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How come we say--the combine "burned up" last night. But the old granary "burned down". And the brush pile "burned" all night.
 
In this area of NC (southeast) people who are stuck are "bogged down." In the northeast part of the state, they are "mired up." Also, harvesting tobacco here is called cropping (which can apply to collards and other things you remove a few leaves off of at the time from the bottom up) but they call it priming in the northeast. When you go west to the mountains, they speak much differently than we do. My father in law was from Murphy, the farthest west town in the state, and their speech is very, very different from the eastern half. I don't know about other states, but in NC you can tell where someone is from in the state as soon as you hear them talk (except for areas like Raleigh or Charlotte with a lot of influence from transplants) and sometimes the difference will be less than 30 or 40 miles, though it can cover a large stretch, depending on the region.
 
in West Virginia whenever they sink the pickup in the mud, they say "I'm stuck up", which usually brings the retort "Well, I know it's hard, but try to be more humble".
 
I live on a 1 mile long cross road in the hills here in northern central Pa. The road runs more or less north/south and the southern elevation is about 100' feet higher than the northern end (hense a hill). Mom and Dad built their house towards the northern end on the road and a friend bought a house toward the southern end. Ex-wife spent 24 years correcting me every time I said I was going "down to Mom and Dad's or up to Vince's. I gave up trying to argue with her about it as if it were relavent to begin with. The 2 adult kids always used my referal to directions so it must have made sense to them anyway.
 
Well did you ever see a combine burn to the ground like a granary. The brush pile probably just burned because it wasn’t important enough to note how much.
 
(quoted from post at 23:14:26 01/21/12) in West Virginia whenever they sink the pickup in the mud, they say "I'm stuck up", which usually brings the retort "Well, I know it's hard, but try to be more humble".
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no accountin for some of the stuff them hillbillies say.... :shock:
My Mom, aunt's and uncles (on her side) would get together and and you may as well tune them out cause noone but them could understand or follow the conversation :roll:
 
Did you ever talk to someone from Harker's Island, off the coast by Beaufort? The folks on that island almost have their own language.

Incidently, "Beaufort" is pronouced "Bow'fert" in North Carolina and "Bew'fert" in South Carolina. Spelled the same. Been to both.
 
In Texas we "cut" the light switch on and off. As in " hey bubba cut the lights on!"

We also "carry" people. As in Bubba talking to Earl: "wife wants me to carry her over to the bar tonight".
Buddy was saying he was going to load his wife up and take her to town. I asked if he had a chute to get her loaded. I had to explain that we "load" livestock with a loading chute and if my wife ever heard me talking about "loading" her I would be in the dog house.


Everything is also "Coke". I occasionally regress and ask for a "pop" and get a blank stare. Now if you ask for a "Coke" you need to specify the flavor, as In I want an orange coke. If you order a diet coke it may be Pepsi, Coke,of something that resembles cola.
 
Around here people put gas "on the car". Or when th ey want you to let them out of a vehicle they "want off here".
 
I read once about some language expert who claimed that just from hearing people talk he could estimate within 50 miles where they were from in the entire country....I kinda doubt that for everyplace, especially in this day and age, but who knows?
 
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