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#2: If you run your car into a ditch, just wait. Four men in a pick-up with a tow hitch will be along soon. Just stay outta their way, It's what they live for.
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created: 2/5/2007 2:55:52 PM
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OK that explains a lot.. I have seen this happen often just up the street from me and other areas where the road comes to a STOP and you must turn left or right.
Also, If someone asks you if you want a "pop" they are referring to a soda, not a physical encounter!
If you hear "pop" around NC for soda, that person is probably not a native NC'er. (Midwesterner maybe, where pop is used a lot?)
Now if you hear someone ask for a "Cokecola", they are probably a native....and they aren't really asking specifically for a Coke...any kind of soft drink would fit the bill.
I agree! I was born and raised here and never heard of a "soda pop" until I was an adult. I've lived in Raleigh for about 16 years, but still love to talk to my dad on the phone every day about how he just set out his arsh taters (Irish potatoes) and maters (tomatoes). I know what a whooping is and I always got one with a switch (I was made to go get it, yes) or a belt or any other object that happened to be around! My dad (whom I call Daddy when I talk to or about him) still eats dinner and supper and you can always find biscuits on the table and m'lasses nearby to stick your finger in and make a hole to pour it in. Be careful outside too, because the animals are kept where they are with a 'lectric fence and it'll shore make ya holler!
I agree! I was born and raised here and never heard of a "soda pop" until I was an adult. I've lived in Raleigh for about 16 years, but still love to talk to my dad on the phone every day about how he just set out his arsh taters (Irish potatoes) and maters (tomatoes). I know what a whooping is and I always got one with a switch (I was made to go get it, yes) or a belt or any other object that happened to be around! My dad (whom I call Daddy when I talk to or about him) still eats dinner and supper and you can always find biscuits on the table and m'lasses nearby to stick your finger in and make a hole to pour it in. Be careful outside too, because the animals are kept where they are with a 'lectric fence and it'll shore make ya holler!
That sounds just like my Daddy!! I was reared (raised in S.C.) The first time I
ask my Husband to get something out of the boot He about lost it when he figured out I was talking about the trunk of my car. Have you heard the word
skunt for when you scrape your knee in a fall? My mother says bullnoser for bulldozer. hose pipe ??? When did yall start calling it a water hose? lol also tal
for paper towel man I could go on and on. WE leave out a lot of r's so I'm sure if you are from a northern state and you were at a family gathering of mine you wouldn't understand a word. But you would have plenty to eat!!!
Know what a boot is! Is skunt the past tense of skint? Ha. Hose pipe, yep. Lost r's, that's funny...makes me think of Daddy saying a'ight. And all the I's are pronounced ii (drawn out) ... liight hiigh riight!! Don't forget the pickup.
Oh, my. How long can I type? I am from the north (Illinois), lived here 8 years (eastern NC), and about to move to PA. Some of the entertaining things I hear down here:
"Mash the button" (darned it, my 4 year old says it now)
"vomick" (I'm a vet....we jokingly say this A LOT)
"Winder" (that's a window to others)
"hasslin'" (darned it!! When you're fresh out of vet school, and your clients says "der dog been hasslin' for TWO days now!!"....and you have NO idea what it means?!!?) (oh, it means panting)
yes, the whole thing about "carry"
"all the way"...the insane way they make burgers with chili, slaw, etc...makes me ill just thinking about it!!!
"ain't gonna" (heck, I say that WAY TOO MUCH now!!)
[What are your favorite NC slang words or phrases???????
being from upstate NY we had stopped at the waffle house while visiting my daughter ----had some difficulty ordering food from the waitress --we sat down at the counter instead of the booth and she questioned us as to (phonetically) jeet yet?? hubby and i sat there clueless my daughter giggled and interpreted for us--did you eat yet? Of course the waitress then asked us if we wanted our home fries scattered smoothered and covered---it was the first that we heard of that --but yum it was good stuff!
Any others ???[/quote]
After visiting the area while a child, and moving here in 1984, I learned many of the local words, weren't slang to the natives, but were part of their everyday language, i.e., "Youngerns" meaning whoever they were speaking to.
The "Momicked", clearly expressed how they felt, and used as "Youngerns, haint I been Momicked this day". Meaning they were having a bad day. Then their expression of the tides...such as "Hoytide", meaning "Hightide". Then there was the one that described your "Aunt" as in sister of your mother or father. The word used by everyone down here is "ANT", i.e., Ant Judy, Ant Barbara, etc...it's just there way, and you learn to love it, once you understand what they're saying. My biggest problem, especially from the cousins raised on Harkers Island, was getting them to slow down enough that I could understand them. The islanders talk very fast, so you have to listen closely, or you'll miss half the conversation. Come again, and visit "Downeast", meaning anything east of Beaufort, N.C., visit the stores, talk to the natives, and most of all "Enjoy".
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I've lived in Raleigh for about 16 years, but still love to talk to my dad on the phone every day about how he just set out his arsh taters (Irish potatoes) and maters (tomatoes). I know what a whooping is and I always got one with a switch (I was made to go get it, yes) or a belt or any other object that happened to be around! My dad (whom I call Daddy when I talk to or about him) still eats dinner and supper and you can always find biscuits on the table and m'lasses nearby to stick your finger in and make a hole to pour it in. Be careful outside too, because the animals are kept where they are with a 'lectric fence and it'll shore make ya holler!
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