you're feeling defensive cause you don't know what we're talking about?

3/21/2008 1:47:29 PM

two that still sound strange to me

calling a grocery cart a "buggy"

and describing a direction as "cattywumpus"

(less of a direction and more of a vector I guess)

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 1:50 PM. Reason : .]

3/21/2008 1:49:05 PM

I'm familiar with buggy

cattywhatsit is new to me

3/21/2008 2:05:01 PM

you're from around here. shit there are still people around here that can tell what part of what county you're from by the way you talk

3/21/2008 2:07:21 PM

yeah

the highway system developed following WW2 eliminated that

3/21/2008 2:08:05 PM

probably closer to ashamed that i do know what you're talking about

3/21/2008 2:15:26 PM

agreed, snewf. i try not to imagine what the www will spawn. just culture crushing fad after fad. shit, we needed to steal from the black man well before we got the internet. now we can automate the process

3/21/2008 2:25:03 PM

Coming from NY here's some NC slang I've noticed:

"fixin" -- i'm fixin' for some Bojangles right now

"yall" - up north it was "you guys"

"git 'er done"

"preciate it" - seems to be the norm, rather than "thank you"

"going for a dip" doesn't mean jumping in the pool/lake, it means chewing tobacco

"all the way" - up north when you got everything on your burger it was called "the works"

"bless your heart"

"having a barbeque" is not the act of cooking on the grill, it is called "having a cook out" and barbeque is a type of pulled pork

down south there is no such thing as a pizza "pie", it's just a "pizza"...i get shit for that one all the time

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 2:50 PM. Reason : yall]

[Edited on March 21, 2008 at 2:52 PM. Reason : .]

3/21/2008 2:49:40 PM

"git 'er done" ~~~~ Nobody uses this except faggots who want to piss off yankee scum

"preciate it" - seems to be the norm, rather than "thank you" ~~~~ come on now. nobody has ever said that up north

"going for a dip" doesn't mean jumping in the pool/lake, it means chewing tobacco ~~~~ I'm starting to think you got this one from a chain mail letter

"having a barbeque" is not the act of cooking on the grill, it is called "having a cook out" and barbeque is a type of pulled pork ~~~~ I can't tell if you've got this one right or not by the way it's phrased. But BBQ doesn't involve a "grill" of any kind and only faggots and texans call anything but pork "BBQ"

3/21/2008 2:56:36 PM

^nah man, i learned what "going for a dip" meant down here was when i said i was hot and could go for a dip right now (as in go for a swim), he pulled out a tin of Skoal's and i was confused

3/21/2008 2:58:58 PM

where i grew up, "having a BBQ" meant cooking hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill....and barbeque was simply called "pulled pork"

3/21/2008 3:02:37 PM

Quote :

"and describing a direction as "cattywumpus" (less of a direction and more of a vector I guess)"

I've always heard/used cattywompus with a meaning similar to "caddycorner" or even "askew". If somebody used it in a directional manner, I'd be confused too.

A question--regarding the device by which you haul your groceries around the store--in these parts it's often a "buggy". "Cart" is, I suppose, more northern but you'll be understood pretty much anywhere. But I've also heard it referred to as a "trolley"--what part of the country does that come from?

3/21/2008 3:25:14 PM

Quote :

"^nah man, i learned what "going for a dip" meant down here was when i said i was hot and could go for a dip right now (as in go for a swim), he pulled out a tin of Skoal's and i was confused"

From this description I'm not entirely sure if you fully understand the subtleties of this one. While "dip" does refer to tobacco in the manner you discovered, the "going for" part doesn't refer specifically to tobacco. That was used in the same fashion as "I could go for a coke right now". If someone has some skoal on them and expresses that they are going to help themselves to it, they wouldn't likely say "I'm going for a dip."

At least in my opinion. But I have lived around here my whole life...

3/21/2008 3:30:55 PM