I love the state of Texas and all the wonderful people and the accent, but I grew up in Virginia and it's not super common, and mostly older folks who say it, but ya'll and fixin' to are both used.
I’m an elementary school teacher in Dallas and one year I had a little girl in my class who was a refugee from Yemen. She didn’t know a word of English when she came to our school, but I worked with her alongside a language instructor, and by the end of the year she could converse pretty well. I knew she would always carry her Texas influence though, when I first heard her read the word “cat” “cayat,” and “man,” “mayan.” Her true shining moment was when she dropped something on the floor and said, “dadgumit.” I knew my work was done then. 😂
My grandfather used to have a wooden coin. On this coin were the letters TUIT. He asked me if I knew what it was? I was a kid so of course I said no. He just looked at me and said that's "a round tuit."
I don't think that's unique to Texas though? I'm from Texas so I guess I might just not know, but I swear a lot of these phrases being thrown around are just general American English (may not even be exclusive to America).
Yep ! Same here . I'm from UK and found Texas ( and the South ) is last bastion of good manners and general kindness to strangers - and that is regardless if they're black or white ! Also for boxing fans Texas was home to George Foreman and late great Cleveland Williams ( RIP ) and Roy Harris of Cut' N Shoot !!
Born and raised in Texas and in my family anything can be a "thang". Like "Hand me that thang over there!" While pointing to whatever item I need at that point in time. And whoever I'm talk'n to knows exactly what I mean.
Did a few semesters of high school in Michigan and had to ezplain the "coke" situation after eecieving a coke instead of DP. And always thought it was just a Southern thing til I went out to Tennessee and noticed that we really are our own thang
Callan Tyran my mom gets mad at me cause she does that and she only likes Dr Pepper and she calls them cokes and I grab a coke and it pisses her off I do it on purpose
Bless your heart. Not an endearment, but feeling sorry for someone. She didn’t understand when you said fixing to. She’s from the North, bless her heart.
our crazy cousins next door. the only ones allowed to pick on each other are Okies, Texas boys, and Louisiana boys. anyone else is just another yankee bout to get a whoopin.
That's hilarious. The only one I don't recall ever hearing was the All Hat and No Cattle, but the rest are spot on. Course, I'm from the Dallas/Fort Worth area, so... I hear this alot, "if it were a snake, it would have bit me!" another phrase is, "Gon' git!" when you tell someone or something to get lost. Gon' git.
Ayyyy 817,972 Funky Town,AggTown to Big B,plus we still say stuff like calling Jordan's "Tennis shoes",a refrigerator is also a "icebox",shooda,cooda,wooda,that dog dont hunt. And many mo
I lived in Romania for many years and I taught English to Romanians. I always prefaced my classes by telling them I would be teaching them very proper English, but distinctly Texan. There are some Romanians running around there calling people y'all, and fixin' to get ready, and might could cook dinner and then, "do what?"
@@strellasmith777 you made my day. Thank you so much. I have wonderful memories of that time and those fabulous children and their love of learning American English, especially from Texas! Outside of the United States, Texas seems like a mythical place and they had so much fun learning Texas English.
I'm a 6th Generation Texan (genealogy is my hobby). I worked in a grocery store during college. One time a woman asked me "where's your pop". I said "I guess at home" I thought she knew my Dad LOL
4th generation Texan here. You forgot "reckon", as in I reckon so. It means you agree, or it makes sense. "Howdy", or in my part of TX, "Hey howdy". A greeting. And "git" means move along. My Dad used to say "ov' air" for over there or sometimes "yonder". We also add your horse to any insult. As in "screw you and the horse you road in on".
I have never been more confused than when I ordered a diet coke in Texas and they asked me what kind of coke and started naming off completely different sodas.
One coulda walked in any restaurant, or shall I restraunt, order a Coke and the server would ask "What kind?," to which the answer was one of two, "Dr Pepper," or "Big Red, if y'all gotit. "
When I meet someone and ask, "Y'all doin' OK?" I am, of course, asking about that individual and his family. If I ask a clerk in a hardware store "Y'all have any masonry nails? I am, of course, referring to the store in a plural collective sense, not addressing the clerk as an individual who doesn't literally "have" anything the store sells.
Born and raised in Texas... grew up saying caint (for can't), yella (for yellow), warsh (for wash), seer-ul (for cereal)...and Waterburger (for Whataburger)...something my granny passed down to me...lol😊😊😊
I'm born and raised in Vegas and I have been saying most of these all my life! 😂 one thing I do notice that I seen in any videos is how often Texans refer to a lot of things as "deals" like "hey can you help me with this deal over here"
Thanks for the info, I would love to visit Texas one day - seems like an amazing and friendly place and so diverse! Best wishes to Texas (and the USA!) from a Scottish lassie :)
I visited Scotland. The Scottish people loved Texans. Texans loved them. I think it is because both Texans and Scots are very independent and somewhat “separate” from their larger united country/kingdom.
Speaking as a southerner, I think Scottish accents are the best! I also, like many other North Carolinians, have many Scottish ancestors. My great great grandfather came over from Scotland. 😊
Not from Texas, never been to Texas... and yet, that all made sense to me... DUN DUN DUNNN!!! 😉 🤣 I'm from Suffolk, England where we also have "a way with words" including but not limited to... these exact phrases or some kind of variation on them. But they were all understood and made sense to me 👍👍
We use some of those expressions here in Australia, “I wouldn’t trust someone as far as I could throw them”, “more bark than bite”, and in Melbourne we say, “if you don’t like the weather, ,just wait a few minutes “.
The similarities are striking. Texans and Aussies have much the same attitudes. And if you have either as a friend you should thank your lucky stars. Both will go to the wall for you.
While on a trip, I was joking with a southern sounding woman about being called a "Yankee" in Texas. She said, "Don't feel bad honey, I'm from South Carolina, and they called me a Yankee too!"
I love the double modal "might could." How about double nouns, which I have heard since forever: tuna fish, bunny rabbit, hedge bush, puppy dog, you get the idea.
All of those phrases are pretty well known to just about anyone from anywhere in the south, not just Texas. Also, “someone hold my beer and y’all watch this” are often that individuals final words.
I moved to Uston in 1981 from Upstate NY. Quickly learned its Houston. :) Proud to be Texan ever since up in Georgetown where all y'all might could share a Coke with us!
“I used-ta-could drink a whole 12 pack but now I CAINT****” 😂😂 I don’t know if that’s Texan but my whole family says caint instead of cant 😂 howdy and blessings from Houston partner🤠
Great list! I’m sixth (maybe seventh) generation Texan, and we have four generations of Aggies in the family (but that’s another list for Aggie talk). Here’s a breakdown in my family for “y’all”: Y’all=one person Both’a y’all=two people All’a y’all=three or more people “Both’a y’all go to the store or all’a y’all won’t have nuffin’ to eat! Dr (no period) Pepper is the only soft drink not a coke. Also, because I grew up in Corpus (don’t add Christi unless you’re a d*$m yankee), I like to drink my Dr Pepper at Waterburger, then go across the street to shop at H-E-B for y’all’s Bar-B-Q.
Lived here for 59 years and the og poster was correct: It's always coke. Coke is synonymous with any and all soda. "I'm going to the store to get a coke, what kind do you want?"
Born and raised in Texas. I hate it when other people come visit here and say "y'all" as a singular phrase!!! It should NEVER be used as singular. It has always been plural! People get that mixed up all the time. Grating!
Howdy!!!!! Loved the vídeo. I am a Texan living in Brazil and this really made me feel back home. My students are always asking me to talk about Texas, so you are definitely going to get viewers here. Thanks so much.
I know this 5 years old but should do a part 2 of this. You missed some really common ones like “Riding shotgun.” - Riding passenger next to the driver “Dig in your heels.” - Take a tough stance “To mend fences.” - To make peace with someone you have a disagreement with “Hold your horses.” - Wait a minute. “I’m on the fence about it.” Being undecided When there is heavy traffic saying - “Somebody left the gate open down there.” “Take the bull by the horns” - Face your troubles head on. “I wouldn’t bet the ranch on it.” - Something that probably won't happen “Don’t have a cow!” - Don't over react Calling someone a “Maverick” - They are nonconforming or won't do as everyone else does “Till the cows come home.” - A very long time "Bless your heart" - Polite way we Texans use to insult someone You mentioned "Y'all" but what about "All Y'all" - Y'all referring to a few people and All Y'all referring to a large group of people lol! And last but not least my favorite Saying something is “BS” or "BullShit" - It's nonsense P.S. How could you forget these? "Howdy" - Texans way of saying hello "Over Yonder" - An undetermined distance, usually over where a person is pointing
No "all y'all"? That was my favorite one in Virginia. We said "y'all" for you all, but an even more inclusive one or one to say to a bigger group is "all y'all."
HAHAHA I am laffing because this reminds me of my guy friend who is an Alabama native, but has no discernible Southern accent. He went to work in some mid-Atlantic city where one day, he said that he was fixin' to take his break. An office worker giggled and said, "How do you fix to do something?" She had never until that day heard that term! 🤣
Those phrases operate statewide. I’m from El Paso and my good buddy is from Papalote, in Bee County, which is, unsurprisingly, somewhere east of El Paso. You have our mode of communication down pat, except that we frequently sprinkle in Spanish for flavoring.
Awesome Dimebag Darrell drawing. Also, some of my Californian friends doesn't understand that some of those phrases used in this video are mainly from Texas. They believe I adapted from certain areas in Los Angeles but I'm over here thinking, "Y'all don't even know what your sayin'". Anyway, proud Texan and proud of my roots!
How did you leave out the most misunderstood Texas phrase... “bless your heart” Us northerners assume y’all are being sweet when it’s said... I know better now 😒😂
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha Ooooooh I’m Texan and I’ve heard it in nice ways and in well what you mean I’m cracking up!! What’d you do to make ‘em tell you that! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha I’m laughing so hard right now!
It really depends on the context of the situation. If you see someone crying because their bf/gf broke up with them and you’re trying to console them then you could give them a hug and say, bless your heart. You’ll know when it’s meant to be a negative 😉
I'm from Texas phrases I heard "You heard" "Giggem" "Sickem" "Wreckem" "Yonder over there" "Reelem" Whachay talkin about!". This one is much rare to hear "You say" "Do say" Sometimes when I'm surprise I catch myself say "Really!" I don't know if that phrase is exclusive from Texas but they are many more phrases! Dimebag \m/!
@@mikenazworth6734 I hate to argue with another Texan over grammar, but y'all is a contraction for you all. "You" being plural as it is used in English grammar, meaning "you and all the rest. As in you, the wife, and the kids and grandma. Y'all! Y'all come for Thanksgiving. If it is not used like that, it's a dead give away that you haven't lived here for very long. I never in my life ever said "All y'all". We say "all of you" never "all y'all". It's only been in recent years since the northern invasion, that I've even heard that expression.
6th generation Texan here. Have never lived anywhere else. 3 times great grandfather was given a parcel of land from Pres. Sam Houston for fighting in the war against Mexico for Texas independence. "All y'all" is plural.
I had this Egyptian friend in college. She spoke very good English. One day I asked her what she was "fixin' to do" amd boy when I tell you she had no clue what I was saying to her I mean it. I was shocked because I didn't know what was so confusing about what I said! Yes, I'm guilty of every single one of these sayings lol.
I like Y'all. In Ireland we never say this. We say Yis all, Ye all or Yous. Even a common word like "Hi". We always said just "Hello" or "Howaya". In the 90's we were amused at American tourists greeting us with a loud "Hi". Now "Hi" is commonly used in Ireland whereas it wasn't when I was a kid. I guess TV and interaction changes words.
I’m a Brit and we say, wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him. But, The rest no....I don’t know what you saying, but I like the way you say it!. 😂
I love the Brit accent. Or should I say accents. There are many, and I love em all. At 70+ years I've spent far too long trying to erase my Texas twang. I now, finally realize I should have embraced it. Gotta love the New Yawk accent, the Joisey way of speaking, the Boston pronunciations. They're all dying, and homogenization is NOT a good thing.
@@tomswinburn1778 aww noooo…the Texas twang is one of the best accents on the planet! And yes New York and Jersey are very distinct too lol. There’s no mistaking them from anywhere else! 😂. accents in general are just brilliant imo, and are a good conversation starter when someone notices you have a different accent👍🏻
@@whitewolf8644 Ah yes, I'm familiar with that. It's always surprised me that a country the size of England has so many accents. For instance in Yorkshire, Sheffield is very different from York or Hull accents.
Grew up in the LRV. One of my mom's favorite, "he ain't got enough sense to pour piss out of his boots with the directions written on the heels". My grandmother's favorite, " He's just another God damn Yankee carpet bagger".
As a Scotsman we also say wouldn't trust him as far as i could throw him. 🏴 Meaning i cant throw him far, so thats about as much as id trust him.
Thanks for these! I grew up in Florida, and I think many of these words and phrases are part of a general Southern dialect, especially the use of "y'all", "Coke", "might could". I've heard, "Wouldn't trust him... throw him" outside of the South as well. However, "Big hat, no cattle" sounds very Texan :-)
I’m from Texas,and did not realize that other people don’t say fixin to lol 😂
Colin Graham SAME
I love the state of Texas and all the wonderful people and the accent, but I grew up in Virginia and it's not super common, and mostly older folks who say it, but ya'll and fixin' to are both used.
Me 2
Oklahoma does too
I say fixin and I’m from South Texas
I’m an elementary school teacher in Dallas and one year I had a little girl in my class who was a refugee from Yemen. She didn’t know a word of English when she came to our school, but I worked with her alongside a language instructor, and by the end of the year she could converse pretty well. I knew she would always carry her Texas influence though, when I first heard her read the word “cat” “cayat,” and “man,” “mayan.” Her true shining moment was when she dropped something on the floor and said, “dadgumit.” I knew my work was done then. 😂
Cute. Well done teacher. You did your best.
LMAO now thats priceless
Good Job there Teach!
❤😂😂😂😂😅🎉
Good for you teacher from Dallas!!!!!
People that visit Texas say WHATABURGER, us Texas folk say WATERBURGER...LOL
y'all this so true
CHRIS BARTOS Yep! I’m fixin to go to Waterburger, y’all want anything?
If i could like this a million time i fucking would
thats true. Growing up I thought it really was called Waterburger.
RIP Whataburger sellout
Number 11: "Around to it." - I'll fix the sink when I get around to it.
My grandfather used to have a wooden coin. On this coin were the letters TUIT. He asked me if I knew what it was? I was a kid so of course I said no. He just looked at me and said that's "a round tuit."
Right. I just wrote that.We had a refrigerator sticker . Same . TUIT was printed on it.
I don't think that's unique to Texas though? I'm from Texas so I guess I might just not know, but I swear a lot of these phrases being thrown around are just general American English (may not even be exclusive to America).
You forgot-- crack the window, crank the engine, can you carry me to the store, looks like we are fixin to get some weather
Or raise the window down!
There ye go!
Mash the button (East Texas)
You forgot “y’all’d’ve”
Example: “we were all fixin to go together if y’all’d’ve just waited!”
So true 😂
Sometimes I feel like I'm making up words when I go full-on-Texan
Contractionception!
True 😂
Yes!!!!!
You know your from Texas when half of your examples involve beer."hey I'm fixin to get some beer" lmfao
jacob moya you know your from Texas when you know what H-E-B stands for and you know for a fact that Buc-ee's is the best gas station ever
aND pEGGY nearly nobody knows what heb stands for in texas but yeah bucees the best
Tex Conway nah i was born in texas and dont know what it stands for but idgaf about it anyway, maybe its just us teens who dont know though
I watched this while drinkin' a beer lmao
@@han_vas1527 HEB the store? Or HEB as in Hurst-Euless-Bedford?
I am English and spent some months in Texas. I just loved Texas
and the Texans. Great people.
Would you be okay if we seceded? We have our own culture and dialect were kinda like what canada is to the u.s anyways
(Though legal means of course)
Carol Price i have spent a decent amount of time in the UK. I even went over to Gretna Green to get married. Awesome folk, awesome food..
so when you watched this video did you hear an accent because either he doesn’t have a texas accent or in just used to it
Well thank ya!🤠
Yep ! Same here . I'm from UK
and found Texas ( and the South )
is last bastion of good manners
and general kindness to strangers - and that is regardless if they're
black or white ! Also for boxing fans Texas was home to George
Foreman and late great Cleveland
Williams ( RIP ) and Roy Harris of
Cut' N Shoot !!
Who’s Texan and watch this 🤘🏻
Hold my beer and watch this 😂😂😂
hello
howdie
Hell yeah
Howdy!
David Crockett said it best - Y'all can go to hell but I'm going to Texas.
Yes 😆💙
Alredy there lol
Hell=California?
Yessss!
@@josefsstationrc6064 He was talking to the people of Tennessee when they voted him out of the governorship.
Houston born and bred living in the Beaumont area here. I understood you PERFECTLY!! LOL.
PROUD TO BE A TEXAN🇨🇱
Same
That's the Chilean flag
Amen
That's the flag of Chile. Quit embarrassing us.
Quit embarrassing us that’s the flag of Chile
Born and raised in Texas and in my family anything can be a "thang". Like "Hand me that thang over there!" While pointing to whatever item I need at that point in time. And whoever I'm talk'n to knows exactly what I mean.
Yep!
This one is an insult my grandma likes to say...
"I wouldnt wear that to a dog fight"
TheWayOf Cailinn I’ve e heard they before lol
Another weird insult I heard was.... "Their as useless as a three legged pig in shit" when talking about dealing with a fucktard.
One from my mother, "Why don't you just go and break out in a rash". Another "That's just as funny as a crutch"
Another one my grandmother used to say _ Don't wear that until it's ironed. It's as wrinkled as a dog's hind leg"!!!
“I tell you what” 😂😂😂
I use this one all the time! Born Texan here.
People don't use that outside Texas?
Pronounced “I’ll tell yuh hwaaat”
Yessssss
This Kid Needs To Be M O I S T idk 😂 I live in a small town called buffalo gap lmfao haven’t been out of Texas yet
Welcome to Texas were every soda is a Coke
Callan Tyran 😂😂🤘🏼
I'm from Louisiana, I say this also.
Did a few semesters of high school in Michigan and had to ezplain the "coke" situation after eecieving a coke instead of DP. And always thought it was just a Southern thing til I went out to Tennessee and noticed that we really are our own thang
Callan Tyran my mom gets mad at me cause she does that and she only likes Dr Pepper and she calls them cokes and I grab a coke and it pisses her off
I do it on purpose
Except Dr Pepper. Dr Pepper is in its own category
I USED-TA-COULD……… give me a moment and I MIGHT-COULD again! 😅❤
I'm a born and raised Texan I've been saying y'all since I started talking
been told "y'all was the first word I spoke..!!
Me too.
My first was just half a word " mother-". 😊
Bless your heart. Not an endearment, but feeling sorry for someone. She didn’t understand when you said fixing to. She’s from the North, bless her heart.
They all make perfect sense, and we use several of them just across your eastern border in Louisiana. God Bless Texas!!
Try asking someone for a 'Soda Water'
I'm in Oklahoma now. Lived in Texas a few years. So, in spite of BOOMER SOONERS; Howdy Y'all!
our crazy cousins next door. the only ones allowed to pick on each other are Okies, Texas boys, and Louisiana boys. anyone else is just another yankee bout to get a whoopin.
That's hilarious. The only one I don't recall ever hearing was the All Hat and No Cattle, but the rest are spot on.
Course, I'm from the Dallas/Fort Worth area, so...
I hear this alot, "if it were a snake, it would have bit me!"
another phrase is, "Gon' git!" when you tell someone or something to get lost. Gon' git.
Ayyyy 817,972 Funky Town,AggTown to Big B,plus we still say stuff like calling Jordan's "Tennis shoes",a refrigerator is also a "icebox",shooda,cooda,wooda,that dog dont hunt. And many mo
he forgot "country mile" im from corpus but also lived all over dallas metroplex some years ago.
my grandma says "if it were a snake, it-a bit me" lol
I lived in Romania for many years and I taught English to Romanians. I always prefaced my classes by telling them I would be teaching them very proper English, but distinctly Texan. There are some Romanians running around there calling people y'all, and fixin' to get ready, and might could cook dinner and then, "do what?"
lol!!!!!
You're a true hero, sir
This made my day.
This is the best thing I’ve read all day! 👍🏻😂
@@strellasmith777 you made my day. Thank you so much. I have wonderful memories of that time and those fabulous children and their love of learning American English, especially from Texas! Outside of the United States, Texas seems like a mythical place and they had so much fun learning Texas English.
It's always odd to hear one's colloquialisms read aloud on TH-cam. This gentlemen perfectly encapsulated my native speech growing up in East Texas.
I'm a 6th Generation Texan (genealogy is my hobby). I worked in a grocery store during college. One time a woman asked me "where's your pop". I said "I guess at home" I thought she knew my Dad LOL
How true is this! San Antonio, TX baby!
Go spurs go!
SA tineeee
Woooo!
H-Town
4th generation Texan here. You forgot "reckon", as in I reckon so. It means you agree, or it makes sense. "Howdy", or in my part of TX, "Hey howdy". A greeting. And "git" means move along. My Dad used to say "ov' air" for over there or sometimes "yonder". We also add your horse to any insult. As in "screw you and the horse you road in on".
I have never been more confused than when I ordered a diet coke in Texas and they asked me what kind of coke and started naming off completely different sodas.
well....what kinda coke did you want?! 🤣
Jk
When it comes to drinks
Pop= not a word for drinks
Coke= what kind there’s many
Tea= sweet tea
I am born and raised in Texas and sometimes people will be like I want a coke and I’m like what kind 😂😂😂
One coulda walked in any restaurant, or shall I restraunt, order a Coke and the server would ask "What kind?," to which the answer was one of two, "Dr Pepper," or "Big Red, if y'all gotit. "
Also 'Soda Water'
Sometimes we also say "all'a y'all," which is very redundant when you think about it, but it just feels right.
country dei, it means everyone present 😊
When I meet someone and ask, "Y'all doin' OK?" I am, of course, asking about that individual and his family. If I ask a clerk in a hardware store "Y'all have any masonry nails? I am, of course, referring to the store in a plural collective sense, not addressing the clerk as an individual who doesn't literally "have" anything the store sells.
I had to explain that "y'all" could be one or two people, but "all y'all" was the whole group. Seemed simple enough...
Texas! Best country in the U.S.!
Wrong. Best country in the UNIVERSE!
@@DottyGale8 you bet your bottom dollar!!! Gods whole Grace and Endless love is upon our state!!
@@DottyGale8 Bless your heart.
Born and raised in Texas... grew up saying caint (for can't), yella (for yellow), warsh (for wash), seer-ul (for cereal)...and Waterburger (for Whataburger)...something my granny passed down to me...lol😊😊😊
Go Red Raiders!
I still talk that way.😂
Same
Far ,car tar, burnen daylight, whoa. Abit later , yonder.
My favorite; SHIT FAR usually after eaten to many hollerpenyos.
I'm born and raised in Vegas and I have been saying most of these all my life! 😂 one thing I do notice that I seen in any videos is how often Texans refer to a lot of things as "deals" like "hey can you help me with this deal over here"
Pro tip: The only right answer to "What kind of coke do you want?" is "Dr Pepper."
lmao so true!
💯
Or back in the day it was also acceptable to say R.C.
Thanks for the info, I would love to visit Texas one day - seems like an amazing and friendly place and so diverse! Best wishes to Texas (and the USA!) from a Scottish lassie :)
And I wanna visit the Highlands. My family tree has some deep roots in Scotland. (as well as other parts of Great Britain)
I visited Scotland. The Scottish people loved Texans. Texans loved them. I think it is because both Texans and Scots are very independent and somewhat “separate” from their larger united country/kingdom.
C'mon down, we can throw you a wee BBQ 😂
Speaking as a southerner, I think Scottish accents are the best! I also, like many other North Carolinians, have many Scottish ancestors. My great great grandfather came over from Scotland. 😊
"Jeet?" "Naw-aw." ""Yunto?" "Yessir." "Sko!" ....... "Do what" can also be used with a 'now' at the end. "Do what now?"
"Jeet?" "Naw-aw." "'Yunto?" "Yessir." “Sko!" ……..Them ain’t just words we use in Texas. Each is a complete sentence!
Not from Texas, never been to Texas... and yet, that all made sense to me... DUN DUN DUNNN!!! 😉 🤣
I'm from Suffolk, England where we also have "a way with words" including but not limited to... these exact phrases or some kind of variation on them.
But they were all understood and made sense to me 👍👍
We use some of those expressions here in Australia, “I wouldn’t trust someone as far as I could throw them”, “more bark than bite”, and in Melbourne we say, “if you don’t like the weather, ,just wait a few minutes “.
I have often said Texas is the Australia of America, everything wants to kill you, including the trees.
@@tarenblevins6958 Between the pollen and the mesquite thorns, that last part is true!
The similarities are striking. Texans and Aussies have much the same attitudes. And if you have either as a friend you should thank your lucky stars. Both will go to the wall for you.
All hat and no cattle is a favorite, too.😊
I've said every single one of these .😂 and I am from texas
We use these a lot in Indiana as well
I feel like me and you are in completely different parts of Texas BC these don't apply to me or anyone I know
+david cathorne dont you dare try and compare shitty north indiana to Texas.
Damn straight.
Kiera Morton same here lol
I miss hearin it. Im about to cry
@@oussamamohsin6069 moan back
Come back!
Newly arrived to Texas near 20 years ago, our Pastor said as part of his sermon, "All of Y'all"
My wife leaned over & whispered
"Can he say THAT ?!"
😂 God bless her!!!
God bless Texas, from Odessa!
hey!!!! Me too!!!!
You guys have my sympathy
While on a trip, I was joking with a southern sounding woman about being called a "Yankee" in Texas. She said, "Don't feel bad honey, I'm from South Carolina, and they called me a Yankee too!"
Also, "Don't pay me no nevermind" = Don't mind me... I personally don't use it, but I hear it in Tx.
pretty much if you are north of Dallas or east of Louisiana we are gonna call you a yankee or the more polite "northener".
@@QwestyDaQwest Lol... I've been told, at least I'm not a damned Yankee. :D
God bless Texas, and God bless the Texans
Don’t forget tump!!! As in “watch that water glass or it’s gonna tump over”
I’m from Southwest Virginia and almost all of these apply to us too. A lot of Texans have Appalachian ancestors, so I guess that makes sense.
It probably applies to all Southern states. The accents sound different, but the expressions are mostly the same. I love y'all southerners!
I'm from NC, us too.
@@pennystevens70 I'm also from NC. I've used those phrases and many more all my life.
It's the same here! I'm from Tennessee.
I love the double modal "might could."
How about double nouns, which I have heard since forever: tuna fish, bunny rabbit, hedge bush, puppy dog, you get the idea.
Double nouns "Hot water heater" & "Hose pipe".
Like " stupid yankee" for instance. 😊😅😂
All of those phrases are pretty well known to just about anyone from anywhere in the south, not just Texas. Also, “someone hold my beer and y’all watch this” are often that individuals final words.
Here in the UK we have' She's all fur coat and no knickers' which I guess is a version of all hat no cattle :)
😂 Love it! I'll have to remember that one. The UK saying that is my favorite is "popped his clogs."
Proud Texan here! Houston....but og locals almost always say “Uston”
I moved to Uston in 1981 from Upstate NY. Quickly learned its Houston. :) Proud to be Texan ever since up in Georgetown where all y'all might could share a Coke with us!
Space City, Bayou City, H-Town...
Yes, Hus-ton, not How-town as they say up North.
“I used-ta-could drink a whole 12 pack but now I CAINT****” 😂😂 I don’t know if that’s Texan but my whole family says caint instead of cant 😂 howdy and blessings from Houston partner🤠
cain't and dawg. Dawg tarred.
Yep.
I caint do that.
We called my great aunt “Aint”
My granddad called ghosts “haints”
I receive your blessings partner!! God's speed be with your kinfolks😊
I’m in New Mexico but most of my people got here from Oklahoma and Texas. These are all very familiar!
Great list! I’m sixth (maybe seventh) generation Texan, and we have four generations of Aggies in the family (but that’s another list for Aggie talk). Here’s a breakdown in my family for “y’all”:
Y’all=one person
Both’a y’all=two people
All’a y’all=three or more people
“Both’a y’all go to the store or all’a y’all won’t have nuffin’ to eat!
Dr (no period) Pepper is the only soft drink not a coke.
Also, because I grew up in Corpus (don’t add Christi unless you’re a d*$m yankee), I like to drink my Dr Pepper at Waterburger, then go across the street to shop at H-E-B for y’all’s Bar-B-Q.
Lived here for 59 years and the og poster was correct: It's always coke. Coke is synonymous with any and all soda. "I'm going to the store to get a coke, what kind do you want?"
Born and raised in Texas. I hate it when other people come visit here and say "y'all" as a singular phrase!!! It should NEVER be used as singular. It has always been plural! People get that mixed up all the time. Grating!
This Mississippi gal says all y'all
@@louisetaylor6952 That's fine. Even in movies, I've seen "y'all" used wrong all the time!
Well, bless your heart............. Love, Grandma from Texas
Howdy!!!!! Loved the vídeo. I am a Texan living in Brazil and this really made me feel back home. My students are always asking me to talk about Texas, so you are definitely going to get viewers here. Thanks so much.
I know this 5 years old but should do a part 2 of this. You missed some really common ones like
“Riding shotgun.” - Riding passenger next to the driver
“Dig in your heels.” - Take a tough stance
“To mend fences.” - To make peace with someone you have a disagreement with
“Hold your horses.” - Wait a minute.
“I’m on the fence about it.” Being undecided
When there is heavy traffic saying - “Somebody left the gate open down there.”
“Take the bull by the horns” - Face your troubles head on.
“I wouldn’t bet the ranch on it.” - Something that probably won't happen
“Don’t have a cow!” - Don't over react
Calling someone a “Maverick” - They are nonconforming or won't do as everyone else does
“Till the cows come home.” - A very long time
"Bless your heart" - Polite way we Texans use to insult someone
You mentioned "Y'all" but what about "All Y'all" - Y'all referring to a few people and All Y'all referring to a large group of people lol!
And last but not least my favorite
Saying something is “BS” or "BullShit" - It's nonsense
P.S. How could you forget these?
"Howdy" - Texans way of saying hello
"Over Yonder" - An undetermined distance, usually over where a person is pointing
"Bless your heart",.... I always see that one as a " There's sompthing wrong with you . " While I mentally twirl my finger around my ear .
I grew up in the Midwest, but I've lived in Texas for over forty years. When I go back home for a visit, them folks say I talk funny!
No "all y'all"? That was my favorite one in Virginia. We said "y'all" for you all, but an even more inclusive one or one to say to a bigger group is "all y'all."
All of these are fully integrated in my vocabulary and most I didn't realize was a Texas thing, but I don't refer to all soda as coke.
Another common phrase is, I'm through," meaning I'm finished or done.
is that not normal outside texas?
I'm done is a phrase from recent times in Texas. I' m finished was more common.
I'm done makes me think of biscuits, corn bread, etc.
Oh my god. No wonder my fiance says I have an accent. I didn't realize it....TEXAS
Annabelle Lecter mine says the same lol.
this aint accent but dialect, huge difference bro
Me too. And that's why I'm here y'all!!!
HAHAHA I am laffing because this reminds me of my guy friend who is an Alabama native, but has no discernible Southern accent. He went to work in some mid-Atlantic city where one day, he said that he was fixin' to take his break. An office worker giggled and said, "How do you fix to do something?" She had never until that day heard that term! 🤣
I’m from South Carolina and we say all them too y’all !!🤪😂
That's bc we family sugar.😊
I’m from up north and we use some of these too but I love Texas, I wanna come down there one day 🥺🥺😊
Y'all ought to. We're fun and friendly.
As an old native Texan---👍
Y'all ‼️ for those who can't understand Bless their hearts 😳
Those phrases operate statewide. I’m from El Paso and my good buddy is from Papalote, in Bee County, which is, unsurprisingly, somewhere east of El Paso.
You have our mode of communication down pat, except that we frequently sprinkle in Spanish for flavoring.
Awesome Dimebag Darrell drawing. Also, some of my Californian friends doesn't understand that some of those phrases used in this video are mainly from Texas. They believe I adapted from certain areas in Los Angeles but I'm over here thinking, "Y'all don't even know what your sayin'". Anyway, proud Texan and proud of my roots!
Hi
Jeet....Are you hungry? "Jeet yet?"
The north being anything above Texas 😁
Hie...am Witclief from Russia...am a black guy....I would love to have someone to practice Texan with......+79882159650
"Are you American?" No, TEXAN
@@kermitbearden7142 yer gd right.
shoot I consider Austin the north lol
@@HeavymetalHylian me too!!🤣🤣
5th generation Texan. I grew up hearing and using these frequently.
How did you leave out the most misunderstood Texas phrase... “bless your heart”
Us northerners assume y’all are being sweet when it’s said... I know better now 😒😂
Haha bless your heart
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha Ooooooh I’m Texan and I’ve heard it in nice ways and in well what you mean I’m cracking up!! What’d you do to make ‘em tell you that! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha I’m laughing so hard right now!
Yeah. They’re basically calling you dumb in nicer way sorry... 🤣🤣🤣
We have to keep some phrases to ourselves.
It really depends on the context of the situation. If you see someone crying because their bf/gf broke up with them and you’re trying to console them then you could give them a hug and say, bless your heart. You’ll know when it’s meant to be a negative 😉
"I hear the wind blowing, but I don't see any trees fall'n." Much like the hat and cattle.
He speaks the truth. I heard all of these going up around Galveston county TX.
I knew a linguist once who was fascinated when I said I “might could” do something. I thought that was so funny!🤣🤣🤣
Where y'all Texans at?
Mexia
Abilene
Round Rock
Space City
Clear Lake (south of Houston)
Great list! Been in Texas most of my life and you nailed it
hold my beer y'all I'm fixin to do this right quick
im fixn for dale III
My granny would ask me if I was going to do something. Such as,
Are you going outside?
“I might”
“Mights are on chicken’s butts” she would reply.
Half of the phrases you mentioned "wouldn't trust him more than I could throw him" those ones. They sound like the kinda stuff my papa used to say
I'm from Texas phrases I heard "You heard" "Giggem" "Sickem" "Wreckem" "Yonder over there" "Reelem" Whachay talkin about!". This one is much rare to hear "You say" "Do say" Sometimes when I'm surprise I catch myself say "Really!" I don't know if that phrase is exclusive from Texas but they are many more phrases! Dimebag \m/!
Sick Pantera reference. 🤘🏼
@@i.drink.dirty.bong.water. Horns up \m/!
@@Jinkyuu1999 Always bro! Much respect. 😄
WHAT?!?! No, "Well, bless your heart"?!? LOL
Use those sayings every day in Alabama guess I'm a Texan at heart
As an old native Texan my parents were from Louisiana. I know what you mean, all kinda goes together.
I say “yall” sometimes when Im only talking to one person 😂 also, I sometimes include myself in yall
Technically y'all is singular... "All y'all" is plural 😊
@@mikenazworth6734 I hate to argue with another Texan over grammar, but y'all is a contraction for you all. "You" being plural as it is used in English grammar, meaning "you and all the rest. As in you, the wife, and the kids and grandma. Y'all! Y'all come for Thanksgiving.
If it is not used like that, it's a dead give away that you haven't lived here for very long. I never in my life ever said "All y'all". We say "all of you" never "all y'all". It's only been in recent years since the northern invasion, that I've even heard that expression.
6th generation Texan here. Have never lived anywhere else. 3 times great grandfather was given a parcel of land from Pres. Sam Houston for fighting in the war against Mexico for Texas independence. "All y'all" is plural.
I've lived in Central Florida, suburban Chicago area and in Texas, all three areas used the one: If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes.
I had this Egyptian friend in college. She spoke very good English. One day I asked her what she was "fixin' to do" amd boy when I tell you she had no clue what I was saying to her I mean it. I was shocked because I didn't know what was so confusing about what I said! Yes, I'm guilty of every single one of these sayings lol.
They sound so natural to me, I don't know why they would be confusing to anyone.
The old old-timers called carbonated drinks “sody-water” before people started calling them “coke.”
waterburger, "well aint that a btch", outt'ere, aint want nun'a dat, etc are in my normal vocabulary lol
I've got one : CHADUNE.
Chadune, y'all ?
A shortened way of saying " What is it that you all are doing, all of you ? "
"if you don't like the weather wait ten minutes " works in NH as well.
"hold my beer " is used in New England as well
I’m from Texas and I didn’t realize that most of the things on the list weren’t said everywhere!! 😂
SAME😂
Weird ain't it?? 🙄
I think your forgetting the "If it was a snake it would have bit me..." So sick of that one. 😂
I like Y'all. In Ireland we never say this. We say Yis all, Ye all or Yous.
Even a common word like "Hi". We always said just "Hello" or "Howaya". In the 90's we were amused at American tourists greeting us with a loud "Hi".
Now "Hi" is commonly used in Ireland whereas it wasn't when I was a kid. I guess TV and interaction changes words.
Most southerners would greet you with hey, not hi. I say howdy a lot too, since my mom's a Texan and it's kinda burned in my brain, lol. 😂
I'm from Pensacola, Florida and have said every single one of those phrases and still do. I now live in Texas, and will die here
I’m a Brit and we say, wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him. But, The rest no....I don’t know what you saying, but I like the way you say it!. 😂
I love the Brit accent. Or should I say accents. There are many, and I love em all. At 70+ years I've spent far too long trying to erase my Texas twang. I now, finally realize I should have embraced it. Gotta love the New Yawk accent, the Joisey way of speaking, the Boston pronunciations. They're all dying, and homogenization is NOT a good thing.
@@tomswinburn1778 aww noooo…the Texas twang is one of the best accents on the planet! And yes New York and Jersey are very distinct too lol. There’s no mistaking them from anywhere else! 😂. accents in general are just brilliant imo, and are a good conversation starter when someone notices you have a different accent👍🏻
What part of the UK are you from? Or as we southerners would say, where 'bouts?
@@Mick_Ts_Chick I’m from the south west, specifically Bristol lol. I’ve got a West Country accent ☺️😂
@@whitewolf8644 Ah yes, I'm familiar with that. It's always surprised me that a country the size of England has so many accents. For instance in Yorkshire, Sheffield is very different from York or Hull accents.
Grew up in the LRV. One of my mom's favorite, "he ain't got enough sense to pour piss out of his boots with the directions written on the heels". My grandmother's favorite, " He's just another God damn Yankee carpet bagger".
Such a great video, I’m from Houston I love this video thanks
As a Scotsman we also say wouldn't trust him as far as i could throw him. 🏴
Meaning i cant throw him far, so thats about as much as id trust him.
Thanks for these! I grew up in Florida, and I think many of these words and phrases are part of a general Southern dialect, especially the use of "y'all", "Coke", "might could". I've heard, "Wouldn't trust him... throw him" outside of the South as well. However, "Big hat, no cattle" sounds very Texan :-)
Don't forget "All y'all." That is, not just some of y'all, but I'm addressing every last one of y'all.
Number 11.
I'll tell you one thing.
Well, when you gonna tell me?
All ready did.
Tell you what.
I was born in Texas and never heard anyone say "Howdy" seriously.
Get out more and meet real Texans. We say it everyday.