# What are your regional "vocal tics"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-regional-vocal-tics/807956 "2018-02-01T16:34:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-regional-vocal-tics/807956/141 "2018-02-13T22:47:15Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Ending a proposal or question with _pues_ (then) is very typical of Pamplona. It can get chained after _o qué_ (or what). _¿Nos vamos o qué, pues?_ Are we leaving or what, then? I seem to hear Entonces like that too? Is it like the English, “So, …”?? ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-regional-vocal-tics/807956/142 "2018-02-13T22:59:42Z")
My co-worker once called me out for saying I was going to North Georgia or North Alabama like they were distinct states. “We’re in Atlanta, doesn’t that count as North Georgia? Do they have North Georgia drivers licenses?” Um no, there aren’t any cabins in Atlanta, sheesh. OK now that I think of it we also have West Georgia and South Georgia, but this geographically odd state has no East nor Central area. Anyone who has ever driven there would probably agree. ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-regional-vocal-tics/807956/143 "2018-02-13T23:30:25Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Way back when my hometown started getting exchange high school students from the US we had to learn to explain that yes, it’s normal for a waiter or retail worker to call you “love”, “pretty one”, “sweetheart” - nowadays I would explain it as being “like Southerners calling everybody ‘honey’, but in Spanish.” It’s just a substitution filler for a place where your name would go if the speaker happened to know it. We are doing the same thing and didn’t even know it! What a way to promote unity!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Grumbacher\_Red](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Grumbacher\_Red](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumbacher_Red)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-regional-vocal-tics/807956/144 "2018-02-13T23:42:16Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > My co-worker once called me out for saying I was going to North Georgia or North Alabama like they were distinct states. “We’re in Atlanta, doesn’t that count as North Georgia? Do they have North Georgia drivers licenses?” Um no, there aren’t any cabins in Atlanta, sheesh. > > OK now that I think of it we also have West Georgia and South Georgia, but this geographically odd state has no East nor Central area. Anyone who has ever driven there would probably agree. Yep. Georgia’s got a little bitty biyt o’ evrthin! 😛 You have to say North Georgia when going up from Savannah. I always do! We go to Blue Ridge a couple times a year and Gilmer/Fannin counties are definitely their own thing. South Georgia is just the whole bottom half of flat-ish farmland which bleeds into North Florida and is essentially the same. Jacksonville might as well be in South Georgia. You don’t say East Georgia because that is the Lowcountry, silly. 😉 Older writings refer to Lowcountry and Upcountry in Georgia. Upcountry not being a term that is used anymore because that is where Atlanta is sprawling all over and you are hard-pressed to find a genuine Southern accent anymore. The Lowcountry was refined, elegant, old-moneyed families and they rolled their eyes and turned their noses all the way towards the sky when discussing the Upcountry, which was rough, untamed and wild. Maybe it still is that way. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2018, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-regional-vocal-tics/807956/145 "2018-02-13T23:46:57Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > \ Are we leaving or what, then? \ I didn’t know Spain was in Alabama! :D:D ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-regional-vocal-tics/807956/146 "2018-02-14T01:59:58Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > Appalachian speak is a little different from Southern speak. > > Whereas a southerner might say “Y’all goin’ to the store?” a mountain person would say “Ere yew-uns goin’ to the store?” > > My western NC side of the family would say “They lawd” when hearing bad news, which is the Appalachian sound for “The Lord,” short for “The Lord have mercy.” I grew up in East Tennessee; I lived there from 1964-1993. I ain’t heard yew-uns anywhere besides the Beverly Hillbillies. Maybe it’s a strictly Western NC tic? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-regional-vocal-tics/807956.md?page=7)