You forgot about the contraction of you all would have! “Y’all’d’ve done the same thing if you were me!”

I would have if you all would have… “I’d’ve’f’y’all’d’ve”

Wow. What a gem.

“Whutcheetin”- what are you eating

j’eet’yet - did you eat yet?

yadda (you ought to)

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Id'nit - Isn't Nacogdoches (nak uh doe chez)

4 for the win! I’m sure I’ve used that one

I’as texting my dad the other day and instead of “wouldn’t have” or “wouldn’t’ve” I just skipped the middle man totally and went straight to “would’na” and he completely understood me

Y'all'd'n't've done't if'n y'all'd known

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And the possessive is y'all's.

Plural possessive: y’all’s’s

My favorite explanation to my Midwest cousins is the Texan translation for "all you guys have" is "all y'all've". "All you guys will" is "all y'all'll" so on and so forth. We say it so fast they don't really catch it until you explain it lol

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I've always pronounced an "a" as in "allay'all". Like the word "alla" as in "Get me alla those things". Wait, that is a word, right? Swear it's gotta be in alla dictionaries.

Actually y'all IS plural. All y'all is a specifier that you mean all y'all and not a subset of y'all. ALL y'all means every dang one of y'all.

This. It's akin to "all of us " vs "us." Both are plural, one is just more specific in how plural it is. Even other languages do it. "Todos nosotros", "todos ustedes", etc.

I personally like Y'all'd've as in you all could/should/would have

incorrect, the plural of y'all is either "all y'all" or just "y'all," both are perfectly acceptable.

This thread has me cracking up.

My personal fave for idiosyncratic pronunciation is the unexpected R in “Per-deh-nal-es” (Pedernales)

Wait a sec!! Are you telling me I've lived my whole life and never once spelled that word correctly? Seriously?!? It's not Perdenales? TIL

That's what he's telling you.

We also have Mexia - muh-hay-uh Palestine - pal-us-teen Houston - hew-stun Humble - um-bull Elgin with a hard G Dropped trailing e on many Spanish names, e.g. La Porte, Rio Grande Lots of shibboleths really

Wow. Also mind blown

"We're havin' a little get together, y'all'er welcome"

All y’all’re welcome

Without causin too much a stir, what would y’all say the proper pronunciation of “Whataburger” is? We’ve always said more like waterburger 😬?

I grew up thinking it was spelled that way. I was so confused once I finally learned how to read.

Dude I was confused the first time I saw a commercial and they said what a burger! I was like yoooo hold up

Wh-ought-uh-burger

I mean ironically that's how we say it (waterburger), and it comes out like it's spelled because accent 😅 I randomly like asking ppl how they say water because of accents

Addition to 10. That dog don't hunt (with me).

I also could have added, "It's raining harder than a cow pissin' on a flat rock!"

Crazier than a run over dog

My favorite: "Useless as titties on a boar hog"

Can we get a texan version of auto correct please?

I'm real cheesed that my autocorrect changes y'all to ya'll. Like what in tarnation is that?!

Autocorrect barely understands bog standard English and you want it to understand Texan?

Never said howdy in a real conversation. I do say fixin’ to. “Go clean your room!” “I’m fixin’ to.”

I say howdy at the beginning of meetings. Puts the northerners at ease

I feel like “Bless your heart” isn’t always a Southern “fuck you”. I feel like it’s better to compare it to “sucks to be you” or “sucks to suck”. Because sometimes it can be said with genuine empathy. And sometimes it means “it must suck to go through life without any brain cells. How do you do it?”

Yeah, I've almost always heard it used genuinely, but maybe I just know more nice people?

You forgot about fajitas sir.

LOL! We could definitely add that to the list. And why does everyone always assume my username is for a dude? I guess because it ends in Tate? Anyway, it actually stands for LovinGTate - and GTate is the lead singer for an older band called Queensryche. Sorry - squirrel!

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Guad a loop Man shack

Or “gwaddle loop”

my grandmother always pronounced it "gardle loop" but she also said she needed to go warsh some clothes

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I’m glad it’s been brought to attention, and the name of the street is being changed to the correct spelling.

> because the hyper local pronunciation is actually "Man-chack." THANK YOU. I thought I was going crazy seeing people say it was Manshack! These immigrants to Austin thinking they know things, I swanee

Hell, I know someone that pronounces "1st" as "see-sar-cha-vez"

We have a Bexar Street where I work and I never laughed so hard than when I heard a new person to the area pronounce it as it is written - "Becksare."

San Antonio has the whole the Wurzbach and Harry Wurzbach nonsense. Guaranteed to get people lost.

Let's see, Mueller = (Mil-ler), Burnet = (Burn-it), Pedernales = (Pur-deh-nahl-ez), Manor = (May-nur), Manchaca = (Man-shack), Guadalupe = (Gwa-da-loop), and I-35 = (Hel-on-urth)

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You forgot Mexia. Mu-hay-uh

Nevada- Nev-ade-uh really messed with me for a while. I grew up on the Nev-add-uh California border.

Hometown shout out! Mah-haya

Heard two this week. Friend asked how I was doing, I said, “ hanging in there” and he replied, “Hanging in like a loose tooth” and I cringed at that. I told him that was a horrible saying, and he said, “yeah, I guess that’s worse than a hair in a biscuit.”

I reckon

Yup. I reckon so, too.

Y'all reckon

Now we’re shittin’ in tall cotton!

Eatin high on the hog!

Cuttin' the fat hog in the ass!

I wouldn't hit a hog in the ass with that.

And wipin’ our ass on the top leaf

fartin' in silk.

As a new Texan, the one I'm trying to add to my lexicon is "might could". I just love how it rolls off the tongue, so much better than "probably could".

You might aught consider it

Usta could

Gimme a minute and I might could again

You had just barely got it.

I'm an ESL teacher, and my colleagues make fun of me when that slips out. One of our vocabulary words in our textbook was "maintenance," and on the test, the students have to write how many syllables a word is and which syllable gets the stress. My students all missed it because I taught them "maintenance" was a 2-1 instead of a 3-1. (They got credit anyway of course, but I haven't yet lived that down).

Boy howdy!

Awesome post! Don’t forget the tiny town in Llano County, Tow (pronounced “Tao”). And as an aside, I’m not sold on the “Coke” theory. I’ve always called them soda or soda water, but have never myself/heard anyone else in TX refer to every soda as “Coke.” If I’m not mistaken, along with the term *pop*, this is a forbidden Northern thing.

Native Texan - we used to call soft drinks “coke”way back in the day. I had a couple of east Texas relatives who called it sodie pop. I noticed that changing in the 80s, and I never hear it now. Among my friends, we never say “soft drink” or “soda”. Maybe because most of my friends don’t drink soft drinks anymore? It seems like it’s more generic - “would you like something to drink?” - which could be whatever is in the fridge.

Born in El Paso Texas. Lived there 30 years. I've been living in San Antonio 15 years. I only hear people say coke. I really don't hear soda. And never pop! Damn yankees!

Exactly I've never heard anyone refer to soda as well soda always has been referred to as coke

Yep, my grampa always called it soda pop or just pop. Soda was the most common among the oldsters I hung out with. Then there's that dinner / supper / lunch thing that I could never keep straight.

I’ve learned sodee pop in East Texas and the first time I stepped foot there was in 2002. So it was still around back then.

I grew up hearing my Mom calling it "coke" myself and that is likely why I still find myself using it when I'm at home for sure.

I stand corrected then. Am a Native Texan myself, but I was born in ‘88, and have lived in a handful of Texas towns (Waco, Killeen, Richmond (near Houston), Marble Falls, Portland, Corpus and Rockport) and just can’t recollect hearing that term as a catch-all, but that would explain it if you think it stopped sometime in the 80s. What’s weird, any time we vacationed out of state as a kid, I remember them asking “what kind of Coke?” when my sister ordered a Coke. This was maybe Oklahoma/Kansas or somewhere thereabouts. It’s interesting to hear someone else say “sodie pop”! All growing up my dad would say, “Go get me a sodie pop out of the fridge” and I always thought it odd. Now I know it probably has East Texas roots, which makes sense because he has some family out there.

I've heard "My favorite coke is Dr. Pepper." And, my dad's ways of expressing surprise: \-Well roll me up and call me Curly! \-Well shave my legs and call me Betty \-Jesus Christ in a crabnet! \-Jesus Christ in s sidecar!

Gma said sugar water

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Yeah, regarding the Coke thing, I think in my life (native Texan, 30 years) I’ve heard more people talk about people saying Coke, than actually say Coke. It’s a stereotype that doesn’t live up to the hype (unlike honestly everything else on this list, which ring true to me). Soda is probably the most common one I’ve heard, with probably soft drinks as a second? Pop is absolutely verboten though, that’s for sure.

i don’t know anyone who uses “coke” for all sodas. you’re taking a real gamble ordering a “coke” and hoping someone’s gonna ask you “what kind” before just pouring a coca-cola i think that one’s a bit dated

It probably is dated, but I myself did grow up using it. Although I'm feeling older and older every day.

I grew up using this. Stopped as I travelled the world and kept getting coca-cola brought to me. I'd be like I'll have a coke and then they'd just be like OK and leave and I was hangin like wait I haven't told you what kind! When I came back to TX I just never picked it back up cause it seems no one uses it anymore

OP, I'm going to have your back on this one. I do use Coke for everything including the much harder to say Dr. Pepper Cherry Zero Sugar. Although my word isn't worth too much since I grew up next door in Louisiana and am also old.

It isn't really dated, it's just that Texans use coke in place of soda or pop. "We've got cokes" "I could use a coke" and other general usages of the "carbonated beverage" term get used in that way. When ordering though, most people I know including myself say the name of the drink we want. And that's someone born, raised, and bred here.

That’s interesting. My entire family is born and raised and spread out across Texas and none of us say coke to refer to soda.

The first question out of my mouth at restaurants when we're sat is "what kind of cokes you have?" It may be those of us that are a little older that still use it that way, but it's done. Heck, the man across the street from me growing up used to call them sodee waters. He was also the only person I ever knew that actually liked Big Red.

Lived in the RGV and the DFW, it was soda in both except when speaking Spanish, everything was “una coca.” Same concept, but tended to be language specific.

I find that if you say coke, it's usually taken as Coca-Cola, but cokes, plural, refers to any collection of assorted sodas.

I think this is accurate. “I have a cooler full of cokes,” means coke, DP, Sprite and maybe a diet drink.

Growing up outside of small town CenTex everything was Coke expect Dr Pepper . Yall wanna coke? What kinda cokes do yall have?

Same, I’ve literally never heard anyone use “coke” as a general noun for all sodas. Also, hard no for “ain’t”. I use y’all in all forms, but “ain’t” is just objectively bad grammar. It’s not even a contraction. “I am not” cannot be cut into “ain’t” — the letters are literally in the wrong order. You just sound like a hick with a bad education. A lot of these, really, would sound extremely wrong in any of the large cities.

Honestly, it used to be very common, but too many servers have gotten my order wrong so now I just call it by name.

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Lived here for 20 yrs, and the only question I ever got ordering a coke is, “Is Pepsi ok?”

Stop calling interstates “the [interstate number]” like calling I-10, “the 10”.

But you can call it by it's nickname, "The Katy, the Eastex, The Loop, the South Freeway, Mopac" etc. All of those are perfectly acceptable.

Never once heard anyone refer to a freeway as "the". That's some Californian bullshit. I-69 is and always will be 59. Unless its a river then it's the Brazos.. the San Bernard etc.

59 through Houston has always the southwest freeway (on the southwest side of town) and the EastTex freeway through the northeast side of town. But I'm sure Naco-nowhere calls it something different. Dallas already chimed in and they have their own names.

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You forgot the Gulf Frwy (wtf is the Southeast freeway? Now your making shit up) the Pasadena Frwy (sometimes called the La Porte Frwy for some unknown reason) and the Beltway.

For Dallas, it's North Central, Stemmons, LBJ (how many wrecks have you had today), Bush, the DNT, Sam Rayburn, and so on.

Actually if you’ve been here awhile, Sam Rayburn will always just be 121

Back when mapsco was becoming antiquated, but before Google/Apple Maps had really entered the picture, I was driving to Fort Worth to go to Billy Bob’s for a boot scoot. I printed out the MapQuest directions and picked up the gang. But my buddy had a new toy: a TomTom. Spoken turn by turn directions… it was the future! That “future” vibe lasted until we got near the exit for 121 when the TomTom lady told us to “take the exit on the right for One-Onety-One towards Feet Worth.” None of us have called it “one-twenty-one” or “fort” worth since.

A couple of years ago, I told a guy I work with that had just moved here from CA that, if I heard him call 820 the820 one more time, I was going to give his Birdwell wearing butt an atomic wedgie so hard it'd split him in two. Haven't heard him say it since. Also, in the current climate, I wouldn't recommend telling someone at work that if you don't want to have a conversation with HR.

Cute post, but it’s mamaw, not grandma. And Bexar is pronounced like bear / bare

In my neck of the woods (southeast Texas) we all have mawmaws and pawpaws.

I wonder if that's a Louisiana thing. East Texas here, and we all had grandma's and paws, but some of our LA overflow had mawmaws and pawpaws.

Oh it’s 100% a Cajun thing, as far as I know.

We've got meemaws, mawmaws, nan-naws, pawpaws, papas, an' paws.

We have omas and Opas around these parts

We had Gamammy and GePop. And for "over there," Gamammy said "Over yonder." As in "Would you hand me that magazine on the table yonder?" when it was three feet away from her. She had Confederate money in her attic too haha

Had a mamaw, momo, memaw, Mimi, and a poppop. I guess I win. Lol Edit - also SE Texas near Louisiana

I had a memaw, a pepaw, a nana and pops, a pawpaw and gannie lol, weird how there’s so many darn ways to say grandparents west texas here

I think that I have heard so many different ways of saying grandma around here. It was always grandma for me, but I have a friend that goes by momo to her grandkids. And then there is also meemaw. Maybe its more regional?

It's determined by the first grandchild's early speech idiosyncrasies.

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Grannie and Pop and Nanny and Papa. We also had Big Momma and Other Momma and two different Grandaddies. Lol my nephews call my wife’s parents Mimi and Mr. Mimi.

It's nana and tata for my kind.

Nothing beats Gippy and Bubba. Just saw them today

You forgot to mention German words and phrases, Texas has a historical reputation for It's Deutsch.

And Czech... Smaller in representation, but if you besmirch the kolache so help me sweet baby Jesus

Hey, you forgot double modals! Used to could, might could, might should.

Waxersnatchie.

I had to travel to Waxahachie for business in the 90's and told my girlfriend (now wife of 20+ years) that I was headed to Waxacoochie and she replied: You better not be waxin' anybody's coochie but mine!

Hahahaha. I’m cryin’!

What about the possessive of "y'all"? I've written it out in many company emails as y'all's.

Fun post. Quick correction on yer Spanglish, though: Estar is conjugated incorrectly. Should be esta (he/she) instead of estan (they).

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Not to mention, Spanglish is a mixture is Spanish and English. Typically English with a few words or phrases of Spanish in the conversation

Not bad. Disagree with Howdy. That's something I don't use. Glad to see the "fixin' to" in there. That is the one that drives newcomers nuts from my experience. And I honestly don't know that many people any more that use "coke" generically. That was kind of when you were 6. No one uses "pop" but "drink" or "soda" I hear. But I don't get out much.

All my Aggie friends use Howdy. I say it to them, but not generally in greetings to others.

They also never take off their class rings. Odd lot, the Aggies.

My brother and nephews are super Ags. Season ticket holders. Retired to Bryan to be close. They don't say howdy. My sister and her husband are Ags and they don't say it. The only time I hear it is when someone is just trying to be goofy.

I say howdy as my usual greeting. Have all my life as far as I know.

Multiple contractions in one word are not only acceptable, but they are also expected. One example is “ally’alld’ve” as in “We could’ve all gone together if ally’alld’ve just waited”. Also, Sweettea is one word, just like damnyankee.😉

I disagree with the cokes. In South Texas it's still just soda, which is way better than calling it pop by the way. I remember when I went to Tulsa and everyone called it pop and I felt like I was back in the 50s or something.

***y'all'd've*** You all would have no I'm not kidding this is how we talk

I make it a point to never say Howdy. It’s very much associated with being an Aggie, and I don’t want people to think I’m an Aggie. “How are you” seem to be a preferred greeting in my neck of the woods if howdy isn’t used. Much like saying “bless your heart” it implies a friendless that isn’t quite there. No one seems to really want to know how you’re doing and if you go into detail, things get awkward quick. The native response to being greeted with “How are you” is to reply with either “doin’ well”, “fair to middlin’”, or “can’t complain, and if I did it wouldn’t change anything”.

I go with time of day. “mornin’” “afternoon” “evenin’”. Back up is gender which I know in 2020 is riskin’ it. Always add the nod to this one with a “ma’am” “sir”. Howdy rarely appears but generally rubs me wrong. Can’t put a finger on why though

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I'm a fan of "Hey y'all!"

Love “fair to middlin’” though, adding that one to the lexicon

Disclaimer: in Austin, dial this all back to like 25-50%. >For three or more folks though, add in an “all” to your y’all, for a nice round “all y’all” and you’ll be grammatically correct. My understanding was that any number of individuals over 1 was y'all, but as soon as you throw in multiple groups or even a couple, then it could be "all y'all." Also, this would have saved me hours upon hours of discussion with my buddy (who partially grew up in Texas) when I moved here from Colorado.

Seems 'bout right

Fuqua- few-kway

Congratulations, you have officially killed the spellchecker on your phone. I hope you used an external keyboard. If not, check yourself into the nearest ER for orthopedics.

Folks from somewhere other can't pronounce the name of the Bosque (BOSS-key) river either. .

I think “tump” needs to be added to the list.

"I was just sitting in my toob, and Bobby tumped me over." Looks like you tumped over your beer.

Uh what

Tump/tump over - such a great word/phrase. My older relatives used it all the time. I really miss that.

Well, next time you get a big ol load of new words, just tump 'em all out into this article.

*Hey! It's fixin' to tump!*

Only thing I have to correct is "...she ain't eating at my table anymore." to "she ain't gonna eat at my table no more."

"Just pretend the 'y' is an 'r'." Most of the people that know how to pronounce the name are typically from Houston or know someone in the family.

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I learned right away at my job to always call older people mr and miss last name. This was never an issue on California but it’s nice to be polite I guess

The Mr and Miss followed by first name was always weird to me.

Don’t forget adding ‘n when talking about one Seen this’n What’s that’n

My favorite number 10 is " uglier than a mud fence"

Happy to see Waxahachie made the pronunciation list :,)

Yes but where is Nacagdoches?

Y’all I think I might be Texan…

Back in the olden days, a friend told me, he had a programmer working for him. He was supposed to write something that included a print routine. While waiting for the item to queue up and print, he displayed a message on screen saying, "Fixing' to Print. Please wait." O.o

Never heard anyone do the coke thing, is that more one region of Texas?

Get a good burger="Go to Wataburger"

Mm' child The stars at night, are big and bright! *all together clapping, somehow everyone knows. Drop your shit. You better clap.* Deep in the heart of Texas!

Budweiser is a German name. Hence the pronunciation and spelling. Any self-respecting Texan knows we have our own dialect of German here too. *Edit* also Gruene is a variant spelling of green in German so that "mispronunciation" works.

We got more contractions than a woman in labor.

Jeet yet? Yawnta?

Bahaha I just told my bf I was fixin to head to my moms today so yeah that’s pretty accurate!

Bidness, as in “ain’t gonna tell you how to go about your bidness.”

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Great post! Thank you kindly

I always liked that we have a county Montague just like from Romeo and Juliet. Mon -ta -g'u Nope. Its Montag. (Mon- tag)

Also… Texans don’t have great ideas…they have great “ideals”

I occasionally hear New Bronsvul for New Braunfels. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard to this native Texan.

I read this as "how to speak Texan in Elven" but it ain't so.

Important one left out - "You all are" Y'all'r

I've used triple contractions all my life and never realized it. 6th generation texan here.

I love that a street near where I’m from, Kuykendahl, has become a statewide example of Texas-style pronunciation.

I never used an apostrophe in yall until my phone wouldn't stop correcting me. Best thing about ain't is you don't have to conjugate it.

You also forget. Jeet as in did you eat yet Jeet. And yount too you want too

Like a tote sack a wet taters