The first year we lived here, (moved in August), and they moved there, there was a hurricane that did cause damage to North Myrtle Beach where they moved to. I then thought that maybe we were lucky to be about 900 feet above see level.
One of my college roommates joined the FBI. She was from the Bronx. Heavy thick accent. She moved to Dallas. When she came back to visit a few years later she had the kookiest accent. A mixture of Bronx and Southern drawl. It was comical.If a northerner attempts to imitate a southern accent it will be taken as an insult. The accent comes along naturally and without conscious effort. Then it becomes just fine. The key thing is be yourself, unless your a nasty person, then don't say a word and don't even go out into the public.Southerners are thought of as slow moving people, which many are, but they are very quick witted and can laugh at themselves as long at they are the ones joking about it. Outsiders really need to watch their manners especially around women. And don't chuckle when you hear a middle aged man refer to his father as Daddy or his mother as Momma. Somethings just weren't meant to be funny.
In the north it is used to express concern and sympathy and even is sometimes in the south. But it is the second meaning that one has to be tuned into. It's a disguised insult. To be more concise, Bless YOUR heart is more likely to be used to express sympathy and concern as well. However, Bless HIS/HER heart is used when referring to a person to someone else. That person is not in the room.
Bless your heart comes naturally to us down here. Everyone I know says it. Yep it is used for sympathy.
My three boys were born and raised in a small town on the coast of SC and all address their elders as sir and ma'am if they don't know them and if they know them Mr (first name) and Miss(first name) --Bless your heart hear it oftenBless your heart comes naturally to us down here. Everyone I know says it. Yep it is used for sympathy.
That's still 5 inches too many of snow per season
A good Long Island tastes just like iced tea, making it even more dangerous. You can't taste the alcohol. But, man are they good. I used to get really good LIT's at a bar on State St. in my younger days. Only made the mistake of not stopping at one once.
I remember that place, in the old fashioned jelly jars. That wasn't the good one, though. The Keg used to do a special, and there were a couple of others on State. Never actually went in that place, though. I was a good kid, and waited until my 21st birthday. First drink out was at the Nitty Gritty. We still have a collection of glasses from there. Free beer, or root beer, on your birthday. It was a college campus. I never saw anyone drinking root beer.
I've noticed several distinct accents traveling through PA. Down by Gettysburg southern was the shocker as was grits served with everything, German around Lancaster even in the city which I wasn't expecting, midwesternish along the Ohio border. joisey has 2 North Joisey and South Joisey
And interestingly, NJ had very little snow this winter. Maybe it totalled 5 inches as well?That's still 5 inches too many of snow per season
The hair dryer adds water vapor to the air and blows the air around, some places won't even wash hair yet to reduce time spent face to face. It's either walk in with wet freshly washed hair or get a dry cutGot 5 inches off yesterday. Weird part was the hairdressers aren't allowed to dry hair. Everyone wears a mask. I didn't get the no hairdrying thing. I missed the hairdrying because my hairdresser does such a great job and I can never get it to look the way it does when she does it. It always looks great for a day and then I wash and dry it and it then just looks ok. I use a round brush like her but I can never get the hair to curl right. Problems, problems.
Recipe?
Sometimes I forget you're a southerner
Would that be as in @Mr Ferret 88 bless his heart?Bless your heart comes naturally to us down here. Everyone I know says it. Yep it is used for sympathy.
Our proximity to the ocean sometimes keeps the amount of snow to a minimum.Sometimes I forget you're a southerner
Would that be as in @Mr Ferret 88 bless his heart?
