southernness

IPA: sˈʌðɝnʌs

Examples of "southernness" in Sentences

I think there's still a southernness, whatever that means.
Our southernness has lent a hand to many a literary devices.
She did a little background check on "southernness" which turned up this jewel by Jerry Leath Mills.
Is there still a southernness to Wachovia, a southerness to the business in North Carolina in the region?
To be honest, though, I've never felt Edwards was particularly sincere, even in 2004, but it may just be his southernness.
I had completely eradicated it from my speech but when I moved home, I guess I just inhaled all of this southernness and it just comes out!
(In the very same story southernness is seen as the less naive stance: a look, a mask of "life-is-a-dream irony, which could turn to pure challenge at the drop of a hat.")
y'all: contraction of "you all," a more musical, streamlined, unisyllabic take on the 2nd person plural than the northern phonetic catastrophe "you'ze guys." but y'all is a sadly misunderstood contraction, all too often torturously overused in fictional settings wherein "southernness" must be conveyed. in fact, y'all is rather more complicated than a mere drawling exercise in vowel manipulation, and only an ignorant yankee would treat it as such.