Things you learn growing up in the south

One missing below is “caddywhompus” which of course means its out of wack, uneven, or ain’t just right!  My mail box out front has always been caddywhompus.. I kindy like it that way!  Gives it character!

A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.

There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple no one’s seen before.  

If it grows, it’ll stick ya. If it crawls, it’ll bite cha.

Onced and Twiced are words.

It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!

Jawl-P? means, Did you all go to the bathroom?

People actually grow, eat and like okra.

Fixinto is one word. It means I’m going to do that.

There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there’s supper.

Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you’re two. We do like a little tea with our sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.

Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.

The word jeet is actually a question meaning, ‘Did you eat?’

You don’t have to wear a watch, because it doesn’t matter what time it is, you work until you’re done or it’s too dark to see.

You don’t PUSH buttons, you MASH em.

Ya’ll is singular. All ya’ll is plural.

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.

You carry jumper cables in your car – for your OWN car.

You only own five spices: salt, pepper, mustard, Tabasco and ketchup.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, the motor sports, and gossip.

Everyone you meet is a Honey, Sugar, Miss(first name) or Mr.(first name)

You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

You know what ahissyfit is..

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

We don’t need no dang Driver’s Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!

Caterpallor ( n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.

You understand these jokes and forward them to your Southern friends and those who just wish they were from the SOUTH.

5 thoughts on “Things you learn growing up in the south

  1. Hahahaha! I’m from the North and since moving to the South, I have learned and experienced almost ALL of this over the past few years. It’s really this crazy.

  2. My family in OK call everything coke.

    “You want a coke?”
    “Yes please.”
    “What kind? we got root beer, sprite, and RC”

    Makes me smile every time.

    1. We do that in Texas too. Just by asking what kind of coke someone wants covers them all, even Dr. Pepper a drink that is originally from where else but Waco, TX.

  3. How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk?

    Take the quiz and see if the test pin points where you-enz are from!

    nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday-review/dialect-quiz-map.html?_r=0

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