What I've learned from this is that one of us pronounces syrup wrongWW stands for Waffle Wars, it's a game we play on here to see who can run the best waffle business (your business is dictated by your group). The bad players are the ones who like pancakes, we call them wolves because of this children's book:
Wolves have waffle batter but they cook pancakes with it instead - this is terrible. If they take another player's waffle mix and make pancakes it's so terrible the player dies and is out of the game.
Every day waffle makers try to figure out who the heck is making horrible pancakes and pick another player's waffle to eat (this is supposed to be "lunch", but a mod eons ago misspelled it as "lynch" and it's stuck ever since). If a player feeds us a pancake at lynch then we know they were a dirty pancake loving wolf.
You may see people talk about "seers" - seer is short for syrup (we spelled it kind of wrong but you can see how it's pronounced the same as the first half of syrup) and as everyone knows to get syrup you have to tap a maple tree, so "seers" tap other players for information (about their waffle recipes).
Protectors protect the waffle recipes. Assassins break players' waffle makers overnight so they can't make waffles anymore, which means they're out of the game.
Mods eat waffles. This is why they're always talking about them in lynch tallies.
One of us is from the south?
Not guilty your honor!
I'm from Texas and as of a month ago lived closer to Mexico than to other cities in Texas. I may be more southern than you lol.
Yeah, probably. I'm barely southern at all.
Same!
Texas doesn't count as the South, just like Florida doesn't. They're their own places. I lived in TX a third of my life and still consider where I am in NC now way more "Southern" than that, latitude be damned.
I mean, technically I consider everything south of the Mason Dixon line to be "the South", which definitely includes NC. I also think that experiences of TX as a "super Southern" place definitely vary more than some other Southern states. Lots of places in TX just feel very Texan (no better way to put it), while others (especially large cities) feel much more like places in the north or the midwest. I spent a lot of time living in some relatively rural areas of Texas and think it definitely qualifies as very "Southern". I think the problem is that Texas is huge and not very homogeneous and is kind of difficult to put into one defined region. East Texas is very much like the deep South, whereas West Texas is more like the desert Southwest, North/Central Texas is more like the midwest, etc.
I mean, technically I consider everything south of the Mason Dixon line to be "the South", which definitely includes NC. I also think that experiences of TX as a "super Southern" place definitely vary more than some other Southern states. Lots of places in TX just feel very Texan (no better way to put it), while others (especially large cities) feel much more like places in the north or the midwest. I spent a lot of time living in some relatively rural areas of Texas and think it definitely qualifies as very "Southern". I think the problem is that Texas is huge and not very homogeneous and is kind of difficult to put into one defined region. East Texas is very much like the deep South, whereas West Texas is more like the desert Southwest, North/Central Texas is more like the midwest, etc.
For what's it's worth, I've found that I tend to have an eclectic mix of dialects from a lot of places mixed into my daily speech due to growing up in so many places and being raised by people who lived all over the place as well.
Also, since everyone keeps talking about how I pronounce syrup wrong, I looked up regional pronunciations and now I don't know who I am anymore.
Confusing, as I've never even been to the Northeast in my entire life.
Whoa... Really, most of the US doesn't say sear-up?!I mean, technically I consider everything south of the Mason Dixon line to be "the South", which definitely includes NC. I also think that experiences of TX as a "super Southern" place definitely vary more than some other Southern states. Lots of places in TX just feel very Texan (no better way to put it), while others (especially large cities) feel much more like places in the north or the midwest. I spent a lot of time living in some relatively rural areas of Texas and think it definitely qualifies as very "Southern". I think the problem is that Texas is huge and not very homogeneous and is kind of difficult to put into one defined region. East Texas is very much like the deep South, whereas West Texas is more like the desert Southwest, North/Central Texas is more like the midwest, etc.
For what's it's worth, I've found that I tend to have an eclectic mix of dialects from a lot of places mixed into my daily speech due to growing up in so many places and being raised by people who lived all over the place as well.
Also, since everyone keeps talking about how I pronounce syrup wrong, I looked up regional pronunciations and now I don't know who I am anymore.
Confusing, as I've never even been to the Northeast in my entire life.
That's what I'm like though! 😱
"crayfish"), but that's a different story.
Try being a Canadian (pop) turned Texan (coke) turned Carolinian (soda). I SAY THEM ALL. ;___;
My mom is from Philly and says "sir"up, cant quite tell if Philly is in the blue or that little bit of red. Of course her mom is from Pittsburgh so maybe that played a factor.I mean, technically I consider everything south of the Mason Dixon line to be "the South", which definitely includes NC. I also think that experiences of TX as a "super Southern" place definitely vary more than some other Southern states. Lots of places in TX just feel very Texan (no better way to put it), while others (especially large cities) feel much more like places in the north or the midwest. I spent a lot of time living in some relatively rural areas of Texas and think it definitely qualifies as very "Southern". I think the problem is that Texas is huge and not very homogeneous and is kind of difficult to put into one defined region. East Texas is very much like the deep South, whereas West Texas is more like the desert Southwest, North/Central Texas is more like the midwest, etc.
For what's it's worth, I've found that I tend to have an eclectic mix of dialects from a lot of places mixed into my daily speech due to growing up in so many places and being raised by people who lived all over the place as well.
Also, since everyone keeps talking about how I pronounce syrup wrong, I looked up regional pronunciations and now I don't know who I am anymore.
Confusing, as I've never even been to the Northeast in my entire life.
The y'all map is missing one critical term, which is "yous". My aunt uses this frequently. 😛Same dude has answered all our regional questions:
Crawfish:
The reason I've found "ya'll" slowly sneaking into my vocabulary...
Hehe. It would be a very small dot. The yinzer is becoming an endangered species!
I don't remember a "yinz" when I lived in Pittsburgh. But I was in 2nd and 3rd grade, so I don't remember much beyond a few friends, school things and catching fireflies.
Hoagie!!! Though the fear of being ridiculed by my southern peers has gotten me to say sub most of the time.
You left out "gyro".
Hmmm I don't think that technically refers to the same type of sandwich (neither does po'boy but people do use that one for subs too)
How odd. It's just a technicality but a gyro is on a flatbread, while a sub is on a roll of bread split lengthwise.
TIL I am not a real west Missourian despite living here literally my entire life. I say soda, crawfish, and you all.Same dude has answered all our regional questions:
Crawfish:
The reason I've found "ya'll" slowly sneaking into my vocabulary...
They're all "ants" to me and my mom but for some reason my sister says "ont"
