# Let'm know how y'all tawk **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 22, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811 "2003-02-22T18:27:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/61 "2003-02-24T23:34:49Z")
**Skelji** , I’ve heard that “dope” is an old Southern expression for coke (uh, coke as in soft drink, not as in cocaine), but I’ve never actually heard it used. How would you pronounce Mary, marry, and merry differently? I say them all the same way. ---
**Author:** ![tanookie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@tanookie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanookie)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/62 "2003-02-24T23:38:48Z")
Mary “mare + ee” (long a like care) Marry “mar + ee” (the a sound in tarry or parry) Merry “meh + ree” (the e sound in berry) ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2003, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/63 "2003-02-24T23:59:56Z")
My first thread to go to two pages! I’m so proud. I asked **Bluesman** about the raining-while-the-sun-is-shining thing, and he said he’d always heard it as “The devil is kissing his wife.” He spent up 'till age 12 in Tennessee, and then moved to Texas. I guess they had nicer devils there. ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/64 "2003-02-25T00:15:19Z")
The frappe/milkshake thing makes me wonder - what on earth do you call a milkshake in the rest of the country? Do you poor bastards have to do without? I prefer frappes, but I like to know that I have an alternative. Mmmmm… black raspberry frappe… ah… ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/65 "2003-02-25T00:28:47Z")
the drink you call a milkshake is something I’ve never even heard of in my 31 years of life. Unless chocolate milk counts. ---
**Author:** ![raisinbread](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8491ac/32.png) [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/66 "2003-02-25T00:47:01Z")
I call them phosphates! None of this newfangled “cokes” or “sodypops” or “sodas” or “pops”!!! The latter two being whatcha take when yer gut’s all riled up and the other one bein’ yer pops dadgumit. Now git outta mah beans afore ah shoots ya. I am disappointed in the quiz because it didn’t have something like “You say you’re from here but your dialect says you’re from here” or “Yeah, your dialect’s from the same place you hail from”. What really got me were the “anymore” questions. Who the hell talks like that? And my answer for the person who cuts across two lanes on a highway: asshole. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/67 "2003-02-25T01:05:20Z")
* * * ## Originally posted by jackelope “Whipping shitties”? Okay, I don’t say this myself but…have you ever called doing a U-turn “flipping a bitch”? Well I’ve heard people instead of saying “flip a bitch!”, say “Quick! Pull a shitty!” Cracks me up just thinking about it! ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/68 "2003-02-25T01:52:21Z")
Oh and do you get the results in the mail or what? Or are you just supposed to look at the maps? ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811/69 "2003-02-25T02:00:19Z")
You take the survey, and then compare your answers to the map. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/letm-know-how-yall-tawk/156811.md?page=3)