What’s troubling you

[TomY]

Bingo... That's what we heard at the little store on Swan's Island. I missed it. ''Porchin' season'' is coming a few weeks.

Ayuh (never 'Ayup').

Which by the way; 'Ayuh' is heard through your nose - as you're inhaling, through your mouth.

Usually it's done 3 times fast. "Ayuh-ayuh-ayuh", as you take a breath.

This is all according to a good friend who is a native Mainer (not Southern Maine, which is not considered Maine by natives in this area).

 

[justsomeguy]

never 'Ayup'

Even in Tucson?

 

[TomY]

Even in Tucson?

Especially in Tucson.

 

[justsomeguy]

Especially in Tucson.

 

[Scott T-Bird]

I thought it was giddyup in Tucson.

 

[justsomeguy]

I thought it was giddyup in Tucson.

Originally it was "si".

Edit- Quite wrong. A previous Aztecan-type language preceeded Spanish.

 

[Bob J.]

Look, if you're going to hang out here in Maine it's not "Whats Troubling You", it's "What's Aling You"

 

[MitchM]

gerunds? participles? infinitives, split or not ? do they even bother yuns teaching those boring things any more ?

 

[pateco]

Growing up in a S Florida beach town, I ended up with a weird mix of Surfer, NY the Midwest, and the South in my speech.

"Aloha dude, how y'all doin?"
"Y'all fuhgeddaboudit"
"Y'all wanna grab a brewski"

To this day I still tend to answer phone calls from friends and family with Aloha instead of Hello.

Makes it real hard for people to figure out where I'm from.

 

[Gunni]

“Hey Ang”
“Hey Barn”

40 years ago you had to be southern country or a viewer of the Andy Griffith show to hear that. Today even New Yorkers greet one another with a crisp, “Hey!” Language lives and evolves.

“Thank you”
“No Problem”
Some language should go extinct.

 

[Crazy Dave Condon]

How about the political language coming out which I have one word comment, garbage

 

[rgranger]

Look, if you're going to hang out here in Maine it's not "Whats Troubling You", it's "What's Aling You"

But if you have sympathy for the devil it is... What's Troubling you...

 

[lehighsail]

Think how proud I was when my kid graduated from a fine mid western Big 10 school, came home to NJ and informed me she was "all edjoomakated". BTW, I was up in Vinalhaven this past spring and found it could be a perfect place to go to relax. Wish I could be there to do some "Porchin".

 

[Sandy Stone]

No, my understanding is "y'all" is singular and "ah y'all" is plural.

No, "y'all" is always plural, a contraction of "you all". My particular pet peeve is watching a movie or TV show, and an actor adresses a single person (in his fake southern accent) as "y'all". "All ah y'all" means "all of you".