As many people know, I am from a very small town. Words do not exactly have the same meaning to us as they might for other people.In my little hick town, most people just make up words. It is probably the most illiterate place known to man. I got used to it the older I got. I never really knew that I had an accent or used words in funny phrases until I moved to College Station. My meanings of words has changed tremendously in the past four months. When telling someone "bye" someone from my hometown might say "I'll holler at ya",but in College Station people would probably think that was a joke. If I am going to the grocery store and I need a shopping cart I would most likely say "will you grab me a buggy" and people from the city have no idea what a "buggy" is. If I went to school one day and was telling people that me and my mom got into an argument I would say "me and my mom got into a knock down drag out last night". I said that in front of my boyfriend and he honestly had no idea what that meant because he is from the Austin area. If I needed to go to the store my friends would say "its just down yonder". If someone looked really nice for church on that Sunday everyone at church would tell them "that is some nice get up. If I was going out with my friends that weekend you could guarantee that it was going to be a "hoot and holler". If I was not doing what I was supposed to be doing I was "piddlin" in something. We also greet people by saying "whacha say dah". Even the educators back home use "yall","aint"and "gonna". We also do not pronounce the "g's" at the ends of words, we pronounce them as lovin,fixin,dancin,muddin,and ridin.

     Living in an area like College Station has made me realize honestly how ignorant some of those things sound but when you hear that stuff your entire life you do not even realize that other people would never even think of saying something like that. I am very proud and happy to have been from that small town but so thankful to get out and widen my horizon of vocabulary. Words are starting to get a whole new meaning to me and it is so interesting to me to find new ways to say things. I am very thankful to have gotten out of that one horse town and to educate myself so I do not sound like a redneck my entire life.