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Thread #10188   Message #211318
Posted By: Caitrin
13-Apr-00 - 04:38 PM
Thread Name: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun!
My brother's urging me to get off the computer, so I didn't get to read all the thread. Pardon me if I post something that's already been said.
It's a peecan, accent on the first syllable, not a p'cahn, to most people around here.
If something flew all over you, it made you mad.
If you're dumber than a box of rocks, you're pretty stupid.
"Crackers" and "trailer trash" are not good things to be.
The town of Winterville is "Winnervul", and the town of Pink Hill is more like "Pank Ill."
The mountains of NC have more strange phrases, like "the hawk is flying low" to mean it's cold. The most interesting NC accent, though, is what's known as a Hoi Toider, possessed almost exclusively by Harkers Islanders and Hatteras Islanders. I'm told it's very similar to Elizabethan English.