Between "figger" and you ending sentences with prepositions, I'm not sure I can think of you the same anymore. Just tell me you don't use no double negatives.
That reminds me of this bitch I used to work with from Tennessee. I wanted to take her head and shove it through the monitor every time she spoke. (I absoluetly HATE the southern accent. I also hate the Wisconsin/Michigan/Upper Ohio accent.) And this guy thought she was so cute and then he realized that it wasn't so much her looks but her accent. I don't get it. I think it just makes you sound stupid. When I lived in NC briefly, I was really surprised at the difference in their hick talk and ours. WV hick is spoken a lot differently. It's faster and we don't end every sentence like it is a question. Also, the further north you go, the less of an accent you will notice. Southern WV is bad. This is Southern WV talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc3SEBA-9nU and let me just throw the documentary in (notice the preposition?): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M35r1Q4c88I
Hollywood uses the Southern accent for their stupid characters. It helps get their point across and now everyone has bought into it. But southerners with broader educations have less of an accent due to their exposure to different cultures and dialects. Many people don't peg me as being from Alabama because I have little accent. Maybe it's from military school and the military in general. I've been around people from all over so I guess I pick up a little bit of all of it.
People from NC always guessed that I was from OH which is close enough. I'm not ashamed of WV. I think our accents are annoying and sometimes funny. We still say the word "time" correctly, for the most part anyway. I can't figger out how describe how it is said in the south, but I'm sure you know what I mean. The slow drawn-out southern accent grates on my nerves and makes me angry, but so does the nasally MI accent. My ex-boyfriend was from Toledo and his mom worshipped "gad". It fucking drove me nuts. My fave accent is the probably the Pittsburgh, PA one.
I DON'T use these: Seen "I seen you at the store." Growed "You're all growed up." Knowed "I knowed that."
You like, "So where you'uns going tonight?" Thats what I got from Pittsburg. And apparently if you answer a question with 'ma'am behind it they get all wet. "Would you like dessert?" "Yes ma'am" "ooooh did you hear that? he called me ma'am" (squirt squirt) And dont hold the door for anybody. Going into Tiffany's in Manhattan, I held the door for my wife, and the women behind us, well Apparently that meant I was the door man. My wife thought (probably hoped) she had lost me when the lady behind her says, "Oh he was holding the door for some people, you better go snatch him up honey" in that nasaly NY sound.
There's actually quite a bit of difference between north AL and south AL. The "hill folk" in the north say "rayg" and "flayg" (you may know what I mean) and light pronounced "liiite" (you know). South Alabama is comprised of a lot of transplants (Yankee Snowbirds, etc) so the dialect is bastardized.
I think the hills of Tn has to be the worst. In the eastern region of KY they say things like Schoo and Poo apparently there are no 'L's left in kentucky. In Tn. I was asked if I'd like RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIce with my chicken. and Braid which is like bread but with more accent. would you like some Brrrr-raid?
I heard that alot from my friends from west by god virginia. We played a game like horse shoes, but it was 'tossin wershers' dont mention that the wuter truck was comin' they got all in an uproar over that one.....
I hate when people write "alot" like it's one word instead of two. "A" being the article and "lot" being the noun.
Just a thought.. shouldn't this post have been titled "What's the >WORST< word in the English language" and not the worse word?