brin
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Thread is so long to check...has anyone said....Dad Gum or Shaw ...yet ? How about when you were little in the South and in trouble and you heard..." I'll snatch a knot in your tail " or ...Now you're a gonna get a Whuppin' ??
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In an earlier post, I mentioned something my dad used to say when he forgot something. It was, "I clear-light forgot it." I don't know for sure that anyone else from any other family said that, but everyone understood what it meant. Anyone else ever hear that expression?
Then, there was my mom who, when she wanted something clarified, said, "You'll have to be more pacific." I don't know it that was a southern thing or not, but I've heard lots of people say "pacific" instead of "specific."
Then, there was my mom who, when she wanted something clarified, said, "You'll have to be more pacific." I don't know it that was a southern thing or not, but I've heard lots of people say "pacific" instead of "specific."
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I heard 'snatch you bald headed' a few times in my younger days.
k0ua
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also "I will flop a knot on your head"
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My mother was a Floridian. She would threaten to "tan our behinds" though we never actually figured out what that was.
Barry N
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I have heard "dad-gumit" and "gol-durned" many times. Has the term for a suitcase been mentioned: "grip"?
2LaneCruzer
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My Dad would say: "I'll knock a fart out of you that will whistle like a freight train!".
2LaneCruzer
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My Dad would say: "I'll knock a fart out of you that will whistle like a freight train!".
k0ua
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Ain't never heard tell of that.
farmer2009
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Was always told that there was no g in exit, as I always and still do say egsit.
TassieMike
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Real Southern English !! The EMG Presents: British Drama League Records - The Cornish Accent - YouTube
Now just combine that with the previous mention of "southern belle speak" (I DO declare!, Isn't that just PRECIOUS, Bless his heart, etc.) and you have Dame Maggie Smith on Downton Abbey. She is the very best part of this series IMHO.
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No, but a friend of mine once said his wife was from so far back in the woods her breath smelled like stove wood.
My dad "crunk" an engine. If it didn't stay running it "come uncrunkt".
Beanmedic
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40 years as a paramedic heard these medical terms from patients:
"Abbominal pain" = abdominal pain
"He died from smil'in mighty Jesus" = He died of spinal meningitis
"I got the sugars" = I have diabetes
"She has athletic skeezurs" = She has epileptic seizures
"I got them cadillacs in my eyes" = I have cataracts
"He throwed a clot" = He had a blood clot
"Fester" = Become infected
"He hawked a loogie" = He coughed up phlegm
"She's got low blood" = She is anemic
"Doc said I have roaches on my liver" = Doctor said I have cirrhosis of the liver
Beanmedic
"Abbominal pain" = abdominal pain
"He died from smil'in mighty Jesus" = He died of spinal meningitis
"I got the sugars" = I have diabetes
"She has athletic skeezurs" = She has epileptic seizures
"I got them cadillacs in my eyes" = I have cataracts
"He throwed a clot" = He had a blood clot
"Fester" = Become infected
"He hawked a loogie" = He coughed up phlegm
"She's got low blood" = She is anemic
"Doc said I have roaches on my liver" = Doctor said I have cirrhosis of the liver
Beanmedic
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You forgot my favorite:
Fireballs of the ukeris= fibroids of the uterus.
And,
Sick as-**** anemia= sickle cell anemia
