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Thread #10188   Message #211736
Posted By: Lonesome EJ
14-Apr-00 - 12:58 PM
Thread Name: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
A word I have always liked, but seems to be fading from usage, is "yonder." The old folks in my Mom's family, who hailed from South Central Kentucky, used yonder all the time. It describes a specific visible point ("do you see that magnolia tree yonder?"or "do you see yonder Magnolia tree?"), or a general area ("the best fishing is yonder behind those hills"). I can recall my Grampaw using the short version, as in "the cat is over in yon Magnolia tree." I always thought it had a poetic feel to it.

A mildly perjorative term used in my family for Catholics was "Cross-backs."