Slang
The way people in the south say "you all."
What is y'all?
This feature involves dropping the final "g" sound in progressive verbs, turning "running" into "runnin.'"
What is G-Dropping?
Along with African Americans, this group of Europeans settlers is highlighted for influencing Southern speech patterns.
British and Scottish-Irish settlers
The way people in the south say "I believe," or "I guess."
What is "I reckon?"
Saying a phrase like "I might could help you later" is an example of this feature combining two auxiliary verbs.
What are multiple modals?
English and Scots-Irish immigrants originally brought these speech Origins to America during these two centuries
17th and 18th century
The way people in the south say to wait up or slow down.
What is "hold your horses?"
When short front lax vowels merge before "m" or "n," these two writing and fastening items both end up pronounced as "pin."
What are pin and pen?
A phrase in the south that can be used in a genuine sympathetic way, or that can be used to be an insult.
What is "bless your heart?"
This vowel change process causes words like "ride," "time," or "price" to lose their off-glide, making "ride" sound like "rahd."
What is monophthongization?
The way people in the south say shopping cart.
What is buggy?
Saying "we was walking down the road" demonstrates past-tense regularizing, which is part of this broader term for making irregular verb conjugations uniform.
What is Verb Regularization (or Levelling)?