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Agreed!! I have a tough time with it when the kid behind the counter is a neighbor- I try to say something other than “thank you” (like “I appreciate that” or "say hi to your mom for me , though the correct southern phrasiology is “say hey to your momma and them” )</p>
<p>and “ya’ll have a good day” which can be applied to one person or a group.</p>
<p>thanks for the advice everyone!</p>
<p>I don’t know about Luzianne tea but I have to mail order my Luzianne coffee with chicory now that my local ShopRite has stopped stocking it. Yum.</p>
<p>Despite having lived in GA, I think boiled peanuts are pretty awful.</p>
<p>one thing to keep in mind-</p>
<p>y’all = a couple/a few people
all y’all = for larger groups</p>
<p>you can tell pretty quickly who’s not from the south when they address you one-on-one with a “y’all”-it just doesn’t make sense. it’s not singular or interchangeable with “you” if you’re only addressing one person. at least, that’s how we do it around here.</p>
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<p>This happened to me and Louisianna Gold. Regular Louisianna Hot Sauce just isn’t the same.</p>
<p>Yes, y’all is short for “you all.” Using y’all when speaking to/of an individual person brands you as a non-Southerner.</p>
<p>I live in MA, but my parents were from SC and retired to SC, and we went to SC to visit relatives at least once a year. I feel sort of bi-cultural.</p>
<p>My dad LOVES boiled peanuts (pronounced "bawld peanuts) but I cannot stand them. It seems like such an evil thing to do to a nice legume.</p>
<p>My advice to you, Pierre, is not to try to pick up a Southern accent. Just speak like yourself (perhaps a bit slower and softer if necessary) and if you naturally pick up a few pronunciations, great. But nothing is worse than a fake Southern accent. Its even worse than a fake Boston accent.</p>
<p>If you are telling someone that you are going to do something, you are “fixin’ to” do it. 
My MIL has lived in Augusta for almost 30 years, but she still can’t bring her West Hartford born self to say that!! My SIL & her son say it, though, and I love it.</p>
<p>I’m fixin’ to give you one more tip! If you are passing through small towns in Louisiana do NOT be afraid if some says they need to “axe you” something. They are just preparing to “ask” you a question.</p>
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YES! Someone is teaching their employees that the proper responce to “thank you” is NOT “No problem”. Saying “no problem” implies that if the customer’s needs had been greater the employee would have either resented helping or not have helped. THis may have migrated from the Spanish “Da nada”, but in English the connotation is different. </p>
<p>Off the soapbox and to return to teaching Southern to those who have never lived there, in Louisiana, if someone says the will “pass by your place” later that night, it doesn’t mean they will drive on by, or that they will prevent some Biblical plague from happening at your house, it means they might stop by for a visit.</p>
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Heh, I always thought that was a Bronx thing.</p>
<p>I have a very good friend and we tease him because we can’t tell the difference between his fountain pins and his stick pins.</p>
<p>well, there is the “ink pen” construction, which would clarify but always seemed odd to me, as the pens I know all about use ink.</p>
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<p>Many NOLA residents were Irish or Italian immigrants at the same time their fellow immigrants were settling in the Bronx… the accent is similar. Listen to Emeril Lagesse - does he not sound like New York? (with a few Southern influences)</p>
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No doubt - the 9th ward accent is VERY similar to the Bronx!</p>
<p>One of my best friends at Texas A&M had 2 guys from Jersey living next to him, and they partied with us all the time. Made no difference top us where they were from.</p>
<p>wjhsxc, lol, I have lived in NC every second of my life. I didn’t really mean you would call one person ya’ll but that you could be talking to a single person but referring to others who weren’t present also. Like if I were to call my brother and say “Are ya’ll going to the football game?”. I’m only talking to him but referring to his whole family(and he gets that).<br>
Sometimes what I am thinking does not always translate when I type!</p>
<p>Emeril Lagasse doesn’t talk like any Bronxite I know. He sounds like a Massachusetts native.
(I’ve lived in both places.)</p>
<p>Pierre, if you’re from up Boston way, you will get an accent like I have now, thanks to my Rhode Island roommate and going to college with a bunch of Yankees at UMiami.</p>
<p>Pet peeve. Y’all is a contraction for you all, so therefore, shouldn’t it be typed y’all? I’m a court reporter, and I have to constantly correct my typists’ spellings of y’all as ya’ll. One is from the Midwest and the other is from Arkansas, so I really can’t fault them.</p>
<p>I do also say y’all when talking to one person, even though it is plural grammatically. As the above poster said, we always include someone’s family when talking about anything going on in their life.</p>
<p>Defintely y’all</p>