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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [b] 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"[/b].  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.[/quote]

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 [/quote]

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.[/quote]

How on earth can low country SC not be southern??? [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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