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Think you know how to talk Southern? In this video, country singer and cookbook author Hannah Dasher shares how to pronounce tricky Southern words—from “rural” to “chest of drawers”—with a little humor and a lot of personality.
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00:00Rural. How else do you say it? Rural.
00:01Rural. Rural.
00:03In Southwest Georgia, they say oil.
00:05In the Lowcountry, we say oil.
00:07In honor of my new cookbook, Stand By Your Pan,
00:11I'm going to pronounce some words
00:12that some Southerners just can't seem to say right.
00:15Bless our hearts.
00:16Woo! One of my favorite things to be.
00:18Naked. N-A-Y-K-U-D. Naked.
00:21Some folks say naked. N-E-K-K-E-D.
00:23And that's all right.
00:24Oh, one of my favorite things to eat.
00:26Fried squirrel.
00:28Honey, don't knock it till you try it.
00:29Squirrel. Smothered in gravy. It's delicious.
00:32Barbed wire. A barbed wire fence, the E-D is silent, right?
00:36And I would keep E-D silent, too, if I had it.
00:39We say chest of drawers,
00:40but there are some people who say chest of drawers.
00:44You are the weakest link. Goodbye.
00:45Roof. But if you're in Virginia, it's roof.
00:48We say light, but I know folks that say light.
00:51Reeve McIntyre says light. Right?
00:53Is it crayon? We say crayon. I have to drink.
00:56Oh, Luke Bryan says wash.
00:58Wash, but wash.
01:00You're welcome for the English lesson.
01:01Talk right.
01:02Drink more.
01:04God bless you.
01:04Thank you, Sergey.
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