My mama was from OK and daddy was from Tx, but I was raised here in Arizona....makes for an interesting mix. Mama (not ma, mom, mommy) always said rainin' cats and dogs, but here we say cloudburst or gully-washer. A shopping cart's just a cart, Walmart is Wally-world, if you go anywhere you're 'going to town', dowtown is the oldest part of town no matter which direction it is, boondocks or toolies mean you live outside the city limits, if the road isn't paved, it's dirt even if it does have gravel on it. We drive a pick-up, work cattle on horseback, and in the summer it's 'hotter than the backside of h___." When he had a lot to do Daddy was 'busy as a one-legged man in a butt kicking contest' and sometimes he got hoppin' mad. When something was funny, Mama got 'tickled' and if you were running into town to go get something you had to go 'fetch' it.