British guessed Southern U.S Words Meaning For the First Time!!

[@jensing89]

I’ve always heard catawampus used as a synonym for crooked or catty cornered. Southerner here.

[@honzo1078]

I heard the word from my Idaho relatives, so it's not particularly 'southern,' I don't think. And I agree, it means something that's not put together right- like a bunch of boxes that are just piled up at random, in all sorts of orientations, rather than properly stacked, or a coat that's not buttoned correctly, etc.

[@spike3082]

I have heard it and used it in the same meaning as you

[@rich_t]

We'd say "kitty corner," in Michigan.

[@honzo1078]

@@rich_t "Kitty corner" just refers to things being diagonally across from each other- 'the bank is kitty corner from the Chop Suey House.' Meaning, it's on the NE corner and the other is on the SW corner.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@honzo1078 I say cattycorner for that.

[@dereknolin5986]

The Southern lady has a charming personality, but she's about half a bubble off plumb on some of these definitions, bless her heart!

[@GinaMarieCheeseman]

Agreed!

[@Ricochet845]

100% agreed….. catawampus being the one that makes my blood boil….. I may be a damn yankee but my heart lies south of the mason dixon, and I cringed so hard at 90% of her “definitions” I don’t think she’s even from the southern parts of the U.S. she sounds more like LA. California….

[@sarahnadeofpoetry]

@@Ricochet845 She's from Florida.

[@ryanjustice2670]

@@sarahnadeofpoetry Well, she says that she was born in Florida but "from" North Carolina. So I don't know if she means she was raised most of her life in North Carolina or what. But anyway, I have to agree with the others that she wasn't a great rep for Southern slang.

[@TwBelgi78]

​@ryan justice As someone from Florida, I can explain. Geographically, yes we are Southern, and outside of our cities, you will hear very southern accents, and we all use southern twang to an extent... But because we are a bigger state population wise and have a lot of major cities as well as big foreign population remains here (Mainly latinos), the speech in the bigger cities tend to be the very standard american accent to make communication easier. Florida is really the middle ground between standard and slightly southern and how much a person understands is really if they are from a big city or not. She honestly knows more than the average and I also used to live in North Carolina so I can see where she understood the words there too.

[@henri191]

Finally , Shannon is back , a great member from USA ,, the last video about Asian countries with her was very good , Lauren of course great as always

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

I am so happy to see Shannon again. She is brilliant

[@saxon..falkenhayn2908]

I like her accent, but her blonde hair is only a dye, not a real blonde woman

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@saxon..falkenhayn2908 which one. It’s obvious they both use bleach.

[@ledues3336]

@@saxon..falkenhayn2908 why are these videos full of socially inept guys 😂

[@saxon..falkenhayn2908]

@@ledues3336 stop projecting.

[@tommyblackwell3760]

We say "cattywampus" in the Deep South meaning something that's not properly done, i.e. "those pictures are hung all cattywampus".

[@DanielWoike]

Exactly.

[@starbug345]

Yeah that’s how I use it

[@daltonfarris]

Exactly what I said, with a connotation that someone is an idiot and did a shitty job.

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

Specifically, though, it means "crooked", so your example is very accurate, but it doesn't mean "not properly done" unless in so doing you make the thing crooked.

[@90sshuffle]

Have lived in the South most of my life. Have never heard druthers or cattywampus ever in my life. Guess its not an Alabama thing

[@danielcody7568]

The “Druthers” thing must be corrected, Shannon was pulling the definition out of her butt. It’s a contraction of “I’d rather”, except “rather” is pronounced rhyming with “brother” in imitation of some US accents, where they say “ruther”. This becomes “I’d ruther” which got shortened to “druther”, as in “‘Druther eat out or make dinner at home?”. In use, “druthers” goes like “Given my druthers, Lauren would not be confused by the explanation of druthers”, i.e. “I would rather Lauren not be confused by the explanation of druthers”.

[@alicemilne1444]

Thank you for that. As a Brit, I came across "druthers" many years ago reading things like Huckleberry Finn or Westerns and understood it exactly the way you explained it, so Shannon's explanation sounded really wrong.

[@4thdimension760]

Agreed. I'm from NC [46] and that's how I'd use it. To express a soft preference.

[@jameshudson169]

isn't the same as "if i had my druthers"? as in "if i had my druthers i'd rather be home watching the ballgame".

[@danielcody7568]

@@alicemilne1444 that’s pretty cool that you intuitively got it. As an American having to read Twain and other works about people who would have said “druthers” as part of elementary school education, our teacher just explained it to our classroom as part of the curriculum.

[@danielcody7568]

@@jameshudson169 yes

[@Laurenade]

Lauren here! 👋 this was soooo much fun! I loved trying to guess the Southern Slang words with Shannon. It was a pleasure to film this and the upcoming videos together 🥰💕 p.s. can confirm Shannon is an amazing singer

[@henri191]

Hello , Lauren , i liked the video , i learned a lot and Shannon is pretty good

[@Devila103]

Hi, Lauren! Great guesses! In the South, we rarely pronounce the "g" in a word with "ing" added to the end. Fixin is just fixing with a silent g. If you're fixin to do something, you mean you're about to do it. "Fixin to go to school" means you're about to leave for school. Since she admitted it wasn't a word she used, Shannon got the pronunciation of "druthers" wrong. It's like saying "brothers" with a d instead of a b. A dohickey is just a name to call something when you can't think of it's actual name. Now for hoecakes... they are a pancake made with cornmeal, but their origin gives the their name. They were originally cooked on the flat part of a hoe or shovel held over an open fire.

[@shannon.harperrr]

AHAHAHA ilysmmm❤

[@Korruptor711]

I wish they asked you what "Hoedown" meant since they asked "Hoe cake" 😂

[@tiffanyfrey2327]

Great job. You should try iowa slang and accents. So much different than southern

[@michellejones4911]

Just for clarity.. druthers is actually pronounced druh thers. It is taken from the words ‘I’d rather’ which in the south is often pronounced more like ruther. So your ‘druthers’ are things you would rather do. Example: if someone were to ask me what I wanted to do I may respond that I don’t have any druthers.

[@snappingbear]

You're right about the pronunciation. I have heard the word used as in "If I had my druthers, I'd be a pro golfer".

[@hasonpoy]

Druther is from smashing the phrase "I'd rather," together. It expresses a simple preference.

[@dougbowers4415]

A Doohickey is something that you can’t remember what it is named. It’s the same as a whatchamacallit.

[@honzo1078]

A doohickey is a small part of something larger, like a machine, that you can't remember the proper word for. A whatchamacallit is anything you can't remember the name for.

[@audhumbla6927]

In sweden we say grej or grejsimojs or makapär or pryl. Its like funny ways to refer to a specific but unnamed thing, often becasue you cant remember the name but not neccessarily. for example "What is that pryl?" "Its one of these.. cork-makapär" "You mean a wine opener" "Yes"

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

Oh, yes, that thingamajig..

[@EnglishLad]

That thingamybob, or that whatchamajigger

[@timitchell9947]

@@honzo1078you’re both right tbh. I’ll say “go get the doohickey” if I can’t remember what I needed. Idk why though lol

[@XAudacityX]

5:25 my Nana always tell me to stop piddlin around or she'll say stop lolly gagging lol and she gets me mad when she says that to me.

[@MegUSN52]

In SE Alabama we always said "lolly gagging" as well. We rarely used "piddlin" in my family. We might would use it to mean something tiny or small, not sure since it was so rarely used.

[@mc-not_escher]

Druthers is actually “I’d rather” (and was also a restaurant that once existed in the South for a while, which was also used as an expression for getting something that you were craving for)

[@hunkerd0wn]

I'm a southerner born and raised and have never heard that one.

[@tomhalla426]

I always heard druthers rhyming with brothers.

[@charlesberkeley6429]

Me too.

[@hoya287]

That is the correct pronunciation

[@kikibigbangfan3540]

Same.👍🏾

[@dolphmanity]

You are correct. ˈdrəT͟Hər' a person's preference in a matter. "if I had my druthers, I would prefer to be a writer"

[@agresticumbra]

Came to say this.

[@christianchauhan23]

💛 all your video's 👍.

[@kaitlyndoucet2151]

they shoulda done bless your heart. that word strikes fear and anxiety into many a southern person😂

[@daltonfarris]

Literally 75% of the time its used it's passive agressive.. the other 25% of the time it's like your grandma thanking you for doing something nice for her.

[@dannyblanco8544]

The southern girl is my favorite! She’s so amazing 😊

[@mikemartin6748]

She's not southern. Her definitions are way off. She doesn't even pronounce druthers correctly.

[@dolphmanity]

She's pretty spot-on on everything else, though. Her knowing is very impressive in my opinion.

[@jeffduncan9140]

@@mikemartin6748 she doesn't strike me as being Southern, either. And I'm using of or from the southeastern US (non-inclusive of anything below Jacksonville, Fl).

[@everydaydadfixinit4803]

@@mikemartin6748 exactly!!..Midwest is not southern, so sayeth the Louisianan

[@TheDesertwalker]

@@mikemartin6748 She is southern. . Does one have to be from South Carolina to be southern? I guess Virginians are Yankees.

[@learnthatkorean]

Great video!

[@eddiehilliard9302]

That is not the definition of catawampus. To say something is catawampus means that it is off or not quite the way it should be, British people would say it is "wonky" in this case.

[@Googolbonker]

In the vein you’re describing, it can also mean crooked.

[@eddiehilliard9302]

@@Googolbonker Sure can. That's probably the most common way you hear it actually.

[@dunfalach]

Agreed. It's possible that the younger generation uses it Shannon's way, but your definition is the original one.

[@jensing89]

I agree not the definition I’m familiar with

[@gordonlewis7570]

Druthers is basically a contraction of "would rathers," so "If I had my druthers" simply means "If I had my choice."

[@dutchgamer842]

Finally Lauren from the UK is back

[@snippetshub]

Shannon has a good singing voice. That airy tone would suit pop songs well. 7:19

[@ozonewdb]

A hoecake is fried corn bread. Catawampus means a askew. Droothers cracked me up.

[@MegUSN52]

I have never heard of Southerners in the Deep South eating syrup on a hoecake. For us where I'm from in SE Alabama, hoecakes were savory and eaten at lunch or dinner with a good home cooked country meal, like with field peas or something like that.

[@charlesberkeley6429]

'Fixing to' and 'hoecake' were the only two I've never heard here in the northeast U.S (Maine). Druthers rhymes with brothers and I'd always heard it in context as "If I had my druthers", meaning if I had my way. Catawampus describes either when physical objects are arranged awkwardly or to describe things going awry. Doohickey is like whatchamacallit, used to describe an uncommon thing that you normally wouldn't know the name for. As an example, the doohickey on top of a pen that allows you to click it, ya know, whatchamacallit?

[@409gmoney]

I'm from southeast Texas and we always say fixin to or hoecake! When I was in Boston people looked at me crazy saying these words.

[@stanamilanovich3956]

This absolutely. If I had my dr-uh-thers.

[@charlesberkeley6429]

@@409gmoney I believe it. I knew 'fixing to' but I bet a lot of people in the northeast don't. Boston isn't exactly full of nice people either and they give attitude when it isn't warranted. Hoecakes, by any name, don't exist in the northeast to my knowledge.

[@Fatblue246]

ive heard fixin to before as a north eastern american but i am from NY so we get people from pretty much everywhere. Have never heard hoecake before though lmao

[@emilycunningham2556]

Came here to hopefully see someone giving the more accurate answers. I was hoping they'd correct her on druthers and catawampus

[@jeanthobaben]

I'm American and have heard the term "Hoeccake" but I never really knew what they were. Thanks!

[@putsomething]

“Fixing to” means “about to” or “going to.” You can also hear it as “finna” (like “gonna”) in AAVE. And to fix can mean to prepare, as in “I’m fixing supper”

[@anndeecosita3586]

Southerners don’t pronounce the g in this word. It’s not fixing. It’s fixin’.

[@putsomething]

@@anndeecosita3586 yeah I mean we don’t really pronounce the G in any word that ends in “ing.” I usually still type it though

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@putsomething Ok. I don’t have a Southern accent but I lived in the South a long time. Some people would comment on how I don’t drop my g in ing. I just didn’t want you to get some strange looks in the South if you go around saying fixing to 😂

[@kingchickadee8694]

@Italoazonzo tagging you here to help get your answer

[@DETHmedley]

Exactly! (From a life-long resident of North Georgia)

[@luebkesan]

Lauren, you are my favorite of the world friends. Your so pretty.

[@BenTabulaRasa]

Cute video! I enjoy it!

[@carolinazubiriamelero7840]

In one of my textbooks there is a very different meaning for cattywampus, meaning "a lie or mistake from someone who should know", so they used this word to show they caught them.😅

[@Charles_200]

Ok , i'm use more the use more the word "doohickey" right now for many things 😂 , especially because i'm not a native speaker

[@jlpack62]

Nearly any small, specific or unusual thing can be a doohickey, especially if it's not terribly common.

[@peepeepoopoo9968]

In the UK we use a similar word "Thingamajig" Doohickey sounds a lot cuter though

[@kuwabarawastaken4235]

@@peepeepoopoo9968 We use that in the US as well. Especially in California. But we also sometimes use doohickey or at the very least we all know what it means.

[@pigs18]

Thingamig, whatchamacalit, widget, whoatsitcalled, thingamabob, doohickey.

[@anndeecosita3586]

@@peepeepoopoo9968 we use that one too in the USA. Like when you either don’t know or can’t think of the same of something. For a person who say “whatshisface” l😂

[@eanotsport]

I'm from Texas, and had such a hard time with these. My parents are immigrants, so you'd probably need exposure to older generations for familiarity. The only one I knew was "fixing", but for the youth we say "finna" instead as in "I'm finna go to school" for the verb version.

[@biggpete100]

I'm from Dallas and I'm young, and maybe it's because I'm white but we say "fixin' to go to school" not "finna" which to me sounds like specifically black slang. We say things like "stop piddlin' around and let's go" so that's another one that we do use. Doohicky or doohinkey is another one I wouldn't use myself but definitely know what it is.

[@knowledgehunter_]

Why am I feeling that Shanon is a good singer? She should sing for us once

[@spk1121]

7:20, for those who want context

[@nathanspeed9683]

I'm fixin' to eat!

[@busterandloulou]

Catawampus mean positioned diagonally but has been used to mean askew or out of alignment , in disarray or disorganized.

[@howardsmith9342]

She's off on her definition of catawampus as well. It isn't a noun but an adjective, used to describe something that's messed up or out of kilter. Like, I tried to build a tree house, but it ended up all catawampus.

[@garyschwab8802]

Druthers rhymes with others. It means choices/options.

[@CharlesStacyII]

This one was great, you could tell the ladies were having a lot of fun with the words.

[@johnalden5821]

A doohickey is a thingamabob, which is the same thing as a thingamajig. It's what you say when you forget the word (or never knew it) for the thing you are trying to refer to. And yes, a doohickey could well be a small piece of equipment or gadget that you usually overlook but for some reason need to talk about at that instant, as in "Pass me that little doohickey you were using to loosen the oil filter."

[@Jorge-rw6nz]

Omg I haven’t heard these words in a really long time

[@DETHmedley]

As a fellow American, I couldn't have said it better myself.👌

[@williamcarter1993]

they call them hoecakes because they used to use the gardening tool, the hoe, the blade of the hoe as the griddle to cook them on

[@FionaEm]

We say druthers in Australia. It means something we'd prefer to be doing but aren't. "If I had my druthers, I'd be sipping pina coladas on the beach ... " We also say doohickey but it means thingummybob or whatchmacallit - something you say when you can't think of the correct name for an object.

[@jwb52z9]

Americans are often more like Australians than the English in a lot of ways.

[@FionaEm]

@@jwb52z9 Yeah, we Aussies are a mix of both, with a lot of our own slang thrown in!

[@anndeecosita3586]

I would like to visit Australia. I get a more laid back/chill, like to do your own thing kind of vibe from you guys. I think a lot of Americans have a similar personality.

[@heatherarmstrong261]

I'm American, and I would use both druthers and doohickey in the ways you said you would use them.

[@alexnewsome5111]

Living in the south my whole life and I have totally never heard some of these lol

[@NextExiter]

Maybe you're pretty young, and they're falling out of fashion? I'm life-long west coast and I'm sure I've heard all of those terms at least once.

[@djdarbary]

Druthers=preferences. Contraction of "I'd rather...".🍀

[@dorismoran9641]

Catawampus means crossways doesn't it? Not lined up, but backwards to how an object should be placed?

[@gemillita]

What a beautiful voice Shannon!!!! 😍

[@niftylouie]

I would pay to watch a distinguished Savannah gentleman have an engaging front porch meeting to discuss the topics of the day with a distinguished gentleman from Southeastern England. In Savannah; over traditional sweet tea for a home field advantage. That would be pretty cool.

[@michaelhawk3861]

6:43 there's this scene on That 70s show with Red and Kelso soldering on a pong game. Clip on youtube is called That 70s show - Kelso is a genius!

[@southerncharm5359]

NC here and I’ve never heard of washateria or druthers. Maybe an old folks thing or regional.

[@wWvwvV]

6:24 In german there is pissen and pinkeln. The first is more rude, same as piss in english. You can also say "strullern" (spoken schtrullern). It's like pinkeln, but with more emphasis to forcing it out. It's child speech.

[@antoniocasias5545]

Druther is a contraction of “I’d rather” which is a contraction of “I would rather”

[@DJShire_ATL]

I've lived in the US all my life but some of these words I never one heard before. Like Hoecake and Washateria.

[@thegreatknight6076]

Same. I was completely shocked that was even a real 'thing'. I'm from the far upper northern "midwest" so, maybe it shouldn't be so surprising for me not personally know these two phrases. It was very interesting either way.

[@MegUSN52]

I'm from SE Alabama and I've never heard of "Washateria". We also never pronounced "wash" as "warsh" except if you had a country Southern accent. My husband is from Seattle, WA and he pronounces it as warsh.

[@WordAte]

Laundrette probably comes from the fact that the shops used to be women washing clothes, hence -ette. In the US, the O-Mat refers to machines, like from o-matic or automatic.

[@davidtandi1294]

Well I never thought that Shannon can sing well 😊

[@modelcitizen1155]

A young lady who apologizes for her accent slipping out, in my opinion, is probably not the best choice to explain Southern speech.

[@dougbowers4415]

Druthers rhymes with brothers and it means if I had my way.

[@quananh5530]

Please bring Shannon on screen more! She’s absolute gorgeous ngl

[@Revgal]

I've heard Dr(ah)thers (rhymes with brothers) as an expression for being depressed. Like, "I'm in the druthers today." Instead of what could be "I'm down in the dumps," or almost a "I'm all in my head today." (Preoccupied with my own problems...)

[@whitneylivingston5706]

Druthers does not have the long u sound, at least not in Texas, and we use it more to reference your preferences. Catawampus is more along the lines of off kilter or haphazard

[@rockynelson1643]

It might be helpful for the American to also say the state they are from. The states can have very different cultures.

[@ycplum7062]

FYI, a hoe was a type of cast Iron pan (not a farming implement), no longer common.

[@alejandromoreno5056]

guy raised in LA here 🙋‍♂ I've never heard any of these words before.

[@476429]

"Druthers" means "preferences" and it's pronounced druh-thers. Example, "If I had my druthers, we'd stay at home tonight." It may have begun as a shortened form of "I'd rather" which many in the south pronounce, "I'd ruhther." When you express what you would rather do, you are expressing your preferences. So "druther" is essentially a modified form of "rather". Like, "If I had my rathers [what I would rather do], we'd stay at home tonight." "Hoecakes" may have gotten their name from being cooked over a fire using a hoe as a griddle. "Catawampus" means "out of whack, not as it should be". Example, "That car is parked all catawampus in that spot."

[@klondikechris]

We use doohickey all the time in Canada. Along with thingamabob, which means the same thing. Doohickey is more popular though.

[@patriciavicari7002]

How many years have you been in Korea like both of you? Just wondering because how many times do you like visit your home in America and Britain?

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

As an American northerner, I probably only knew 2 of those words!

[@joshuamontgomery3011]

1:29 It's not pronounced "droother," it rhymes with "brother." "If I had my druthers, I'd rather..." 4:23 I've never heard it pronounced "catawompus-" my momma pronounced it "caddywompus"

[@YonatanZunger]

Language notes! In many dialects (like AAVE), "fixin to" has further shortened to the single word "finna." AAVE is famous for having a much more complex tense structure than other English dialects, and "finna + inf." denotes something happening in the very immediate future, sooner than "gonna + inf" or "-a + inf" (eg "I'ma get some fish"). "Druthers" (with the same vowel as "but") basically doesn't exist outside of a few fixed phrases, mostly "to have one's druthers." It means "preferences," from a shortening of "I'd rather." When you make hoecakes, you use a pan scraper to flip them - traditionally, a hand hoe! It started as food of the (very) poor. And yes, they're delicious. In addition to being a euphemism for pissing, the adjective piddlin' means "small or insignificant." Something can be a piddlin' matter, or a person can even be piddlin', which is not a nice thing for someone to be. Note how in' is used to write words that originally ended in ing, but have lost the g sound in Southern dialects. These are always pronounced with the "pin" vowel, even if the original -ing word used a different vowel like the "sing" vowel.

[@johnleake5657]

Yes, 'piddling' is used like to mean "small or insignificant" in the UK too (not polite, but not obscene either, and very informal). You pronounce it with -n or -ng depending on your dialect.

[@daltonfarris]

I use Finna more than "fixing to" but 10 years ago would have said fixing to.

[@edszuba3965]

Wait a minute…..warsh is from the south? That’s Pittsburghese! 😁. Enjoying the videos.

[@marcanthony8873]

We use doohickey here in the Northeast pretty much daily. I think doohickey travels coast to coast.

[@santiagoperez5431]

Doohickey is if I remember similar to thingamobob

[@frankb1]

Cattywampus means something different where I'm from. It means across but diagonally.

[@censusgary]

Try doing this with an American who knows what these words mean, and how to pronounce them.

[@KevlarX2]

Pretty much college students are the main ones who still use a washateria, but everyone I know calls them laundromats.

[@DanielWoike]

I live in the Midwest of the US and had never heard of Washateria before. The rest I knew.

[@sadeiofficial]

Yay ;) this was so much fun to watch! 🎉 Being from Florida this was so interesting! Living in Hawai’i but with a little bit of a southern twang ;) Love these videos! 💕

[@Hososugi]

I would pronounce druthers like "druh.thers" and not like "droo.thers". It means your preferences and comes from "would rather" like "I would rather" -> "I'd rather" -> "drather" -> "druther"

[@Ty921]

So Midwest words next right?

[@craigmcvay1]

Catawampus LOVE IT

[@scottfree641]

Druthers sounds like Brothers and you didn't even correct her so she learns it right. And it's a short version of "If I had it all over to do again" type of deal. And Wash or Warsh is not the deep south Ozark south uses it to and some over in the Kentuck/Tennesee area as well.

[@LB_die_Kaapie]

Southern Belle accent is the sexiest US American accent!

[@gregwunderlich4253]

Southerner here, hi! Druthers, by my reckoning means "I'd rather", or something like that. But I am admittedly not a genius. Even though I am fluent in Southernese.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

My research tells me that the "hoe" in hoecake is indeed from the gardening implement, but it has nothing to do with the reaping of the corn. Instead, hoecakes were originally cooked on the blade of a hoe instead of in a pan!

[@MegUSN52]

Hoecakes, also known as Johnnycakes or cornmeal pancakes, are a traditional Southern dish that has been enjoyed in various forms throughout American history. Originally, they were made by early settlers and Native Americans using cornmeal, water, and salt, and cooked on a flat hoe over an open fire, hence the name "hoecake."

[@tysonl.taylor-gerstner1558]

druthers? I think I remember it more with a short u than a long one

[@shannon.harperrr]

This was so much fun! I always love getting to film with Lauren and we had a great time discussing these southern words! Although I’m not familiar with all these words, like “druthers”, I did my best to explain them and bring you guys something a bit different! Please forgive me if I got anything wrong or explained it poorly, this is all just my personal experience/perspective! I really hope y’all enjoyed the video! Let us know which word was your favorite:)

[@spk1121]

"Hoes are delicious?" made me lol, nice job overall 😄👍

[@nathanspeed9683]

Hi Shannon! I enjoyed watching the Koreanet video last night where you had to answer questions!

[@moonlitegram]

You guys are great together, you play off each other really well. Side note: you have a lovely singing voice :D

[@anndeecosita3586]

Except for druthers, you did a good job. Don’t worry. Your Southern card is not revoked 😂 You should tell her Lauren what Southern grandmothers mean by “Give me some sugar.” 😂

[@danielleporter1829]

Piddling(piddlin) can also mean doing little things around the house. I guees that depends on which part of the US a person is from. I'm from Southern California and growing up I used piddling to mean I was straightening up the 🏠 . My mom would call from from work and ask what I was doing, and I'd say I was just piddling around the house. Pet owmers , especially dog owners who are housebreaking their puppies will use piddle when the pup has an accident. Hoecakes in the Northeast are called Johnny cakes. Hoecakes were literally cooked on the end of hoes by farmhands and sharecroppers/tenant farmers in the south . Hoecakes are usually cooked in a cast iron skillet or griddle. South American arepas are very similarly made as Hoecakes but arapas are usually sliced lengthwise and filled with sweet or savory fillings. While hoecakes are made with cornmeal typically, arepas are made with corn flour.

[@AriasEsRepulsivo]

Not "arapa" though. The word you're referring to is 'arepa'; that's it's legitimate spelling.

[@danielleporter1829]

@@AriasEsRepulsivo I didn't catch my misspelling of Arepa thank you,😀

[@jamesrogers1554]

In the South "piddlin" could mean doing little things around the house, but the key component is that you are doing things that aren't particularly important usually at the expense of something else. Like "Dad should be taking the bags out to the car, but he's just piddling around in the garage."

[@kurtsudheim825]

I'm not even American & I've heard of half of these, maybe some from TV, like cat is not used where in from, but doo hickey is sometimes by older people. & we don't say "fixing to do x", it's just "I'm going to fix (some), dinner", meaning you're going to quickly do something to substitute for the proper/ full thing

[@Doing_Time]

It's not enough they have their own pronunciations, they have their own words too...and they're all different in every part of every state in the "south"

[@cloneofethan]

It's interesting I grew up in the western us and the South we say about half the southern words in the West, but a lot the other half if you said that to someone out west I don't think they'd know what you're saying, but there where some there used in context I'd be able to easily figure out what your talking about

[@docsaaid2939]

Southern accent and South as whole is amazing. Better than the north in my opinion. Respects from pakistan!

[@AnnoyedSonic]

As someone who used to live in Texas when they were young, this really brought me back. Also it's fun to go "Oh! I know what that is / means!" on each word.

[@notvalidcharacters]

"Fixin'" is directly derived from "Preparing", for which it exactly substitutes. Drop the P from "preparing" and you get "repairing" (in spoken language at least) which is a synonym for "fixing". And it's "DRUH-thers" not "Droo-thers". Short U. Contracted from "I'd rather" where "rather" drawls into "ruther" Connect the D and you have Druther, which is then pluralized into "if I had my druthers" (my preferences). "Warsh" is *not* common in the South. That's western Pennsylvania.

[@johnalden5821]

You'll hear "warsh" in the Mid-Atlantic, too. Some people will say "Warshington, D.C."

[@reniefuwa]

I think "washateria" has a very limited geographic area where they use it. I've never even encountered the word before, even living in Texas almost 8 years. All the others I've at least heard/read before

[@mr.rodgers3745]

I have lived in south alabama most of my life and before that Mississippi and I can tell you this girl is getting some of these wrong. I never heard of a hoecake and I never heard of anyone saying Druthers. Catywampus means bent out of shape i.e. that board is catywampus.

[@wesleybush8646]

If I had my druthers, these two would make videos daily.

[@ivormctin6367]

What type of videos? 😜

[@wesleybush8646]

@@ivormctin6367 Now, Now. I was only speaking in wholesome terms.

[@Pharaoh_The_Great]

It seems like people like Lauren with anyone from USA lol. The past videos was Lauren and Christina. Now it’s Lauren and Shannon. Lauren is a very likable person though.

[@jdub7771]

Another great combo!

[@saeedgnu]

In Iran, we say (rarely) bilbilak for doohicky, so I kinda understand it despite never have heard it. But we usually say the word for thing (chiz). Bilbilak is just funny and silly...

[@DillyHD]

What state is Shannon from?

[@EvoLeil]

Okay, im not sure the girl from amwerica knows what she's talking about all the time. Where im from (kentucky), catawampus means something is crooked or askew.

[@richardpatterson9934]

So just a quick correction. Catawampus means like off kilter. Lol say a bookshelf is crooked or off then that bookshelf is all catawampus. That’s a MS definition at least lol.

[@annieswingle9056]

I’m from the south hi from Virginia 🙂

[@kelleywimberley]

Druthers is like would you rather - with a short u

[@senorspaceghosto4718]

This video was CATAWAMPUS lol!

[@gom5799]

My family in Northern England and Scotland just say thingme when talking about a subject or thing we can't exactly remember