Learn Texas Talk before you visit so you can understand everyone. Not everyone in Texas talks like a Texan but lots of folks do. Add syllables to words To talk like a Texan with a heavy accent, stretch all one-syllable words into two syllables. The word "big" is pronounced, "bee-yug." The word "cat" is said "ka-yut." Drop the "g" from "ing" when it is found at the end of words. Texans don't go "walking." They go "walkin." Their phone isn't "ringing." It's "ringin." Change the "ing" to an "ang" when it is found within a word. Texans with a heavy accent don't have "things." They have "thangs." They don't eat "wings." They eat "wangs." Make your long "i" sounds into lazy sounds. Texans don't get in "fights." They get in "fahts." They don't do something "nine times." They do it "nahn tahms." Texas Sayings
Say "fixin' to" instead of "about to." Say "right quick," instead of "quickly." Say "ya'll" instead of "you guys" or "you all." Say "down yonder" instead of "over there." Say "tuckered out" instead of exhausted. Say "boy howdy," when you are impressed by something. Whomperjawed is when something is not fitting properly. Chester drawers is that piece of furniture you put your socks in. "Hairyew" is a greeting used for "How are you?" "Sure'nuff: (one word). Used as a question in place of "Really?" or "Is that right?"
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Here are a few common sayings you might use in Texas. 
