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.
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Twanglish Lesson: Drawers
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.
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Twanglish Trumps QWERTY
The QWERTY keyboard has outlived its usefulness, and we think Twanglish can make it better. “Of course it can, ” you say. “Twanglish makes everything better.” But how? First, let’s look at the problem.
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The Best of RSM: Southern Cussemisms
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 […]
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Twanglish Lesson: Get Beside
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.
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Twanglish Lesson: Spell
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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Twanglish Lesson: Otter, Awta & Orta
Twanglish Lessons is your semi-irregular guide to the finer points of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
Today’s Twanglish Lesson sounds a bit like a children’s book title in the making.
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Twanglish Lesson: Dawg
Twanglish Lessons is your (sometimes) bi-weekly guide to the ins and outs of the Official Language of the South. Remember, it’s not English; it’s Twanglish.
Well, I’ll be dawg! Twanglish Lessons are back from a two-month hiatus!
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Twanglish Lesson: Buhtayduh
After a little break to make room for the early pairings in the Southern Sweets Showdown, Twanglish Lessons is back! Or are back. Or sump’m.
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Twanglish Lesson: Kilt
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.
Many Real Southern Men can trace their heritage back to the Highlands, present company included. But the fact remains: Real Southern Men don’t wear skirts.
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