perspective
I work in “Nova”, Northern Virginia, not far from DC. Technically it is in the south, though I don’t know anyone who thinks of it as “The South”. There are transplants, however. Transplants from all over, but definitely some who are from places much more southern than nova, places that are indisputably “The South”. Places where extra syllables find their way into words, unexpectedly.
And so I learned at work this week that with a certain kind of southern accent, “gentle” will sound like “genital”.
So when someone is anger at me and calls me a “genital” they are actually saying I am gentle?
I recin it kin ifin you wants it two.
Having lived in deep appalachia, Miss-asip, bama, Georg-ah, and other southern locals, This cracked me up!
I have a collection of what i refer to as southern turns…phrases you only find south of the mason-dixon…
and they make me giggle every time I hear them.
Rich, I think they’re calling you a structure built on the side of a house, often used for entertaining.
Sorrow, I’ve got a small collection of them myself - I’ve only lived in Atlanta and Nashville, but when I was in Nashville (or Nashvegas, as we liked to call it) one of my friends was from east tennessee, and I picked up quite a few very humorous sayings from her! And a friend’s mom was always saying “might could” do this or that, which tripped me up!