Y’all have such funny words for things in the South.
For instance:
When you use a light switch, you are not cutting on and cutting off the lights. You are turning the lights on and turning the lights off. Cutting off is what you do to your spouse when he/she is mean [...]
There’s a few things about North Carolina (and the South, in general) that I didn’t know when I was fresh off the boat. Here’s a few of them:
ACC
BBQ
NCAA
NASCAR
UNC
NCSU
The last two are particularly significant.You see, there are several schools in North Carolina that have the words “North Carolina” in their name. I can think [...]
I spent the last two days in Charlotte, North Carolina. It’s a city of some million-and-a-half people, and the only other time I had been there was for my wife’s immigration interview in 2003.
I don’t know if it was my mood or the city, but I just couldn’t get into the groove. Usually [...]