[WinterRose]

Hi everyone - Thought it would be fun to find out what phrases you use commonly.

I picked up 'how 'bout that?' from my grandad and I use 'how do' when passing strangers that I want to greet. I once got asked if I'm from Texas and I've never been there. I also like to use 'you all' because I took Latin and when we translated we had to differentiate between singular and plural you - it's hung on.

What are some of yours?

mine is ................prolly

[jbug]

I'm fixin to.....that is when I'm getting ready to do something example of this would be I'm fixin to go to Walmart.

Y'all what can I say I live in the south?

Jbug

[InACorner]

"run the sweeper"

-run the vaccum cleaner...i get made fun of for that all the time

"outtin the light"

-turn the light off

"wuder"

-water

"cubbard"

-cupboard

"sall"

- saw lol

LIVE WELL..... LAUGH OFTEN....LEARN MUCH

[therealme]

nuttin happening...........

DTA................

[Perna]

My parents had a greeting card message on their checkbook cover that usually makes me smile:

"It is better to be rich and healthy than it is to be poor and sick."

But Peter S. Beagle's The Last Unicorn has a "speech" I like, and the main theme there is, "The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story." I remind myself of that and ask myself "Are you happy?" and if the answer is "No" then I keep on keeping on/working until I am :-)

[therealme]

" FINE "

[Busysdizzy]

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InACorner said:
"run the sweeper"

-run the vaccum cleaner...i get made fun of for that all the time

"outtin the light"

-turn the light off

"wuder"

-water

"cubbard"

-cupboard

"sall"

- saw lol

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You must be in Pennsylvania, where else do they pronounce water wooder? or say outen the light?

[Busysdizzy]

My husband says "Holy Mackeral!" alot.
I say "Good gravy!"

[okiedokie]

"*** over appetite"
to have fallen

"got a face only a mother could love"
not cute

"well for pity's sake"
for gosh sakes already

"don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya"
don't let the door hit you on the way out

These are a few that come to mind....

Okie

"Okie dokie" too, Okie Dokie?
I can't think of any that I say. What does *** over appetite mean? I've never heard that one before-is it a sexual reference to wanting sex over eating? ????

[okiedokie]

Hey Pickle,
No sexual reference intended.

It means if you're falling forward your *** sort of flies up into the air over your stomach and down you go!!

I know. I'm weird...

Okie

[WinterRose]

Maybe we should have a contest for the weirdest phrase? What fun!

[nothemama8]

Oh Hells Bells - meaning what the heck
I got another good one but am not allowed to say it here

[InACorner]

lol yea i grew up between florida and PA ....alot of my family speak Penn. dutch....and then i lived with my friends grandma and she spoke like that too....im surprised you recognized that ....try speaking with dutch phrases in a southern accent lol....i get everyone all confused....lol can you imagine me sayin

yall outtin the light now ya hear?

roflmao...

[lenjan]

"c'mon, buddy!" -- when the driver in front of me is taking his or her sweet time to make a decision

"Oh, THAT was smooth" -- when the driver in front of me does something boneheaded without warning

(yes, for living in a town of 13,000 with no traffic to speak of, I have a lot of traffic issues )

"true enough" -- not sure where I picked this one up, and if you really look at it, it smacks of a relativism I don't (and professionally can't) believe in. Something is true or it isn't. Period.

There's one I would never get past the profanity filter here

"Duuuuuude" -- picked up from my BIL, who picked it up from my 20-something niece and nephew. Generally appended to the front of something else, e.g., "Duuuuuude, that was really stupid."

"Uff da" (pronounced OOF duh) -- a regionalism if ever there was one. Basically the Scandinavian version of "good grief." There is a doggy day care and salon in Minneapolis called "Woof Da", and I've never been able to decide whether it's clever or stupid.

I'm putting "you bet" on the list because I'm told nobody outside the Midwest says it. In my particular part of the world, it tends to end up as "you betcha," which I'm told is even hokier and more Midwestern

[okiedokie]

You betcha! (born in Peoria, IL)

Also, say "c'mon buddy" to errant drivers.

I do say "true enough" although have to agree with you. It's like being pregnant. You either are or you aren't.

Okie

mine... "gezzzzz Louise".... "Good Golly Miss Polly" ... "say, what??"..."ya kidding me" "not this person"

Okie, dokie-I don't think you're weird and if you are then it's a good kind of weird.

yeppers..

[WinterRose]

Slow drivers (I go the speed limit so they are really slow) elicit from me clicking noises and a hiyip like I'm trying to get a horse going ...