That headline makes us feel a bit like the manager of a Holiday Inn in some far-flung Southern destination like Opp, Dunedin or Natchitoches welcoming the Shriners to town.
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Tag Archives: Twanglish Lessons
Twanglish Lesson: Poke (featuring Tony Joe White)
May 31, 2012 
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Twanglish Lessons is your semi-regular, bi-weekly guide to mastering the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
I’m sure most of these young ‘uns today would think “poke” is something you do on the Facebooks.
Read more Twanglish Lesson: Tump (Featuring a Monkee!)
May 25, 2012 7 Comments
Twanglish Lessons is your official guide to mastering the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
This week’s Twanglish Lesson is more controversial than we would have thought. Controversial because not everyone in the South has heard it.
Read more Visual Twanglish Lesson: Do Not Mash on Peaches
May 15, 2012 1 Comment
Filmmaker David Adams brings us a visual example of Twanglish at work in Clanton, Alabama.
Read more Twanglish Lesson: Flawda
May 10, 2012 1 Comment
Twanglish Lessons is your bi-weekly 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 also a bit of a Real Southern Geography lesson.
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 Stomping on Toes: The New Tennie Shoes Syndrome
May 3, 2012 0 Comments
The worst thing that could ever happen to a boy in my coastal Alabama elementary school was to get a new pair of shoes.
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 Introducing Real Southern Rules
October 3, 2011 5 Comments
Let us start by apologizing for how slow things have been on the site lately. Goodness knows y’all need your “Twanglish Lessons” and profiles of Real Southern Men just to get through these tough times. At least, that’s what we keep telling ourselves.
Read more Twanglish Lesson: Idee
September 20, 2011 7 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 comes from a place of desperation. It’s tough to keep coming up with new ones to write.
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