Originally published at: Here are the top 15 most Southern words used in Airbnb listings | Boing Boing
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“gameday”?
How is this Southern? Literally everywhere there is a sports team there is a Game Day.
Come on y’all!
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How romantic.
/s just in case.
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There is NO part of the USA that is not still defined by the legacy of slavery.
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Up here in the PNW, there are certainly game days, but people put a space between the words. I think the single-word “gameday” is perhaps distinctly Southern. Obviously the same concept exists, but the syntax is a little different. (My favorite odd example of this: in British English, it is totally normal to refer to a men’s upper garment as “a top.” In American English, no one would say that that’s wrong exactly, but it usually means women’s clothing.)
I will take this opportunity to encourage everyone to replace “plantation” with the more accurate “slave labor camp.” Not only is it a better description of the actual function, it’s also a stick in the eye to the sort of Lost Cause assholes who just can’t stand hearing the truth. And, apparently, it’ll also piss off pretentious AirB&B types, just for a bonus.
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yeah (bless their hearts) “gameday” isn’t a general notable Southern states term. and someone has to explain to this northern_yankee about “stilts”? is that being used in some other context than…
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ahhhh @zabieru explains “stilts” to this sad pilgrim. thankee!
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I think we’re talking real estate here, so they’re stilts for houses.
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Stilts.
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I can’t say I’ve ever thought about it, but the NFL itself uses the contracted form:
And has for a while. There used to be a game with the same name, too.
ETA: Ok, I don’t know what to call it when it’s a contraction stylized with a capital letter for the second word. Whatever. I’m still not paying for it, NFL!!!
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Being that the Appalachians were contiguous to the Scottish Highlands, it’s a bit hard to view it as especially Southern
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Even if you restrict yourself to the north American part, they go well into Canada.
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I don’t think game day was used exclusive to Southern Airbnb listings, just that it was one of the top 15 most use words.
I suspect it might crop up in the top 15 most used words in the north.
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Alligators, dolphins, armadillos, redfish, shrimp
One-third of the list is animals. Three are delicious. One intelligent. And the third is the only non-human carrier of Hansen’s disease (leprosy).
Honestly, though, I’m surprised that dolphins made the list.
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According to the Japanese and people in Central and South America, all 5 on the list are delicious…
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i knowed what was meant by that.
bless y’alls hearts, y’all need to read more Hiaasson!
ETA: i would totally rent a stiltsville house for a boat-up vaca, but for two problems - 1: the stilt houses are all gone; removed and 2: biscayne bay is literally full of shit! as in, miami/fort lauderdale’s broken sewage treatment actually pumps effluent into that body of water. gross!
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“Southern hospitality” has always meant wildly different things to different people.
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This Appalachian Pennsylvanian was also confused. But then I realized my last intern lamented seeing more confederate flags here than she did back home in Georgia and I was reminded PA is just weird.
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So, yet more letting white racists define southern culture.
Bless his heart…
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