You Might Be Southern If… You Understand These 14 Expressions

It all started when a co-worker, who's not originally from here, asked if I had gotten any rain the other night.

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When I told her that we had a "frog strangler", she spewed coffee out of her nose as she laughed.

Evidently that was the first time she'd ever heard that expression. Course, anyone from below the Mason-Dixon line wouldn't have thought anything of that little colloquial example. They would have totally understood that we got a drenching rain.

This type of exchange happens a lot around here. When people from other parts of the world are here visiting or have transferred here because of a job, there's commonly a slight language barrier. They talk funny don't they? And they think we are the ones with an accent.

They are in for a shock when they show up at the Pearly Gates and the Good Lord says, "Hey ya'll. We been waitin' on ya. Jeet yet?"

Course, here in the South, we have certain expressions that are unique to our area. They were born in us. Our grandparents used them and their grandparents used them. It's a Southern thing you know.

To that point, we have listed a number of those expressions that immediately let you know when you hear them, that person is from the South!