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re: Old Fashioned words
Posted on 5/2/25 at 9:02 am to highcotton2
Posted on 5/2/25 at 9:02 am to highcotton2
It wasn't until I came to Farmerville that I heard someone refer to the trunk of a car as the 'turtlehull'
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Posted on 5/2/25 at 9:04 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Arkansas credit card = siphon hose
Posted on 5/2/25 at 9:21 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
The front = the living room
Ex. Someone calls asking for your mom and you say, “she’s in the front, let me go get her:”
I still catch myself saying this. I assume it comes from the shotgun houses where the living room was in the front of the house. My great grandparents lived in a shotgun but we used it regardless of the style of the house or whether the living room is in the front of the house.
Ex. Someone calls asking for your mom and you say, “she’s in the front, let me go get her:”
I still catch myself saying this. I assume it comes from the shotgun houses where the living room was in the front of the house. My great grandparents lived in a shotgun but we used it regardless of the style of the house or whether the living room is in the front of the house.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 9:39 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Not being ugly, but bless your heart those were bad examples you gave. Poor thing
Posted on 5/2/25 at 9:41 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Girlfriend=cousin
Posted on 5/2/25 at 9:46 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
vacuum - sweeper
shopping cart - buggy
rubber band - gumband
bologna - jumbo
hydrant - fire plug
shopping cart - buggy
rubber band - gumband
bologna - jumbo
hydrant - fire plug
Posted on 5/2/25 at 9:50 am to FlyFishinTiger
quote:
always supper for us growing up in the south
Definitely a thing in the upper Midwest too. Supper Clubs are still a type of dining establishment in Wisconsin
And both my grandmas called the sofa a “Davenport” when I was a kid
This post was edited on 5/2/25 at 9:51 am
Posted on 5/2/25 at 10:23 am to Bruco
French toast = Lost Bread, or less frequently, Pan Perdue
“It goes without saying” = “Cela va sans dire”
“That’s not the way things are done” = “Pas comme il faut”
“It goes without saying” = “Cela va sans dire”
“That’s not the way things are done” = “Pas comme il faut”
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:35 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
quote:
For example:
Sofa= Divan
Sink= Zinc
Dinner=Supper
Soda="Sodie-Pop"
Tennis shoes=Ground Grippers
The only one of these you got right is supper.
Sofa = Couch
Soda = a coke
Tennis shoes = tennies
Missouri is a weird arse place. It's not southern. It's not really the mid west.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:43 am to LaLadyinTx
How about chifferobe, which is more or less the same thing as an armoire or wardrobe?
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:50 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
quote:
Soda="Sodie-Pop"
Midwesterner here. For most of the mid-west it's Soda-Pop, not Sodie-Pop (that's more hillbilly). Soda is acceptable, Coke is only if you want an actual Coca-Cola. When a linguist is trying to pin down the roots of a speaker this is one of the first words they go to.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 11:59 am to TigerBaitOohHaHa
I'm still too big for my britches.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 12:38 pm to gumbo2176
quote:
Soda------Coke-----as a kid, all sodas were cokes
You want a coke ?
Yeah, git me one.
What kind ?
Posted on 5/2/25 at 12:42 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
quote:
Old Fashioned words
Bourbon.
Posted on 5/2/25 at 12:43 pm to gumbo2176
When I was a kid the lady across the street called a canal a "kernel".
Posted on 5/2/25 at 12:48 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Telephone = Ameche
Posted on 5/2/25 at 12:48 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Master bedroom - En Suite
Posted on 5/2/25 at 1:20 pm to SaintTiger80
quote:
My dad almost exclusively calls toilets “the commode”.
I have a nasty cousin thst calls it the shitter
Posted on 5/2/25 at 1:23 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
quote:
Sofa= Divan
Chesterfield
Posted on 5/2/25 at 1:30 pm to gumbo2176
quote:
Soda------Coke-----as a kid, all sodas were cokes
That was my first thought and your quote is the truth.
Wish I had a dollar for every time someone asked me that way when I was a kid "what kind of Coke do you want" referring to you want a Pepsi, Dr Pepper, 7 Up etc.
Never heard of soft drinks "Coke" referred to as Sodas until I was in High School while on a trip to New York City.
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