Southern words

These common Southern sayings, expressions, and slang will have you grinning like a possum eating a sweet potato with all the charm and wit the South is known for!

My dad always said; " A lady is as a lady does especially her verbage "! I'm proud to have been raised southern!

Can't understand southern vernacular? Check out my Southern Writer's Dictionary to decipher our words! :P

Or a whatchamacallit and doomaflitchy

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“Yep. Pretty much sums up the south! #southernbelleprobz”

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