouldn't know what was being said, it was called "calo" which in a way was gangster talk. I still remember a lot of the words but have forgotten many. A shirt for instance in polite talk was camisa, in calo it was lisa.
It was weird to hear "pop" when I lived in the midwest. And Soda only seemed to be on TV. It was usually soft drink but often Coke. We have no family ties to Virginia (soft drink) that i know of.
I do remember gym shoes being used when I lived in southern Ohio.
In Central Texas, the "all y'all" is common.
If you are speaking to a single group, one uses "y'all".
If there are two or more sets of people, use "all y'all".
Kind of a 'super plural'.
I grew up in the southeast where the singular form was, "you," and, "y'all" was always plural. I never heard "y'all" used in the singular before I got to Texas.
(10-13-2022 09:36 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote: [ -> ]I grew up in the southeast where the singular form was, "you," and, "y'all" was always plural. I never heard "y'all" used in the singular before I got to Texas.
Y'all is to one 'group' of people. Not one person. At a happy hour, you tell your table "Y'all listen up."
But when you have one group at the table, and a second group next to them --- use "all y'all".
At a wedding reception, speaking to the bride guests at one table and the groom guests at another, but at the same time --- "Why dont all y'all come to my house for brunch tomorrow?"
You == singular
Y'all == plural
All y'all == super plural
(10-13-2022 09:34 PM)tanqtonic Wrote: [ -> ]In Central Texas, the "all y'all" is common.
If you are speaking to a single group, one uses "y'all".
If there are two or more sets of people, use "all y'all".
Kind of a 'super plural'.
I actually use “all y’all” for a crowd. For example “all y’all get in here we’re about to sing Happy Birthday to Grandma”
It’s always fascinated me how we use language and where we live dictates some of the words we use.
I still regularly use “no worries” from my time in Australia. I just dropped the “mate” from the phrase. I still catch myself using mate with it in public on occasion usually in a pub or restaurant.
Just writing this the bloody Aussie words come flooding back and I haven’t lived there in a decade.
(10-13-2022 05:12 PM)JUSTGOPLAY Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:20 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ]I saw were our president misused the word dinner and wondered about other words….
https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
Note: I have never heard anyone in Kentucky say “you guys”. It’s y’all when you ’re talking to or about two or more people … damn Yankees
Are Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County still considered part of Kentucky?
My sister’s husband and his family in-laws in Louisville refer to those counties as Ohio.
(10-14-2022 07:20 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:12 PM)JUSTGOPLAY Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:20 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ]I saw were our president misused the word dinner and wondered about other words….
https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
Note: I have never heard anyone in Kentucky say “you guys”. It’s y’all when you ’re talking to or about two or more people … damn Yankees
Are Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County still considered part of Kentucky?
My sister’s husband and his family in-laws in Louisville refer to those counties as Ohio.
I'm curious what Jim says, I know when I lived in Campbell County most of my friends from other parts of the Commonwealth had a pretty dim view of Northern Kentucky. Personally I liked it very much and found it was more different than you would think from Buckeye land just across the river. Most Northern Kentuckians sounded like Ohio, but were still very much Kentuckians at heart and in temperament.
(10-14-2022 07:20 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:12 PM)JUSTGOPLAY Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:20 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ]I saw were our president misused the word dinner and wondered about other words….
https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
Note: I have never heard anyone in Kentucky say “you guys”. It’s y’all when you ’re talking to or about two or more people … damn Yankees
Are Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County still considered part of Kentucky?
My sister’s husband and his family in-laws in Louisville refer to those counties as Ohio.
That’s why I didn’t answer… I thought everyone knew that
It’s like that in Southern Indiana too. They call Jeffersonville, Indiana “Little Louisville”.
(10-14-2022 07:39 AM)Gamenole Wrote: [ -> ] (10-14-2022 07:20 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:12 PM)JUSTGOPLAY Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:20 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ]I saw were our president misused the word dinner and wondered about other words….
https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
Note: I have never heard anyone in Kentucky say “you guys”. It’s y’all when you ’re talking to or about two or more people … damn Yankees
Are Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County still considered part of Kentucky?
My sister’s husband and his family in-laws in Louisville refer to those counties as Ohio.
I'm curious what Jim says, I know when I lived in Campbell County most of my friends from other parts of the Commonwealth had a pretty dim view of Northern Kentucky. Personally I liked it very much and found it was more different than you would think from Buckeye land just across the river. Most Northern Kentuckians sounded like Ohio, but were still very much Kentuckians at heart and in temperament.
I don’t know. Rural Kentuckians are notorious for hating Louisville and Northern Kentucky. Personally I believe its a racial thing with Louisville. With Northern Kentucky it’s probably a cultural thing.
Clif can probably speak to that better than I.
Or it might be how they destroy chili with noodles and cinnamon
(10-14-2022 11:45 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ] (10-14-2022 07:39 AM)Gamenole Wrote: [ -> ] (10-14-2022 07:20 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:12 PM)JUSTGOPLAY Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:20 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ]I saw were our president misused the word dinner and wondered about other words….
https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
Note: I have never heard anyone in Kentucky say “you guys”. It’s y’all when you ’re talking to or about two or more people … damn Yankees
Are Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County still considered part of Kentucky?
My sister’s husband and his family in-laws in Louisville refer to those counties as Ohio.
I'm curious what Jim says, I know when I lived in Campbell County most of my friends from other parts of the Commonwealth had a pretty dim view of Northern Kentucky. Personally I liked it very much and found it was more different than you would think from Buckeye land just across the river. Most Northern Kentuckians sounded like Ohio, but were still very much Kentuckians at heart and in temperament.
I don’t know. Rural Kentuckians are notorious for hating Louisville and Northern Kentucky. Personally I believe its a racial thing with Louisville. With Northern Kentucky it’s probably a cultural thing.
Clif can probably speak to that better than I.
Or it might be how they destroy chili with noodles and cinnamon
Your mother didn't put noodles in chili? Y'all must have been rich us poor people down south noodles were added because they are cheap and made that chili last for 2 meals
BG is 68% white to Louisville 72% so its not race in BG its the fact y'all try to be uppity like our friends to the north. Now western KY you might have a point but a lot of it is the "uppity" part
(10-14-2022 11:54 AM)WKUYG Wrote: [ -> ] (10-14-2022 11:45 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ] (10-14-2022 07:39 AM)Gamenole Wrote: [ -> ] (10-14-2022 07:20 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:12 PM)JUSTGOPLAY Wrote: [ -> ]Are Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County still considered part of Kentucky?
My sister’s husband and his family in-laws in Louisville refer to those counties as Ohio.
I'm curious what Jim says, I know when I lived in Campbell County most of my friends from other parts of the Commonwealth had a pretty dim view of Northern Kentucky. Personally I liked it very much and found it was more different than you would think from Buckeye land just across the river. Most Northern Kentuckians sounded like Ohio, but were still very much Kentuckians at heart and in temperament.
I don’t know. Rural Kentuckians are notorious for hating Louisville and Northern Kentucky. Personally I believe its a racial thing with Louisville. With Northern Kentucky it’s probably a cultural thing.
Clif can probably speak to that better than I.
Or it might be how they destroy chili with noodles and cinnamon
Your mother didn't put noodles in chili? Y'all must have been rich us poor people down south noodles were added because they are cheap and made that chili last for 2 meals
BG is 72% white to Louisville 68% so its not race in BG its the fact y'all try to be uppity like our friends to the north. Now western KY you might have a point but a lot of it is the "uppity" part
Who the **** puts noodles in chili you sick bastards???
(10-14-2022 11:45 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ] (10-14-2022 07:39 AM)Gamenole Wrote: [ -> ] (10-14-2022 07:20 AM)CliftonAve Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:12 PM)JUSTGOPLAY Wrote: [ -> ] (10-13-2022 05:20 AM)CardinalJim Wrote: [ -> ]I saw were our president misused the word dinner and wondered about other words….
https://www.rd.com/list/regional-sayings-phrases-words/
Note: I have never heard anyone in Kentucky say “you guys”. It’s y’all when you ’re talking to or about two or more people … damn Yankees
Are Boone County, Kenton County, and Campbell County still considered part of Kentucky?
My sister’s husband and his family in-laws in Louisville refer to those counties as Ohio.
I'm curious what Jim says, I know when I lived in Campbell County most of my friends from other parts of the Commonwealth had a pretty dim view of Northern Kentucky. Personally I liked it very much and found it was more different than you would think from Buckeye land just across the river. Most Northern Kentuckians sounded like Ohio, but were still very much Kentuckians at heart and in temperament.
I don’t know. Rural Kentuckians are notorious for hating Louisville and Northern Kentucky. Personally I believe its a racial thing with Louisville. With Northern Kentucky it’s probably a cultural thing.
Clif can probably speak to that better than I.
Or it might be how they destroy chili with noodles and cinnamon
Yes, it's cultural. Let's be honest- Newport, Covington, Ft. Thomas, Crestview Hills, Florence and Burlington are all Cincinnati suburbs. There is just a river dividing them. It wasn't always this way, but Northern KY is also being overrun by former Ohio residents, as the property taxes are cheaper there and a lot of nice new communities being built up.