Category: Talk Southern to Me
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Right On, Idols!
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via WRAL.com: “It’s tough for us because we’re both from small towns from nowhere around L.A. We just try to stay true to ourselves, stay in our boots – that’s what I like to tell myself – and stay grounded,” McCreery said. Ok, I know, two American Idol posts in…
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Talk Southern to Me: Peach On, Dolly!
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The title of this here blog is “Growing Up Southern…”, so I assume I don’t have to preface this post with a little ditty on Dolly, right? @Dolly_Parton: “Love is something sent from HEAVEN to worry the HELL out of you!” 🙂 – Dolly And just in case you need…
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How to…
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Got this email today from E. Riley… SO appropriate! HOW TO STOP PEOPLE FROM BUGGING YOU ABOUT GETTING MARRIED Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, ‘You’re next.’ They stopped after I started doing the same thing to…
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City Girl with a Little Country Charm
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“Man I gotta warn ya, she’s a city girl with a little country charm” – Jerrod Niemann (from the song, “Bakersfield”). Country music fans, listen up. You’ve gotta check this guy out – Jerrod Niemann. I heard his song “One More Drinkin’ Song” on XM Radio and really liked it.…
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Southern Giveaway
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Just a quick post here:A Southern Accent is hosting a cute *super southern* giveaway on her blog this week – check it out! She’s giving away the following books:Suck Your Stomach In and Put Some Color On!: What Southern Mamas Tell Their Daughters that the Rest of Y’all Should Know…
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Talk Southern to Me: Manners > Etiquette
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Just a little reminder:“Don’t confuse etiquette and manners. It’s bad etiquette to use your dinner fork on your salad. It’s bad manners to comment that someone used their dinner fork on their salad. Manners always trumps etiquette.” — The Hyper HomemakerFACT.
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Talk Southern to Me: Manners
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Manners: not so much southern words as much as they are a way of talking. Here’s wiki’s definition of manners, but they’re much better illustrated below. An email quote from Renee – I swear sometimes it’s like the girl is my cosmic twin that just happened to grow up in…
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Talk Southern to Me: Y’all
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What a no-brainer. Y’all is probably the most overused word in my southern vernacular and an obviously needed addition to my “Talk Southern to Me” blog series. Not that I should need to define “y’all” for anyone who reads this blog… but I definitely think it’s worth a look at……
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A Little Variation on “Talk Southern to Me”
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Continuing my mini-series from quite a while ago (more to come soon… for sure), I hope you all enjoy another installment of “Talk Southern to Me” – with a twist.PS – Big thanks goes out to Google Reader for recommending Miss LiLi NC to me. While I made my way…
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I’ve Always Wondered…
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….why sometimes I’m so darn longwinded! “In the South, the breeze blows softer…neighbors are friendlier, nosier, and more talkative. (By contrast with the Yankee, the Southerner never uses one word when ten or twenty will do)…This is a different place. Our way of thinking is different, as are our ways…