Alabama, Ladies and Gentlemen!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Alabama doesn't truck with kings. Give them liberty or give them death. Don't tread on them. They dare defend their rights. That's the state motto, in fact: "We dare defend our rights."

Audemus jura nostra defendere, motherfuckers.

[Dalty]

Could any of them spell their rights? Just so they know what they are defending??

[Mal Shot First]

Spell them? Most of them probably couldn't even list all of their rights.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Here's some Alabama-specific lingo for you, if you want some:

"Spell them" can also be used as a command to mean "Give them a break/some respite."

[Dalty]

I like it! Teach me more Southern.

[Corporal_Hicks]

What would you like to know?

[Dalty]

Teach me....... everything!

[Corporal_Hicks]

What would you like to know?

[Dalty]

Do grits really exist? And if so, what are they really?

[Space Tycoon]

I think they're like hash browns.

Also, in Canada Liberal Party politicians are referred to as "Grits." Conservatives are "Tories."

[Dalty]

I have seen My Cousin Vinny and so far that is my only exposure to them.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Grits are (usually) just crushed up hominy corn. If you've had polenta, you've essentially had shaped, slightly dried grits.

Here's a few terms off the top of my head (some of these might not be exclusive to the Deep South, but I've heard them there more often than I've heard them elsewhere):

poke
grocery bag

buggy
shopping cart

wrench
rinse

Lagniappe
a little something extra to go along with a purchase (This one's not that common in Northern Alabama. It's mostly used in Mobile and Coastal Alabama. I think it came to us by way of the Louisiana Creoles.)

cattywampus
catercorner; diagonal to; slightly askew/off-center

druthers
way/preferences (This one's usually used as part of a "Had I my druthers . . . "/"If I had my druthers . . . " construction.)

hankering for
strong desire for (usually food-related)

scooch
move over slightly. (This is often given as a single-word command. I use this one a good bit with Jubboiter.)

lick
1.) small amount (A person might not have a "lick" of sense. Someone might claim not to have gotten a "lick" done at work.)
2.) a forceful blow, as with a fist or belt (My mother would often tell me how many licks I was going to get before she began to beat me with the belt. She would sometimes have me count them off.)

tick
smallest marked measurement on any scale (If an inch on a ruler was broken up into eighths, one-eighth of an inch would be a tick. If an inch on a ruler was broken up into sixteenths, one-sixteenth of an inch would be a tick.)

US Southerners use "mash" a lot more than most English speakers. It's used where most people would say "press" or "push."

We call this a "hand truck" in the South. Jubbers used to give me shit for it and say it was supposed to be called a "dolly," but apparently "hand truck" is common enough for "hand truck" to be the term chosen for the item's Wikipedia page.

It's been called a "dolly" by pretty much every Missourian I've met. Maybe, in this one instance, the Missourians are the odd ones.

You probably already know about things like "fixing to" as a replacement for "preparing to"/"on my way to." You probably also know about how some people in the Deep South say they're going to "carry" you in instances where most people would say they're going to "drive"/"transport" you to a place. (There's actual etymological sense behind saying "carry" in this context. I may have already gotten into this on one of our boards. It comes to us by way of the Anglo-French carier, which meant "to transport by vehicle/carriage." It's an antiquated usage, sure, but you may be made to come off as foolish if you try to correct or humiliate the man who offers to carry you to the airport.)

There's "y'all." Everyone knows that one. There's the thing where every carbonated beverage is a "Coke." That's another one I feel everybody already knows about. Same goes for Southerners' frequent use of "reckon." (I've never looked into it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it and the German word "rechnen" have a common ancestor.)

[Dalty]

Hankering, Scooch and Tick are all common UK phrases meaning pretty much the same. I always took Tick to be so called as it usually means a very short period of time, like 1 second or 1 tick of the clock. E.g. "Hang on a tick, I am nearly ready."

We Mash potatoes too. And Mash Up choons on the decks!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Everybody mashes potatoes in the US. It's the Deep South's use of "mash" to mean "push" or "press" that's less common in the US. (Southerners almost always "mash" the doorbell, for example.)

I'm not surprised that Brits use hankering, scooch, and tick similarly. (By the way, I also meant to draw the clock connection. It slipped my mind. Thanks!) The UK is almost certainly where we got some of these things from. Since much of the Deep South is rural, and since it has traditionally stayed cordoned off from the greater US, we've likely retained some of the Old World words and turns of phrases given up on by the rest of the US.

[Dalty]

We also mash swedes, carrots and turnip. Baldrick lives!!!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Do you mash zits? Deep Southerners mash zits. They sometimes call them "bumps." If you hear someone from Alabama mention mashing a bump, you now know what that person means.

[Dalty]

We pull pork??

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

Didn't the pulling of pork start in the US?

[Dalty]

You pull your own damn pork! Coming over here, pulling our pork!

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

If I'm gonna pull your pork, I'm gonna have to come over. For me to be able to pull your pork from all the way over here, you'd need to be a pretty long pig.

I don't think I'm going to be able to make the trip, truth be told. Maybe it's for the best. Long pig's illegal, anyway.

[Mal Shot First]

You sure made the trip for that joke, though.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

It was a bit of a reach-around. All the way back to my own cock, even.

[Dalty]

I don't get it.

[The Swollen Goiter of God]

There's nothing to get.

[Mal Shot First]

I think the trouble is that he may not be familiar with the term "long pig."