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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: katlaughing Date: 09 Apr 99 - 11:44 AM BSeed, you'e right of course, with some papers. The one here that I write for is Wyoming's only statewide paper, but it is also not that grand. Up until the new editor came (who is now living, thank gawd!) my opinion pieces wereon the editorial pages, with letters to the editor being on the opposite page. Now, I am still in the Sunday edition, just on a "Forum" page all it's own across from the editorial page. who knows what teh new editor will do. Out here, I've always heard them called op/ed pieces. In the Liberal Opinion Week (www.liberalopinion.com) it is allreprints of editorial and opinion pieces from around the country. I think, in general, at least from what I've seen, the lines have blurred a little. Our editorial page always has opinion columns on it. As for words: my dad always called the glove compartment in a car the "grub box" meant for food. I didn't realize I did this until the other night, we women are called and call ourselves "gals". Who can forget that famous mountain range the Grand Tetons, which my french speaking hubby says means big breasts and which the uninitiated call "Teh uns" while we call them the "Tee-tawns". Then there are the town and river called Belle Fourche, which in french is mostly said "bell foosh", but if yer a native you say "bell four shay". The Popo Agie River is pronounced "Poe poe shah". I'm gonna have to call dad and get some from him. His language is so colouful. I am so used to these I can't think of any! katl |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Steve Parkes Date: 09 Apr 99 - 11:46 AM Oh, you mean tick, Alistair! |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Bert Date: 09 Apr 99 - 11:52 AM Kat, I was talking to someone in Dallas about Tejon, that street in The Springs. She insisted on pronouncing it Tee-John instead on Tay-Hone. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: AlistairUK Date: 09 Apr 99 - 11:52 AM aaargh...It's tag damn you, TAG!!! :o) |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: katlaughing Date: 09 Apr 99 - 12:03 PM Bert: ROTFLMAO!!!!HEHEHE!!! |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Barbara Date: 09 Apr 99 - 12:31 PM I once had this conversation with an upstate NY friend: Me: Going to the store, get you anything? NYer: yeh, get me some baggles. Me: Huh? NYer: A dozen baggles, you know like donuts? but not sweet? Me: Ohhh, Bay-gles. Sure. NYer:That's what I said. BAGGLES. |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Cara Date: 09 Apr 99 - 02:42 PM Just thought of another mispronounced Ohio town: Ironton--I knew someone from there who pronounced it with almost no consonants-Ahrn'in. But of course, that's Southern Ahia, and what do they know? (Did you hear they're building the largest zoo in the world in Cincinnati? Yep, they're putting a fence around Kentucky.) I think I may have gotten myself in trouble on that one...
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Dr John Date: 09 Apr 99 - 03:22 PM Katlaughing:- with regard to that unfortunately named English county north of Suffolk, there's a wonderful rugby song where they fall over a precipice, finish it, go to N-r-f-l- and other things I forget. AlistairUK - swearings ok and necessary even but the problem is listening to some of those who stand on street corners, every other word's the f-word - nouns, advs, adjs the lot - which must make their sentences very long. Perhaps that's why they need to stand around. And what do they say when they need to swear (as we all do)? Apart from someone on another thread who doesn't like such words on the web. For a wonderful collection visit: www.viz.co.uk and then onto Roger's Profanaraus. Help please: how to put hyperlinks on the Mudcat. DRJohn |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: katlaughing Date: 09 Apr 99 - 03:42 PM Dr. John: do you know the name of the song? I'd like to hear it or read the lyrics. It sounds like a good'un! For linking, although I've not studied it, but I have printed it out (HEY! my intentions are good!)***BG***, go to the forum search and look for a thread entitled "HTML Stuff". I believe you will find what you are looking for. Thanks, katl |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: catspaw49 Date: 09 Apr 99 - 03:57 PM Yes Cara you are. With me...Southern Ahian ... went to college at Berea KY. Just stop now and you'll be OK. catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Lion Date: 09 Apr 99 - 04:04 PM Hey! Bert and Alistair it is great discover that you are English (British, if you prefer) I am from Bournemouth and we have colloquialisms coming out of the ying yang! I just spoke with my sister, who still lives there, she asked me to mention cushty, which you might know, Alistair, since you mentioned Only Fools and Horses, which is where Jan (the sister) heard the phrase. Bert, are you still in England or have you moved elsewhere? It is great to hear all these expressions, which I have long since allowed to rust! By the way, don't you think that the Austin Powers movie (new one) has a rather bad taste title? The Spy Who Shagged Me!!** Can't imagine the US releasing something titled The Spy Who Fucked Me. Or maybe, it won't be released in England, it's too horrifying to imagine, I am not a "maiden aunt" but .... really! |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Bruce O. Date: 09 Apr 99 - 04:53 PM Good Lord! Katlaughing, you mean I've been pronouncing Popo Agie wrong for about 35 years? One of my favourite spots in Wyoming is a National Forest campground near a the start of a canyon of the river, some 12 to 15 miles SW of Lander. I've been there about a half dozen times on cross country trips, and found it hard to tear myself away each time.
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: katlaughing Date: 09 Apr 99 - 07:49 PM Bruce O.: Yup, thet's right, son, but we won't hold it agin ya'!***BG*** That's so cool that you know where Lander is! We go there quite often, to Ethete (say it after me, everyone: EEth ah TEE, Good!), actually to the Reservation for sundances and powwows. The Indians just rebuilt an old hot springs they have there. we haven't been yet, but in its heyday of the last century, everybody who was anybody used to stop there and "take the waters", including Teddy Roosevelt. So conveniently on the way to Jackson Hole, ya' know? Also, Roger, has to go up there a lot because the tv station he works for has a transmitter up there. Have you been through Riverton and past Boysen Reservoir? To the north of Boysen is Boysen Peak. They also have a transmitter up there. It is my very favourite place to go. You can see for hundreds of miles, nobody else is up there, and I always see eagles. One winter everytime Rog went up a coyote followed in his tracks. It was really neat. Just to keep on subject, for the rest of you that's Ri ver ton and Boy sun! katl |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Jack Hickman - Kingston, ON Date: 09 Apr 99 - 08:25 PM Great thread. To the person who spoke of the pronunciation of street names, etc. in Detroit, my folks moved to Detroit in 1952, while I remained in Canada, and eventually they ended living on Puritan at Lahser. I never could figure that one out. Also, having had some exposure to French, I thought it awfully strange that St. Antoine would be pronounced St. AnTOYN and Livernois would be pronounced LiverNOISE. But the strangest of all was in the small city across the river in Canada, Windsor, which officially had a French Canadian population nearing the 50% mark. In that town was a street named Pierre, but pronounced by all, without exception as PEERY. Also a small village outside Windsor, River Canard, known to all as River CanORE. I'm surprised we haven't heard from the faithful Tim Jacques, pronounced JAKES. Jack Hickman |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Mo Date: 09 Apr 99 - 08:51 PM How about ICBA - I Can't Be Arsed - pron ICK-BAH. We use it at work quite a lot now. As in - "what about running through some crash scenarios?" "Nah, I'm feeling a bit ICBA today". If you want some good Glasgow colloquialisms try The Patter by Neil Munro - if nothing else, a hundred ways of describing being drunk - pished, blootered,et al... Cheers, Mo |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Anne Date: 09 Apr 99 - 10:51 PM Here's a couple I grew up with: Are Yunz coming? = Are you all coming? Weasel Piss = WD40 or lubricating oil, Useless as tits on a nun = TOTALLY useless. My dad is a real colorful guy... |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Alex Date: 10 Apr 99 - 12:07 AM I was always amused by a Liverpool expression. "I'll gerroff at Edge 'ill" Edge Hill station was the penultimate station on the RR line from London to Liverpool Lime Street. There also being a large number of catholics in the town, to get off at Edge Hill meant you intended to use Coitus Interruptus. |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Lonesome EJ Date: 10 Apr 99 - 12:41 AM |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Lonesome EJ Date: 10 Apr 99 - 01:01 AM Now Cara, about this zoo concept. Unfortunately the folks in Cincy have Newport,KY across rhe river which tends to reinforce the concept that Larry Flynt is the prototypical Kentuckian. We were probably also wrong in saying that the reason there were so many Ohio Tourists in KY was because they had to drive that far to get away from the aroma of Cleveland.(a-hilk hilk) Speakin of town pronunciations, you have to live within 50 miles of Louisville to get the pronunciation right. It's kind of like " LUH'-vul" but that doesn't do it justice. The first vowel has a sound all its own. When I moved to Colorado, I was surprised to find out there was a Louisville here, but pronounced "LEWIS-ville." They also pronounce Pueblo CO as "PEE-yeblo." When I lived in Kentucky we had the most wonderful insect in the world-" the Lightnin Bug." What a beautiful sight on a warm summer's night to see the lights suddenly blinking on and off all around you. I believe these are called "fireflies" elsewhere.On nights like that, we would sit on the front porch of my Grampaws home and tell " Booger Stories"- ghost stories, not tales of nasal exploration.My grampa liked to cook biscuits and gravy in the mornings, gravy so thick he called it " stackin gravy" because you could stack it up on your biscuits. Kat- ever camp in the Wind River Range up by Lander? I lost about 2 pints of blood to the mosquitoes up there one July weekend...LEJ |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: katlaughing Date: 10 Apr 99 - 01:11 AM LEJ: those must not be native Coloradoans! We always said Lou-a-ville and Pooh-eh-blow! My great-aunts, who died of Tb are buried close to there in Niwot (Nigh-watt), named after a Native American chief. I know about Louisville, KY, though. My son lives across the Ohio/Ahia and says it as though he has marbles in his mouth! No never camped in the Wind Rivers, but as I said go to Indian do's over there a lot. Not too bad for skeeters at them, but it's probably because of all the smudging and fires. |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: AlistairUK Date: 10 Apr 99 - 09:33 AM Lion: 'cushty' as in that car is not quite cushty. or we're cushty now? Also dodgy "'Ere Arfur, you bin sellin' dodgy motors again? You bloody toerag, gertchya." |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Penny Date: 10 Apr 99 - 02:29 PM I thought cushty was from Romany, don't know why. And, a long way back up the thread, I saw reference to catty corners meaning diagonal - Sussex dialect has caterways fro the same thing, apparently related. There's a lot of variation in placename pronunciation around here (Southern England), and some of it has to do with class. My parents lived in Rolvenden for a while, and were told the "correct" way to say it was Rovinden. This only works in an upper crust accent, not the broad country accent of the ordinary people. And we have Wrotham - root'm, Trottiscliffe - Trosley, Shipbourne - Shibburn. These follow a rule of being the easiest way to say a long word in the local accent. Bob Hope fogot this on a return visit to his birthplace at Eltham - elt'm. (Caution for Americans not wanting to be laughed at by the natives - ham on the end of names is usually 'm - on Tory candidate sunk himself in Streatham by pronouncing every letter, so crossing the Thames can be as much of a problem as crossing the Atlantic.) My father has moved to the really difficult one - Cirencester. Full version, Sirensester. Other versions - Sister, Ciceter, Cisister, Ciren (the latter by most locals now). I've chickened out, and use the name in full! LEJ, we have glow-worms here, not as wonderful as lightning bugs, because they just sit around on twigs, grasses etc, waiting for a mate, and the flying males only glow a teeny bit when disturbed. I saw my first one four years ago, having thought they had all died out years back. I thought someone had left an LED in the woods! There's a reasonable colony hereabouts, but not as many as people remember. Back to colloquialisms - "there used to be so many glow-worms, they were festooned along the banks, we used to be able to put them in a jar and read by the light. Funny, you don't see them nowadays." Words for chase games can be mapped on Britain, like the words for truce during them - I think the Opies did it, fainites, squits, etc. Something I needed when I started teaching was a lexicon of words for the rubber soled canvas shoes used for physical education lessons, as, if you used the wrong one, you were met with total imcomprehension. I called them plimsolls, but I have also met daps and pumps.
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: AlistairUK Date: 10 Apr 99 - 02:39 PM They were always plimsolls to me as well. About place names. There was a village near Luton that was called Flitwick but pronounced 'Flitick' Luton would never be called LuTon by a local it was always Lu'on ( the /u/ as in up) |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Apr 99 - 03:14 PM Lahser? Gee, I didn't know it was spelled that way. Until I was ten, I lived near the intersection of Six Mile (McNichols, but nobody called it that) and Grand River in Detroit, which is closer to that street than any of the the rest of ya. I always thought it was spelled and pronounced "Lasher," which rhymes with Santa's reindeer "Dasher." I had to call Mom to get verification on that. Mom says it's pronounced just like it's spelled - "LAH-ser," but that a lot of people with a shorter Detroit heritage wouldn't know that (part of my family claims to have gotten there when Cadillac founded Detroit in 17-aught-something). My dad got laid off from his automotive engineer job in 1958 and we moved to Wisconsin, but my parents never adjusted. We went to Detroit every summer for vacation, and my folks STILL go there (from their home in Florida) every summer. I guess I left Detroit too young, because I didn't learn how to pronounce or spell Lahser. Having lived in my birthplace for only 10 years and Wisconsin for only 11, and the rest of my life in California, I may be a man without a home. Lahser, eh? Well, I'll be damned. The things you can learn on Mudcat never cease to amaze me. -Joe Offer, who useta think he knew what he was talking about- |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Pete M Date: 11 Apr 99 - 05:40 PM A dialect word I learned from a climbing mate from Nottingham was "nesh" = to complain overly about being cold. My mum was stationed in the potteries during the war and remembers people there being "starved with cold". Then of course there's the ubiquitous "it's brass monkies", "Brass monkey weather" etc. And finally "A lazy wind" = one that can't be bothered to blow round you. As you may have gathered, it's finally got round to proper autumn weather here in NZ. One term which was common in Kent but which I haven't heard elsewhere was "Chave" = mate, cobber etc (possibly a contraction / mispronunciation of Chief) On the subject of "hallian" a common description of said mucky infants in Dover was "rapscallion" possibly the same source? As to distinctive pronunciations, for some reason the Froggies pronounce "cinque" as in the Cinque Ports, as "sarnke" instead of the correct "Sink". Which reminds me Steve, I've been thinking about names for furriners, and I can't really think of any that I would consider offensive in intent. Had you any in mind? Pete M |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Steve Parkes Date: 12 Apr 99 - 03:50 AM No, Pete - that's why I asked! There's a town in Staffordshire, just up the road from me, called Rugeley. People who were brought up there pronounce it Rudgelee, but outsiders and incomers call it as if it were Fench, to rhyme with rouge. Dr John: abverbs?! Like f*ckly or f*ckingly? The mind boggles! Steve |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: katlaughing Date: 12 Apr 99 - 04:39 PM Steve: couldn't resist one last post to this one, before going on to Colloquialisms II. I think it's absof*ckinglutely! ***just havin' fun*** katlaughing |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Jim Dixon Date: 13 Apr 00 - 04:03 PM Hey, I just found this old thread and decided to revive it because it's fascinating. I live in Minnesota, so I'll tell you the Minnesotanisms I know: "Aunt" is pronounced "awnt" although most of the US pronounces it "ant." (My father, from Kentucky, pronounced it "aint".) Some old-timers call traffic lights "semaphores" and rubber bands "rubber binders." Minnesotans will say "come with" for "come with me" as in "I'm going to the park. You wanta come with?" A very short haircut (crew cut) is called a "Heine" and pronounced "hiney". I'm told it comes from a German name (I don't know why) and is unrelated to the southern term for buttocks. A polite but childish term for buttocks is "hinder" pronounced with a long "I" as in "hind." Sweet carbonated drinks are called "pop." Liquor can be either "on-sale" or "off-sale"; a bar has an "on-sale license", which is short for "a license to sell liquor for consumption ON the premises", while liquor stores are off-sale. (I believe Brits say "off-license" for the same reason.) We use the term DWI for "driving while intoxicated" while in some other parts of the US they say DUI, for "driving under the influence." "Ish" is an expression of disgust, like "yuck" elsewhere. "Uff-da" (with a vowel sound like the one in "book") comes from either Swedish or Norwegian (I forget which - maybe both) and is an expression of dismay, like "Ohmigosh!" or "Oy!" Here in the home of Target stores, a lot of people call it "Tar-Zhay" as if it were French, but that's a deliberate in-joke. |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Sailor Dan Date: 13 Apr 00 - 04:25 PM Down here in Miami we have a lot of people suffering from a "rectalcranialinversions"??? Having their heads stuck up their asses.
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Caitrin Date: 13 Apr 00 - 04:38 PM 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. |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 13 Apr 00 - 05:07 PM Place names are interesting:
Lancaster, Pennsylvania is LANN-KASTER
Here in Indiana there are a lot of old-world place names, with our own Hoosier pronunciations:
Then of course Cairo, Illlinois (like the Egyptian city) is always KAY-ro.
If you ask for a mango in a Southern Indiana grocery, you're likely to get a green pepper, not a tropical fruit. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Billy the Bus Date: 13 Apr 00 - 05:27 PM Here's a wee yarn I used 25 years back, in NZ, to take the piss out of (make fun of) Americans' use of the term "I'm pissed" (annoyed) - If I was "pissed" I was drunk. _________________________ It was pissing-down (raining hard), and I was pissed-off (annoyed), so I pissed-off (went) to the pisser (pub) to get on the piss (have a drink). I was pissing-up-large (drinking a lot), so pissed-off to the pisser (toilet, dunny, dyke, shithouse, outhouse, long-drop, crapper, etc NOT bathroom - that's where you have a bath) for a piss (leak, slash, etc) in the piss-tin (urinal). The piss (beer) was getting to me, and I got as pissed as a parrot [newt, chook etc] (very drunk). I went on to a piss up (party). And.... Wheww... This old piss-pot (drunkard) was piss-crook (hungover) in the morning. Stop pissing yourself (laughing) and piss-off (go away) - it wasn't funny! Cheers - Sam |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Billy the Bus Date: 13 Apr 00 - 05:49 PM Ok, me old Auzzie cobras out there, who can remember the words of that wonderful old ditty of the 50s "Chunder in the old Pacific Sea", about the noble art of vomiting, when piss-crook? All I remember is... ______________________________ I had a mate called "Murph", we were sitting in the surf.... I've had liquid laughs in bars, and I've hurled from moving cars. I've chundered when and where it's pleas-ed me. But if I could choose the spot, to regurgitate the lot, I would chunder in the old Pacific Sea.
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: GUEST,Rex Date: 13 Apr 00 - 05:53 PM In southern Louisiana, inhabited largely by "Cajun's", (that is, people descended from Arcadians, who came from Arcadia in Canada), it is customary to "make groceries", meaning go grocery shopping at the local supermatket. Also, if a Cajun wants to call you over to discuss something, the expression is likely to be "Hey Joe, come see". And if a Cajun mentions "eating tails and sucking heads" he is talking about feasting on crawfish, which are essential on any true Cajun menu. |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: kendall Date: 13 Apr 00 - 06:45 PM Numb as a pounded thumb Useless as a trap door in a canoe " " " a screen door in a submarine Popular as a wet dog at a wedding Screwed up like a Chinese fire drill
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Billy the Bus Date: 13 Apr 00 - 06:47 PM Forgot to add to the "Piss" item above - it's all really just piss-and-wind (bullshit)
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: GUEST,BeauDangles Date: 13 Apr 00 - 07:04 PM In my Mom's family, when they needed to have a serious family talk about something it was called a "Come to Jesus." Also, when something is located diagonally opposite you, it was not "kitty cornered", but "cattywumpus." And if something was really far away, it was "way out yonder in plum nelly," which I have decided comes from "plumb nearly." BeauD |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Hotspur Date: 13 Apr 00 - 07:50 PM The soda/pop debate rages on...here in Eastern NY state, we call it soda, but west of Syracuse they say pop, or even soda pop, to cover all bases. I've heard old folks call these drinks "phosphates" too. Sounds poisonous, doesn't it? Colloquialisms: some people still call a small stream a kill, from the Dutch. Otherwise, it's a creek, pronounced crick. We also have lightning bugs, not fireflies. If you have a hankering for something, you have a sudden desire for it. My grandmother says somehting is "the berries" when she means it's the best. One of my teachers used to use the expression "God returning on a shingle," but i never figured that one out. Anyone know this one? We have a Worcester here in New York, too, but it's pronounced Worster. We also have towns called Chili (Chy-lye)and Pulaski (Poo-las-kye). My favorite, though, is Skaneateles, pronounced, "skinny atlas." |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Gary T Date: 13 Apr 00 - 07:53 PM I remember growing up with "Don't get your bowels in an uproar"=don't get all upset--seems along the same line as "Don't get your knickers in a twist", knickers here being underdrawers (but we always said underpants). You can find catercorner (=diagonally across the corners of an intersection) in the dictionary. I grew up (U.S. east coast) with "wait for"=bide your time, while "wait on"=serve, as a waiter in a restaurant. Here in the Midwest, "wait on" is used both ways, "wait for" is seldom heard. |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Helen Date: 13 Apr 00 - 08:17 PM Jim, Did you notice that the post before yours is April 12 1999 and yours is April 13 2000, so it continues with hardly a blip on the screen exactly a year later. Billy the Bus, PML (pissing myself laughing) here in Oz. Good onya, mate! Helen |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 13 Apr 00 - 08:25 PM Gary T, I don't know where you are in the midwest, but in Minnesota, where I'm originally from, and in central Indiana, where I am now, "wait for", meaning to stick around until whoever or whatever arrives or happens, is what you hear, not "wait on". I only hear "wait on" as in a waiter or waitress.
In central Indiana I often hear people taking "license" as a plural, as in "The cop asked for my license, but I'd lost them." Of course there's where you wait with respect to a line of people (a queue, for you Brits): In the east they wait "on line" or get "on line", but where I've been and where I am now you wait "in line". Dave Oesterreich
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Gary T Date: 13 Apr 00 - 08:54 PM Hi, Dave. I'm in Kansas City, MO. I was a little brief in the "wait on/for" thing. Typically, someone will say "I'm waiting for my Social Security check to arrive" or "I'm waiting on my Social Security check", but hardly ever "I'm waiting for my Social Security check". Now that I think about it, it may be more of a Southern thing, imported here from Arkansas. That plural license thing is a new one to me. The only time I wait "on line" is when the Internet is slow (yuk yuk). |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Billy the Bus Date: 13 Apr 00 - 09:38 PM G'day Helen, Glad you got a grin, and pissed yourself - howsomever, I really prefer the expression... "I laughed 'til the tears ran down my leg"...;) How about some Strine ones like..... Outback, beyond the black stump, up the boo-aye [sp?] etc (living in a remote area). Haven't heard those in yonks (a long time) Kia ora - Sam |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: wysiwyg Date: 13 Apr 00 - 09:48 PM In PA, if something needs to be done, "It needs done." It needs ironed, it needs fixed, it needs said, or deleted... In N. central PA, "Yes" is "Yepp-er," two equally accented syllables, but "Yep" is "You're welcome." My area of N. central PA itself is sometimes fondly (sometimes not) known as "Pennsyltucky," abbreviated of course "PY." There is a cartoon I have seen, I believe an ancient Popeye one, where that is also the name emblazoned on the side of a large ship. Not sure which is the chicken and which the egg. "Jug milk" here is an old fashioned glass bottle from a home dairy or the home dairy's store, with a deposit paid on the bottle, and the bottles often from old dairies of days long past, the names and logos still bright and evocative on the jug, er, bottle. Oh! and the new jail here is the Blue Roof Inn. (Whereas the one in Illinois, an hour and a half outside Chicago, was the Huntley Pokey Club.) Secretaries and inmates who spend too much time sitting on their "bee-hinds" get "a case of the bubblebutt" --those large bulbous protuberances made famous by Carol Burnett's secretary routine. But you may get another kind of "bubblebutt" at the "dish to pass" (potluck) supper, and be sure to bring your "service" (your own plates and utensils). And in either case, if someone is rude to you about it, you may find yourself with "a terminal case of the red-ass." Going somewhere? "Goin' up the spring (going up to the spring) after (for) water." Visiting a neighbor "up over" the hill? Take the "Road to Cherry Flats" (which does have some real name or other). It's a "hard road" (paved) (not a "road, AKA "a township road" or "gravel road"). If they aren't home, "try goin' over Wallyworld" (going over to WalMart), since everybody's probably there "visiting the World" (shopping or pretending to and just seeing people). "LeafPeepers" (tourists) arrive in fall, second weekend of October. Most "flatlanders" (from outside the mountains of the county) who like to hunt with guns come for "Buck Day" (the Monday after Thanksgiving when deer season opens) but a few show up later for "Environmental Awareness Day" (Doe Day, but I'm not aware of the exact date). The next county over is "God's Country," or at least they say so. But our county has the Grand Canyon of Pennsylvania, so we're almost even up. BTW, that canyon, with Pine Creek, doesn't flood in the spring and fall-- but the "runs" (creeks, streams) do, so if we've made plans to get together, I'll be there, "Lord willin' an' the creek don't rise." Words we brought with us from the Chicago area, from family conversations, that seem to be creeping around the town and coming back to us, are "AccuSuck" (shop vac) and "Planting" (funeral). And "Gomorrahfied"-- being mortified, horrified, and morally outraged all at once. Also you are not from a dysfunctional family-- you belong to the support group for "People Raised by Dogs from Hell." Oh, and if you aren't supposed to tell me something but it is something I really need to know? Simple. We can have a "nonversation." Otherwise, if you come see me to "have a conversation with me," you are probably coming over to give me a terminal case of the red-ass because I have "sinned" (acted like an arsehole). And since I can't get into the frozen Lapsang Souchong thread, may I express here my longing for what we drank last week in South Carolina-- "sweet tea," which is to iced tea as good espresso is to "hawss piss." Now I wish I had taken a jug-- no, that would be the Igloo cooler, not a glass bottle-- to fill up and carry (bring) home. ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Mbo Date: 13 Apr 00 - 10:59 PM Dang Caitrin! You done stole most of the good ones! Check these though: Get up with = talk to Heifer dust = women's makeup (Harker's Island speak) Down East = Eastern NC (I always thought Down East was Maine until we moved here!) Inneresting = interesting Elamennery = elementary Impordant = important ruther mald = rather mild (Marvin Daugherty speak) Keerie = Cary Norf Carolina = bizarre dialect thing we have here! Then there's my fam's weird Italian/Philadelphia slang Jeet = did you eat Yeeuh = yes stunod = losing your memory sporcaccone = someone with a foul mouth (literally, a dirty pig) bondole = a weird woman awl-toh = alto We say "pecan" PEEcahn gling-gling = junkfood I'm not sure what the deal is lately with this, but we have always said "horrible" hahr-ibble, not this new hoaribble. What's the deal with that? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: JamesJim Date: 13 Apr 00 - 11:44 PM There's an old saying here in Kentucky - "You can't suck and blow at the same time." I'm sure your thoughts immediately hit gutter level (or perhaps you surmise that Monica must have found this out the "hard" way - sorry, I couldn't resist). Folks, what it really means is that you can't have it both ways. Best to all - Jim |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Mbo Date: 13 Apr 00 - 11:54 PM No Jim--doesn't it have to do with harmonica playing? --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: katlaughing Date: 14 Apr 00 - 12:28 AM LOL! This is great. I noticed the date thing, too, Helen and was wondering if my eyesight was "plumb gone" 'til I realised the years were different. Well, I didn't remember posting to this on the 12th of 2000! Kinda gave me a deja vu thingie all over. Wonderful new additions, Phoaks! keep 'em coming! And, if you ahven't had a chance to read through the whole thing, lately, take some time, it is well worth it, with quite a few belly laughs. katlaughingforrealabsolutely! |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: rangeroger Date: 14 Apr 00 - 12:34 AM One of my favorite anagrams is proudly displayed on the sides of the train at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, the WGASA Line.Seems when they were building it and couldn't figure out what to call it,someone said"Who Gives A Shit Anyway". rr |
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Subject: RE: Colloquialisms- Post & Define 'Em! Fun! From: Metchosin Date: 14 Apr 00 - 01:10 AM The bananna belt- south western coastal B.C. (particularly Victoria) Lotus Land -same place chocker block or chuck-a-block - full Kiss-me-arse - the marbled murrelet salt chuck or chuck - the sea skookum - "hell for strong", good Kanakas - Hawaiin Islanders who came to B.C. between the 1830's and 50's jacks - sexually precocious male coho, spring and sockeye salmon returning to spawn before their full weight sticks - "from the sticks" meant from the bush country of the Interior (any place not on the coast), now means any forested place without a paved road. hootch - any inferior liquor usually home brewed porch climber - bad cheap wine CIL Spinner or James Island Spinner - a stick of dynamite used for an easy way of fishing (scooping up stunned fish) |
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