All My Children Discussion Group

Topic: True Texas Accent

If you want to talk true Texan, then you need to say these things:
Taint worth diddley squat.
Big hat, no cattle.
We don't much cotton to that.
He blew in with the tumbleweeds.
He has a burr under his saddle.
He is plumb loco.

I'm a born and bred Texan and one thang that people always comment on is when I say somethin like "I'm fixin to go to the store."  My dad always corrects me when I tell him I'm fixin dinner at 6 oclock... That's SUPPER, dinner is at noon.  (I reckon my Texas accent wore off a bit when I was in the Air Force, LOL)  We do have one of them awl wells down the road, and don't fergit to pass the sawt.  Oh, and we have pekahn trees. 

However!, Not all Texans like country music or cowboy boots!  LOL

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LOL. You are too funny. I grew up in San Antonio and I think that pecan is pronounced Puh-kawn. But I know that people from other parts of the country say Pee-can. LOL Holly

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Posted by: understatement
Date posted: Sun Jan 22 8:28:46 2012
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I love your Texas sayings, especially "Big hat, no cattle." I may not come from your neck of the woods but even I can translate that one, lol! 

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Thanks, understatement. Holly

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Posted by: Eve
Date posted: Fri Jan 20 9:31:12 2012
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My brother is a policeman.  We usually call him the poh - leese, accent on the first sylable.  Gotta love us Texans. 

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Texans are special. Holly.

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Posted by: W.E.
Date posted: Fri Jan 20 7:06:47 2012
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Love it. While in Vegas we saw a bunch of comedians at Brad Garrett's club. One was a Texan who said he didn't like being called a redneck as he was a cowboy. He then said when he was young he asked his daddy (yep grown men still call their fathers daddy) what's the difference between a redneck and a cowboy. His daddy replied ACREAGE!!

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You are right. If you are from Texas, both grown men and women call their father Daddy!!

^^^^forgot to sign out! eom/Tex

LOL, I call my father Daddy. Holly

I have a friend that always called her father ''Big Daddy'' and her mother '' Little Mama'' I always thought that was funny. I called my father ''Papa'' and my mother Mama, when I was little my mother called her daddy ''Pa'' / goldie

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Posted by: Jenny
Date posted: Fri Jan 20 2:51:10 2012
Message:

Now wait jest a cottin-pickin' min-it, thar, gurl, you forgot sum.

Jeet yet?  (Did you eat yet?)

Where I come from, that thar smell is money! (oil or cattle poop)

He took offa runnin' lickety split!

Weeza fixin' to test thar alarm system so don't you all get your knickers in a knot when you hear the sigh-reens.

His self was nervouser than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rockin' chars.

 

Yours were really good, Holly.

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Hey thar Jenny gal, you are a tried and true Texan. You know how to talk Texan. LOL, Holly

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Posted by: Miss.Bear
Date posted: Fri Jan 20 2:30:15 2012
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Wow, you have your own language over there. I never been Texas before. I would probably be real out of place. I never heard of any of those expressions. I been to Branson, Missouri once which is kind of like the south, it's next to to Arkansas. They all talked southern. I was the only one without an accent. They said things like 'there and yonder' and side dishes were called "fixings". It was interesting. You can tell I don't get out much(lol).

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Miss Bear, you will fit in here. All that you have to do is to play your guitar. Texans love music. Holly

I would enjoy the warm weather there.

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Posted by: goldie
Date posted: Fri Jan 20 1:38:17 2012
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While I lived in Breckenridge, Co. I was in a restaurant and the little girl at the table behind me knocked her water over, I heard her mother say ''you tumped your water over" I turned around and said you are from Texas, she said yes and we became best friends. We Texans recognize each other by our words more than accents. :)

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goldie, we Texans need to stick together. LOL, Holly

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