Mississippi lexicon
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Only in ms can "coke" refer to any carbonated beverage. If the ice chest or fridge has different brands in there you are asked what kind of coke you want.
My wife is from Northeast Mississippi, where apparently they say "care to," where I (a Clintonian) would say "mind to." When she says, for example, "I don't care to make you cookies," she means she's willing and able to make those cookies. It makes me think of "I don't care for...," which of course would mean the opposite.
This. People in mississippi and Alabama know what Nabs are. No one else.
Also "fixin to". I'm fixin to go to the store. Also could be pronounced "fisina".
Also "fixin to". I'm fixin to go to the store. Also could be pronounced "fisina".
Too much sugar for a dime, bless his/her/their heart, sammich, coarch, warsh, cut it on/off, graveyard dead, dead as a door nail, knocked smooth out, waylayed...
I'm from NEMS, here is a few I still
Hear: How are you? Response: "I'm fair to middling" also the term "unises"
(Sp?) for example instead of y'all some will ask what are uinses doing?
Hear: How are you? Response: "I'm fair to middling" also the term "unises"
(Sp?) for example instead of y'all some will ask what are uinses doing?
I interned in DC between State and grad school, and there was this girl who worked on somebody else's staff (from New Mexico) who I'd been trying to get friendly with, and one afternoon we were going to take a break together. I said, "C'mon, I'll buy you a pack of nabs." She looked at me funny and said, "What are nabs?" I explained, "They're the little crackers with peanut butter in them ... what do y'all call them?" and she said "We call them 'the little crackers with peanut butter in them'."
There isn't one saying in this thread that is exclusive to MS. The rednecks in my part of Missouri are fixing to be pissed at you guys claiming this stuff.
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Nabs
I never made the connection between nabs and nabisco. Only nabs I knew were made by Lance.But you might be right.
I never made the connection between nabs and nabisco. Only nabs I knew were made by Lance.But you might be right.
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I still look at people like they have 3 eyes when they call them "nabs"
never understood that one.
never understood that one.
Bee boppin around.
My dad always says flustrated. Don't really know if that's a real word or not.
Reckon
Ow-chonder (out yonder)
My dad always says flustrated. Don't really know if that's a real word or not.
Reckon
Ow-chonder (out yonder)
This one may be more age related. My Grampaw and to a lesser extent, my dad, called the midday meal "dinner." Try this nowadays even in the Deep South with people younger than about 60 and they will be really confused.
There are also some that I learned while working at MSU with people from Webster County that have to be inclusive to that county only. I grew up in rural Rankin county and had never heard them. "Lack" pronounced as "like". There are a couple more, but I'm drawing a blank. Will edit to add when I think of them.
There are also some that I learned while working at MSU with people from Webster County that have to be inclusive to that county only. I grew up in rural Rankin county and had never heard them. "Lack" pronounced as "like". There are a couple more, but I'm drawing a blank. Will edit to add when I think of them.
This x100. I always tell people I work with I'm going to get a pack of nabs for a snack and they have no idea what I'm talking about.
Fixing to is more just southern than mississippi.
My friends from up north have no idea what I mean when I say that.
My friends from up north have no idea what I mean when I say that.
Over around Morgantown - that's a suburb of Sturgis, kinda like Hollywood and Los Angeles, it is "fidna".
This seems appropriate to this thread:
Audio map of US dialects (inspired by the Coke/soda/pop thread)
one that hasn't been covered: "carry" for "take to/give a ride"
like "I have to carry Mrs. Smith to the doctor tomorrow"
Audio map of US dialects (inspired by the Coke/soda/pop thread)
one that hasn't been covered: "carry" for "take to/give a ride"
like "I have to carry Mrs. Smith to the doctor tomorrow"
Fair to middling
Just to set record straight, fair and middling are grades of cotton. I assume the phrase came from that lexicon. Back in the dark ages, our family raised cotton, and middling, strict low middling, fair etc were grades we got on bales of cotton.
Or every other state in the south...(link)
I grew up in Georgia, and almost all of these supposed Mississippi-only expressions were also used in GA.
https://www.google.com/search?q=nam...p%3A%2F%2Ffizzledout.com%2F%3Fp%3D177;971;585
I grew up in Georgia, and almost all of these supposed Mississippi-only expressions were also used in GA.
https://www.google.com/search?q=nam...p%3A%2F%2Ffizzledout.com%2F%3Fp%3D177;971;585
Moved to Brookhaven
In the ninth grade. People would say they were going to the "show" instead of the "movies". I had no idea what they meant.
In the ninth grade. People would say they were going to the "show" instead of the "movies". I had no idea what they meant.