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Debra Mc 12-01-2009 09:51 AM

I just read thru all this thread. My Dh use to say Turtle Hull but now has stopped after a lot of years. Use to know a guy that ended every sentence with "you mighty right." This one gets me really bad- "Ain't go no" Southerners have a tendency to draw out there words where up northerners they talk faster. But I have found that new englanders talk slower. After 30 years in a flower shop & talking wire orders from all over you can tell where most folks are from. I talked to a lady from Beaufort , SC one time & I like to have never figured out what she was saying. Her draw was really intense. It's funny because Californians can alway tell a Texan. Jeff Foxworthy has a book on funny sayings fro the south. It is hilarious.

bearisgray 12-01-2009 09:52 AM

Wadding - the first time I saw that - I wondered why in the world would anyone put lumpy stuff in the middle of the quilt sandwich?

Wadded up underwear, the clothes were wadded up in the suitcase - - -

Padding - that one puzzled me, too -

and as far as that goes, I think "batting" sounds odd, too

Lisa_wanna_b_quilter 12-01-2009 09:52 AM

I say batting because I'm a plain old American hick, but I know what wadding means because I have worldly friends at the QB! :D

Debra Mc 12-01-2009 09:56 AM

I have never heard wadding. I have always said batting. What else do you call it.

bearisgray 12-01-2009 10:03 AM

what we call "grocery carts" are called "buggies" in Florida

mrsjdt 12-01-2009 10:11 AM

the "kids" in our area say "these ones"....Oh, I really like these ones.
or, I want these ones.....GRRRRRRRRR

Baren*eh*ked_canadian 12-01-2009 10:31 AM

It's called wadding here, but I use batting online because that's what everyone else says.

The rolls of 'batting' are even labelled 'wadding' at the store.

Baren*eh*ked_canadian 12-01-2009 10:36 AM


Originally Posted by bearisgray
what we call "grocery carts" are called "buggies" in Florida


I've always called it a buggy! Or a pousse-pousse, even in english, lol.
Baby carriages are called buggys for me too. A baby buggy... I most likely got that from my grandmother, she was born here but her parents were off-the-boat scottish folks, I remember they had heavy accents 60+ years after getting to Canada. I was very young when they died, but I remember them. My grandmother used lots of words that we don't necessarily use here. Potatos were spuds, she didn't go pee she went to piddle, little things like that.

bearisgray 12-01-2009 10:37 AM

who says "I gotta urinate" ?

amma 12-01-2009 10:46 AM

I have never heard anyone ever use that except in a hospital setting.


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