Southern English

[Bird]

don't know if it's a southern saying, but my Dad used it...katy bar the door. When he (my dad ) said this I knew I was in trouble
World Wide Words: Katy bar the door This is all I could find on the use of the phrase.

Anyone else ever hear it ??

I don't think I ever heard anything about the origin of the term, but yes, I've heard it used many times.

 

[kenmac]

I don't think I ever heard anything about the origin of the term, but yes, I've heard it used many times.

When I heard my Dad say it, I knew an A W was coming my way !

 

[k0ua]

Catherine Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I think the Catherine Douglass story is the most likely origin.

 

[Daver1963]

Farmer 2009 is absolutely correct. The teat line on a boar determines the teat line on the gilts he sires. Good teat line = good brood sow. Therefore, teats on a boar are not worthless.

Sometimes its good to get "boared" with information.

 

[PMA]

Here's a fun little test that's in the spirit of this thread. Are You a Yankee or a Rebel? - alphaDictionary * Southern Accent Test If you google rebel or a Yankee test there are several that come up and if you answer honestly they usually are pretty close as to where you grew up . My results usually come up about 55% dixie and since I'm about 50 miles south of the Mason Dixon line that's pretty darn close.

It said 100% southerner.

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[smstonypoint]

Sometimes its good to get "boared" with information.

Sir:

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.

John Dennis (deceased)

 

[IslandTractor]

29% Yankee Doodle here.

I'm shocked I tell ya, shocked. I figured hanging out on TBN with all you Southern boys would have disguised my background.

 

[PMA]

29% Yankee Doodle here. I'm shocked I tell ya, shocked. I figured hanging out on TBN with all you Southern boys would have disguised my background.

That's 29% to much.

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[kenmac]

29% Yankee Doodle here.

I'm shocked I tell ya, shocked. I figured hanging out on TBN with all you Southern boys would have disguised my background.

Nope ! I've talked to Yankees that have live here for 35+ yrs. They ask,,, how you can tell I'm not from here ? I say. If you ain't from here I /we can tell.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

29% Yankee Doodle here.

I'm shocked I tell ya, shocked. I figured hanging out on TBN with all you Southern boys would have disguised my background.

Ya better watch it Doc; they're beginning to find out that Lamarck was right...if y'all ain't careful, your Grand chilluns will be speaking Southern.

 

[Carl_NH]

Well, 36% Yankee here no surprise.

Was traveling the south, and one day north of Charlotte I was at a customer, it's about lunch time, so we are discussing options on places to eat. He says we can go to Isy's for "meetn too"

Seeing my puzzled look, he explained meat and two sides.

 

[IslandTractor]

Ya better watch it Doc; they're beginning to find out that Lamarck was right...if y'all ain't careful, your Grand chilluns will be speaking Southern.

Nah, I must be immune or something. My mother is a native Floridian and my wife hails from Alabama. I am well aware of the vocabulary as I witness conniption fits quite regularly but it's the pronunciation that doesn't rub off. Probably explains why I was such a terrible student of foreign language too.

 

[kenmac]

You broke the Law ,when you took that Alabama Gal across the Mason Dixon Line

 

[Bob77064]

How about " Get after it" meaning to do something.

 

[jinman]

To quote one of my favorite people, Brother Dave Gardner (The Voice of the South):

"We Southerners may not always be right, but by god we ain't never wrong!"

Also: "Let them that don't want none have memories of not gettin' any. Let that not be their punishment, but their reward."

I might near laughed myself to tears lissnin' to Bro. Dave.:laughing: My dad always said I should get shed of all his records because it was a fester on my brain. He plum clear light forgot that I had plenty of friends with all his records and Devil's music too.

 

[Bob77064]

When my stepdaddy heard that someone borke the law he would say "They should put him under the jail"

 

[cqaigy2]

28% Dixie. You are a dandy Yankee Doodle.

I was listening to the radio many years ago, and they were interviewing a person that studies languages and specifically dialects, how word are pronounced. He said that the way "english" is pronounce in, forgive my yankee ignorance, i think it was in the more isolated mountainous areas down South, was how the English pronounced it before 1869, i think it was. After 1869? apparently the English language in England had a big change for some reason, on how they pronounced many words. People from England come here to the states when they want to study earlier english pronunciation.

I should probably attribute my 28% from my "Northern" cousins in North Carolina and that bunch in Texas:laughing:

 

[IslandTractor]

You broke the Law ,when you took that Alabama Gal across the Mason Dixon Line

Nah, I found her wandering the streets of Boston looking for biscuits and gravy. (Sadly we don't have any up here and even worse we call grits "polenta"!)

 

[PMA]

You broke the Law ,when you took that Alabama Gal across the Mason Dixon Line

That poor woman.

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[Leejohn]

I can't spell them the way they say them, but the 2 words that I have to take a double take on are,carburetor and wiring harness.