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Little_stinker
05-29-2022, 02:06 PM
In which episode did Andy use the term cattywampus?

Did the residents of Mayberry use other unusual terms like that?

GentlemanJim
05-29-2022, 02:26 PM
Shazaam?

ThisLittlePiggy
05-29-2022, 05:39 PM
Highfalutin' for fancy

biffbronson
05-31-2022, 07:56 PM
I noticed that Andy Griffith had said "I'll be dogged" in No Time for Sergeants (1958). Just an example of his personal contribution to the TAGS series language.

Yong Fang
06-07-2022, 07:57 AM
I am from the South, from Memphis and North Mississippi and Southern accents are different from the different regions, by voice and inflection. There is no one southern accent.

One of my favorite things Andy says when frustrated at someone….

“You beat everything, you know that?” This is probably Carolinian southern accent.

Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle (who was from Alabama) when calling out Barney in citizens arrest, pronounces “police” as PO-lice, stressing the first syllable instead of the second. This is not uncommon on the South. PO-lice. But if you listen to Jim Nabors and George Lindsey who are both from Alabama, there is a difference in accent between them and Griffith. Griffith is upper south, Nabors and Lindsey, Deep South.

You sort of have to listen for it if you are from the southern region how people speak, and the saying they use.