Southern Voice

"Louisiana...a place where its lands stood still and kept its prehistoric scenes"

When visiting Louisiana, or the south even, you'll find that the majority of the people have an accent, or a different 'local' vocab that's somewhat spoken across the region. Some people even have a hard time understanding what some of us are saying, especially when they're from a more northern area or far west. In my opinion I find our way of speaking to be just a lazier way of speaking English. Words are somewhat shortened, and changed to where they are easiest to say and roll straight off the tongue. I'll list a few classics of this and commonly spoken phrases...

English : Louisianian/Southern

Children : Churren/chillin
Them : dem
There : deh
That : dat (who dat!)
Going : goin'/gawn (n slightly silenced)
Have : ha (short a sound like hat)
And/In : n (pronounced like the letter n)
The : da (like duh)
With : wit/wi (short i sound)
Don't : don/dun
You all : yawl/y'all
So starting to put some of this together and it should sound like zis based on pronunciation...
Ha da hell dem churren gawn ha dat'n dey room?
Also, just about everybody in the area takes out 'them or dem' when its right after a word and replaces it with 'em.
For example: We have'em! We need'em. Get'em outa here!

Now just to add this in there, some people might cuss funny, especially when they're really pissed. My mom often said this, and I always wanted to laugh but.....well yeah that wouldn't have worked very well: Well i be goddamned! When they are seriously seriously pissed, they'll either say it fast and act right after or while saying it, orrrr they'll enunciate that last word wit a pause, which is when you know you're about to get it. So if they say it like this, well i be go.......damned!!!!...expect that last word to be loud, and their actions louder.......

Dese are some people from Grosse Tete right off da I-10 na follow along


And that's Looooosiana for ya :]
so welcome to the very south!