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The Southern dialect (or is it?) command "Do!" Anyone familiar with it? (Original Post) raccoon Apr 2013 OP
Southerner here and I have NEVER heard this. CurtEastPoint Apr 2013 #1
Do whut, now??? (eom) CanSocDem Apr 2013 #2
Other than do whut, now, I've never heard Southern expression do... bamademo Apr 2013 #4
+1 MrsBrady Apr 2013 #7
Naw, uh-uh klook Apr 2013 #3
No, but I've heard "Bless her (or his) heart." alarimer Apr 2013 #5
the word fix MrsBrady Apr 2013 #8
In New Orleans to "fix" someone can also mean to curse them. nolabear Apr 2013 #14
i can see that... MrsBrady Apr 2013 #22
you forgot the famous WolverineDG Apr 2013 #23
oh god yes... MrsBrady Apr 2013 #24
You bring the fixens? Downwinder Apr 2013 #25
yep... MrsBrady Apr 2013 #26
I'm fixin' to ashling Apr 2013 #47
yea... MrsBrady Apr 2013 #48
never heard anyone in my family use that MrsBrady Apr 2013 #6
nope. mzteris Apr 2013 #9
I heard that. (Another one, has to be said just right, non?) nolabear Apr 2013 #11
getting middle named MrsBrady Apr 2013 #12
oh yes Kali Apr 2013 #41
That's the general area where I've heard it -South Carolina - Charleston. raccoon Apr 2013 #27
Never heard of it. What part of the South? Because we're all over the place. nolabear Apr 2013 #10
See #9. nt raccoon Apr 2013 #28
Sure someone wasn't yelling at Nancy for a Mountain Dew? MADem Apr 2013 #13
Straight from The Dew Drop Inn. nolabear Apr 2013 #15
There used to be one on Cape Cod, years ago! MADem Apr 2013 #16
Oh I know, but I can only hear it with a Southern accent. And the pun was a knee slapper. nolabear Apr 2013 #17
I agree--it works best south of the Mason-Dixon... nt MADem Apr 2013 #31
New one on me. nt rrneck Apr 2013 #18
I have never heard that one. Moondog Apr 2013 #19
New one on me... OriginalGeek Apr 2013 #20
I've lived in the South for over 40 years without hearing that. Arkansas Granny Apr 2013 #21
Nope. I live in Georgia RebelOne Apr 2013 #29
Never heard of it. Behind the Aegis Apr 2013 #30
Virginia south here and this is the first time I've ever read it. ileus Apr 2013 #32
I have lived in the South all my life (50 yrs), except for 6 months in Michigan, and have NEVER.... Ghost in the Machine Apr 2013 #33
never heard it. lived and raised all over the south. n/t Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 #34
Two possible explanations: I grew up in "the Village" raccoon Apr 2013 #35
In old time inventories and invoices DO stood for ditto, MrYikes Apr 2013 #36
I was raised by a Southern momma, and I've never heard it. nt Still Blue in PDX Apr 2013 #37
It is more Jedi than Southern bike man Apr 2013 #38
I grew up in Georgia & southeastern Tennessee: nope. In_The_Wind Apr 2013 #39
New one on me Jeff R Apr 2013 #40
have given this some thought and could it be that you are on about the emphasis being placed on the Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 #42
I only know it from UNCLE TOM'S CABIN derby378 Apr 2013 #43
the Uncle Tom's Cabin that I saw was a silent film. I guess there has been a remake. n/t Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 #44
Er, uhm... derby378 Apr 2013 #45
oh. derp. pulled it up now -- looking for a sentence that uses DO in this manner -- Tuesday Afternoon Apr 2013 #46

klook

(12,134 posts)
3. Naw, uh-uh
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 10:13 AM
Apr 2013

Ain't never heard that'n.

My grandmother might have said something more like, "Sayrah Elizabeth, you get yourself back in this house this instant! Don't make me cut a switch!"

alarimer

(16,245 posts)
5. No, but I've heard "Bless her (or his) heart."
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 10:30 AM
Apr 2013

As in, "She tries so hard. Bless her heart."

Around here, "right many" means a lot (I think).

Also I've heard "fixin' to" as in, "I'm fixin' to whup you upside your head."

MrsBrady

(4,187 posts)
8. the word fix
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 10:42 AM
Apr 2013

is subsituted a lot for other words.

fix dinner: cook or make

i'll fix it for you: repair, cook, make

get my hair fixed: done, colored, styled

the list goes on...lol

nolabear

(41,915 posts)
14. In New Orleans to "fix" someone can also mean to curse them.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 11:16 AM
Apr 2013

You can also say "I lit a candle on him", and in fact that's what's done. And yeah, it's still done.

MrsBrady

(4,187 posts)
22. i can see that...
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 12:46 PM
Apr 2013

although not lately, I've used and heard
I'll fix you....meant both seriously and as a joke...but I guess NO does have it's own thing with the voodo context.

What's funny is I was just thinking that...
while I've certainly heard 'in a fix'...I don't think that's used much...lol
I think we like to use it as a verb.

WolverineDG

(22,298 posts)
23. you forgot the famous
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 12:47 PM
Apr 2013

"fixing to start"

Fixing to walk, fixing to go to bed, etc

but I have never heard "do" either.

MrsBrady

(4,187 posts)
6. never heard anyone in my family use that
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 10:38 AM
Apr 2013

both sides my of family are all over Texas and Oklahoma (1880s to present) then arkansas and alabama (pre and post civil war) before TX and OK.

never heard that used like that.

knock it off
straighten up
get to gettin'
and variations on what the poster klook said


or no words used at all and you'd just get the look

mzteris

(16,232 posts)
9. nope.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 11:11 AM
Apr 2013

Never heard that one. . . .

Central and South Georgia
Southern Alabama - both east and west sides of state
Kentucky (ok not really southern)
South Carolina - Charleston
North Carolina - RDU area

All my "people" were/are Deep South. Never heard that one.

It was when you heard your middle name tacked on to your first one that meant business - whatever the previous command may have been.

raccoon

(31,092 posts)
27. That's the general area where I've heard it -South Carolina - Charleston.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 01:41 PM
Apr 2013

Maybe it's obsolete. My mother wasn't from Lowcountry so she didn't say it, but I heard it from friends' mothers.


nolabear

(41,915 posts)
10. Never heard of it. What part of the South? Because we're all over the place.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 11:14 AM
Apr 2013

Way different colloquialisms for different areas, and some ubiquitous. That one I've never heard though, and I pretty much cover MS, LA, AL and the Carolinas. Oh, and some GA. LOL! Relatives...

MADem

(135,425 posts)
16. There used to be one on Cape Cod, years ago!
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 11:22 AM
Apr 2013

The reference there, I think, was more "morning dew" than Mountain Dew!

nolabear

(41,915 posts)
17. Oh I know, but I can only hear it with a Southern accent. And the pun was a knee slapper.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 11:24 AM
Apr 2013

At least it was when I was a girl and it was the only pun I'd ever seen. I got better.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
20. New one on me...
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 12:11 PM
Apr 2013

I was born and now live in Florida, grew up in Texas and have lived in North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and Maryland.


I did think it was funny once when I heard a frustrated mother at a shoe store yell at her recalcitrant kid to "Put your shoes off your feet!" - he didn't wanna try on new shoes and wouldn't take his shoes off.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)
29. Nope. I live in Georgia
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 01:47 PM
Apr 2013

and formerly lived in South Florida, and also spent some time in Alabama. I have never heard that in any of the Southern states.

Behind the Aegis

(53,833 posts)
30. Never heard of it.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 02:32 PM
Apr 2013

I have lived in TN, KY, NC, SC, GA, VA, FL, and NOLA and I have never heard such a command.

ileus

(15,396 posts)
32. Virginia south here and this is the first time I've ever read it.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 08:39 PM
Apr 2013

and for sure never heard it before.

Ghost in the Machine

(14,912 posts)
33. I have lived in the South all my life (50 yrs), except for 6 months in Michigan, and have NEVER....
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 12:03 AM
Apr 2013

..... ever, heard this term used. I've lived mainly in South Florida & East Tennessee, but lived 10 years in Georgia, a year in South Carolina and a year in North Carolina.

One of the strangest things I ever encountered was while living in S.C., in a small burg outside of Darlington. One of the LOWEST cut-downs you could call a man there was to call him a "Rascal"! Them there was fightin' words! Worse than being called a lowlife, scum sucking, goat fucking, baby-raping piece of shit.

As for "Do!".. never heard it anywhere....

Peace,

Ghost

MrYikes

(720 posts)
36. In old time inventories and invoices DO stood for ditto,
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 08:35 AM
Apr 2013

there may be a connection brought forward in time.

Jeff R

(322 posts)
40. New one on me
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 05:55 PM
Apr 2013

Never heard it, drove over the road for more than 3 decades and ran as much in the south as anywhere. Lived below the Mason-Dixon line for most of my adult life. Not a term I am familiar with.

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)
42. have given this some thought and could it be that you are on about the emphasis being placed on the
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 06:06 PM
Apr 2013

word DO ... as in

Please, DO go into town and pick up the dry cleaning.

Please, DO scratch my back.

that type of phrasing ... yes, I am familiar with that.

however,did not realize that to be "southern"



derby378

(30,252 posts)
43. I only know it from UNCLE TOM'S CABIN
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 07:55 PM
Apr 2013

It was a dare from Simon Legree to one of Tom's former masters when he threatened to bring in the law. In this context, it sounded like "Bring them on" to me.

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