Pretending to be Southern

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from northern VA. One of my childhood friends went to UNC and she came back for winter break with a full on southern accent and a love of country music. It was so weird (she joined a sorority so I guess it was like a Southern Immersion Program or something!)

Funny. I'm from the south, went to unc in the early 80s and came home with a NJ accent. Duke, UNC and other NC schools were over run by kids from up north.

So true. My ex girlfriend went to Duke and she used to call it SUNY (State University of New York) at Durham.

This is definitely still true at Duke and was NEVER true at UNC, which has a long standing cap of 18% OOS (and that includes the athletes). Nice try.

Erhinghaus dorm was at least 50% Jersyites back in the 80s. PP you have no idea.

Well bless your heart. I’m a Tar Heel, graduated 96. Yeah, if you’re going to point out ONE dorm out of a school of about 30,000 then you have zero argument. And if you actually went to UNC you’d know that E-haus is the athlete’s dorm.

There is zero chance that UNC EVER had a large of Jersey/Mass/NY/PA students like Dook. Never. Thanks for playing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DH insists that we raise our children to speak like they are southern. I love the south and the southern culture, but we live in Northern Virginia. People don't speak that way here. My DH is just a poser. Whenever I am telling a story or visiting with other moms, my DH will interrupt me to correct a term I use if it isn't southern. For example, if I refer to a BBQ, he steps in and says "cook out". If I use the word "mom", he steps in and says "momma". All the flipping time. I should add he was raised is rural Pennsylvania and no one else in his family uses southern terms. I have progressed from giving him the evil eye to telling him how unattractive his behavior is and that enough is enough. Bless his heart!

Rant over.

Does he insist on another phrase when you say "All the flipping time?"

I would.

+1

Also, OP's husband sounds like a ding dong.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DH insists that we raise our children to speak like they are southern. I love the south and the southern culture, but we live in Northern Virginia. People don't speak that way here. My DH is just a poser. Whenever I am telling a story or visiting with other moms, my DH will interrupt me to correct a term I use if it isn't southern. For example, if I refer to a BBQ, he steps in and says "cook out". If I use the word "mom", he steps in and says "momma". All the flipping time. I should add he was raised is rural Pennsylvania and no one else in his family uses southern terms. I have progressed from giving him the evil eye to telling him how unattractive his behavior is and that enough is enough. Bless his heart!

Rant over.

Maybe low country SC isn't southern to him, but mom was mom and the term cookout was never used. BBQ was a synonym for pulled pork, but you could use it interchangeable with inviting people over to throw meat on the grill

Hey fellow lowcountry native, and totally agree. BBQ is indeed synonymous with pulled pork, and I always heard grill as a verb (gree-ull if you were from up in the country), not cookout. People said "mom" to their mom but referred to her as their "mother" in conversation, or at least in the circles where I grew up. Mama was a more country thing.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from the Deep South. I would recognize a fake accent and fake speech pattern and wonder what was wrong with the speaker. Tell your DH he isn’t fooling anyone. You don’t become southern. A cat could have kittens in an oven but it wouldn’t make them biscuits.

Lol!!

I would just start using all the Southern expressions you can, way over the top. I love the cat and kittens one. Also: tell him "that dog won't hunt." "A hit dog hollers." "She looks madder than a wet hen." "God willing and the creek don't rise." "We're in high cotton." "All hat, no cattle." "like a duck on a June bug." "high on the hog." Say "I reckon" as much as possible. Just go way overboard and use the absolute hickest, fakest Southern accent you can. Channel your inner Foghorn Leghorn.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from northern VA. One of my childhood friends went to UNC and she came back for winter break with a full on southern accent and a love of country music. It was so weird (she joined a sorority so I guess it was like a Southern Immersion Program or something!)

Funny. I'm from the south, went to unc in the early 80s and came home with a NJ accent. Duke, UNC and other NC schools were over run by kids from up north.

So true. My ex girlfriend went to Duke and she used to call it SUNY (State University of New York) at Durham.

This is definitely still true at Duke and was NEVER true at UNC, which has a long standing cap of 18% OOS (and that includes the athletes). Nice try.

Erhinghaus dorm was at least 50% Jersyites back in the 80s. PP you have no idea.

Well bless your heart. I’m a Tar Heel, graduated 96. Yeah, if you’re going to point out ONE dorm out of a school of about 30,000 then you have zero argument. And if you actually went to UNC you’d know that E-haus is the athlete’s dorm.

There is zero chance that UNC EVER had a large of Jersey/Mass/NY/PA students like Dook. Never. Thanks for playing.

I find the NC accent from the Greensboro area to be very "sticky". I grew up in SC but went to a camp for a week with a bunch of NC kids and came back home with that NC accent. My family couldn't believe it. So I can absolutely see going to college in NC and coming back with an accent.

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Update us OP!

Is it mental illness? A joke? The strange fetishization of Southern whiteness that we often see on this board?

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This may be my favorite post of all time.

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Anonymous wrote:My DH insists that we raise our children to speak like they are southern. I love the south and the southern culture, but we live in Northern Virginia. People don't speak that way here. My DH is just a poser. Whenever I am telling a story or visiting with other moms, my DH will interrupt me to correct a term I use if it isn't southern. For example, if I refer to a BBQ, he steps in and says "cook out". If I use the word "mom", he steps in and says "momma". All the flipping time. I should add he was raised is rural Pennsylvania and no one else in his family uses southern terms. I have progressed from giving him the evil eye to telling him how unattractive his behavior is and that enough is enough. Bless his heart!

Rant over.

Maybe low country SC isn't southern to him, but mom was mom and the term cookout was never used. BBQ was a synonym for pulled pork, but you could use it interchangeable with inviting people over to throw meat on the grill

Hey fellow lowcountry native, and totally agree. BBQ is indeed synonymous with pulled pork, and I always heard grill as a verb (gree-ull if you were from up in the country), not cookout. People said "mom" to their mom but referred to her as their "mother" in conversation, or at least in the circles where I grew up. Mama was a more country thing.

How on earth can low country SC not be southern???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DH insists that we raise our children to speak like they are southern. I love the south and the southern culture, but we live in Northern Virginia. People don't speak that way here. My DH is just a poser. Whenever I am telling a story or visiting with other moms, my DH will interrupt me to correct a term I use if it isn't southern. For example, if I refer to a BBQ, he steps in and says "cook out". If I use the word "mom", he steps in and says "momma". All the flipping time. I should add he was raised is rural Pennsylvania and no one else in his family uses southern terms. I have progressed from giving him the evil eye to telling him how unattractive his behavior is and that enough is enough. Bless his heart!

Rant over.

Maybe low country SC isn't southern to him, but mom was mom and the term cookout was never used. BBQ was a synonym for pulled pork, but you could use it interchangeable with inviting people over to throw meat on the grill

Hey fellow lowcountry native, and totally agree. BBQ is indeed synonymous with pulled pork, and I always heard grill as a verb (gree-ull if you were from up in the country), not cookout. People said "mom" to their mom but referred to her as their "mother" in conversation, or at least in the circles where I grew up. Mama was a more country thing.

How on earth can low country SC not be southern???

How on earth could you read those two posts above and think anyone is saying that the lowcountry of SC is not southern? Of course it is. No one is saying otherwise.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's not a terrible idea. In the rest of the world, people prefer the southern accent to the standard American accent.

Which Southern accent? The genteel, sweet as molasses, slow drawl? Or the Cletus, “The Slack-jawed Yokel,” (from the Simpsons) one? There isn’t one Southern accent.

THANK YOU for recognizing this. So much of America doesn't.
--A Southerner who gets irked when people think we all sound like Cletus and that all Southerners are inherently dumb

To northerners, you do. And we don't think you're all dumb.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell him if he wants to be southern, he will have to give up the scrapple, Lebanon bologna, and chow-chow. And no gravy on his chicken and waffles, your strictly a maple syrup-with-fried chicken-and-waffles family now.

He may reconsider.

Wait, what? Scrapple is very Southern. At least, back in NC where I'm from, it's still very much on menus today. Not a thing of the past. Alas.

The origin of scrapple is Pennsylvania.

Porkroll is superior to Scrapple in every way. The south can have Scrapple (though why they would want it, I have no idea).

[Anonymous]

I too would like to pick up an accent. Something like the folks in Letterkenny have. Just would have to work on my chirpin’ skills.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tell him if he wants to be southern, he will have to give up the scrapple, Lebanon bologna, and chow-chow. And no gravy on his chicken and waffles, your strictly a maple syrup-with-fried chicken-and-waffles family now.

He may reconsider.

Wait, what? Scrapple is very Southern. At least, back in NC where I'm from, it's still very much on menus today. Not a thing of the past. Alas.

The origin of scrapple is Pennsylvania.

Porkroll is superior to Scrapple in every way. The south can have Scrapple (though why they would want it, I have no idea).

Actually, Taylor Ham, crisp cooked scrapple, and grits make a pretty yummy meal. I wonder where I can get that around here….NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DH insists that we raise our children to speak like they are southern. I love the south and the southern culture, but we live in Northern Virginia. People don't speak that way here. My DH is just a poser. Whenever I am telling a story or visiting with other moms, my DH will interrupt me to correct a term I use if it isn't southern. For example, if I refer to a BBQ, he steps in and says "cook out". If I use the word "mom", he steps in and says "momma". All the flipping time. I should add he was raised is rural Pennsylvania and no one else in his family uses southern terms. I have progressed from giving him the evil eye to telling him how unattractive his behavior is and that enough is enough. Bless his heart!

Rant over.

Well, they are never going to pick up a southern accent that way, with you guys being in NOVA. They'll just sound weird saying "momma."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I too would like to pick up an accent. Something like the folks in Letterkenny have. Just would have to work on my chirpin’ skills.

F**k you Jonesy. Your mom shot c*m straight across the room and killed my Siamese fighting fish. Threw off the PH levels in my aquarium!"

F$$$ you, Shoresy!

Love that show.