My Lexicon

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:43 pm

Some have accused me of speaking peculiar language, or some such. Ever what they're talking about, I don't know. In the interest of clearer dialogue, I decided to compile a brief vocabulary list, barring more common words such as mayhaps and 'tweren't.

Arnchie- aren't you
Bleave- believe
Carpracter- chiropractor
Cominuppacloud- stormy weather gathering
Captel- capital or capitol
Clem- past tense of climb
Comfterble- comfortable
Contnent- continent
Cookstove- range
Crystial- crystal
Didjy- did you
Ditnit- didn't it
Differnt- different
Dudn't- doesn't
Far- fire
Farplace- fireplace
Foe-wer- 4
Goint-tha- going to the
Heb'm- heaven
Idn't- isn't
Ignernt- unlearned
Joggerfy- geography
Kindly- sort of
Kinlen- kindling
Kweeyut- quit
Leb'm- 11
Milnk- milk
Orstchure- oyster
Orta- ought to
Owntno- I do not know [with proper intonation, can also be pronounced "mm-mm"]
Partial- parcel
Petition- partition
Probly- probably
Pror- prior
Pyannah- a pianoforte
Runt- ruined
Seb'm- 7
Sumoze- some of those
Sump'm- something
Surp- syrup
Usetabee- in the good old days
Thelm- them
Waller- wallow
Windah- window
Wernchya- weren't you
Worsh- wash
Yallah- yellow
You'uns- plural of you
Your'unses- second person plural possessive
Yurp- a forn contnent acrost the waters
Zackly- exactly

Jeferson · Post by **Jeferson** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:51 pm

W, I'm not entirely sure that this list is going to help me to understand you.

A valiant effort, no doubt.

Jef

PS I hear that lexicons are from Ireland.

peeplj · Post by **peeplj** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:51 pm

Awww now, yuh fergot one uh the most impertent:

eechet

as in

"Didjya eechet?"

--James

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 4:54 pm

peeplj wrote:Awww now, yuh fergot one uh the most impertent:

eechet

as in

"Didjya eechet?"

--James

I also fergot "yunder" for "yonder."

Jeferson wrote: PS I hear that lexicons are from Ireland.

True nuff.

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 5:10 pm

You forgot crynoutloud. Or maybe thats just me... and my Dad.

My dad defuses people who are too tense (like his son) with that one. When I get all worked up about something and tell him about it in an urgent tone, he just looks at me and says "Fercrynoutloud."

A non-sequitur.

NancyF · Post by **NancyF** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 7:31 pm

fave (rhymes with have) = 5

--N

chattiekathy · Post by **chattiekathy** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 7:49 pm

Every weekday morning the radio station we listen to in the barn, has a recording of elementary children from all different schools reciting the pledge of alligence, a different class of kids each day and they "All" and I am serious about this, they ALL say very plainly "With Liberty and Justice *fer* all".

It never fails! I get such a kick out of this. It's my favorite moment of the morning milking.

Cheers,
Kathy

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 7:58 pm

chattiekathy wrote:Every weekday morning the radio station we listen to in the barn, has a recording of elementary children from all different schools reciting the pledge of alligence, a different class of kids each day and they "All" and I am serious about this, they ALL say very plainly "With Liberty and Justice *fer* all".

The schwa is commonly used for unaccented syllables in the English language. For "for" to have the "o" pronounced distinctly, the word would almost need to be emphasized. Of course, maybe the schwa thing isn't supposed to apply to single-syllable words.

Actually, though, with the ever-present television, the regionalisms of California, New York City, and those places with media influence, are fast replacing local modes of speach.

Now to try and get across the difference between "fixing to do something" and "gonna do it after while."

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 8:30 pm

Walden, I understand you perfectly! 90% of those words are spoken exactly the same way here.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 9:01 pm

Walden, you forgot a few gooduns- Now, remember, I am in Jawjah!

Bob war- Barbed wire
Up yunder- Way out over there
Overar- Over there
Nary- Not or about or nearly... go figger!
Grandiddy- Grandfather
Done turnt- Became, turned...
Cept- Except
About a "C" -As in you go about as far as you can see and then you cnge direction.

Hootnanny- Party
Moren- More than
Plum nelly- Nearly (almost)
Onaccounta- Beacuse of (sounds Italian huh?)
Roundabout- Near, close to
Up round- Near, close to
Aint never- Never ever
Upar- Up there
Warnt- Wasn't
Broke- Broken

Example:
We plum nelly made it all the way up yunder to Mount Airy... We wuz on the way up to Mabel's momma's house for a big ole hootnanny. Her Grandiddy wuz turnin 90. Trouble is, We aint gone moren about 8 or 9 Cs when the truck done blowed a gasket! Shoot, we wuz somewhar up round Turkey Leg. Aint nuthin upar. We had to cross this bob war fence just to git to the fillin station! Mabel done tore her dress climbin over the dang thang. They ended up towin the car on in on a hook. (We rode in it) we had to stay in the Turkey Leg International Motor Lodge. Warnt a whole lot of international nuthin there. Just a cock fight out back. (Don't tell Mabel). The Triple A paid fer the whole thang- (Cept what I lost at the cock fight)- Gasket, Motel and all. Never did git up to Mount Airy. Mabel's Grandiddy dun turnt 90 without us. I rekon we'll try agin next year. We'll probly take the John Deere. It aint never broke yet.

-Pawl

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 9:13 pm

Paul wrote:Walden, you forgot a few gooduns- Now, remember, I am in Jawjah!

Bob war- Barbed wire
Up yunder- Way out over there
Overar- Over there
Nary- Not or about or nearly... go figger!
Grandiddy- Grandfather
Done turnt- Became, turned...
Cept- Except
About a "C" -As in you go about as far as you can see and then you cnge direction.
Hootnanny- Party
Moren- More than
Plum nelly- Nearly (almost)
Onaccounta- Beacuse of (sounds Italian huh?)
Roundabout- Near, close to
Up round- Near, close to
Aint never- Never ever
Upar- Up there
Warnt- Wasn't
Broke- Broken

Most all of those are used here in Oklahoma as well. I am certain that the following, from your list are quite standard in my neck of the woods:

Bob war- Barbed wire
Up yunder- Way out over there
Overar- Over there
Done turnt- Became, turned...
Cept- Except
Moren- More than
Roundabout- Near, close to
Up round- Near, close to
Aint never- Never ever
Upar- Up there
Broke- Broken

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 9:24 pm

You know, Walden, we joke about it but it is our own language... American. Used to be a long time ago dictionaries and lexicons evolved with the language. I guess they do now but at a much slower pace.

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:10 pm

I was stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi during my Air Force days in the '70's. I was a hospital corpsman. The nurses would tape the change-of-shift report and one day a nurse who was a native of Mississippi was searching for the beginning of the report and came across her own voice giving the previous day's report. We all think we sound weird when we hear a recording of our own voice. Her reaction was, "Oh ma Lord! Ah soun lak a myule eatin briars." I can still hear her in my head.

My mom grew up in a rough part of Dublin, Ireland. She has been self-conscious of her own accent even to today, figuring people will think she's from a low class neighborhood. (Which she is, but no one knows and everyone tells her her accent is cool.) We still throw around remarks she repeated to us growing up: "I'll box yer ears for ya." "Shutcher cod mouth." "Go away witcha." My favorite was when she was at her wits end with us (said with great passion): "God grant me patience." My dad's classic line was "Get up owadat." ('Get up out of that,' which basically means Get moving. Here's a 7 second clip from a live Dubliners performance with an audience member yelling exactly that. (Might have been me own da.) http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/au ... comeon.mp3

Steven · Post by **Steven** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:27 pm

Dang, but y'all're makin me homesick! I done growed up in Jawjah, but now I'm livin up here in tha Great Frozen Wasteland. (Folks from up round here like to call it the North.) Ya cain't hardly never hear a proper Suthern accent upere -- they all tawk funny.

Course, y'all forgot a real important word, although Paul did use it in his story: bigol'. For those not in the know, it's a very handy adjective describing something large, as in Paul's bigol' hootnanny.

Steven

Isilwen · Post by **Isilwen** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 10:31 pm

Lol!!!

oh, and you can't forget Warsh as a variant for wash or any variations thereof... (ie. warsher- washer) Also Encycropedia for Encyclopedia.