Do You Speak Southern? (knowing what certain phrases mean)

[2naSalit]

68. I got 80%

and I've lived north of I-80 (sometimes I-90) all my life with the exception of the few years I lived in southern CA. But I traveled a lot.

One that I thought was not a southern thing was lightning bugs, that's what we called them up in rural Maine when I was a kid.

I used to have a good friend from the Bristol, VA/TN area and she had some really good ones that made me laugh like:

Lightning bug = "candle fly"
Knocking on the door = "peckin' at my door"
The trays under the element on an electric stove = "stove eyes"

That woman was true hill country and had the whole vocabulary, I was constantly trying to interpret whenever we met for coffee.