BS: ' I heared that' & other....

Subject: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Bobert
Date: 28 May 12 - 09:57 PM

...things that some folks say...

Have at it...

B;~)

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From: Rapparee
Date: 28 May 12 - 10:16 PM

Looky here now, Bobert. You-uns down thataway don't got no room to talk. Now, iffen you brought the P-Vine and an' them out ta visit y'all'd learn some good talkin' real quick like.

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Bobert
Date: 28 May 12 - 10:41 PM

Like what, Rap???

Bring it on...

B~

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From: Ebbie
Date: 28 May 12 - 11:56 PM

I might could.

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From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 29 May 12 - 07:14 AM

Dew yew lissen haar, doon't yew dar ter pook fun at the way we tork hare in Norfolk. Thass kwoit krect. Thass orl them others wot carnt tork roit, loik them thar fook from Lunnon. Oi hev got a susstificate wot say oi tork proper. So fare yew well, and keep a-troshing!

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 29 May 12 - 07:37 AM

Jings crivens help ma boab. If ye's wid aw talk English it wid help us aw tae unnerstaun' yin anither.
When things gang tapsalteerie, an the wynd blaws widdershins, we aw hae tae pu' thegither, or we aw gang doon the stank.

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 12 - 09:45 AM

I'm in Hayti (pronounced HAY-tie) Mizzorah. I done been to San Josie, Illinoi and AYEthens, where my brother lives. Maybe I'll go to Edinburg again one of these days.

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Ed T
Date: 29 May 12 - 09:48 AM

""It's nothing but an under-the-hand, table, deal""


""It it wasn't for William Churchill, the Nazi's would have never been defeated>""

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 29 May 12 - 10:10 AM

Of course it's Hay-tie, Rap. It comes from Hayes' tie, a railroad connection.

Take it from a former member of the Missouri Folklore Society.

So, you say Missour-ah, eh? Dave Barry has explained that the Missouri Compromise was that half the people would say Missouri-ah and half would say Missour-ee. I'm of the Missour-ee persusion myself.

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Bobert
Date: 29 May 12 - 10:11 AM

I like that one, Eb...

"I might could" is eat-up Southern rural... I gotta a buddy back in Virginia that must say that 50 times a day...

Now, listen, ya'll... This ain't about bad spellin' and dialect as much as it it phrases that folks use in their ordinary speakin'...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Bill D
Date: 29 May 12 - 11:43 AM

So... you get a better response, iff'n you tell us right up front whatcha want... and give some examples.

Or is this some sorta sy-co-LODG-i-cal test?

As we-uns in Kansas said: "Spit it out!"

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Bert
Date: 29 May 12 - 12:03 PM

'corse us blokes say 'git orn wiv it then'

Charrah me ol' china.

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Bobert
Date: 29 May 12 - 12:07 PM

I thought I did, Bill, by providing an example in the name of the thread...

You got any???

Ebbie's is what I had/have in mind...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Arkie
Date: 29 May 12 - 12:07 PM

I suppose all who pick up this thread know this, but I'll say it anyway, many of the expressions we now find quaint or unusual are hold overs from earlier times and many have passed through many generations. The language used here in Stone County, Arkansas has changed quite a bit, "a wee toady bit" in the last forty years since I have been here. Due in part to radio and television, and to paved roads. People have always wanted to get out so gravel roads and one lane paths only limited them a bit, but people have not always wanted to get in. The paving helped in that regard.

I enjoy reading Patrick Taylor and Sharyn McCrumb for several reasons but the language of their characters is of interest.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 29 May 12 - 08:01 PM

So when my Gramma fixed a mess of dandylion greens and took them over to Miz Hogue who was feelin' prit poorly -- that wasn't what you had in mind?

I got a notion on figgerin' that you are lookin' fer more ways to make yerself more regional, I'm thinkin'.

I'll probly end up in some blues song or other.

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From: Bobert
Date: 29 May 12 - 08:18 PM

Good one, Arkie... Never heard "a wee toady bit"...

Thanks, Rap... Yeah, "mess of ____________" might end up in a blues song... Mr. Clifford use to call whatever he was cooking that came outta his garden a "mess of ___________"...

"Feelin' prit poorly" I ain't famialar with but I like it a bunch...

What's a prit??? Never mind... I like it no how...

B~

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From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 May 12 - 10:39 PM

Ya ain't right.

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From: Bobert
Date: 29 May 12 - 10:42 PM

Yeah, Beeze... That is one of the Top 10 of 'um all...

BTW, You ain't right... LOL...

B:~)

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 29 May 12 - 11:04 PM

When someone used to say, "I heard that!"...my response was always, "Well I'm glad your ears work..did you understand anything?"

Another......"Hey Kids, how many times have I told you, if you do THAT, you'll go blind!!"

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Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 May 12 - 12:02 AM

I'm fixin' to go shoppin' - can someone carry me to town?

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From: michaelr
Date: 30 May 12 - 02:14 AM

Sheet fire, Bob - you want you some language, watch that new show on History Channel `bout them Hatfields `n McCoys. Them boys are talking some hillbilly.

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From: Rapparee
Date: 30 May 12 - 08:10 AM

Bobert, I grew up talking like that. Also using "dis, dat, dese, and dose." In high school it was beaten outa me and the others.

"The River's pritty high an' Jim's boat tipped yesterday day and he prit near drownded."

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From: Bobert
Date: 30 May 12 - 09:26 AM

First of all, with all those well developed listening skills that GfinS has, he mis-heard "I heared that" for "I heard that"... Major difference...

Yeah, Michaelr... I'm on to the Hatfield & McCoys...

But really, folks... I ain't trying to learn to talk hillbilly... I can do that just fine... I'm looking for "phrases"...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 30 May 12 - 12:54 PM

Arkie - "a wee toty bit" would be perfectly understood in Northern Ireland, and probably in south/central Scotland as well.

Ross

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From: Bill D
Date: 30 May 12 - 06:23 PM

"Rainin'? It was a-rainin' like a cow pissin' on a flat rock!"

"She ain't ugly none." (Tangier Island phrase for "She sure is beautiful")

"Don't make me no never mind." Triple negative... but everyone gets it.

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 May 12 - 09:45 PM

Bobert, go piss up a rope.

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Bobert
Date: 30 May 12 - 10:09 PM

I done pissed on a lotta stuff but "pissin' up a rope" will be a pleasure... Love it, Rap...

"She ain't ugly none"??? I been to Tangier Island... Interestin' place... Kids speak old English... 'Er somethin'??? I don't know what it is???

B~

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 31 May 12 - 12:37 AM

Arkie - "wee toady bit" is pure North of Ireland; Scotch-Irish if you will. I used to use it myself as a child in Belfast.

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Mooh
Date: 31 May 12 - 01:10 PM

The discussion of "yous" (the plural of you) got me some heat here a few years ago when I commented on it in a thread I started.

A local restaurant waitress likes to interrupt our meal with, "Yous guys 'kay?". I like to respond with, "Kay."

Peace, Mooh.

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From: gnu
Date: 31 May 12 - 03:04 PM

Mooh. Yous is incorrect. It's youse.

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From: maeve
Date: 31 May 12 - 03:08 PM

We've been hearing and seeing phrases like "It needs cleaned" here in Midcoast Maine. Another one: "dresser has three draws".

Subject: RE: BS: ' I heared that' & other....
From: Arkie
Date: 31 May 12 - 03:09 PM

"Wee toady bit" was once heard here in the Arkansas Ozarks, but not anymore.

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From: JennieG
Date: 31 May 12 - 06:28 PM

My maternal grandmother would "go for the messages" when she went shopping.

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From: Amos
Date: 31 May 12 - 06:49 PM

"I hear ya talkin'". My grandmother's way of voicing mild skepticism. She was always a mite skeptical. Just a skoosh.

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From: Don Firth
Date: 31 May 12 - 07:34 PM

For most of the first nine years of my life, I lived in Pasadena, California. People around there used to refer to Los Angeles (Spanish for "the angels"--!??) as "Loss ANG-luss." In fact, if YOU pronounced it correctly, some of the natives would look at you kinda funny!

I've heard that more than a few Easterners think that "Seattle" (an Anglicization of the name of the chief of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes when the first settlers arrived; actually, his name is spelled "Sealth," but it's impossible to pronounce it correctly without chipping a tooth) is pronounced "SEE-tul." And "Puget (pronounced "PYU-jet) Sound" is sometimes referred to as "PUGG-it Sound."

And the Strait of Juan de Fuca, up north of Seattle, is named after (fasten you seat belt, now) a Greek sea captain and explorer (Ioánnis Fokás) in the employ of Charles II of Spain, who modified his name to sound Spanish, and who thought he had discovered the Pacific outlet of the Northwest Passage before he sailed into the strait and found himself in Puget Sound.

It's pronounced "Juan (Hwan) de FEW-cah."

I won't go into how some folks from other parts attempt to pronounce it. . . .

Don Firth

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From: Rapparee
Date: 31 May 12 - 09:19 PM

Juan de F***ah?

Bobert, I hear tell that yer lower'n a snake's belly in a wagon rut. That yer so disgustin' that yo momma had ta put her head in a paper bag ta kiss ya goodnite. That lotsa times she threw YOU in trash and put the dirty diaper ta bed.

But I don't believe but half of all that.