Bless Your Heart & Mind Your Mama: Sassy, Sweet and Silly Southernisms

by Polly Powers Stramm

Overview

Y'all best be fixin' to be a grinnin' like a possum eatin' a sweet tater.

Southerners sure do have a way with words! Who needs simple and direct when you can color every conversation with Southern style. There seems to be a Southern saying for every occasion. Some are inspiring and uplifting while others have that biting tongue-in-cheek humor Southerners adore, and Bless Your Heart and Mind Your Mama brings together the best phrasin' south of the Mason Dixon. So sit back on yer bohunkus and dig into a collection of Southernisms that'll make you slap a knee and call your mama.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493034208
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	05/25/2018
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Polly Powers Stramm is a veteran journalist who has written and/or co-authored eight books. She is also a longtime newspaper reporter whose column "Polly's People" appears in the Savannah Morning News.

Table of Contents

Preface v

Introduction vii

What in Blue Blazes Does It Mean to Speak Southern? Dialects Cover the Region Like Grandma's Patchwork Quilt 1

Y'all Ought'n Go Out in That Frog Strangler: Crazy Contraction and Made-Up Words 7

Holla Out the Screen Door and Tell Bubba to Come On In: Southern Nicknames and Such 19

Much Obliged, Ma'am, I Reckon I'll Have a Co-Cola: Kitchens and Pie Safes Filled with Love 23

Words of Wisdom Spoken by Southerners: Pharses and Sayin's from Every Whichaway 31

Land Sakes! What in Tarnation?: The Emotional Southerner Speaks Hits Dadblame Mind 41

How You Getting Along?: Fair to Middlin's Greetin's and Salutations 53

We'll Be There Directly 'Cause Over Yonder Is a Fur Piece: Weights, Measures, Comparisons, and Down south Distances 57

Noah's Ark Ain't Got Nothin' on Southerners: Animals Get In on the Act Too 63

Mind Your Manners, Please and Thank You: Makin' Mama and Daddy Proud as Peacocks 73

Cities and Towns That'll Just Tickle Your Gizzard: Place Names That You Just Won't Believe 73

My Dear, It's All in Dem Books, TV Shows, Movies, and Music: Storytellers Who Can Draw, Write, Sing, and Make Us Laugh 83

About The Author 120