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Bless your heart & mind your mama :

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9781493034208

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Bless your heart & mind your mama :

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sweet, sassy & silly southernisms /

Polly Powers Stramm.

Guilford, Connecticut :

Globe Pequot,

[2018]

viii, 120 pages ;

23 cm

What in blue blazes does it man to speak Southern?: dialects cover the region like Grandma's patchwork quilt -- Y'all ought'n go out in that frog strangler: crazy contractions and made-up words -- Holla out the screen door and tell Bubba to come on in: Southern nicknames and such -- Much obliged, Ma'am. I reckon I'll have a Co-Cola: kitchens and pie safes filled with love -- Words of wisdom spoken by Southerners: phrases and sayin's from every whichaway -- Land sakes! What in tarnation?: the emotional Southerner speaks his dadblame mind -- How you getting along?: fair to middlin' greetin's and salutations -- We'll be there directly 'cause over yonder is a fur piece: weights, measures, comparisons, and down South distances -- Noah's Ark ain't got nothin' on Southerners: animals get in on the act too -- Mind your manners, please and thank you: makin' Mama and Daddy proud as peacocks -- Cities and towns that'll just tickle your gizzard: place names that you just won't believe -- My dear, it's all in dem books, TV shows, movies and music: storytellers who can draw, write, sing, and make us laugh.

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Southerners have a way with words! Who needs simple and direct when you can color every conversation with Southern style. There seems to be a Southern saying for every occasion. Some are inspiring and uplifting while others have that biting tongue-in-cheek humor Southerners adore.

Bless your heart and mind your mama

Americanisms-- Southern States.

English language-- Dialects-- Southern States.

English language-- Variation-- Southern States.

Americanisms.

English language-- Dialects.

English language-- Variation.

Southern States.

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