“Bless your heart” can go either way. You’ll know the difference. For instance “He’s so stupid, bless his heart” is an insult. He’s so kind, bless his heart,” is a compliment. We use both and we are used to both.
"Meemaw had to go into a nursing home, bless her heart." "Cooter Bennett's so dumb he could throw hisself at the ground and miss, bless his heart." Context.
Just to throw this out there, a Chickfila in LA is not going to have the same level of customer service as a Chickfila in the south. Here in the south they are the top tier of customer service of basically any restaurant. And themes the facts.
Not always. It seems chickfila is selling out so quick they dont seem to care about their customer experience as much. I've had better service in Oregon than Texas which is unorthodox.
Calling someone Lady is kind of rude. Like if a woman was arguing with me I would say “listen here lady” and proceed to blast her with insults. If I was at my friends house and his mom were to ask me a question, I would say “yes ma’am” out of respect
I know right! It is a conjunction of you all, not ya all! It is spelled correctly y'all. I see it misspelled so much, people just accept it now! 👀😳🧐🤓🤦🏽♀️🤣🤩😍💜✌🏾
@@notchagrandpa8875, even then, when you're creating a contraction, the apostrophe stands in place of the deleted letter or letters. In either instance (you all vs ye all), "all" is still a full word. Y'all is just following basic English rules of grammar.
Taylor Swift is NOT from the South. She sometimes lives in the South (Nashville area). Taylor has an Eastern Pennsylvania accent, from where she grew up. She is what southerners would refer to as Yankee.
There is nothing wrong with being a Yankee. All Americans are referred to as Yankees when out of the US. All Non Southerners are yankees in the south. All New Englanders are yankees to the rest of the US. The Baseball team with the most wins is the New York Yankees. Southerners who fought for the Union in the US Civil war were "Yankees". I understand Ms Swift splits her time between California (west but still a yankee), Tennessee (south), and New York (north east, but not New England).
In Mississippi we say All Y’all, but it doesn’t have a specific number to differentiate. And then there’s the possessive “All y’all’s”. That one really throws folks for a loop. 😂
@@simonpowell2559 no. It is a contraction of "you" and "all". Or depending on what channel you're on (like history channel) could be from the Scott's that settled the south as "ye all", which is basically the same thing, I think. Someone went into more detail with it but I dont remember what channel/video it was.
We do the same. I know some folks are very strict about using ma’am and sir for elders, but my mama insists the best way to for children to develop the habit is to hear it often.
No kidding. Scones are sweet (or at least sweetish) and normally have some sort of fruit. Biscuits are softer and aren't sweet. We may put gravy on them (proper gravy, not that horrible powdered stuff that many people who are not from the southern part of the US consider gravy) or butter, or butter with jam or preserves or.... Well, I actually put nutella on a biscuit once and it was fab.
In my opinion as a southerner, I tend to believe our biscuits are more like that found in Yorkshire pudding! But with the look of a scone. I guess since a lot of The Roots come from England there was a mixing... And on the subject of our biscuits, there's two ways to serve them one with the biscuits in and gravy preferably with sausage or in chipped beef. The second is to serve them with butter and a jam your preference. My favorite is apple butter but I'll do the lemon curd marmalade or anything else!
Jerry Busbee there are savory scones as well, that have cheese, bacon, chives, etc. so those might be a little more similar. But not really like the south’s buttermilk biscuits.
As a northern Californian I take pride in this, it’s funny because I’m California it’s reversed, Northern California is more like South US, and South California is more like North US
Yep, and one of the main words we drop in on they didn't even mention - fixing. They didn't mention the phrase, "We're fixin to go to the store." as a substitute for "We're getting ready to go to the store." Everyone in the south uses that term. Folks in the north just don't get it and they never will. Lia and Joel need a copy of Steve Mitchell's book "How To Speak Southern," and they will do just fine traveling that fine region.
In my south, where I was raised, 'bless your heart' was almost always a sweet sentiment. Occasionally one would use it to be sarcastic, but in my experience it was pretty rare.
When I was in London I would say “ Yes Sir” to men older than me. They were thrown a back. For U.S. southerners it’s just showing respect to your elders. Obviously not a title.
As a southerner I've never used the words yes ma'am or yes sir except to my dad because he insisted on it. I do saying yes ma'am to someone as telling them they're an old woman.
@@flamingpieherman9822 I'm a retired school teacher and a deep rooted southerner as well. I taught nearly 20 years in a rural school in central Kentucky. The student body was composed mostly of farm kids. In most formal --- or stressful --- situations, the kids usually defaulted to using "ma'am" or "sir" when addressing teachers. Not so much so in casual conversation. But they usually knew when it was called for. And teachers in turn would frequently address students with "ma'am" or "sir" if for no other reason than to set an example or just sheer habit. Kind of like saying "Please" and "Thank you." It's just being polite --- and it can sure garner brownie points without coming off as a suck up.
“The South” is not literally every southern state (not California) it is only the south east, and many people exclude parts of Florida because Florida is such a melting pot.
I'm going to correct you on Florida. Florida was very much Southern until we had an influx of Northerners and Spanish. We're still Southern we just have to deal with the North and Spanish ways.
the south is synonymous with the confederacy and Florida was part of the confederate states, then there is the Mason-Dixon Line and the Missouri Compromise that deals with the borders of North & South
I don't even consider Texas as the South. They're Texas, which is different. They have a lot of western influence that the southeast doesn't have. Texas may be more southern than northern but most Southerners I know don't consider Texans fellow Southerners.
@@ljones436 Disclaimer: I don't live in Texas so I wouldn't know. But if you go from California to "the South" then Texas is smack dab in the middle of the two. Meaning that Texans have a unique culture of their own, I imagine, because they get it from the Western States, the Southern states and the Mid Western States above them. The line you wrote that TRIGGERED me (btw thnx Joel and Lia for the word) is when you said ,"They're Texas, which is different". Pretty sure your conservative just from that line. You got a problem with people different than you? Obviously. What? Just because the state is located a little further west than yours, (where are you even from?) you'd disqualify Texas for being a little bit different than you. I got news for you, no southern state are is same, we have similarities that make up a culture. But Florida is as different than Georgia as it is to Alabama, or Tennessee or Texas. You gonna disqualify all those other states too? Because none of them are the same. Fine, because this is America, you have the right to believe that. But it won't be for long if you dismiss everyone/everything different than you......................... (Breathe) I'm done. 🙄✋
I’m from Texas and I do have a twang as the accent is often called. I went to England several years ago and was in London waiting to board a train. The young porters there conversed with me and wanted to listen to me talk. They went on and on about my accent. I laughed so hard I nearly missed my train. They did too. I had a guessing game as to where they were from. The young male sounded like a Beatle-so I guessed someplace in York. Bingo! He was from Yorkshire. The girl was from London. So, as much as Southerners are friendly, I found that you English can be quite the same as well! Cheers!
FYI: The Southern accent is considered to be the closest accent to the British accent. It is supposed to be directly descended from the Queens language whereas other areas of American accents have somewhat vested o of course since the time of the Revolution.
TY I was going to point this out myself being a trained linguist helps. Yes the Southerners kept our heritage from England and most of what we used to practice in everyday life came from London. In fact, southern women as a matter of small talk while at Galas would ask about the London Season as a matter of polite small talk. They carried on many a british tradition until the revolution which of course shook up everyone's lives in the south so it broke with tradition in favor of survival.
As a native Californian who now lives in Tennessee, L.A. CA is NOT considered the South! LOL!😆. The west coast has its own attitude and mentality. #GratefulToNowLiveInTheSouth
I can also attest that for many people in NorCal Los Angeles doesn't even feel like its part of the same state as ours. It really does have its own attitude and mentality.
Yeah, I'm from norcal and LA is a whole other world from the rest of CA. Might have to do with most of the residents coming from other states, so there are a ton of cultures and accents mashed into one city.
I grew up in the hub of Silicon Valley… San Jose. Relocated to Nashville almost 15 years ago with the former employer, and have absolutely no regrets. San Jose will always have a place in my heart, because it’s my hometown and I still have my home church and many friends there, but I am so grateful that the Lord move me to the south when he did. And yes, I am still a San Francisco Giants fan, and a San Jose Sharks fan… Even though I live in the heart of “Predators Territory“ I probably represent my hometown teams!
@@ottadeef6291 I don't think I have ever had a biscuit with raisins or currants. That sounds like what we call a "quick bread". It's amazing how different cultures have a different name for the same thing. 😉
Well I'm from the south raised on biscuits. But my family is actually English. And I can tell you from my several visits in England and making my scones as well as eating theirs the difference is only in the sweetness and the fruit.... although I will say scones are a bit different in texture as well the recipe is basically the same. I do love cranberry and lemon scones, blueberry scones with a nice dollop of clotted cream(have also made my own),, and I also love my biscuits with apple butter butter
@@flamingpieherman9822 What recipes have you used? I've made scones from scratch to try them, and the recipe was notably different from American biscuits.
@@garyballard179 Savory scones and buttermilk biscuits are very close. Flour, butter, baking powder and buttermilk are the key ingredients in both. The main difference is a scone calls for an egg where as biscuits don't. Also, most biscuit recipes call for bit of baking soda as well as baking powder. Still, the end product tastes very similar. My mom's from Oklahoma, I was raised on biscuits and the scones I got regularly in the morning from English bakeries were very similar in taste and texture.
We Southerners don't get a lot of love from the other regions of the US, usually. They sort of resent us all around for a host of reasons too long to go into here. However, as a native Southerner, I can't say how appreciative I am that y'all love us as much as you do. Sweet. Also, I think iced tea (sweet tea) became a big thing in the South because of the long, hot summers. Iced tea, lemonade, coca-cola and such can be refreshing for much of the year.
Not really. Women get WAY more tips than men. White women in majority white nations get more than non-whites. I don't know if there's any various browns/black or if yellow's just a shade of white there too now. People tend to tip about the same as individuals mostly regardless of service too.
If restaurant owners were more selective with their wait staff and paid them an adequate wage by the hour, the customers wouldn’t have to be their main source of income. TIPS originally meant to insure prompt service and was given prior to being seated. Not anymore. Wait staff are not the employed by the public so why do we still tip? I usually tip 15% to 20% because as a former waitress, I know that they are paid a pittance by their employers. I feel that Great Britain has it right in not tipping provided wait staff are paid well.
Dan Schaller it was never really looked at as a bad thing🤷🏽♂️ it’s normal in elementary and middle school, but the older teachers still do it in high school
@Dan Schaller Hey, Dan Schaller. Before I try to explain, I'll add that the students call the teachers Ms. or Mr. whatever their the given name is, such as Ms. Vicki or Mr. Kenneth. It's respectfully familiar. The other way would SEEM kind of chilly and standoffish. After all, teachers and students through highschool are together a large part of most week days. Calling students honey or son is fine with us...not OVER familiar or anything. If it's changing in our big cities,I haven't heard about. I hope it doesn't change. Please excuse my longwindedness.
@@johng6080 what school did you go to. Mine was so small that we only had basketball, baseball, track and field and cross country. Of those that would have wanted to play football, it would have taken the entire high-school to make just 1 team, not a varsity and jv, just one or the other. And I don't think we would have any extras and some would have to play both sides of the ball
T.A. Barnett Went to school in Arkansas and our football stadium could hold a little over 2000. Thats just for the home side. Our schools main sport was football, basketball, track, baseball, and in that order. Our HS had around a thousand students which is pretty big for our region and football was practically worshipped there lol. We had so many people on the football team that almost half of the actual number of people were just bench warmers or 2nd or 3rd string. I was never really into football that much, but it was a pretty big deal here. Friday nights were like something out of a movie with bright lights and crowds of people everywhere trying to get into the game.
Northern Americans think "Y'all" is tacky? Northern Americans need to go sit down somewhere and hush up. Joel: "Calm down sweetheart..." It's official. Joel is an official southerner! HAHAHAHAAHAAAA! School spirit! You got that right! People who didn't even go study at these SEC colleges are forever loyal to their favorite. Accent! You got it! JOEL: "Americans in the North just don't get it" Americans in the north try their best but bless their hearts...... Chicken Biscuits....remember here biscuits aren't sweet little treats, they are bread you eat with sweet or savory. Biscuits and gravy is going to be served in heaven, no doubt! Chick Fil-A in LA is not in the south. It may be in Southern California but seriously..... they aren't southerners. Yes Ma'am, Yes Sir...... you're showing respect. And when you're a child in the south and answer any adult with "Yeah..." you'll get in big trouble!
Leann Webb I am on old codger but back in the day when I was growing up even adults would address their seniors as Sir or ma'am. There is a certain plantation attitude that has come along with the cultural attribute but I am certain the British had similar until a few decades ago as well.
@@williamlucas4656 I still do. It's habit for me. I even call people younger than me Sir or Ma'am, especially if I don't know them. "Excuse me Sir..." is so much more polite than "Hey you!"
actually, us northerners are mostly amused it takes so long to say anything in the south. but we forgive you for it because we just figure you're a little tetched from the heat. and seriously, you'll never get proper biscuits & gravy in any restaurant. It just can't be rushed.
The population of our town (in The South) is a bit over 90,000. The football stadium here seats 102,000. On game days our population sometimes more than doubles. One (who is a resident) does not go near the stadium on gamedays. Football is taken VERY seriously here.
It’s become a popular misconception floating around online recently that these terms “sweetheart” and “bless your heart” are insults. They’re typically being positively genuine. You’ll know when someone means it condescendingly.
@@PhilBeck Dana says- Bless your heart can literally be translated to "I feel sorry for you." and just as many times means they feel sorry for you because they think you're dumb, irritating, or just a jerk, as it means they're sorry for whatever bad thing you're going through/have gone through.
I live in Texas and I use Y'all all the time. Ive even heard people here say "y'all all gotta"..... California doesn't count as "The South". California is its own kind of crazy.
@@Judy_R So true Judy! 😅😅 Here in SOUTHern California, I am surrounded by crazy people. 🤣🤣 I adore people in Northern California. 👍Have a great Sunday. ❤😊🌴
Our biscuits are not sweet, they are more like bread, it's like a dinner roll you put butter on. They are only like your scones in appearance, not taste. Joanna Gaines show Fixer Upper had me using y'all for a bit, and I'm from Pennsylvania 🤭
I'm from Pennsylvania and when I was young I always said y'all and my parents used to correct me and told me to say you all. the funny thing is both of my parents are from the south, Virginia and North Carolina. I still hear some people say y'all up hear. They just don't draw it out.
As a proud born and bred Southerner, just want to say thanks for this. We are often looked upon by the rest of our county, nay the world, as ignorant and back woods. Yes, we have our issues, as does every other region of the globe, but we have our strengths as well. And I thank you for highlighting some of them 🙂. And just a little fun fyi...Y'all is a contraction of you all. Ya'll is a common misspelling. Love y'all! 😂
The south is looked down upon because of the civil war mostly. The attitudes and prejudices were ingrained into the world psyche through wartime propaganda that didn't stop after the war ended. Reconstruction was handled badly and the victors demonized the people to the point that even to this day we're being punished for the "sins" of long dead people. It's unfortunate because I have been all over this country and I couldn't imagine living anywhere west of Texas and north of Virginia. I don't have deep roots in the south. I was born in Georgia but all of my family were transplants. My mother was born in NYC and my dad was born in California. I still say the south is the best place to be with the most genuinely nice people in the world.
I was stationed "in the South" during my service time (Alabama). You're right...They ARE great people...VERY easy to like! Being from Chicago, I even started using y'all instead of yous!
I'm a Chicagolander! Years ago I took a road trip to West Virginia with a gf and we stopped for breakfast. I had never HEARD of grits so, when I was served my scrambled eggs that ran through the grease of the sausage that was splattered with grits?? I had a total Cousin Vinnie moment!! I still say Chicago has the best variety of food!
Sorry just one little things: It’s “y’all” but a lot of people put the apostrophe in the wrong place. And I do live in the south but I’m from Seattle so I do say “guys” but all my friends definitely say “y’all”.
When you’re in the south again, find a real non chain small town southern country diner. Awesome food and friendly service. The reason we all love sweet ice tea in the south is probably our summer heat and family tradition of course . It’s hard to drink hot tea , coke or anything hot in our 105 +Fahrenheit summers. Coffee is the only hot drink I drink and that’s in winter or mornings. Sometimes I drink hot chocolate or hot cider at Christmas time. In the south the only restaurants that might serve hot tea is Chinese restaurants and you’d probably have to ask for it. In a southern diner the waitresses will call customers (hun,honey , sweetheart, sweetie pie, or darlin. You don’t hear that in big chain restaurants.
Well we serve hot tea, but yes you have tk ask for it and its literally hot water from the coffee machine and a small bag of lipton tea which would probably leave them speechless 😂😂
I think you nailed it! I live in southern West Virginia and we consider ourselves Southerners. Sweet tea, biscuits (not cookies) and gravy, yes sir, yes m’am, (a sign of respect), church on Sunday, love college football (WVU), your kids and grandkids are the most important people in your life, you talk to folks at the grocery store, you know 12 ways to get to a location, you probably like camping, you always attend funerals or the visitation, bring food to people, send flowers, friendly customer service everywhere, we ask if you’ve eat yet, and we’ll send you home with a bag of goodies. Deep South folks may think we’re Yankees, but it’s not true. The North starts around Clarksburg, in our opinion. Anyway, we love y’all and will go in with a full on hug and back pat. 😘
At my restaurant we serve hot tea as an option, and I think it’s a decent brand of Earl Grey or English Breakfast tea. We actually bring out a tray with 4 different flavors to choose from. But we are a mid level, a little more fancy type of establishment.
Thomas Ball the states are very different. Not to your extreme because some states can be grouped together. But just like the US and Canada. We may have a common language but the culture is different.
The thing that made me giggle is that when y'all were talking about the chicken biscuits, it was one in NY, and that the Chik-fil-A was in LA! XD You'll struggle to find a real buttermilk biscuit outside of the South, and Southerners working in restaurants do tend to be a bit more strict with their manners.^-^
I was once staying in a hotel up north. No sweet tea at their restaurant. I guess the manager heard about it and made me a pitcher all my own just for lil ol me. She was from the South. My favorite is gravy biscuit with big, buttery, melt in your mouth cat head biscuits. My second choice would be a sausage biscuit with grape jelly on it. To drink I'll order either a sweet tea or a Tru Moo chocolate milk.
At times, us Southerners are the most misunderstood people in America, yet sometimes the more admired people too. We try to be polite to everyone who visits, and offer some of the best food. Also know that Chick-fil-A started here in Atlanta, particularly the small town of Hapeville, where the original restaurant is still open. Come on down and see us when this crisis blows over.
Consider me triggered (j/k, kind of) even though it's technically on the southern half of the continent, anything west of TX is NOT considered "the south".
Ten13Grl there are too many Texans with Southern accents to say it is not . Richard Rawlings and all the Gas Monkeys in Dallas, Larry Hagman JR Ewing , Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, and a lot of the people and kids on Barney the dinosaur kids show filmed in Dallas. That is just to name a few I almost forgot Matthew Mcconaughey!!
Tennessee here! Love watching y’all! I swear I was born in the wrong country cause I L O V E England. I’m thrilled to know you love us southerners though. I’m planning a trip for after “Coronaggeddon” and have been a little nervous about how my accent will be accepted.
This is based on how you where raised. For example my parents still stay boys in the front girls in the back when we are using the same car and we are all GROWN married ADULTS! We say you boys and us girls all the time, but we understand the word boy in some families are considered insulting once a male becomes an adult.
Nicknames seem to confuse many non-Southerners. When I was a child, "bless your heart" was a sincere expression of sympathy. Somewhere along the way, it changed..... I also prefer unsweetened tea, but at family gatherings, the tea will definitely be cold and sweet.
Wynn Hildreth:. When I was kid back in the 70's we used to drink tea. It was not called "sweet tea", just tea. And since it was the south if you ordered tea it was going to come with some ice in it. Somewhere in the 80's I heard people saying that in the north they would give you unsweetened cold tea and you had to put the sugar in yourself. In the south the sugar would already be in the tea. Then I started to hear people talking about the "sweet tea" and that was a whole different thing than I was used to. That tea was way too sweet. It tasted like sugar water and that's the kind of tea you now get in most southern restaurants. People seem to like it but whenever I order some I tell then to give me half sweet tea to half unsweetened tea. I'm a southerner born and raised but never knew about "sweet tea" until I was in my twenties.
I walked into a Hardee’s in NC with a pistol appendix open carry and the cashier was all about “girl whatchu got!! I got a glock!! Where u shoot at?” ♥️ Bet I wouldn’t get that same response up north. 🤷🏼♀️
I'm glad some of yall are appreciative of our Southern culture. A lot of people like to make fun of us rather than say anything positive. Its life I guess
Its clear that Joel is just so honest, what you see is what you get. And Lia ( my crush!!) is wonderful at explaining things in a way that even i can get it lol...Great team love you guys
Madam is if you are married and mademoiselle (or Miss actually) if you are a single lady. Lia is old enough to have been already married by now but since she doesn't have a wedding band, she should be called Miss (or Ms. nowadays).
qpwillie You get miss if you look quite young. Ma'am probably from mid 20s to up or if you're clearly older than talker. I was totally bummed when I switched from being called miss to ma'am as it's a bit aging 😅
According to linguist southern accent Is a form of a British accent from along time ago I seen this thing where they had a Shakespeares voice read a poem and a southern voice read a poem it was so similar
I’m from Dallas and worked in commercial real estate for a company based in New York City. The Northeastern guys loved coming to Dallas and, believe me, they loved the way the women looked and talked here.
🥺 This gave me all the feels. Thank you guys for this. I love y’all so much! 🥰 I’m a Mississippi girl, born and raised. College football is it’s own religion. If you told Southern people that staying home for 7 days would save football, all the streets would empty and corona would be gone. The way we speak is because our words are sweet and we LOOOOVE to taste em. 😁 ❤️ I’m thinking of starting the accent challenge back up. 😂
Iced tea is a necessity in the south. It's simply too hot during spring to early fall to have a hot drink. And American biscuits are savory, not sweet. Nor are they that much like scones. They're served with chicken as a non-yeast bread side. Fresh hot scratch biscuits are also an alternative to toast for breakfast, and for breakfast sandwiches with egg and sausage or bacon. A lot of people cover them with gravy (particularly sausage gravy), but I've never understood that personally, as I can't stand soggy bread.
I love the south! The food, history, culture, it's beautiful. Go to Charleston, SC and Jekyll Island, GA. I live in Nashville, TN, and TN is an amazing state. So much good has come out of TN.
Texan, here, several years ago, my family took a big trip to Tennessee and I LOVED y'all's Smokey Mountains. My dad was US Air Force and so my childhood was spent in cold places, and prior to my dad leaving the military, we lived in Colorado, and if there's one thing I did miss about CO, it was the Mountains so seeing Tennessee's mountains made me emotional. As much as I love Texas, my area has no mountains. Closest thing we have is the Texas Hill Country in my area. My fav place while in Tennessee was the Memphis Zoo, best Zoo I've ever been too. They did an awesome job with all the exhibits!
I've watched 5:00 in. I'm hoping "bless your heart" is on here. Its a great compliment/insult that always leaves folks wondering which direction it's intended to be applied.
Old school Southerners are less likely to use "bless your heart" as an insult. I'm not saying never, but if my mother ever said it, I promise it was genuine!
Down South someone you like has a problem you say “Bless Your Heart” and to someone who is ANNOYING you can say “Bless your Heart” with a little more inflection. One is nice ,one is an insult.
Who and where the hell in the south do they use it as an insult? 30 years in Arkansas and I have never heard it said in that way, Its actually only said here when people are going through a tough time. Someone will say my house burnt down then people say bless your heart. I dont know where in the south they use it like that, Maybe Texas not here.
5:50 The thing about school spirit is because the US is so large that the pro teams are very spread out. It's usually easier to get to a local college game than to get to a pro game, because colleges are everywhere.
Candice Scott I currently live in the South, but spent my youth in the North, lived in the East and the majority of my life in the West. I can assure you, spirit is epic everywhere in the USA
Candice Scott My friend you clearly don’t know Ohio State. Before our games against Michigan we cross out all the M’s on EVERY sign at OSU buildings with scarlet tape.
I've attended games from upstate New York, Texas to LA. And if going by tailgate parties alone, Ole Miss' The Grove, in Oxford, Ms is ranked No. 1 in the country. I'm currently living on the coast of Alabama, needless to say, this is the most rabid fanatics I've ever been around, I'm surrounded by Bama, LSU & Auburn fans. On game day it's like running a gauntlet, not being a supporter of any of the 3.
I have had a southerner say "bless your heart" and actually mean it when I was in mourning, but I have seen the southerners in the comments here say it's usually used sarcastically.
If it was said to you in mourning, it was genuine, I promise you. No self respecting southerner would ever say that being mean to someone that is grieving.
I live in Georgia and go to University of Georgia football games all the time. Our stadium seats around 93,000 and it always sells out. One reason college sports are so supporting in the south is because the region didn't have any professional sports times until the 1960s. So if you wanted to go to a sporting event college was your only option. Generations of families pass on this fandom so even though the region has pro sports teams now for many people their first loyalty is still to their favorite college
every state in the "south" has its own accent similar but different. Even within the state can be different. There's high society southern to backwoods, a wide range
@DonProctor - Very true! I am from S.C., and I love hearing the variety of Southern accents when people relocate here! Even in my own state, there are variations among the natives!
Definitely true in Texas. It's not always the case, but I tell people you're more likely to hear a thicker Texan accent in the north part of it then in the Southern part. I think in Southern and Western Texan it's more culturally diverse because of the Mexican influences and other cultures so maybe that's why?
"Ma'am" is a shortened version of madam or madame; used like "Yes, Sir or yes, sir for a man and you simple substitute ma'am for a female. It is a show of respect. Similar things in other countries, including yours (i.e. M'lady, yes, mum, etc.).
M'lady!? What? Never, since about 1700. Mum is your mother. If you are being very, very formal you might say Mr or Mrs. This is sometimes taken as an insult (False politeness.) or a single woman is not a Mrs.
I think that one of the reasons Americans often complain about the service in Europe is that we're used to servers hustling for tips. Of course there's no reason for European servers to provide exceptional service in pursuit of tips so they merely provide adequate service -- which Americans see as poor in comparison to what we're used to.
Lyle G Also in general, European society is more laidback and having a long dinner is part of that. It is not uncommon to spend at least a couple hours at a restaurant just from eating and making conversation and they can often last longer than that as well.
From South Carolina, and I love ALL y'all, which is a much larger number than just y'all. All y'all in Great Britain are fabulous. Y'all is a usually a smaller gathering of family/friends. At least, in my world. Carry on!
My daughter went to the University of Michigan (we're from southern CA). Every single game is sold out. It's huge. She lived near the stadium, and people were walking by their home with the U of M colored sweatshirts, blankets, stocking caps, etc. for every game. It's craziness! And, such a fun atmosphere. It's a real traditional college town. Nothing like that in So. California, as it's so spread out and more commuter oriented. I love the mid west and college football. It's huge!
@@robertewalt7789 the Mason Dixon line has been the border between north and south for 150+ years. It's not necessarily the "deep South" but it's the south
I was told once that the southern accent is influenced influenced by the British accent. I'm not sure about the accuracy of this information, but it's what I was told.
It's true! I studied accents and dialects in college. The current southern accent is the closest accent (currently) to what the British accent was when they colonized the states. Often people don't realize that accents don't just vary from place to place, but they also change over time. Many southern accents are also heavily influenced by Scottish accents.
British, Scottish, and Irish accents are the roots of the Southern accents in the US. Some places in Appalachia are an almost exact match to lowland Scottish brogues for the 19th century.
aww thanks!!! I think Southerners are the nicest too.. being one of them 😍 Speaking of Brits saying y'all, one of my old bosses was from south London with that VERY strong accent and it cracked me up to hear him say y'all
The reason for the popularity of college sports in the US, especially in the South and especially with football is because these rivalries go back more than 100 years. Some of these rivalries are in-state, e.g. Auburn vs. Alabama, and some are border rivalries, e.g. Georgia vs. Florida. In college sports you have decades of tradition, incredible bands, and pageantry. Professional sports, the NFL in particular, has nothing comparable and is much younger. By the time professional sports arrived, sports traditions and loyalties had already been established within college sports. And yes, college sports is more popular than professional sports which is why college stadiums are bigger than NFL stadiums. Go Vols!!!
Not in the South. Lol. We just call everyone ma'am or sir, regardless of age. We do call people Miss and Mister, as in "Miss Linda" or "Mister Carl", but only if they're our elders.
@@LaurinGuad exactly! The only time I call anyone miss is an elderly woman, followed by her first name. I.e. Miss Elaine, or Miss Sandra......even though we know they are matrons, that is our sign of respect. Everyone else is ma'am or sir. Lol
@@webwarren ah good point. To clarify, I just meant, when you need to get someone's attention for the first time and you presume they are a woman, it's good practice to say "miss?" Instead of ma'am. Never say miss or ma'am or honey or sugar or sweetheart in the middle of conversation. Like, if a woman has toilet paper on her shoe, that's when you say "miss?"
@@laffingist218 I'll usually just say, "Excuse me, you might want to check your shoe". I do use ma'am if the woman appears to be over 30, 35 (the age at which, in French, an unknown woman is called "madame" instead of "mademoiselle") - but in this day and age of ambiguous gender, it's safer to just say "hey, you!"
As far as the Queen is concerned I feel most southerners would show her proper respect and still refer to her as Her or your Majesty when speaking with her, if ever having the opportunity.
A long time ago when i met her. I said "Your Majesty, Hi! I just wanted to say hi and welcome to San Antonio (Texas)." I said "Hi sir" to her husband. She was so nice and not freaked at all. The situation wasn't the best but it turned out ok. She has a lot of class.
My dad was from Kentucky, manners when talking to, or addressing a person, they teach the kids, "Say hi to Mr. Joel and Miss Lia," which I love and still use, except for close friends and family.
“Bless your heart” can go either way. You’ll know the difference. For instance “He’s so stupid, bless his heart” is an insult. He’s so kind, bless his heart,” is a compliment. We use both and we are used to both.
"Meemaw had to go into a nursing home, bless her heart." "Cooter Bennett's so dumb he could throw hisself at the ground and miss, bless his heart." Context.
Agree 100%. It is NOT always an insult. It's quite often said with genuine sympathy.
Yes indeed lol it all depends on the tone of voice lol
Yupp was going to say the same thing!!
Sherri Bearden Yes!! It can!! Lol
Just to throw this out there, a Chickfila in LA is not going to have the same level of customer service as a Chickfila in the south. Here in the south they are the top tier of customer service of basically any restaurant. And themes the facts.
I know, I laughed when they compared the south to LA. Furthest from south as you can get.
Not always. It seems chickfila is selling out so quick they dont seem to care about their customer experience as much.
I've had better service in Oregon than Texas which is unorthodox.
This is true. A detroit (suburb) just got a CFA and those people need to go BACK to CFA customer svc class. This southerner was shocked.
The south lost the Civil War.....enough said
Yes ma’am If you watch the RUclips channel It’s A Southern Thing they made a chick-Fil-a prime skit
Calling someone Lady is kind of rude. Like if a woman was arguing with me I would say “listen here lady” and proceed to blast her with insults. If I was at my friends house and his mom were to ask me a question, I would say “yes ma’am” out of respect
As if when, not 'like'.
Maybe miss, but that's a bit presumptuous.
O my gosh yas why would you call someone "lady"
Why call someone lady? Silly question. If home is a man's castle, his wife would be the lady of the house. 🤓
Seeing “y’all” spelled “ya’ll” makes me cringe.
Lol, they need to add that to the video about list of things that annoy/offend "Southern" Americans😄😄
I know right! It is a conjunction of you all, not ya all! It is spelled correctly y'all. I see it misspelled so much, people just accept it now! 👀😳🧐🤓🤦🏽♀️🤣🤩😍💜✌🏾
S. Brown no offense but why did you add those emojis
Using (the quite plural) "y'all" to refer to one person is an anachronism which hails from non-southern regions. It is indeed cringe-worthy.
@midgetydeath Around here there also would be a contraction of "Y'all will" which would be pronounced "Y'all'll
Is no one gonna acknowledge that they spelled y’all like ya’ll
They totally did!
Rage
They probably don't realize y'all is an American interpretation of the English phrase ye all instead of you all or ya all
@@notchagrandpa8875, even then, when you're creating a contraction, the apostrophe stands in place of the deleted letter or letters. In either instance (you all vs ye all), "all" is still a full word. Y'all is just following basic English rules of grammar.
Well, they ARE from across the pond.
Taylor Swift is NOT from the South. She sometimes lives in the South (Nashville area). Taylor has an Eastern Pennsylvania accent, from where she grew up. She is what southerners would refer to as Yankee.
You know what they say about Pennsylvania: "You got Philadelphia on one end and Pittsburgh on the other, and in between it's the Deep South."
What most adults referred to as a jerk
"she sometimes lives in the south" lol
There is nothing wrong with being a Yankee. All Americans are referred to as Yankees when out of the US. All Non Southerners are yankees in the south. All New Englanders are yankees to the rest of the US. The Baseball team with the most wins is the New York Yankees. Southerners who fought for the Union in the US Civil war were "Yankees". I understand Ms Swift splits her time between California (west but still a yankee), Tennessee (south), and New York (north east, but not New England).
Any northerners in the south are called damn Yankees. The are just yankees when in the north.
In the south you only say "Y'all" if you're addressing a crowd of 4 or fewer....In larger crowds, the proper address is "All Y'all."
Nope, in southeast Alabama, you will hear y'all for everything, unless they are a transplant.
Dale MInton very funny, also very true.
In Mississippi we say All Y’all, but it doesn’t have a specific number to differentiate. And then there’s the possessive “All y’all’s”. That one really throws folks for a loop. 😂
Isn't y'all slang?
@@simonpowell2559 no. It is a contraction of "you" and "all". Or depending on what channel you're on (like history channel) could be from the Scott's that settled the south as "ye all", which is basically the same thing, I think. Someone went into more detail with it but I dont remember what channel/video it was.
Yes ma'am and yes sir to everyone no matter the age. Was raised that way.
Many people even call kids ma'am and sir. If a kid asks a question, you reply "yes ma'am." If the kid is doing something bad, you yell "no, sir!"
absolutely, cuz, your mama raised your right!
We do the same. I know some folks are very strict about using ma’am and sir for elders, but my mama insists the best way to for children to develop the habit is to hear it often.
Kim Skipper, I used to get spankings if I didn’t say “yes sir, yes ma’am” or “no sir, no ma’am.”
And it's Mr. Joel and Mizz Lia if they're older than you.
L.A. isn't 'the south.'
It's, 'the west.'
L.A. isn’t southern culture. They make fun of it.
@@johnfaulk7775
Yeah. More southern hospitality, vs LA riots.
What is LA culture again...?
@@scottyrose9106
Amphetamines.
L.A. culture is amphetamines.
@@cheskotokarev
Oh, well right now, that's Tennessee culture to. LMAO! But, at least we're really nice tweekers! Lol.
@@scottyrose9106
Nye- it's most of the u.s. nowadays
Southerner here, “Bless your heart” isn’t always an insult. Actually most of the time it is out of sympathy/empathy
Amen! It's not mean. It's just like saying "he's special" or "God love her"
I’ve lived in Nashville, Tennessee my entire life, and I had no clue that “bless your heart” was assumed as “being ugly.” I was stunned! True story.
Or "poor thing"
Lol! I’m a southerner too and I only say that as an insult.
@@originalcoppertop5033 I was sincere before I knew it was supposed to be an insult. Now, if I’m being honest, it can go either way. 🤪
Biscuits and scones are two different things.
No kidding. Scones are sweet (or at least sweetish) and normally have some sort of fruit. Biscuits are softer and aren't sweet. We may put gravy on them (proper gravy, not that horrible powdered stuff that many people who are not from the southern part of the US consider gravy) or butter, or butter with jam or preserves or.... Well, I actually put nutella on a biscuit once and it was fab.
In my opinion as a southerner, I tend to believe our biscuits are more like that found in Yorkshire pudding! But with the look of a scone. I guess since a lot of The Roots come from England there was a mixing...
And on the subject of our biscuits, there's two ways to serve them one with the biscuits in and gravy preferably with sausage or in chipped beef. The second is to serve them with butter and a jam your preference. My favorite is apple butter but I'll do the lemon curd marmalade or anything else!
Jerry Busbee there are savory scones as well, that have cheese, bacon, chives, etc. so those might be a little more similar. But not really like the south’s buttermilk biscuits.
Jerry Busbee give a biscuit some “Sling Blade” mustard actually pretty good.
Exactly, our biscuits aren’t sweet & I love a chicken biscuit from Chick Fil A
in the south, "ma'am" and "sir" are a sign of respect. also anyone older than you is to be called "ma'am or sir" .
Or, if it's someone older than you but someone with whom you interact on a daily basis, it's Ms./Mr. first name.
I even say “ma’am” and “sir” to people younger than me if their working or I don’t know them.
Just do not call me "Miss" whatever my real name is.
@@funland19 it's younger than 'I' (am).
I'm middle aged and I use it when speaking with almost everyone.
As a Southerner, I’m glad to know y’all’s favorite Americans are Southerners! My favorites are Brits!😘😘😘
Toni Enloe, I’m totally with you on this one.
There are a lot of cultural cues in the South that were influenced by English culture.
As a northern Californian I take pride in this, it’s funny because I’m California it’s reversed, Northern California is more like South US, and South California is more like North US
Aussies are the best!
@@BranchHeadJim Myself.
In the south, we drop the g on darling..it's "darlin'"
We drop the g from lots of stuff, lol! Darlin', eatin', goin', sleepin', etc.. Lololol!
I Texas we drop most g's at the hindend of a word.
#WETHENORTH
Yep, and one of the main words we drop in on they didn't even mention - fixing. They didn't mention the phrase, "We're fixin to go to the store." as a substitute for "We're getting ready to go to the store." Everyone in the south uses that term. Folks in the north just don't get it and they never will. Lia and Joel need a copy of Steve Mitchell's book "How To Speak Southern," and they will do just fine traveling that fine region.
We do drop hard on g but we dont say darling lol!!
In my south, where I was raised, 'bless your heart' was almost always a sweet sentiment. Occasionally one would use it to be sarcastic, but in my experience it was pretty rare.
I always found "bless your heart" was passive aggressive. A politer way to put someone down, especially behind their back.
When I was in London I would say “ Yes Sir” to men older than me. They were thrown a back. For U.S. southerners it’s just showing respect to your elders. Obviously not a title.
As a southerner I've never used the words yes ma'am or yes sir except to my dad because he insisted on it. I do saying yes ma'am to someone as telling them they're an old woman.
@@flamingpieherman9822 not even in school?
It's pronounced "yessir" as one word. Easier to say, as is common in the South.
Cause "mama raised you right."
@@flamingpieherman9822 I'm a retired school teacher and a deep rooted southerner as well. I taught nearly 20 years in a rural school in central Kentucky. The student body was composed mostly of farm kids. In most formal --- or stressful --- situations, the kids usually defaulted to using "ma'am" or "sir" when addressing teachers. Not so much so in casual conversation. But they usually knew when it was called for. And teachers in turn would frequently address students with "ma'am" or "sir" if for no other reason than to set an example or just sheer habit. Kind of like saying "Please" and "Thank you." It's just being polite --- and it can sure garner brownie points without coming off as a suck up.
“The South” is not literally every southern state (not California) it is only the south east, and many people exclude parts of Florida because Florida is such a melting pot.
"The more south you go, the more north it becomes" - Florida
I'm going to correct you on Florida. Florida was very much Southern until we had an influx of Northerners and Spanish. We're still Southern we just have to deal with the North and Spanish ways.
the south is synonymous with the confederacy and Florida was part of the confederate states, then there is the Mason-Dixon Line and the Missouri Compromise that deals with the borders of North & South
I don't even consider Texas as the South. They're Texas, which is different. They have a lot of western influence that the southeast doesn't have. Texas may be more southern than northern but most Southerners I know don't consider Texans fellow Southerners.
@@ljones436 Disclaimer: I don't live in Texas so I wouldn't know. But if you go from California to "the South" then Texas is smack dab in the middle of the two. Meaning that Texans have a unique culture of their own, I imagine, because they get it from the Western States, the Southern states and the Mid Western States above them. The line you wrote that TRIGGERED me (btw thnx Joel and Lia for the word) is when you said ,"They're Texas, which is different". Pretty sure your conservative just from that line. You got a problem with people different than you? Obviously. What? Just because the state is located a little further west than yours, (where are you even from?) you'd disqualify Texas for being a little bit different than you. I got news for you, no southern state are is same, we have similarities that make up a culture. But Florida is as different than Georgia as it is to Alabama, or Tennessee or Texas. You gonna disqualify all those other states too? Because none of them are the same. Fine, because this is America, you have the right to believe that. But it won't be for long if you dismiss everyone/everything different than you......................... (Breathe) I'm done. 🙄✋
I’m from Texas and I do have a twang as the accent is often called. I went to England several years ago and was in London waiting to board a train. The young porters there conversed with me and wanted to listen to me talk. They went on and on about my accent. I laughed so hard I nearly missed my train. They did too. I had a guessing game as to where they were from. The young male sounded like a Beatle-so I guessed someplace in York. Bingo! He was from Yorkshire. The girl was from London. So, as much as Southerners are friendly, I found that you English can be quite the same as well! Cheers!
FYI: The Southern accent is considered to be the closest accent to the British accent. It is supposed to be directly descended from the Queens language whereas other areas of American accents have somewhat vested o of course since the time of the Revolution.
TY I was going to point this out myself being a trained linguist helps. Yes the Southerners kept our heritage from England and most of what we used to practice in everyday life came from London. In fact, southern women as a matter of small talk while at Galas would ask about the London Season as a matter of polite small talk. They carried on many a british tradition until the revolution which of course shook up everyone's lives in the south so it broke with tradition in favor of survival.
Well, an Appalachian accent would be closer, alot of direct Irish and Scottish immigrants +mountains kinda slow down linguistic drift.
Really? I thought it was the Boston accent
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No, the Boston accent only superficially resembles a stereotypical British accent because of the Rs being replaced with a schwa.
The southern accent is more similar to Old English than many other accents in the US
Us southerners probably drink more tea that “y’all “do, hahahahaha
Even in the winter. we keep a pitcher of sweet tea in the fridge.
It's a staple!
Sweet Tea that is..lol... I went to the west coast and they had no sweet tea...I lost my shits. Lol. I dont want no flavored tea.lol.
I’m a southerner. I was born and raised here, but I can’t stand sweet tea. It’s so gross to me.
OMG I LOVE TEA
When I lived in the South, someone told me that southerners are the nicest people in the world ... until they get behind the wheel.
I'm from Utah we say the same thing about mormons
Raise hell and praise Dale!
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Yeah, "Get behind and stay there."
Very true I live in tennessee
As a native Californian who now lives in Tennessee, L.A. CA is NOT considered the South! LOL!😆. The west coast has its own attitude and mentality. #GratefulToNowLiveInTheSouth
I can also attest that for many people in NorCal Los Angeles doesn't even feel like its part of the same state as ours. It really does have its own attitude and mentality.
Yeah, I'm from norcal and LA is a whole other world from the rest of CA. Might have to do with most of the residents coming from other states, so there are a ton of cultures and accents mashed into one city.
I live in orange county, the next county over from LA, and I don’t like LA
Agreed! Grew up in Southern California, in Texas for 16 years. NOT the same vibe at all.
I grew up in the hub of Silicon Valley… San Jose. Relocated to Nashville almost 15 years ago with the former employer, and have absolutely no regrets. San Jose will always have a place in my heart, because it’s my hometown and I still have my home church and many friends there, but I am so grateful that the Lord move me to the south when he did. And yes, I am still a San Francisco Giants fan, and a San Jose Sharks fan… Even though I live in the heart of “Predators Territory“ I probably represent my hometown teams!
Biscuits and Scones are TOTALLY different. Our biscuits are savory and can be had with everything
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Scones can be either sweet or savoury. I don't know about the USA, but "tea biscuits" here in Canada usualy have raisins or currants in them.
@@ottadeef6291 I don't think I have ever had a biscuit with raisins or currants. That sounds like what we call a "quick bread". It's amazing how different cultures have a different name for the same thing. 😉
Well I'm from the south raised on biscuits. But my family is actually English. And I can tell you from my several visits in England and making my scones as well as eating theirs the difference is only in the sweetness and the fruit.... although I will say scones are a bit different in texture as well the recipe is basically the same. I do love cranberry and lemon scones, blueberry scones with a nice dollop of clotted cream(have also made my own),, and I also love my biscuits with apple butter butter
@@flamingpieherman9822
What recipes have you used?
I've made scones from scratch to try them, and the recipe was notably different from American biscuits.
@@garyballard179 Savory scones and buttermilk biscuits are very close. Flour, butter, baking powder and buttermilk are the key ingredients in both. The main difference is a scone calls for an egg where as biscuits don't. Also, most biscuit recipes call for bit of baking soda as well as baking powder. Still, the end product tastes very similar. My mom's from Oklahoma, I was raised on biscuits and the scones I got regularly in the morning from English bakeries were very similar in taste and texture.
We Southerners don't get a lot of love from the other regions of the US, usually. They sort of resent us all around for a host of reasons too long to go into here. However, as a native Southerner, I can't say how appreciative I am that y'all love us as much as you do. Sweet. Also, I think iced tea (sweet tea) became a big thing in the South because of the long, hot summers. Iced tea, lemonade, coca-cola and such can be refreshing for much of the year.
"Waiters need to be paid more."
Really good waiters get more in tips than anyone else will be paid that day.
Not really. Women get WAY more tips than men. White women in majority white nations get more than non-whites. I don't know if there's any various browns/black or if yellow's just a shade of white there too now. People tend to tip about the same as individuals mostly regardless of service too.
If restaurant owners were more selective with their wait staff and paid them an adequate wage by the hour, the customers wouldn’t have to be their main source of income. TIPS originally meant to insure prompt service and was given prior to being seated. Not anymore. Wait staff are not the employed by the public so why do we still tip? I usually tip 15% to 20% because as a former waitress, I know that they are paid a pittance by their employers. I feel that Great Britain has it right in not tipping provided wait staff are paid well.
True. When I worked at a casino I could easily make $300 per shift.
Maybe so but when they get that raise the prices WILL increase and traffic will decrease. How does that help?
Being a teacher in the south, we call the kids sweetie and honey a lot.
Dan Schaller it was never really looked at as a bad thing🤷🏽♂️ it’s normal in elementary and middle school, but the older teachers still do it in high school
Retired Arkansas teacher here. Usually called the girls sweetie and the boys either buddy or son.
They allow that?
@@sharonmartin7531 Of course. Its a good thing.
@Dan Schaller Hey, Dan Schaller. Before I try to explain, I'll add that the students call the teachers Ms. or Mr. whatever their
the given name is, such as Ms. Vicki or Mr. Kenneth. It's respectfully familiar. The other way would SEEM kind of chilly and standoffish.
After all, teachers and students through
highschool are
together a large part of most week days.
Calling students honey or son is fine with us...not OVER familiar or anything.
If it's changing in our big cities,I haven't heard about. I hope it doesn't change. Please excuse my longwindedness.
Many High School football stadiums are HUGE in the South.
Football takes second place only to church. In some places, it's a tie.
In Texas high school football is a religion of its own
My high schools football stadium was in top 10 biggest in the state
@@johng6080 what school did you go to. Mine was so small that we only had basketball, baseball, track and field and cross country. Of those that would have wanted to play football, it would have taken the entire high-school to make just 1 team, not a varsity and jv, just one or the other. And I don't think we would have any extras and some would have to play both sides of the ball
T.A. Barnett Went to school in Arkansas and our football stadium could hold a little over 2000. Thats just for the home side. Our schools main sport was football, basketball, track, baseball, and in that order. Our HS had around a thousand students which is pretty big for our region and football was practically worshipped there lol. We had so many people on the football team that almost half of the actual number of people were just bench warmers or 2nd or 3rd string. I was never really into football that much, but it was a pretty big deal here. Friday nights were like something out of a movie with bright lights and crowds of people everywhere trying to get into the game.
Northern Americans think "Y'all" is tacky? Northern Americans need to go sit down somewhere and hush up.
Joel: "Calm down sweetheart..." It's official. Joel is an official southerner! HAHAHAHAAHAAAA!
School spirit! You got that right! People who didn't even go study at these SEC colleges are forever loyal to their favorite.
Accent! You got it!
JOEL: "Americans in the North just don't get it" Americans in the north try their best but bless their hearts......
Chicken Biscuits....remember here biscuits aren't sweet little treats, they are bread you eat with sweet or savory. Biscuits and gravy is going to be served in heaven, no doubt!
Chick Fil-A in LA is not in the south. It may be in Southern California but seriously..... they aren't southerners.
Yes Ma'am, Yes Sir...... you're showing respect. And when you're a child in the south and answer any adult with "Yeah..." you'll get in big trouble!
In some places in the South children and some adults wouldn't called you Joel and Lia it would be Mr. Joel and Ms. Lia.
Leann Webb I am on old codger but back in the day when I was growing up even adults would address their seniors as Sir or ma'am. There is a certain plantation attitude that has come along with the cultural attribute but I am certain the British had similar until a few decades ago as well.
@@williamlucas4656 I still do. It's habit for me. I even call people younger than me Sir or Ma'am, especially if I don't know them. "Excuse me Sir..." is so much more polite than "Hey you!"
Northern California shares culture with Southern States, Southern California is just dumb and shares cultures with Northern states like New York
actually, us northerners are mostly amused it takes so long to say anything in the south. but we forgive you for it because we just figure you're a little tetched from the heat.
and seriously, you'll never get proper biscuits & gravy in any restaurant. It just can't be rushed.
I have a friend who says, “you’re so pretty”, when you don’t understand a joke or something goes over your head. I’m from Arkansas.
The population of our town (in The South) is a bit over 90,000. The football stadium here seats 102,000. On game days our population sometimes more than doubles. One (who is a resident) does not go near the stadium on gamedays. Football is taken VERY seriously here.
It’s become a popular misconception floating around online recently that these terms “sweetheart” and “bless your heart” are insults. They’re typically being positively genuine. You’ll know when someone means it condescendingly.
Look at their face, their body posture and how it’s said. I never knew people used Bless you heart as an insult. I do it now but just with my kids.
control z channel Yeah, for the most part, when someone says "bless your heart" they really mean it especially if it's an older lady.
That’s true. “Bless your heart” is most often sincere and sympathetic!
Bless your heart usually refers to a nice person doing something stupid.
@@PhilBeck Dana says- Bless your heart can literally be translated to "I feel sorry for you." and just as many times means they feel sorry for you because they think you're dumb, irritating, or just a jerk, as it means they're sorry for whatever bad thing you're going through/have gone through.
I live in Texas and I use Y'all all the time. Ive even heard people here say "y'all all gotta"..... California doesn't count as "The South". California is its own kind of crazy.
Oh wow, that's a mouthful!
Y’all’d’ve is one of my favs and it is “you all could have” or “you all should have” or “you all would have”
@@Judy_R So true Judy! 😅😅 Here in SOUTHern California, I am surrounded by crazy people. 🤣🤣 I adore people in Northern California. 👍Have a great Sunday. ❤😊🌴
In Louisiana we said, "All y'all".
@@saraarnett2557 love that😊
Our biscuits are not sweet, they are more like bread, it's like a dinner roll you put butter on. They are only like your scones in appearance, not taste. Joanna Gaines show Fixer Upper had me using y'all for a bit, and I'm from Pennsylvania 🤭
Agreed, biscuits are normally a tiny bit bitter as well from baking soda.
LoL yes The Gaines are great examples of what I’d consider true Southerners on TV
I would also add that they border on being somewhat savory in taste.
You have to put honey on them.
I'm from Pennsylvania and when I was young I always said y'all and my parents used to correct me and told me to say you all. the funny thing is both of my parents are from the south, Virginia and North Carolina. I still hear some people say y'all up hear. They just don't draw it out.
There's another greeting we say. "Y'all doin' alright today?"
All right is two words
@@kritikitti3868 Thank you, professor!
@@kritikitti3868 ----stop with the policing. You're being rude.
#WETHENORTH
How's yer mama?
It’s Y’ALL not YA’LL. It’s short for You All.
As in, “We’d like y’all to come over for supper tonight.”
Don't forget about the more inclusive "all y'all"
As a proud born and bred Southerner, just want to say thanks for this. We are often looked upon by the rest of our county, nay the world, as ignorant and back woods. Yes, we have our issues, as does every other region of the globe, but we have our strengths as well. And I thank you for highlighting some of them 🙂. And just a little fun fyi...Y'all is a contraction of you all. Ya'll is a common misspelling. Love y'all! 😂
The south is looked down upon because of the civil war mostly. The attitudes and prejudices were ingrained into the world psyche through wartime propaganda that didn't stop after the war ended. Reconstruction was handled badly and the victors demonized the people to the point that even to this day we're being punished for the "sins" of long dead people. It's unfortunate because I have been all over this country and I couldn't imagine living anywhere west of Texas and north of Virginia. I don't have deep roots in the south. I was born in Georgia but all of my family were transplants. My mother was born in NYC and my dad was born in California. I still say the south is the best place to be with the most genuinely nice people in the world.
Many linguists believe that y'all is a contraction of the old middle English second person plural "ye all".
I was stationed "in the South" during my service time (Alabama). You're right...They ARE great people...VERY easy to like! Being from Chicago, I even started using y'all instead of yous!
Where were you stationed? Fort Rucker? I'm from Enterprise.
Simple Things 1975 Dothan gal myself
I'm a Chicagolander! Years ago I took a road trip to West Virginia with a gf and we stopped for breakfast. I had never HEARD of grits so, when I was served my scrambled eggs that ran through the grease of the sausage that was splattered with grits?? I had a total Cousin Vinnie moment!! I still say Chicago has the best variety of food!
❤️ Roll Tide ❤️
always gracious and approachable
Sorry just one little things: It’s “y’all” but a lot of people put the apostrophe in the wrong place. And I do live in the south but I’m from Seattle so I do say “guys” but all my friends definitely say “y’all”.
Jackson Puzey I’ve lived in the South all my life and I say “you guys” “y’all” and “all y’all”, just depending. 😂
@@mandaleeross1325 all y'all is about as southern as you can get.
Putting the apostrophe in the correct place in y'all is a huge pet peeve of mine. Thank you! (From an Anglophile in Texas :-))
Leah have such a crush on you
Y'all is a good word. I don't say it because i live in Seattle and it would sound weird. But there is no other word for that. It's missing.
Pet name we use a lot is “Hon”. Short for “Honey”.
As in, “Thanks Hon.”
Why yes we do, Hon.
That's big in Baltimore
Hun*
Well, I think the comment was regarding chick-fil-a being a southern food chain, one which came into being and is headquartered in Georgia
When you’re in the south again, find a real non chain small town southern country diner. Awesome food and friendly service. The reason we all love sweet ice tea in the south is probably our summer heat and family tradition of course . It’s hard to drink hot tea , coke or anything hot in our 105 +Fahrenheit summers. Coffee is the only hot drink I drink and that’s in winter or mornings. Sometimes I drink hot chocolate or hot cider at Christmas time. In the south the only restaurants that might serve hot tea is Chinese restaurants and you’d probably have to ask for it. In a southern diner the waitresses will call customers (hun,honey , sweetheart, sweetie pie, or darlin. You don’t hear that in big chain restaurants.
Well we serve hot tea, but yes you have tk ask for it and its literally hot water from the coffee machine and a small bag of lipton tea which would probably leave them speechless 😂😂
I think you nailed it! I live in southern West Virginia and we consider ourselves Southerners. Sweet tea, biscuits (not cookies) and gravy, yes sir, yes m’am, (a sign of respect), church on Sunday, love college football (WVU), your kids and grandkids are the most important people in your life, you talk to folks at the grocery store, you know 12 ways to get to a location, you probably like camping, you always attend funerals or the visitation, bring food to people, send flowers, friendly customer service everywhere, we ask if you’ve eat yet, and we’ll send you home with a bag of goodies.
Deep South folks may think we’re Yankees, but it’s not true. The North starts around Clarksburg, in our opinion.
Anyway, we love y’all and will go in with a full on hug and back pat. 😘
At my restaurant we serve hot tea as an option, and I think it’s a decent brand of Earl Grey or English Breakfast tea. We actually bring out a tray with 4 different flavors to choose from. But we are a mid level, a little more fancy type of establishment.
The Hillbilly Piper and when you say "105 degrees" don't forget it's HUMID too, which makes it so nasty out.
In the South, when it's 90° or 100° with 75% humidity, nothing tops a cold sweet tea. It's too hot here for hot tea almost any time of year.
It’s always interesting to learn about the different regions of the US. We could easily be three or four different countries.
Theoretically, we're 50 separate countries united together
Colin Quinn said it best "...are you telling me that Utah has any less in common with New Jersey; than Hungary does with Scotland "?
Liable to be that way in the not too distant future .
within a single state, you could feel like you are in 44 countries!
Thomas Ball the states are very different. Not to your extreme because some states can be grouped together. But just like the US and Canada. We may have a common language but the culture is different.
Respect to the South from So Cal. Love your culture, your food, accent and music! Guys - University sports generate BIG money for the schools here.
Michael Mullard 😀😀😀😎😎😎. Hi Michael
The thing that made me giggle is that when y'all were talking about the chicken biscuits, it was one in NY, and that the Chik-fil-A was in LA! XD You'll struggle to find a real buttermilk biscuit outside of the South, and Southerners working in restaurants do tend to be a bit more strict with their manners.^-^
I was once staying in a hotel up north. No sweet tea at their restaurant. I guess the manager heard about it and made me a pitcher all my own just for lil ol me. She was from the South.
My favorite is gravy biscuit with big, buttery, melt in your mouth cat head biscuits. My second choice would be a sausage biscuit with grape jelly on it. To drink I'll order either a sweet tea or a Tru Moo chocolate milk.
At times, us Southerners are the most misunderstood people in America, yet sometimes the more admired people too. We try to be polite to everyone who visits, and offer some of the best food. Also know that Chick-fil-A started here in Atlanta, particularly the small town of Hapeville, where the original restaurant is still open. Come on down and see us when this crisis blows over.
Consider me triggered (j/k, kind of) even though it's technically on the southern half of the continent, anything west of TX is NOT considered "the south".
It's really not.
As a Texan, born and raised, I would argue that we're not really "Southern", we're our own brand.
@@Ten13Grl fair enough.
Ten13Grl there are too many Texans with Southern accents to say it is not . Richard Rawlings and all the Gas Monkeys in Dallas, Larry Hagman JR Ewing , Kenneth Copeland, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, and a lot of the people and kids on Barney the dinosaur kids show filmed in Dallas. That is just to name a few I almost forgot Matthew Mcconaughey!!
Gospel music in the south churches ⛪️ is so beautiful soulful moment in one ☝🏽 life
Actually, from an etymological standpoint, the Southern accent is the closest to the English accent.
Yepers...except for Louisiana that a French derivative.
Linguistically Southern accent is closer to Elizabethan English.
Rebecca Carraway I have heard that statement before but I just cannot see it.
You are correct. Appalachian English is very close to Shakespeare, because it did not succumb to influences by outsiders coming into the area.
@@rjaxx-ym9gp Well, some accents, yes, but there are many accents in Louisiana, so that depends on which one you mean.
Tennessee here! Love watching y’all! I swear I was born in the wrong country cause I L O V E England. I’m thrilled to know you love us southerners though. I’m planning a trip for after “Coronaggeddon” and have been a little nervous about how my accent will be accepted.
I’m loving this video cause it’s so accurate!Alabama here and we love y’all!
Me too!
14:32 - Saying "Yes, girl" wouldn't work because saying "Yes, boy" to men is considered very rude, especially if they're black.
The use of boy is very degrading.
This is based on how you where raised. For example my parents still stay boys in the front girls in the back when we are using the same car and we are all GROWN married ADULTS! We say you boys and us girls all the time, but we understand the word boy in some families are considered insulting once a male becomes an adult.
As a grown ass woman, I hate being called girl by anyone except my friends!
Nicknames seem to confuse many non-Southerners. When I was a child, "bless your heart" was a sincere expression of sympathy. Somewhere along the way, it changed..... I also prefer unsweetened tea, but at family gatherings, the tea will definitely be cold and sweet.
Wynn Hildreth It’s all relative to the situation...Could be an endearment or an insult. Lol
I use it both ways to be honest......and I only use it as an insult when it really has made me mad.
Wynn Hildreth:. When I was kid back in the 70's we used to drink tea. It was not called "sweet tea", just tea. And since it was the south if you ordered tea it was going to come with some ice in it. Somewhere in the 80's I heard people saying that in the north they would give you unsweetened cold tea and you had to put the sugar in yourself. In the south the sugar would already be in the tea. Then I started to hear people talking about the "sweet tea" and that was a whole different thing than I was used to. That tea was way too sweet. It tasted like sugar water and that's the kind of tea you now get in most southern restaurants. People seem to like it but whenever I order some I tell then to give me half sweet tea to half unsweetened tea. I'm a southerner born and raised but never knew about "sweet tea" until I was in my twenties.
"you two are metal" Chicken and biscuits along with chicken and waffles are life...
There is a problem where they keep thinking that scones and biscuits are the same thing. They are similar, but the recipe is different.
I am not a chicken and biscuit fan either. Sausage and biscuit is much better.
My cousin in California says she gets a kick out of me saying y’all. I do it constantly.
I walked into a Hardee’s in NC with a pistol appendix open carry and the cashier was all about “girl whatchu got!! I got a glock!! Where u shoot at?” ♥️ Bet I wouldn’t get that same response up north. 🤷🏼♀️
Love it! 🤣
Where I'm from in South Florida, the more north you go (within Florida) the more southern it is.
Absolutely true
True statement. Northwest Florida, in the panhandle, is just an extension of south Alabama.
You need to try a full on southern style breakfast.
I'm half tempted to dislike this comment for making me hungry lol
When someone is bragging just reply, "My, my, how nice".
The sentence that begins “His heart’s in the right place” ends with “but his head is all effed up.”
I'm glad some of yall are appreciative of our Southern culture. A lot of people like to make fun of us rather than say anything positive. Its life I guess
Its clear that Joel is just so honest, what you see is what you get. And Lia ( my crush!!) is wonderful at explaining things in a way that even i can get it lol...Great team love you guys
We often say " Bless your Heart " ! Hey Y'all from North Carolina !
Hello ! From Spartanburg County South Carolina . Where are you ?
Charlotte, by way of Southern Alabama.
Beverly Hill same here in North California
Hey y'all from Clayton, NC!
"Ma'am" is short for "Madam" It does not mean Mother.
It is a sign of respect
@@muchado1290 or a sign of disrespect if you're being sarcastic and calling a younger woman ma'am.
Madam is if you are married and mademoiselle (or Miss actually) if you are a single lady. Lia is old enough to have been already married by now but since she doesn't have a wedding band, she should be called Miss (or Ms. nowadays).
qpwillie You get miss if you look quite young. Ma'am probably from mid 20s to up or if you're clearly older than talker. I was totally bummed when I switched from being called miss to ma'am as it's a bit aging 😅
@@evangregory14 my husband's uncle calls me ma'am 😂 we are very southern though
According to linguist southern accent Is a form of a British accent from along time ago I seen this thing where they had a Shakespeares voice read a poem and a southern voice read a poem it was so similar
I’m from Dallas and worked in commercial real estate for a company based in New York City. The Northeastern guys loved coming to Dallas and, believe me, they loved the way the women looked and talked here.
🥺 This gave me all the feels. Thank you guys for this. I love y’all so much! 🥰 I’m a Mississippi girl, born and raised. College football is it’s own religion. If you told Southern people that staying home for 7 days would save football, all the streets would empty and corona would be gone. The way we speak is because our words are sweet and we LOOOOVE to taste em. 😁 ❤️ I’m thinking of starting the accent challenge back up. 😂
I would join your channel. Roll Tide Roll!!!
Iced tea is a necessity in the south. It's simply too hot during spring to early fall to have a hot drink.
And American biscuits are savory, not sweet. Nor are they that much like scones. They're served with chicken as a non-yeast bread side.
Fresh hot scratch biscuits are also an alternative to toast for breakfast, and for breakfast sandwiches with egg and sausage or bacon. A lot of people cover them with gravy (particularly sausage gravy), but I've never understood that personally, as I can't stand soggy bread.
Southerners are the best multi-taskers I've EVER seen.
efficient!
Can you give examples? 🤣 I’m just curious as to what this means. Lol
Ya all were really good in this video! Nice banter! Brought happiness into my day!
9:00 You should eat your chicken & biscuits with peppers for an amazing flavor combination -- and try the honey mustard sauce on top of that.
Born and raised in Alabama. I am 2 minutes in and shook at Lia's southern accent. You go, sugar!
I love the south! The food, history, culture, it's beautiful. Go to Charleston, SC and Jekyll Island, GA. I live in Nashville, TN, and TN is an amazing state. So much good has come out of TN.
I live close to Brunswick and the Golden Isles of Georgia
@@stephensandiford3981 It's all so amazing over that way. I'm thankful I got to visit last year.
Unfortunately Charleston is on lockdown right now. Unlike most of SC. But yes Charleston rocks! But New Orleans probably has the best food.
@Chad - I love Tennessee. I went to school outside of Chattanooga, and it has gotten more beautiful since I was there!
Texan, here, several years ago, my family took a big trip to Tennessee and I LOVED y'all's Smokey Mountains. My dad was US Air Force and so my childhood was spent in cold places, and prior to my dad leaving the military, we lived in Colorado, and if there's one thing I did miss about CO, it was the Mountains so seeing Tennessee's mountains made me emotional. As much as I love Texas, my area has no mountains. Closest thing we have is the Texas Hill Country in my area. My fav place while in Tennessee was the Memphis Zoo, best Zoo I've ever been too. They did an awesome job with all the exhibits!
Me: a Floridian clicking on this video to have my ego get bigger
@@nigelmarvin1387, I'm from South Florida and unmistakably a Southerner. Actual Floridians can tell you what they are as well as anybody.
@@nigelmarvin1387 Depends on what part of South Florida. I mean hard to think of Okeechobee or Pahokee as Northern.
Florida is in the southern part of the US but it's definitely not the South.
I've watched 5:00 in. I'm hoping "bless your heart" is on here. Its a great compliment/insult that always leaves folks wondering which direction it's intended to be applied.
I'm from the upper Midwest, and I love iced tea, but not sweet tea. I can't handle all of the sugar. It is no longer refreshing then.
Old school Southerners are less likely to use "bless your heart" as an insult. I'm not saying never, but if my mother ever said it, I promise it was genuine!
I agree.......my momma and daddy are in their 80s and I have never heard them use that phrase other than genuinely feeling sorry for someone.
Down South someone you like has a problem you say “Bless Your Heart” and to someone who is ANNOYING you can say “Bless your Heart” with a little more inflection. One is nice ,one is an insult.
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Who and where the hell in the south do they use it as an insult? 30 years in Arkansas and I have never heard it said in that way, Its actually only said here when people are going through a tough time. Someone will say my house burnt down then people say bless your heart. I dont know where in the south they use it like that, Maybe Texas not here.
The apostrophe is placed incorrectly. "Y'all" is a contraction of "you all."
Agree... pet peeve of mine! Should be y'all!
Actually it is "ye all". It goes a long way back. Y'all is a form of Ye All. (Elizabethan)
5:50 The thing about school spirit is because the US is so large that the pro teams are very spread out. It's usually easier to get to a local college game than to get to a pro game, because colleges are everywhere.
"There will never be another Queen in our lifetime......" *mic drop* whoah--never thought about that!!!!! Jo-well with the hard-hitting deep thoughts!
School spirit is not just a 'Southern Thang'!! It exists throughout every town, city and State of The U S of A
Barbara Everly , but it's on roids in the South! It's truly a religion
Candice Scott I currently live in the South, but spent my youth in the North, lived in the East and the majority of my life in the West. I can assure you, spirit is epic everywhere in the USA
Candice Scott My friend you clearly don’t know Ohio State. Before our games against Michigan we cross out all the M’s on EVERY sign at OSU buildings with scarlet tape.
I've attended games from upstate New York, Texas to LA. And if going by tailgate parties alone, Ole Miss' The Grove, in Oxford, Ms is ranked No. 1 in the country. I'm currently living on the coast of Alabama, needless to say, this is the most rabid fanatics I've ever been around, I'm surrounded by Bama, LSU & Auburn fans. On game day it's like running a gauntlet, not being a supporter of any of the 3.
Yeeeaaah...if you haven’t seen how Midland-Odessa, TX does high school football, you really have no clue.
I have had a southerner say "bless your heart" and actually mean it when I was in mourning, but I have seen the southerners in the comments here say it's usually used sarcastically.
If it was said to you in mourning, it was genuine, I promise you. No self respecting southerner would ever say that being mean to someone that is grieving.
@@sofeckingtiredofwokepeople I agree.... from NC
@@donnaregister6141 we are neighbors! Lol I live in Tennessee
@@sofeckingtiredofwokepeople And we're all neighbors, im from VA
It's all about tone and context.
I live in Georgia and go to University of Georgia football games all the time. Our stadium seats around 93,000 and it always sells out.
One reason college sports are so supporting in the south is because the region didn't have any professional sports times until the 1960s. So if you wanted to go to a sporting event college was your only option. Generations of families pass on this fandom so even though the region has pro sports teams now for many people their first loyalty is still to their favorite college
yhctower Go Dawgs! Sic ‘em!
Go Dawgs!!!!
Also in the south for a greeting we say like " What's goin on? "...and " What's happenin? "...i'm from Texas😂👍
I love that you are regarding what you’re going to say to the queen! So sweet!!
Sorry “rehearsing”
every state in the "south" has its own accent similar but different. Even within the state can be different. There's high society southern to backwoods, a wide range
@DonProctor - Very true! I am from S.C., and I love hearing the variety of Southern accents when people relocate here! Even in my own state, there are variations among the natives!
Definitely true in Texas. It's not always the case, but I tell people you're more likely to hear a thicker Texan accent in the north part of it then in the Southern part. I think in Southern and Western Texan it's more culturally diverse because of the Mexican influences and other cultures so maybe that's why?
Facts, and Louisiana Cajun and creole is gonna blow their minds when/if they hear it 😂😂
@@1984msmocha Onie shonuff
River people are different from normal Tennesseans.
"Ma'am" is a shortened version of madam or madame; used like "Yes, Sir or yes, sir for a man and you simple substitute ma'am for a female. It is a show of respect. Similar things in other countries, including yours (i.e. M'lady, yes, mum, etc.).
Yes sir is a short for yes monsiour
Yes, Miss might be appropriate for a girl or younger woman.
M'lady!? What? Never, since about 1700. Mum is your mother. If you are being very, very formal you might say Mr or Mrs. This is sometimes taken as an insult (False politeness.) or a single woman is not a Mrs.
@@simonpowell2559 In the south we use Miss to address women of all ages regardless of their age or marital staus. That's just good manners down here .
Victor Waddell Umm... I thought that was "Miz", which seems similar to the address invitation "Ms."
I think that one of the reasons Americans often complain about the service in Europe is that we're used to servers hustling for tips. Of course there's no reason for European servers to provide exceptional service in pursuit of tips so they merely provide adequate service -- which Americans see as poor in comparison to what we're used to.
Lyle G Also in general, European society is more laidback and having a long dinner is part of that. It is not uncommon to spend at least a couple hours at a restaurant just from eating and making conversation and they can often last longer than that as well.
From South Carolina, and I love ALL y'all, which is a much larger number than just y'all. All y'all in Great Britain are fabulous. Y'all is a usually a smaller gathering of family/friends. At least, in my world. Carry on!
My daughter went to the University of Michigan (we're from southern CA). Every single game is sold out. It's huge. She lived near the stadium, and people were walking by their home with the U of M colored sweatshirts, blankets, stocking caps, etc. for every game. It's craziness! And, such a fun atmosphere. It's a real traditional college town. Nothing like that in So. California, as it's so spread out and more commuter oriented. I love the mid west and college football. It's huge!
"Bless your heart"....another statement only heard south of the Mason-Dixon line, proud to be Southern!
The Mason-Dixon Line is the border between PA and MD, hardly south.
@@robertewalt7789 the Mason Dixon line has been the border between north and south for 150+ years. It's not necessarily the "deep South" but it's the south
If someone says to you during a spat in the south, "your so pretty", it is not a complement.
I was told once that the southern accent is influenced influenced by the British accent. I'm not sure about the accuracy of this information, but it's what I was told.
Vena Newton, you are correct. That's why, in my humble opinion, Brits are the only one who can pull off a Southern accent without it sounding phony.
It's true! I studied accents and dialects in college. The current southern accent is the closest accent (currently) to what the British accent was when they colonized the states. Often people don't realize that accents don't just vary from place to place, but they also change over time. Many southern accents are also heavily influenced by Scottish accents.
Vena Newton yup.
Some of the words are older English. My family still uses the word counterpane (pronounced counterpen) for bed spread.
British, Scottish, and Irish accents are the roots of the Southern accents in the US. Some places in Appalachia are an almost exact match to lowland Scottish brogues for the 19th century.
When gravy is a beverage, you may be southern.
aww thanks!!! I think Southerners are the nicest too.. being one of them 😍
Speaking of Brits saying y'all, one of my old bosses was from south London with that VERY strong accent and it cracked me up to hear him say y'all
The reason for the popularity of college sports in the US, especially in the South and especially with football is because these rivalries go back more than 100 years. Some of these rivalries are in-state, e.g. Auburn vs. Alabama, and some are border rivalries, e.g. Georgia vs. Florida. In college sports you have decades of tradition, incredible bands, and pageantry. Professional sports, the NFL in particular, has nothing comparable and is much younger. By the time professional sports arrived, sports traditions and loyalties had already been established within college sports. And yes, college sports is more popular than professional sports which is why college stadiums are bigger than NFL stadiums. Go Vols!!!
Memphis State vs Ole Miss !!!
The best thing in America to call most women when being courteous, is miss.
Not in the South. Lol. We just call everyone ma'am or sir, regardless of age. We do call people Miss and Mister, as in "Miss Linda" or "Mister Carl", but only if they're our elders.
@@LaurinGuad exactly! The only time I call anyone miss is an elderly woman, followed by her first name. I.e. Miss Elaine, or Miss Sandra......even though we know they are matrons, that is our sign of respect. Everyone else is ma'am or sir. Lol
Don't EVER call a female over the age of 13 "Miss" (without a name following); many adult women find it sexist and demeaning. Also "missus".
@@webwarren ah good point. To clarify, I just meant, when you need to get someone's attention for the first time and you presume they are a woman, it's good practice to say "miss?" Instead of ma'am. Never say miss or ma'am or honey or sugar or sweetheart in the middle of conversation.
Like, if a woman has toilet paper on her shoe, that's when you say "miss?"
@@laffingist218 I'll usually just say, "Excuse me, you might want to check your shoe". I do use ma'am if the woman appears to be over 30, 35 (the age at which, in French, an unknown woman is called "madame" instead of "mademoiselle") - but in this day and age of ambiguous gender, it's safer to just say "hey, you!"
As far as the Queen is concerned I feel most southerners would show her proper respect and still refer to her as Her or your Majesty when speaking with her, if ever having the opportunity.
A long time ago when i met her. I said "Your Majesty, Hi! I just wanted to say hi and welcome to San Antonio (Texas)." I said "Hi sir" to her husband. She was so nice and not freaked at all. The situation wasn't the best but it turned out ok. She has a lot of class.
If you like southerners you must like me, you can't get more southern than Australia..
My dad was from Kentucky, manners when talking to, or addressing a person, they teach the kids, "Say hi to Mr. Joel and Miss Lia," which I love and still use, except for close friends and family.
Yessssss! My kids are grown and their childhood friends still call me Miss *******.