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Date Posted: 09:00:31 07/15/06 Sat
Author: Pat Keadle (all Southernisms)
Author Host/IP: dsl-1-236.d01.scwgnr.pbtcomm.net / 64.53.61.236
Subject: Re: Can you translate Southern?
In reply to: O'Bruadair 's message, "Can you translate Southern?" on 08:46:03 06/27/06 Tue

Adder, viper/snake, also "spreadin' adder" viper who extends its neck

laterally .....ought to
Ax, ask, form a question
Awmos, almost, (purt nigh on to)..nearly
Bade, cleansed one's self, made a reques of
Beknown, have the knowledge of (also beknownst)
Bestest, superb, finest
Bout, nearly
Bwile, be a while, to linger
Chimbley, chimney, smokestack,
Chittlens, intestines, usually porcine (hog) cleaned, turned inside out and deep fried

Clim, ascend, climb....also climate/weather
Cuz, cousin also cuddin', or because
Didden, did not, failed to do
Dollop, bigger than a tablespoon of substance, usually creamy substance like lard


Drawed, drew, pulled water from a well or a stream
Dreckley, directly, pretty soon, imminently
Drubbin, beaten up, loser in a tusslin' match
Fair t'middlin, pretty good feeling, not great (originally a cotton quality)
Finnikee, particular, (having discerning quality that only wants certain things)
Fuddled, confused (usually [to] befuddled)
Ghostisiz, plural of one ghost, specter
Grammer, Grampa's wife
Gwain, Go on, you're telling tall tales
Hizzen, male possessive, female would be hern
Hold wi', not of my belief system
Holler, to shout, also a valley
Hollerday, Holiday, vacation eg: July 4, December 25
Idden, is not
Larn, gain knowledge
Leastways, at the very least,
Leb'm, let them, allow to happen
Lights, panes of a window, also hog respiratory organs (meat-yuk)

Mind, behave, listen to me
Mussen, must not, also messed up-like hair
Ourn, ours, not yorn
Peart, pretty, in close approximation to
Piller, column, fluffy object to upon which you lay your head

privy, outhouse, back house, latrine, also to know secrets

Purdy, pretty (aka Strom Thurmond's comment to HiIllary.)

Ramshackle, tumbled down, shabby, usually referring to a dwelling house

Spec, suppose-do you suppose?, spectacles

spoase, suppose (do you think that)
Swaller, swallow, ingest food, -also a small brown bird
Taiters, potato, also a fond nickname for a small child

Tuther , the other,
Turbul, terrible, that which is VERY bad
Warshin, cleanse, also a machine to launder clothes or dishes

Wuss, past tense of the infinitive to be, also a cowardly person

Yorn, not mine, yours
Zackly, exactly, also perzackly

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