Mark (on the phone to co-worker): Hey Paige, where y'at?
Y'at = you at
We know it's supposed to be 'Where are you?'.
And no, we're not uneducated hicks as normally portrayed on TV and movies.
We're just embracing our Cajun heritage. You see?
It's just kinda rolls off the tongue. Try it, 'Hey, where y'at?'
13 comments:
I love to listen to you southerners accents! Cracks me up!
and I never thought for a second you were an "uneducated hick" :)
I donno bout nobudy else, but ah thank allayall tawk funny
Try this one... oot and aboot eh!
Yeah you right! ;)
BTW: Happy Birthday Miss Emma!
Hi! Just new to yer blog...
wanted to comment on the southern thang....
We lived in Texas for nearly 8 years and the funniest thing I learned from the get-go was "ya'll" is singular, and "AllYa'LL" was plural. The whole southern lingo made total sense after that.
Enjoying your blog.
In Canada, the people who live in the province of Newfoundland say "whaddya at?" to mean "how's it goin?" Funny how slang can mean so many different things!
My cousins in southwestern Pennsylvania have some slang of their own. They say things like, "Where yo'uns going?" Yo'uns roughly translates into ya'all. :^)
i tried it, and i liked it!!
How FUNNY. I'm with Suz. Still having a New York accent and living in the south, my, my!
I still greet certain people with How's ya mom an' em? Especially my family in the parish (Chalmette for people who don't know what the parish is).
Where y'at is how I greet most of my uncles and male cousins.
How's ya mom an em! That's a good one.
I was going to recommend you mix the Texas y'all - which we hear from my Spousal's family - with your y'at:
As in: y'all y'at?
But I like the plural as mentioned above; forgot about that one!
My mom (a native New Orleanian) says when asked "Where y'at?" "Between da 'a' and da 't'!" I don't know...but all of her New Orleans family cackles when she does it. My grandfather had a book of New Orleans words and their meanings. I love it:
Ter-let: dat ting you take a pee in
Zinc: it's where you wrench yer dishes
Wrench: what you do to your dishes in the zinc
It's about a 100 page book and it's hilarious!
Oh gosh! LOL! You are Cajun, right? My mom and dad are true Cajuns at heart...I am, too...but marrying a Hillbilly has changed my slang a little.
But you got dat right...we are not a bunch of ignorant hicks...but we do have a way of saying things. :-)
I call BayouPaPa just about everyday and ask him "Where y'at?" Ok...maybe marrying a Hillbilly hasn't changed me all dat much. ;-)
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