I have used some of these before. Most of them remind me so much of my grandmother....God Love Her!!!
Rinsh or Rinch (rinse): "I have to rinch off the car before the suds dry."
Ort (ought): "I ort to go to the store to get some milk and bread before it snows."
Chi-car-go (Chicago): "A city upair summers 'round Dee-troit."
I ain't just whistlin' Dixie: (I'm sure you know what that means.)
Hope (help): "I'll hope you do the dishes."
Yourins (yours): Not lab samples. "I got mine. You get yourins"
Aholt: To get a hold of something, like yourself.
Amess: A whole pile of something, usually food.
Roastnears (roasting ear of corn): "My neighbor gave me amess of roastnears."
Likat: Like that.
Shore: Sure.
Shorely: Surely.
Dreckly (directly): "You comin'?" "I shore am. I'll be there dreckly."
Yonder (there): Something may be over, in, out, up or down yonder.
Arn: an iron.
Wudnitchu (interrogative - wasn't it you): "Wudnitchu lef' the arn on?"
Warntme (a negative - denial): "Nope. Warntme."
Justawuffin (kidding): "You ain't justawoofin me, are you?"
Et (past imperfect form of "eat."): If you say, "Et tu Brute?" someone will ask "Et two what?"
Yetyet (have you eaten?): "Yetyet?"
Arshtaters (Irish potatoes): "Etyet? I had smashed Arshtaters."
Sammich: Sandwich.
Baloney: A large spiced sausage known to most as bologna, often et in sammiches.
Viainie (Vi-ain-ee): A small, canned sausage, known elsewhere as a Vienna sausage, often et sliced in "Bainie Wainies."
Weuzzagonna: (We-uzza-gon-na) Compound word, a form of "we were going to."
Ahmo (I am going to): "Ahmo stop by Walmart 'fo' I go fishin'."
Issole (this ole): "Issole boy ain't never done a day's work in his life."
Upair (up there): "He' upair in his trailer."
Right smart (considerable): "Jim Ed's got a right smart of cotton in that field over yonder."
Diddley-squat (next to nothing): "He aint done diddley-squat since he's been here." Often the "squat" is omitted as in, "He aint done diddley since he hard (hired) on."
Nacho (not your): "That's nacho girtlfriend, is it?"
Spacial (special): "The other kids like muhboy Eddie Bob, they call him 'spacial Ed.' "
Winder: Window.
Yaller: Yellow.
Plike: "Let's play like."
Burnam or burnim (cremation): "They ah gonna burnim."
Didjeetyet: "Did you eat yet?"
Mamanim (Mama-nim): One's parental fambly - Mama and them. "I carried muh-fambly over to Mamanim's for Sunday dinner and we all et them Viainies, Bainie Wainies and barbecued baloney sammiches til I thought weuzzagonna bus' open."
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SoWal Expert
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I think you should include Texas in this dialect too! I've heard most of these all my life and yep, probably used some of them myself! I never thought I had an accent or used any "coloquialisms" until I went to New England!! :lol: They couldn't understand what the heck we were saying!!
I used to live in a rural Texas town and a couple of my faves from there are on your list
"Upair" and "Aholt"!!! :floor:
I think you should include Texas in this dialect too! I've heard most of these all my life and yep, probably used some of them myself! I never thought I had an accent or used any "coloquialisms" until I went to New England!! :lol: They couldn't understand what the heck we were saying!!
I used to live in a rural Texas town and a couple of my faves from there are on your list
"Upair" and "Aholt"!!! :floor:
bean
:clap_1: :floor: A few I've heard my granny say too.
Never heard tell of this' one but it's my fav:
Justawuffin (kidding): "You ain't justawoofin me, are you?"
Never heard tell of this' one but it's my fav:
Justawuffin (kidding): "You ain't justawoofin me, are you?"
bean
Reminds me of something that happened at church last Sunday. I was helping a visiting family from Pikeville KY. I asked the kids their names and the first one spoke up..her name was Brinley. I thought it was a really pretty name, kind of unusual. The little boy said his name was Brass. I thought, okay, that's a little unusual also ,but hey, I've heard a lot of different names lately. When he wrote out his name tag he spelled it a little differently than I would have. Bryce. :rolling:
fartblossom
i personally like ort - i do use it, and yourins, only i say you'uns....
Beach Fanatic
My friends from Birmingham talk about going to 'Lake Purdy', which I naturally translated to Lake Pretty -made sense.
Then I saw it on a map once spelled "Lake Purdy" Who knew?
Then I saw it on a map once spelled "Lake Purdy" Who knew?
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