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Something(s) you may not have known: Southernisms

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Every region of the great United States has its own linguistic quirks and peculiar phrases, but the American South has enough colorful language to "sho nuff" give a morphologist a migraine.

In fact, going from North to South can almost be like traveling from London, England, where the Queen’s En...

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  1. I have a yankee friend that used to tease me about saying fixin’ to…I would say I’m fixin’ to go to the store..my yankee friend would ask me if the store was broken and why I had to go fix it..also told me that toilet doesn’t have 3 syllables and door only has one..

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