Southern Dialect

Life, I, bright, fine, time…

Monophthongization: [ai] > [a:]

Car, shelter, door, care, port

Non-rhoticity

Vowel + R + C or V +R (lack of r)

Ten, get (exception), gentleman, anytime, anything, bent, fence

Pin/pen merger

Stress on the 1st syllable (broken)

Nasals (m, n): [e] > [i]

new, due, reduced, knew

[jn:] > [u]

nu, du

Business, doesn’t, dozen

[z] + [n] > [d]: (la z/s cambia a d)

once

Same or separate words

Y’all

2nd person plural that means you all

You done eaten all what’s left in the fridge

Completive done as have

I like to had a heart attack

Like to means almost

I almost had a heart attack

It was a jackleg shelter hidden

Existential “it”: there was

I counted the cats: they was ten

Existential “they”: there were ten

He might could do it

She should ought to do it

Cluster of modal auxiliaries

I’m fixing to take the children to school

Semiauxiliary that means “to be ready”, “to be going to“

I am going to take the children to school

She was toting the gentleman’s sacks

Tote means carry.

Sack

Means back

Co-cola

Soda. Not just coca cola

The fountain with the broken spigot

Faucet

Skillet

Pan

Hey

Hello

I counted the cats: they was ten, maybe a dozen critters

Creature, animal

Purty

Beautiful

I reckon

en verdad

Mighty

Mighty pretty

very. Intensifier

Plumb

Intensifier

She’s sitting pert near

Pretty

Gal

Girl

Youngun

Child

Snack

Snack. From Suthern

Ink pen

pen

Yonder

not usually used, but appear in the South

Ida Claire

I declare. Informal expression