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Any Southern good ol' boys here?

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In Oklahoma, I don't know if it's southern or just redneck but a few things stay with me. If rednecks are puttin' you down they'll call you hillbilly. That's some hilbilly **** right there. We call it pop but mostly Coke, but we all drink Coke anyways. Ending a sentence with the word then or now. Okay then. Go on now, thank you now. Fixin' is just a much easier way to say, "I'm going to do something." Heft is lifting something that is heavy. Y'all is tricky, you know if someone is fakin' it. I can't really explain it. City folks talk way too fast for me to understand what they're saying. Dunna. I'm a dunna climb that tree. When I lived in extreme SE Kansas, kinda Ozarky. The little town was Independence. We didn't pronounce any of the D's. Inna pen ence. The Tulsa accent is pretty unique. Part Oklahoma, part Arkansas. Reba talks with an Oklahoma accent. Leon Russell did too. This guy is from Tulsa.

What do you say, or has stuck with you?

I played a role in his rise to fame. Aslo Gary Busey's first roles.

 
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I do say "Lord, lorda mercy." not sure if that's unique. Kinda an explanation of unhappy frustration. I got in trouble with the mods for saying that one time.
 
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SteveSS said:
In Oklahoma, I don't know if it's southern or just redneck but a few things stay with me. If rednecks are puttin' you down they'll call you hillbilly. That's some hilbilly **** right there. We call it pop but mostly Coke, but we all drink Coke anyways. Ending a sentence with the word then or now. Okay then. Go on now, thank you now. Fixin' is just a much easier way to say, "I'm going to do something." Heft is lifting something that is heavy. Y'all is tricky, you know if someone is fakin' it. I can't really explain it. City folks talk way too fast for me to understand what they're saying. Dunna. I'm a dunna climb that tree. When I lived in extreme SE Kansas, kinda Ozarky. The little town was Independence. We didn't pronounce any of the D's. Inna pen ence. The Tulsa accent is pretty unique. Part Oklahoma, part Arkansas. Reba talks with an Oklahoma accent. Leon Russell did too. This guy is from Tulsa.

What do you say, or has stuck with you?

I played a role in his rise to fame. Aslo Gary Busey's first roles.

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I know that guy. He acted in some of the Ernest P Worrell movies. Ernest Saves Christmas comes to mind. The warehouse scene with the reindeer on the ceiling.
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Colorada. I'm serious about Northerners talking too fast. Sometimes Colo RAD oooo. Stretch the last part way out.

There is a car repair shop by me called Color Auto. I thought that was clever. You have to say it out loud to hear it.
 
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My mom was raised in Montana by way of Norway. They don't say J's. It's all pronounced with Y's. Ya, ya, bring the yam and yelly. We always said the mealtime prayer in Norwegian. Probably with an Oklahoma accent.

I Jesu navn går vi til bords
Og spiser, drikker på ditt ord
Deg, Gud, til ære, oss til gavn
Så får vi mat i Jesu navn.
Amen.
 
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In Oklahoma, I don't know if it's southern or just redneck but a few things stay with me. If rednecks are puttin' you down they'll call you hillbilly. That's some hilbilly **** right there. We call it pop but mostly Coke, but we all drink Coke anyways. Ending a sentence with the word then or now. Okay then. Go on now, thank you now. Fixin' is just a much easier way to say, "I'm going to do something." Heft is lifting something that is heavy. Y'all is tricky, you know if someone is fakin' it. I can't really explain it. City folks talk way too fast for me to understand what they're saying. Dunna. I'm a dunna climb that tree. When I lived in extreme SE Kansas, kinda Ozarky. The little town was Independence. We didn't pronounce any of the D's. Inna pen ence. The Tulsa accent is pretty unique. Part Oklahoma, part Arkansas. Reba talks with an Oklahoma accent. Leon Russell did too. This guy is from Tulsa.

What do you say, or has stuck with you?

I played a role in his rise to fame. Aslo Gary Busey's first roles.

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All kinds of different verbalizations
down here. West Texas, Eastern New
Mexico. You kinda get used to it and
think nothing of it.
Ustacould
Mightotta
Can't'n'more
Shoulda
Woulda
Coulda
Usta
Just to name a few
 
Cool, most are unfamiliar to me. I know Mightotta. Looked closer to that thing.
 
Yep; never lived north of 96° longitude. Realise 'damn' and 'yankee' are one word. Know you don't put beans in chili. Great great Grandpa received a Southern Cross of Honour in the war of northern aggression. Say 'Sir' and 'Ma'am' and open doors for ladies. Neck is so red it glows. And proud of it. Know the origin of the term 'redneck' and realise it isnt actually a derogatory epithet as it has become in common usage.
If you're from Tulsa, depending upon your age, there may or may not be an "L" in the city's name. If you are above a certain age - or the child of someone in that demographic - you not only recognise the folks in the video included in the first post, you probably watched it live and there are definitely 'Mazeppa-isms' included in your personal lexicon. You know what someone is talking about when they refer to 'the Restless Ribbon', and you know who "Gusty" is.
Colorado ends in an O. Most of the terms Mr 1stmp list are normal parts of speech, and yes, most any soda pop is called 'coke'. Again, if above a certain age, you remember what a great place Tulsa usta be and weep at the thirdworld "hole" it has become. Could go on for hours.

I know there are some other Southern men on here like Mr Hall and Mr Cheapsunglasses - maybe they'll chime in later. Or maybe they are like me and seldom venture up here in this part of the forum and stay mostly in the year or subject specific areas. I dunno. But there are a few of us around...

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I’ve lived in AR and OK so long that it all sounds normal to me. I do remember when we first got married (wife from southern AR) and lived in KS for 2 years (where I’m from) everyone in KS was enthralled with my wife’s accent. She couldn’t go anywhere that people didn’t stop and listen to her kind of spellbound and then tell her how much they liked her accent. Strange though - in AR with our mountain and hill ranges, forests and rural, generally poor population, I’ve typically heard red necked hillbilly all used together as one. I don’t remember them being separate identities here. Southwest AR and OK you have the cowboys also. Now they are kind of a separate genome from the hillbillies, but both can be red necked too so they share that. But with population mobility it’s all becoming diluted pretty much anymore.
 
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