Colloquialisms

Yep, my Mom and Grandma would say "we are walking in tall cotton to mean things were going well." They were cotton farmers.

Kiska, I'm so glad you have your grands nearby :)

I had a friend from north Arkansas who used to say 'zink' for sink. I've noticed that since her kids have gotten older (educated) she has stopped saying some of the things that I thought were so cute, and were just part of my dear friend.

Okay, I've been away from this thread for a mere 2 1/2 hours and "y'all dun gone crazy agin". Let me see if I can catch up:
It's "dumber than a box of rocks" around here.
Nucular and realator are among my pet peeves, too.
and how about "a-loo-min-ee-um" for aluminum. I went to school with a girl who absolutely could not pronounce aluminum correctly

"Walking in high cotton" around here means things are going very well indeed, as in "the cotton crop is good this year and the money will come rollin' in"

Kiska, when you fry that halibut does it become "Alaskan Fried Chicken". BTW, cute GS!

My DH makes up his own words but "right-off-hand" I can't "amember" any of 'em.

I know a lady that says...en-VEL-ope for envelope! Even after you say it right...she still says that!!!

I think I just found out that I say everything wrong.

Ooops!!

SCNewbie,
"Misspellings & mispronunciations" are my life!!! I have a small hearing loss and processing error, I can NOT hear the difference in some words. I took a history of language class. I had that particular teacher for several other classes over of the course of a few years (she taught a lot of classes in my major). She is the first one to help me actually understand the problem.

When I was in High School, my Spanish teacher was also my English teacher. My first test I asked her if spelling counted. She looked at me sadly and then smiled... "Pat, you can't spell in English!!" LOL...

PS...

What is interesting is that my husband is a talented musican and great auto mechanic, he can "hear" the engine problems and diagnosis them with the sounds that are incorrect. Why he paired up with someone that is SO not into sound is beyond me!! Well... I guess that is not quite true... plain and simple is that he loves me and thinks I am perfect (silly man!)

Oh I can hear, but I guess I cannot speak. LOL
DD is an executive producer at a tv station. She is constantly correcting me. "Its milk, not melk".
Ahh, she is losing her heritage. LOL

Edited DH to DD.
Thanks for catching my error!
One letter really changes the sentence!

This message was edited Oct 23, 2007 11:30 AM

Now I'm confused. DH is a 'she'?

Hahahahaha, can't type either. DD I meant!!!!

Now y'all have got me thinking about my grandkids...

They have a trampoline, but the 3-year-old calls it a jumpoline

ROTFLMAO This thread is getting crazy!! LOLOL

CChicks - I thought you were just "batting for the other team" - I wasn't going to ask why you were calling DH a "she". lolol

Psych - you must have some gift your DH doesn't have. ;) But you're clearly a good speller now, so you overcame that? ;)

Jumpoline---now, that's cute.
and I have to go pick up my DGD at school--it's raining and she might melt between the bus stop and her house LOL

Yep, she probably will!

Well, she didn't-- LOL-- and neither did I when I "ran to the grocery store" (in my car) after I picked her up
Psych--how nice that you found a man who thinks you're perfect, but then, I did too, at least he does now--not so, when we first got married--he thought I was much too independent but then he decided he couldn't live without me and here we are all these years later! LOL

OK this thread is too funny!!! one crayon short equals a "space cadet" as my DM would say...or sometimes she would say " Earth to John!.... Earth to John!" as if she was Mission control calling out to us " space cadets!" when we were confused about obeying her instructions.

Dragonfly, "One crayon short of a box" is the same as "one trip short of a load"
Love that about the "space cadets", garden6 LOL

ok - gkids say the "darndest things" dept. Last week the kindergartener was listening as I mentioned how his aunt attended the same school many years ago, but I couldn't remember how many grades she'd attended there; his responded with, "but gramma, I'm not a grader":)
FlowrLady~I'm lucky enough to have all 9 gkids near.
This is a great thread to keep tabs on...very interesting and fun.
Kiska

al-you-min-ee-um is the correct British pronounciation.
just like shed-yool.

I once knew a guy from Connecticut and he also said shed-yool but I think he did it to be funny.

another way to say aluminum---a-loon-i-mum That's how my DH says it--he can't pronounce it correctly for some reason.

i once knew a man from nantucket...

o never mind!

That's where I thought that post was going, too!! lol

Not sure where you were going with that one, Amy!-- LOL --- and honest, "cross my heart and hope to die" if I'm not telling the truth---I really did know a man who was transplanted down here from CT. and he really did say shed-yool .
BTW, is "really did" a colloquialism", too? Ha!

speaking of gkids saying the 'darndest things', Kiska, here's one for you: When my DGD was about 6, she could already read quite well and she liked to read the billboards to me as we drove along the highway. One day I was driving along minding my own business and not even looking at the billboards and DGD said, "MaSusie, what's a gentlemen's club?" I thought, "Oh, Lord, why me?" but I managed to keep from laughing and I just told her it was a place where men went to watch "ladies" dance. She said, "Oh, okay" and that was the end of that, thank goodness!

I was typing while you were posting, SCNewbie! and now I don't even want to know where that one was going! LOL

I have NOT learned spelling, I generally run my work through a spell checker because I am so self conscious of it! The constant misspelling makes me appear much less intelligent (and less educated) than I am, its embarrassing. I know there are times people must think "this woman made it through college???"

One of the things that is funny about my obsession with MY spelling is that I do not really notice other people's misspelling. IF I can read it, then the misspelling goes right over my head! AND that is fine with me!! When my clients get self-conscious about their spelling in front of me, I tell them “less creative people only know ONE way to spell something”.

Lol. I am going to use that spelling excuse!
My DD, yes DD, when she was little used to call mittens, knittens because they were knitted. I never corrected her. She was in high school before someone told her the truth. I was in trouble ever sence.

psych: I guess I am not a creative person, LOL, because I am a "stickler" for correctly spelled words. If you see me misspell a word on DG it will be because I am typing too fast and not because I don't know how to spell it. (and I have had to re-type practically every word since I started this post--you have put a "hex" on my spelling--LOL)
Actually, my obsession with spelling is the fault of my 11th grade English teacher---you should have seen our vocabulary lists! I still remember some of those words on the list---words such as "onomatopoeia", for instance! Just look that one up in the online dictionary--LOL --I've never even had the chance to use it in "real life"--LOL!
cparts: glad you got the "DD" right--LOL
My goodness I am just LOL-ing all over the place! LOL
I'm outta here before I get carried away!

I spell soooooooo bad that I frequently don't recognize a misspelled word. I even spell check my emails. The ONLY time I don't spell check is when I'm Instant Messaging!!

I used to be an excellant speller. I even won a couple of spelling bees as a child. But a few years ago I was in a wreck and had a concussion. Lost some memory and it affected my typing too. So I misspell more than I ever used to now. Partly because my right hand (was hit on the left side of head) is slower and my brain sends the signal like it used to do, but the hand responds slower so I often transpose letters. I just proofread more than ever now! My friends say I use that "boot to the head" excuse too much! LOL!

But eveything else is okay, Cactuspatch? Use tyhe "boot tho the head" all you want. There was a lady where I work that the same thing happened to her. She gets so angry that words don't come as easy as they used to. Good to see you're such a "LOL" person.

Kwanjin, sorry to hear that your co-worker is having such a hard time adjusting to what is her new reality. I know it must be frustrating but adjusting and accepting her injury and the results of it would go a LONG way towards becoming happy again (assuming she ONCE was a happy person!)

Yes, thankfully I didn't have a lot of bad injuries. Broke my thumb and had a neck injury that sometimes still bothers. But yoga and my hottub take care of that. ; ) I had trouble with my reading and still can't read as fast as I once did. The reading took longer to improve on. I do crosswords and some other games to help with it. Reading all the posts here is part of my daily exercises!

Yep I am a LOL kind of person. Seems that when I didn't know my name that day in the ER I was laughing a bit like daffy duck-at least that is what my friends tell me. I can't recall? It is kind of like Alzheimers I guess. I do remember crying those first months when I knew that I used to be able to read and just could not make my brain do it. But as I healed the reading came back. I have a dear friend who is a special Ed teacher and she helped me regain my skills. I feel the experience made me even more compassionate to pain and disabilities. I still have days that I can tell my the looks on their faces that I have said something backwards or told that story before? Oh well!

That kind of sounded worse than it it really is, now that I read it. She gets mad at herself and cusses for a minute but then she's okay. She was happy before and happy after, just frustrated sometimes. Especially if she's trying to communcate something to someone face to face. She gets over it pretty fast. She was driving and was hit on the left side, too. This was 2 years ago. She got a brain infection andthey had to remove a small portion of her brain, where speech is centered.

You and my DH have something in common, cactus. He was in a really bad one-car accident (he was driving a race car at one of the dirt track races here in Arkansas) 10 years ago this month. I think I wrote about it somewhere else on DG. He had a "right frontal lobe sub-dural hematoma with a mid-line shift". When the doctor told me about his brain injury, I wrote it down so I wouldn't forget what it was called and sure enough, I have never forgotten it! Took 6 months for DH to get well enough to go back to work even part-time. Ever since then whenever he is particularly stressed, he gets really frustrated. He didn't have any negative effects with the use of any of his body parts--just his brain--LOL! When he was in the hospital, he pulled his IV's out several times and his catheter, too, caused he wanted to get up and go to the bathroom by himself. He did go by himself--in the wastebasket!! ( He would be mortified if he knew I was telling y'all this. LOL ) . One time he threw a wash cloth at his nurse when she was walking out of the room and he hit her in the back of the head.
It was all funny and yet it wasn't but if I hadn't laughed about it, I would have been crying. Sometimes he still has "brain fogs" where he has to stop and search for the word he is trying to think of. As far as telling the same stories over and over--well, he did that even before the wreck--runs in his family! LOL

I think we all do that, Marsue. I think we all do that, Marsue.

kwanjin--you are toooo funny!--you are toooo funny! LOL LOL

Thanks. I'll be here all week with two shows on Saturday! Try the veal!!!

Did we used this one yet...'a few bricks short of a load'

kwanjin, you have me LOL again! Yep, that boot to the head sent a few of my bricks flying Betty. Actually I think is moved them around and now my brain has to search to find them sometimes. I get frustrated when I forget things, but am thankful that things weren't worse. My dh was very patient with me. Then this year he is home more and I think he started to get annoyed with me losing my notebooks. Hadn't realized I did it so often. I carried one with me since the wreck to help me remember things. Anyhow one day he went to Walmart, came in with a dry erase board and stuck it to the frig. I guess he had just had it with finding my notes for me! But it has really helped. I write things there, see them more so it reinforces whatever I need to learn or recall. Plus I am less frustrated now that I am not forever misplacing my notebook!