phrases that puzzle me

Reply Subscribe

Page 39 of 52

« First

Last »

Thread Tools

12-09-2009, 01:26 PM

#381

jljack

Super Member

Join Date: Apr 2007

Location: North Carolina - But otherwise, NOTW

Posts: 7,940

Quote:

Originally Posted by bearisgray

"I axed him" for "I asked him"

That's my pet peeve, also. Axed 'em. Good Grief!!! Another one is "their for they're" in writing. PULLEEEZZZZ!!!! Doesn't anyone take English in school anymore? :lol: :roll:

12-09-2009, 01:36 PM

#382

bearisgray

Power Poster

Thread Starter

Join Date: May 2008

Location: MN

Posts: 24,438

That is interesting, but --

that usage in 1995 in St. Paul, Minnesota?

12-09-2009, 01:46 PM

#383

jljack

Super Member

Join Date: Apr 2007

Location: North Carolina - But otherwise, NOTW

Posts: 7,940

OK, how about "Sodee" for "soda". My German descent cousins in MO use that all the time. My mom was born and raised there (central Missouri), but came to CA when she was 19. All the ones that stayed there talk like that, and their kids. My mom took up "west coast-ese" right away.

My grandpa used to say "refrigiator".

12-09-2009, 01:50 PM

#384

Edie

Super Member

Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: St. Paul, Minnesota

Posts: 2,616

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhonda

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loretta

That German strong "R" is common in Midwest. Did you Worsch your hands?

Is worsch the german word for wash? I never knew that. I always wondered where that got started.

To be honest with you from this end of the world - my sister always played with words - she is so good at that - and she rhymed wash the squash and "funned" it a little bit by saying warsh the squarsh!!!

Five inches of snow here - in a snow emergency, so I had to move the van so it wouldn't get towed away!!!!! And my feet are cold!!!! Edie

12-09-2009, 01:54 PM

#385

Edie

Super Member

Join Date: Sep 2009

Location: St. Paul, Minnesota

Posts: 2,616

Quote:

Originally Posted by ERhausfrau

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rhonda

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loretta

That German strong "R" is common in Midwest. Did you Worsch your hands?

Is worsch the german word for wash? I never knew that. I always wondered where that got started.

The German word for wash is wasch pronounced Vahsh - waschtag means washday. I have a sign hanging on the wall going down to the basement:

Mag die Hausfrau
Sonnenschein
haben an jedem
Waschtag.

May the housewife have sunshine on her washday. Isn't that sweet? Edie (again)

12-09-2009, 01:55 PM

#386

redkimba

Super Member

Join Date: Jul 2009

Location: North Texas

Posts: 1,713

to describe something as being over yonder.

I've explained that word as meaning "there plus about 50 feet". ;)

12-09-2009, 01:57 PM

#387

jljack

Super Member

Join Date: Apr 2007

Location: North Carolina - But otherwise, NOTW

Posts: 7,940

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loretta

Actually this is a form of Gullah- an old language found rarely on the Southeast coast. I had to study it in college.

OK, but in 2009 in California? I don't really get it. It's lazy speech.

12-09-2009, 02:24 PM

#388

Rhonda

Power Poster

Join Date: Mar 2009

Location: Salem Iowa

Posts: 15,666

A phrase I use all the time is Holler when you're ready or Holler if you need me. I don't think anything of it til I wrote it on the board and I thought boy they must really think I am a hick! Ok A hick who lives in the sticks!! someone who is backwards(doesn't know much) and lives out in the far back regions and doesn't have much contact with the civilized world! Iowa has this stigma that everyone who lives in Iowa is a hick. No brains and no manners.

Another version of the holler is-- It's just a hoot and a holler away.