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I would argue that the things the South has gotten unquestionably correct are cooking, sweet tea and the term "y'all". It is easily our best term and everyone else's plural term for a group is awkward and unwieldy. You’uns, Yinz, Youse are just embarrassing. Y'all won. Just stop it the reat of America. Stop it.
Yes. I remember the first time I heard Yinz and just being mortified for the speaker. And I know I sound like a country bumpkin, which is strange for someone who speaks at conferences for a living...but thank God I don't say THAT.
And I find cuppa to be endearing. I'm a closet Anglophile, while still thinking the monarchy is silly.
Yinz comes from a tradition of people in the upper mid-Atlantic saying words like they hate them. Very specific accent. They chew on words and mutter them through the side of their mouths. For example, Cheryl isn’t “share-all” to them, it’s chewed up and spit out quickly as “SURE-el”. All the sure is up front and is spit out in a rush the “el” a skin tag on the back end.
This is what I’m having for breakfast.
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My wife's aunt looks uncannily like Mokey Fraggle. This was literally my first thought upon meeting her. I mean this in loving and complimentary fashion, but weirdly, most other people don’t see it that way.
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I don't look like a Picasso painting or anything but I also don't look like Matthew McConaughey. I am imitation vanilla and not Tahitian vanilla.
This is my godmother.
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