Colloquialisms

I meant to say I love Longjohns. My favorite are the maple ones. I don't recall them being filled. I always say "fix supper". We always used to call the shopping cart a basket. And I frequently run to the store-in my car! LOL!

I recall my friend from WI thinking it was funny and confusing that we order "a chicken fry" and it is not chicken. It is a chicken fried steak but everyone knows what we are ordering. I also recall that in SD they called nacho chips nachos and didn't understand that they are not nachos until you put the cheese and jalapenos on them. Until them they are just tortilla chips.

MY mother always said Judas Priest like it meant something to us. "Sakes alive! What have you kids done now? Judas Priest!"

garden6, please translate are you talking about a shredding machine, and what else.

My mom used to say Land sakes alive!! That was a term of surprise or awe.

Here we say that we're going to b-b-q the meat, but my friends from the mid-west say that they're going to grill the meat.

Foy-yer? or Foy-yea?

Fwa-yea, Kwanjin. Land'o Goshen refers to just that--that part of Egypt which is where the Hebrews lived when they were exiled as slaves in Egypt--it was called Goshen. I don't know why the oldtimers used that phrase--they must have meant it in the way someone would say "Merciful Heavens" or "heaven help us" or "good Gracious!'

Gotta go have morning coffee with DH. He just got up. More later.

Defoe~ sorry about that!... DH bought me treadmill one winter.. my MIL, who walks regulary and thinks the only exercise anybody ever needs is to "bend over, tie your sneakers and walk!" She just thinks joining a gym, going to the gym, using weights or exercise machines is a total waste of money!

I'm a transplanted NY'er living in southern Virginia. Here they call shopping carts 'buggys" and you might ought to get one in case you want to shop hard!

Oh, also the locals have 'stews" as fund raisers. They never say what's in it and it kind of looks like vomit, not like the stew I'm used to with easily idetifiable meat and veggies....

Edited to say, my husband has tried ti and he like it but then the man will eat anything he's offered, snake, bear, etc. He might draw the line at cooked rat, I guess.

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Dragonfly~ that "stew" sounds horrible! ;0)

thanks for the explanation garden6, I was scratching my head at that one!!

Stew, maybe ought to call it slop!!

Kiska, Sourdoughs were called so because they didn't have yeast. Only what was in the starter sourdough. As the sourdough bubbled and smelled so much like yeast the sourdoughs were smelled before seen. The cold here in Alaska also created another phenmena... the traveling sourdough starter. Well, the precious starter couldn't get too cold or it stopped growing. So a sack of flour with a blob of starter in the very center was carried near their heart or belly. (The body core so to speak) to keep it from freezing. Another thing, when the starter was left high and warm in the cabin it developed a "liquor" on top. This was poured of periodically until a sizable glassful was collected. It was called "hootch" and it was almost pure alcohol. Now that you know all about sourdough, you are officially a "sourdough." My Dad is from Nebraska and in the middle of winter it's "blacker than the inside of a cow"

ceeads--FOOMCL at that story about the bull's hiney! And I think after all those stories about sourdough that I'm not planning on trying my hand at baking any!
vomit stew, dragonfly! double yuck!

Actually, when you look at the recipes, Sourdough is easier than the other breads - the catch is keeping the starter going.

One of the best sourdough companies in San Fran (can't remember the name right now) - their starter is over 150 yrs old!!!!!

Hmmm that stew sounds awful, but it is in the south and their food is usually so good right?

Do you know why cornbread balls are called "hush puppies"? Because when cowboys went on cattle drives and fried fish for supper they also fried cornbread balls in the grease. These would be tossed to the hungry dogs and said dogs were told, "hush puppies."

One really that really irks me is the misprounciation of the word "ask." However, this appears to be nation-wide.

I am assuming you mean when people say "axe" instead of ask? I heard that some in the north and laugh when they had a show on Everybody loves Raymond about it because he does talk pretty funny!

I heard that about hush puppies too so it must be true? LOL!

Whenever we asked "why not"( when my Dad said no) Dad would tell us " you're no higher than a duck tail's feather!" Even as a teenager, he would quickly give us that reply.

That's too funny about the bull!

We have another mispronunciation around here. For some reason they can't say Poplar. They insist that they are Popular trees!

Kyjoy, I, too, have heard that story about the hushpuppies-- it makes sense doesn't it?
and "axe" for "ask" is one of my pet peeves, too.

cactus, you are too funny! Are you sure your dad is not from the south--that sounds like something an oldtimer southerner would say! LOL

Ever heard this one? "I'm happy as a dead pig in the sunshine!"

I guess those Popular trees must feel really, well, popular!

No never heard the dead pig one. My great grandfather came to NM when it was still a territory. But he came from south Texas so we have southern roots as do most natives. Apparently there were several wagon trains at that time from Texas. Now northern NM got people from all over who came by way of the Santa Fe Trail.

comfterble drives me nuts.
and expresso.
when i lived in a small town in TN, the local italian restaurant was called "The Gondola."
But it was really The Gon-DOHla. That's the way it was pronounced, not just an accent.

Knee-high to a grasshopper, since Hector was a pup, dead as a doornail...I know there are more. My mind went blank.

Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most!

me too, kwanjin! I gotta get off here and go "warsh" myself. After cleaning house, I need a good cleaning!

Poplar trees here are called Popple. That is funny.
Here we go "up north" on vacation. Yes, we also go down state to the city.

I always get confused over which way is up the street and down the street. Uptown, downtown, 'crosstown? Just give me an address!

I used to work the information phones for our local bus service. Kids would call in and ask for which bus they would need to get to their friends house. Where does your friend live? Down by the Sev. Which Sev? (7-11) The one across from the Smith's!

Chris-an-the-um is what my mom calls Chrysanthemum.

But her sister does a bigger job, calling it: chrissy-an-the-um.


...you just have to remember, that they're 91 and 87! LOL

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what about "nookular", when it's really nuclear? The prez drives me nuts when he pronounces it wrong! I hate "axe" too!

My DH drives me nuts with 'realator'. Someone who helps you find a house is a 'realtor' not 'realator'!

Actually the prez saying nuclear like that drives me nuts too. But I looked it up and the way he says it is the second proper pronunciation. He is from Midland which I grew up very close to, and I never heard anyone from there say it that way??

The realator ones drive me nuts too. DH says salmon pronouncing the "L" I always pronounce it with the L silent and he never can hear the difference. I am not sure which of us is correct on that one?

cactus, the "L" in salmon is as silent as the"P" in swimming as Dad used to say. Axe seems just ignorant to me, also.

here's one that came up today: "summers" = "somewhere"

Cactus,

How can it be proper pronunciation? There's no "u" between the C and the L. Where did you see the pronunciation? I checked the web and everything I see there makes fun of the 'Nookular" .

How about "Dumber than a sack of hammers"?

I like "one crayon short of a box"

dragonfly, in my old Websters dictionary it gives the one we feel it correct first (sorry don't know how to do the symbols here) and then states a nonstandard way as how he says it. I was kind of shocked when I saw it. It is the 7th addition, my old college one so it is way out of date!

I recall my Grandma saying okree for okra. In my old dictionary it shows that as the second way to pronounce it. So I guess there are many words like that? Like the Peecan in one of my other posts?

Just getting back and reading all these great terms;
back to the the sourdough, marsue.
Regular flour is used, and really, to my way of thinking, any water since the miner and trappers that used the sourdough, most likely didn't have access to distilled water. They just kept the starter wrapped and stored next to body to keep warm, then used a "bit" in pancakes/breads. Otherwise, that's the limit of my sourdough knowledge..perhaps any sourdough recipe gives the amount of starter to use in any given recipe.
As to the bar-shaped doughnuts, that's first I've heard the term, Long John..(those are winter wear):) We just call them a "bar", either filled or non filled, or frosted or plain.
My grandson, last week, caught this small halibut. It is called a "chicken".
Kiska

Ok, opening the door to mispronunciations in this thread is opening a whole 'nother can of worms!! LOL Misspellings & mispronunciations are my two biggest pet peeves. Argh!

I used to work with an older lady many, many years ago that would say "like walkin' in tall cotton" when she was telling us how easy something was. lol