Words That Are Unique to Your Area

[Lisa and Pic]

Originally Posted by Shelby&Seymour

"Hollar" in KY means something completely different. You go over the hollar and to the next stop light to get into town. I am originallly from Michigan and still have a hard time with this one!!!! (& I am surprised that none of our born and raised southern belles didn't mention this one!!)

That is too funny about holler! Yep, and such a Kentucky thing, or at least Eastern Ky. thing.

[Marhcarter]

Originally Posted by Lil Sis

to me bbq is the sauce or method, if we are going over to someones house we are having a "cook out" if it is just grilling. So I agree with you

[BabyGirl Rosie]

Originally Posted by gardengirl77

In Oklahoma we call it pop. One thing I say a lot is "holler". Like, "if y'all need something, holler" or "When you're ready to go, just holler!" and I'm always 'fixin' to do something. I'm a city girl though and we probably don't have as much of that as rural areas, especially the older folks. Sometimes I scare myself when I hear a hick sound come out of my mouth or some saying! LoL

We say this too. Lol. Fixin' is one I say a lot. Along with gonna.

[MandiesMom]

Said something last night that got me wondering if others say it:

"She's just knee high to grass hopper" (little/child/short)

also...

"It was a frog strangler" (refering to a lot of heavy rainfall)

[Marhcarter]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

Said something last night that got me wondering if others say it:

"She's just knee high to grass hopper" (little/child/short)

also...

"It was a frog strangler" (refering to a lot of heavy rainfall)

I've heard both, but that's not terribly suprising I guess since we are in the same part of the country. Definitely southern sayings.

[BabyGirl Rosie]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

Said something last night that got me wondering if others say it:

"She's just knee high to grass hopper" (little/child/short)

also...

"It was a frog strangler" (refering to a lot of heavy rainfall)

I have not heard these!

[Lil Sis]

Originally Posted by gardengirl77

In Oklahoma we call it pop. One thing I say a lot is "holler". Like, "if y'all need something, holler" or "When you're ready to go, just holler!" and I'm always 'fixin' to do something. I'm a city girl though and we probably don't have as much of that as rural areas, especially the older folks. Sometimes I scare myself when I hear a hick sound come out of my mouth or some saying! LoL

lol I had to look it up. There was a pop song that said "holler back" meaning yell back? I have used the word that way often.

Originally Posted by Shelby&Seymour;4239442[COLOR=red

]"Hollar" in KY means something completely different. You go over the hollar[/COLOR] and to the next stop light to get into town. I am originallly from Michigan and still have a hard time with this one!!!! (& I am surprised that none of our born and raised southern belles didn't mention this one!!)

No... in the mountains of (where I 50% grew up) Virginia/Tenn a Hollar (not sure if spelled correctly) is a valley. My dh said they were called shut ins in the Ozarks. anyone know???

When I looked it up it said hollar ment down the road a spell. My sil will say a "fur peice down the road" or "over yander"


it is funny how there are so many different meanings. I love the study of language.

[MandiesMom]

Originally Posted by BabyGirl Rosie

I have not heard these!

If I put the word "a" in front of "grass hopper" like I was supposed to, have you heard that? lol

[Lil Sis]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

If I put the word "a" in front of "grass hopper" like I was supposed to, have you heard that? lol

we use that expression a lot.

Have you heard .. shoulder baby, hip baby, knee baby when referring to age?


another... instead of say "at night" we would say "of a night"

to be slow is like "a heard of turtles"

[yorkietalkjilly]

We used to hear the term "don't cotton to" here in Texas when I was growing up but I haven't heard it used for years and years.

What is the origin of the idiom don't cotton to that

[MandiesMom]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

We used to hear the term "don't cotton to" here in Texas when I was growing up but I haven't heard it used for years and years.

What is the origin of the idiom don't cotton to that

Oh yeah! We've said that around these parts, too. Forgot about it until just now

[jadabug]

I thought of two more....piles = hemorrhoid and scoures= diarhea. When my FIL used those terms the first time I had no clue what the he k he was talking about

[gardengirl77]

Originally Posted by BabyGirl Rosie

We say this too. Lol. Fixin' is one I say a lot. Along with gonna.

I bet we probably have pretty much the same language usage. I live about an hr from Arkansas.

[sugarmamma]

Originally Posted by jadabug

I thought of two more....piles = hemorrhoid and scoures= diarhea. When my FIL used those terms the first time I had no clue what the he k he was talking about

I've heard of piles but scoures?????

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by sugarmamma

I've heard of piles but scoures?????

I may not be spelling it right. It's pronunciation is like a scouring pad haha. Maybe that's where the terminology came from diarrhea cleans you out