Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

Slightly off topic...

We do have sweet tea here in Maryland but when I order it, it always cames without a lemon. Is this a normal sweet tea thing or is Maryland just doing it wrong?

In Tennessee it's typically served with lemon.

[HQWest]

In Alabama, they will typically ask you if you want a lemon. I believe it depends on the cost and availability of lemons.

[ElvisLover]

Loved your post, Sciencewoman. Your daughter caught on quickly with her lessons in Southern etiquette!

[FSUZeta]

Such a cute post Sciencewoman! And nowadays, I have to request lemon with my tea-whether I am in Tallahassee, Birmingham or Naples.

[SWTXBelle]

RE: Tea

SG - "May I please have iced tea?"
NJ Wait staff - "We don't have iced tea."
SG - "Do you have ice? Do you have tea? You can have iced tea!"

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

RE: Tea

SG - "May I please have iced tea?"
NJ Wait staff - "We don't have iced tea."
SG - "Do you have ice? Do you have tea? You can have iced tea!"

Well, that is a sure way to get spit in your iced tea

HILARIOUS, Science Woman!

[AGDee]

Love it! I leave to pick Hypo up tomorrow. I cannot believe their freshman year is over already!

[KDCat]

Originally Posted by chi-o_cat

While we’re on the subject (sort of)….what’s the deal with “and them”? My significant other is Southern, and I am not. Sometimes he’ll say something like “John and them are coming over later.” Horrible grammar aside, this makes me think he means John plus at least 2 other people, when most of the time he’s actually talking about John plus one person. Is this a Southern thing?

It's a linguistic shift and it's not just happening in the South. We are starting to use "they" and "them" as a gender neutral singular pronoun when we don't know the gender of a person or when we don't want to specify gender.

We've had shifts in pronouns like this before -- we no longer use "thee" and "thou" and "thine," just "you" and "yours."

[generallygreek]

Yeehaw! I might be a Yank, but I do indeed like the way Southerners do things. I do, however, have one complaint:

13. Snow trumps rain any day.

[Titchou]

"and them" tends to be more Louisiana-ish - particularly New Orleans where "your mama 'n 'nem" is common.

And to support the previous poster - there is y'all and all y'all....and they mean two different things....bless your heart!

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by Titchou

"and them" tends to be more Louisiana-ish - particularly New Orleans where "your mama 'n 'nem" is common.

And to support the previous poster - there is y'all and all y'all....and they mean two different things....bless your heart!

And neither y'all nor all y'all is singular.

[honeychile]

*feeling warm fuzzies for ScienceWoman's daughter!"

[Sciencewoman]

I Skyped Generallygreek tonight and she and her roommate got a big kick out of the list. I also learned one more thing:

Debutantes have their debut announced in the newspaper. Generallygreek's roommate's announcement was in the paper today. She's your ADPi sister, honeychile...Happy Founders' Day to you both!

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

I Skyped Generallygreek tonight and she and her roommate got a big kick out of the list. I also learned one more thing:

Debutantes have their debut announced in the newspaper. Generallygreek's roommate's announcement was in the paper today. She's your ADPi sister, honeychile...Happy Founders' Day to you both!

What a cool thing to learn on Founders Day! Thank you so very much for letting us know! Please give her my best!

[clemsongirl]

I have discovered that if you order iced tea in a restaurant in the North and make no mention of sweetness, it'll come unsweetened, but if you ask for it with no reference to flavor in the South it comes sweetened. My Northern friends think the South is crazy for their obsession with sweet tea, and my Southern friends don't understand why I get so excited every time I go to the Dunkin' Donuts near campus. They also don't believe me when I tell them there's practically one on every street corner, either.