Basically, if you think you can't, you won't be able to accomplish something. But if you think you can, you'll succeed. If ...

Google “old Southern expressions” or “old Southern sayings and their meanings,” and you’ll find a bazillion lists online. Most of them include the classics like bless your heart, fixin’ to, and I ...

There is no single “American” culture. Rather, we have a patchwork of diverse histories, traditions and dialects—a culmination of the experiences of those who live in each region. Language is an ...

Roy Wilder Jr. has been all over hell and half of Georgia looking for memorable Southern expressions. He keeps finding them, even in an age when television, interstates and air conditioning are ...

If you’ve walked outside in shorts and flip flops in November and complained about the cold, you’re already our people, no matter where you came here from. But if you still think barbecue is a verb ...

Often it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. And on a recent reporting trip to South Carolina, I was reminded that in the rural south, how you say things can be an art. A few examples from ...

The following is an excerpt from "The Southerner's Handbook: A Guide to Living the Good Life" [HarperWave, $27.99]. Southern colloquial expressions (as my pappy used to say in his down-home way) are ...