Copyright by Bob Rogers.

Are you from Mississippi? Then you should know the following:

1. A “pack of Nabs,” is a package of crackers (as in “Nabisco”) in a wrapper.
2. Kosciusko is pronounced Causey-ES-ko.
3. When you need a shopping cart at Wal-Mart, you ask for a “buggy.”
4. When you say you’re “fixin’ to git a coke,” you may be about to purchase a Pepsi, and if you’re “fixin’ to cut out the light,” you are about to turn off the light switch.
5. Biloxi is pronounced bill-UX-ee. If you say bill-OX-ee, you are a Yankee.
6. When you’re going to visit your parents, you say, “I’m gonna see mom and ’em.”
7. The noon meal is dinner, especially if it is on Sunday at mom and ’ems.
8. When you see a mother pushing a baby stroller, you tell her she has “precious cargo.”
9. Saucier is pronounced SO-sher, but Gautier is pronounced GO-shay.
10. You love to eat fried catfish with hush puppies and ketchup.
11. Pecan is pronounced puh-CAHN. (If you say PEE-can, you are either a Yankee or from southern Georgia.)
12. You take a pecan pie to dinner on the grounds at church after revival meeting, and to the family meal at church after a funeral, and to mom and ’ems for Sunday dinner.
13. BONUS: You pronounce it: Miss-IPPI.