South‘ner vs. Midwest talk

The Sandbox General
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I really like how southerners talk. They like how I talk too. I’m going to post words and phrases that the both sides find fun.

I was at a restaurant and I got into a conversation with the couple that was sitting next to me. He said a few items that I called out when he said them. He also noticed that I said some fun phrases as well. We had good laughs

Tim: “In the carpet”
Tim: “I’ll be there directly”. They were leaving but tim and I were in a construction conversation. His wife wanted nothing to do with our convo obviously and said “I’m headed to the truck”. Tim said this and she just rolled her eyes.

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I’m a northerner, that doesn’t hit me as odd

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“In the carpet” is new to me. Elaborate, please?

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Yeah, I’ve never heard this one either.

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Go grab the toy thats in the carpet. Not on the carpet, in the carpet.

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Midwesterners always seem to add a y before their a’s imo

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I never understood why midwesterners has a t in it. It should be spelled as it is pronounced aka midwesderners.

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Haven’t heard of “in the carpet,” but “in the floor” is a thing. Think of “the floor” as a 3D area instead of just a surface.

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Get back to me when Wensdays are pronounces WED-nes-days.

Of for that matter, when you prounouce your name as col-on-el instead of kern-nell.

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That’s what he said - in the floor (not carpet)

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Ope, let me just scootch on past ere.

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In front of you, behind you, over yonder

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So anyway, we went up this weekend…

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Bless your heart

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Midwesterner talk, from way back when:

My mom: Are you coming to Bridge?
MW’er: Oh I’m going away.
My mom: Oh, where to?
MW’er: The grocery store.

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You might could say that South’ners use diff’rent words than Upper-Midwesteners.

I’m fixin’ to start a list of some of the diff’rences.

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The guy that gave me a driveway quote last night was from Minnesota. And the second I heard him talk I asked him “you from up nort?”

When I hear the accent mine tends to exagerate as well.

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just don’t call it “pop”. Whatever you do, it’s not “pop”.

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s OH dah
rhuff (for r OO f)