Southern English

[Gunny]

Anybody in this thread marry a girl with "firewood freckles?"

 

[k0ua]

Anybody in this thread marry a girl with "firewood freckles?"

Ain't never heard tell of that.

 

[farmer2009]

Was always told that there was no g in exit, as I always and still do say egsit.

 

[TassieMike]

Real Southern English !! The EMG Presents: British Drama League Records - The Cornish Accent - YouTube

 

[ArmyPair2]

Well since I married my wife I learned what a hose pipe was= garden hose or what a boiler was =pot to heat water in but then I cut her some slack cause after all she is a Auburn Tiger fan.

 

[JRobyn]

Real Southern English !! The EMG Presents: British Drama League Records - The Cornish Accent - YouTube

Now just combine that with the previous mention of "southern belle speak" (I DO declare!, Isn't that just PRECIOUS, Bless his heart, etc.) and you have Dame Maggie Smith on Downton Abbey. She is the very best part of this series IMHO.

- Jay

 

[JRobyn]

I have heard folks in NC pronounce "chimney " as "chimley" and "trestle" pronounced as "trussel."

Are those pronunciations used elsewhere?

Steve

I think it was some of my Ohio kin that said "chimblee".

- Jay

 

[heviduty]

Anybody in this thread marry a girl with "firewood freckles?"

No, but a friend of mine once said his wife was from so far back in the woods her breath smelled like stove wood.
My dad "crunk" an engine. If it didn't stay running it "come uncrunkt".

 

[Beanmedic]

40 years as a paramedic heard these medical terms from patients:

"Abbominal pain" = abdominal pain

"He died from smil'in mighty Jesus" = He died of spinal meningitis

"I got the sugars" = I have diabetes

"She has athletic skeezurs" = She has epileptic seizures

"I got them cadillacs in my eyes" = I have cataracts

"He throwed a clot" = He had a blood clot

"Fester" = Become infected

"He hawked a loogie" = He coughed up phlegm

"She's got low blood" = She is anemic

"Doc said I have roaches on my liver" = Doctor said I have cirrhosis of the liver

Beanmedic

 

[IslandTractor]

40 years as a paramedic heard these medical terms from patients:

"Abbominal pain" = abdominal pain

"He died from smil'in mighty Jesus" = He died of spinal meningitis

"I got the sugars" = I have diabetes

"She has athletic skeezurs" = She has epileptic seizures

"I got them cadillacs in my eyes" = I have cataracts

"He throwed a clot" = He had a blood clot

"Fester" = Become infected

"He hawked a loogie" = He coughed up phlegm

"She's got low blood" = She is anemic

"Doc said I have roaches on my liver" = Doctor said I have cirrhosis of the liver

Beanmedic

You forgot my favorite:

Fireballs of the ukeris= fibroids of the uterus.

And,

Sick as-**** anemia= sickle cell anemia