RSM founder Wayne Franklin responds to the portrayal of this site in a recent column by George Packer of the New Yorker.
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Tag Archives: Southern United States
Visual Twanglish Lesson: Do Not Mash on Peaches
May 15, 2012 
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Filmmaker David Adams brings us a visual example of Twanglish at work in Clanton, Alabama.
Read more Twanglish Lesson: Tetch’d
May 8, 2012 1 Comment
Twanglish Lessons is your bi-weekly guide to the mastering the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
Today’s Twanglish Lesson is about one of those “bless your heart” moments in life.
Read more Twanglish Lesson: Tennie Shoes
May 2, 2012 4 Comments
These days, kids wear running shoes, trail shoes, skate shoes, cross-trainers and those weird monkey-toe glove thingies that look like an error in evolution.
Read more Twanglish Lesson: Drawers
March 19, 2012 6 Comments
Twanglish Lessons is your guide to mastering the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember: it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
Today’s Twanglish Lesson is not about the slide-out compartments in one’s bedroom dresser. It’s about the unmentionables one keeps inside.
Read more How to be A Fake Southern Man: An Open Letter to Mitt Romney
March 14, 2012 11 Comments
There was a conspicuous spike in hits, especially to our Real Southern Rules category, the day before the Alabama and Mississippi primaries. Coincidence? We think not.
Read more The Best of RSM: Southern Cussemisms
March 5, 2012 6 Comments
First of all, apologies for the lack of posts over the last two days. It’s been a busy time for all of our contributors. I’d like to say the distractions involved defending a young lady’s honor, a four-barrel carburetor or a quality batch of home brew, but that just isn’t the case. (However, it did […]
Read more One for the Newcomers: The Best of RSM
March 4, 2012 3 Comments
In order to give our new readers a taste of everything RSM can be, we’re going to cycle through some of our most popular stories from the past eleven months, moving them up to the top of the front page.
In case you’re too impatient to wait for those, here are some links:
Read more Twanglish Lesson: Get Beside
March 1, 2012 0 Comments
Twanglish Lessons is your guide to the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
If asked to name their top ten Twanglish phrases, this would likely make not one Real Southern Man’s list.
Read more Twanglish Lesson: Spell
February 17, 2012 0 Comments
Twanglish Lessons is your guide to the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
We’ve all heard about the kind of spell that a witch or wizard might cast on someone to say, turn them into a toad or make them go see a Michael Bay film. But we Southerners have our own types of spells: one good, one bad.
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