1. Kool Aid
What it means everywhere else: The powder which when mixed with sugar water creates a sweet, artificially flavored drink.
What it means in Mississippi: The powder you use to dye your pickles.
2. Slug
What it means everywhere else: That slimy thing that looks like a snail without a shell that leaves snot trails along your car all summer.
What it means in Mississippi: The world’s most delicious burger, the Slugburger!
3. Mud
What it means everywhere else: When dirt mixes with water.
What it means in Mississippi: Mississippi mud pie. The muddier, the better.
4. Miss
What it means everywhere else: The salutation used for an unmarried woman.
What it means in Mississippi: Ole Miss, otherwise known as The University Of Mississippi.
5. Soul
What it means everywhere else: The spiritual part of a human.
What it means in Mississippi: The spirit of Mississippi, found in everything from the music to the food.
6. Rebels
What it means everywhere else: People who defy authority.
What it means in Mississippi: Southern culture and the backbone of Ole Miss Athletics. Hotty Toddy!
7. Bulldogs
What it means everywhere else: A particularly strong breed of dog.
What it means in Mississippi: A particularly strong breed of college sports. Go MSU!
8. Egg
What it means everywhere else: The incredible edible.
What it means in Mississippi: The holy grail of trophies fought for in the Egg Bowl, the annual football game that pitches Ole Miss against MSU.
9. Green
What it means everywhere else: The color of money, envy, and Slimer.
What it means in Mississippi: The color it’s not so easy being for Kermit, created by hometown legend Jim Henson.
10. Comeback:
What it means everywhere else: What L.L. Cool J told us not to call it.
What it means in Mississippi: Comeback sauce, otherwise known as the Kissing Cousin To Remoulade. No, there’s no weirdness to it. It’s a concoction of mainly mayo and chili sauce and it is delicious.
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11. Crane
What it means everywhere else: A large machine used for moving heavy objects in construction.
What it means in Mississippi: The somewhat intimidating Mississippi Sandhill Crane. With an eight-foot wingspan, it is the rarest crane in North America.
12. Fixin’
What it means everywhere else: Repairing something that is broken.
What it means in Mississippi: You’re not “going to the store.” You’re “fixin’ to go to the store.” You’re not “ready.” You’re “fixin’ to be ready.”
13. Drugs
What it means everywhere else: Medicine that helps relieve pain and ailments.
What it means in Mississippi: Brent’s Drugs, the historic and completely awesome vintage pharmacy/malt shop/restaurant.
14. River
What it means everywhere else: Just another stream of water that flows into the ocean.
What it means in Mississippi: The Mississippi, of course, only the fourth longest river in the world. No big deal.
15. Riviera
What it means everywhere else: The Mediterranean coastline of the southern tip of France.
What it means in Mississippi: Redneck Riviera, the pristine Gulf beaches of Alabama and Florida, popular with the folks in Mississippi come vacation time.
16. Oprah
What it means everywhere else: The queen of all media and car-giving, Oprah Winfrey.
What it means in Mississippi: Same thing, really. Only Mississippi gets to claim her as one of their own.
17. Hospitality
What it means everywhere else: The dying art of friendliness and a positive nature.
What it means in Mississippi: Your first language.
18. Manners
What it means everywhere else: What you’re expected to use at the dinner table.
What it means in Mississippi: Saying please, thank you, yes ma’am, no sir, and much obliged are just the way Mississippi folk are raised.
19. King
What it means everywhere else: The male head of a royal family ruling over a kingdom.
What it means in Mississippi: The King himself, Elvis Presley, hometown Mississippi boy. A special nod to the other King, B.B.
20. Gulf
What it means everywhere else: A gas station.
What it means in Mississippi: The most beautiful coastline on Earth.
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21. Barq’s
What it means everywhere else: What a dog does.
What it means in Mississippi: Barq’s Root Beer, invented in Biloxi by chemist Edward Barq, Sr. in 1898.
22. Blues
What it means everywhere else: The various shades of the color blue.
What it means in Mississippi: The soulful style of music unofficially born here in Mississippi.
23. Delta
What it means everywhere else: An airline or the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.
What it means in Mississippi: The Northwest section of Mississippi found between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers which spawned the earliest styles of blues.
24. Cotton
What it means everywhere else: What your t-shirt is made of.
What it means in Mississippi: One of the biggest crops and sources for revenue for the state; also what your t-shirt is eventually made of, with appreciation.
25. Bears
What it means everywhere else: Stuffed animals and a Chicago NFL team.
What it means in Mississippi: When President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot a captured bear in Sharkey County in 1902, the teddy bear was invented.
26. Belt
What it means everywhere else: The strap that keeps your pants up.
What it means in Mississippi: The Bible Belt.
27. Jackson
What it means everywhere else: Michael Jackson and his fancy moonwalkin’ skills.
What it means in Mississippi: A city in Mississippi that serves as the Capital and hub of all things happening.
28. Pine
What it means everywhere else: The smell of your Christmas tree.
What it means in Mississippi: The lemony-fresh scent of Pine-Sol, the cleaning product created here in Mississippi.
29. Cactus
What it means everywhere else: A prickly plant usually found in arid regions.
What it means in Mississippi: The world’s only cactus plantation located in Edwards.
30. Volcano
What it means everywhere else: A mountain from which lava erupts found in places like Hawaii.
What it means in Mississippi: The extinct volcano buried almost 3,000 feet under the Mississippi Coliseum
31. Literature
What it means everywhere else: The many books, especially the classics, written throughout history.
What it means in Mississippi: William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Rowan Oak, John Grisham, Curtis Wilkie and many more are just a few names in literature who hail from Mississippi.
32. Thank God
What it means everywhere else: Giving thanks for something you are grateful for.
What it means in Mississippi: Thank God for Mississippi – a common expression used by locals to remind them just how great their state really is.
What other words mean something different in the Mississippi? Tell us in the comments below!
