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While posting to the oldest tool thread I wondered if everyone says scales and tongs eventhough reffering to a single tool.
It might be interesting to hear terms and names you know or suspect might be different in other locations.
A favorite of mine,
Spell might be bad weather,measure of time or distance,flare up of bad health,giveing someone a break from hard leingthy work or even a tanturm.
Anything come to your mind?
 
Grandpa, when referring to something that went easy, always said 'like shootin' fish in a barrel!'
 

I had a boss once who used to say "He's about as
sharp as a mashed potato sandwich" I've always
used that myself in later yrs. Jim in N M
 
We always usted to say plowed corn or plowed beans, meaning cultivated them. We say cut beans,corn,wheat, meaning combine them. Cut hay also. We say pitch it. meaning throw it away.
 
Bait was a word dad used. It could mean several things besides rat poison. He'd "bait" the cows out on a meadow which meant someone had to watch them as there was no fence. And the fulcrum under a lever was always "bait". He's say, "it needs more bait"
 
Finished supper and asked the daughter if she would "fetch me" another glass of ice tea.
Got the deer in the headlight look.
 
Shoot Tom,
I went to college in Wisconsin - They called the drinking fountains "bubblers" up there.
PS: Moved back a little "further" South after school.
 
My good old neighbor, when he was much younger, used to say "Wal, I dee-clare!", when anything unusual happened or was told about. It's interesting to me that, now that he's past 80, he's shortened it to, "I 'clare!"
 
When using a combine in corn, cutting, picking, shelling, or combining corn.... Since I still pick ear corn, picking always seemed odd; since a corn head does not cut the stalk off nor 'cut' the ear off I always thought cutting seemed odd; we use 'combining corn' here.

A disk harrow. What an odd term - a harrow is one tool, a disk is another took, donno how a disk ever got to be called both at the same time. It took me a while on this forum to even figure out what a 'disk harrow' is?

Chisel plow - there are some _very_ big and heavy implements and there are some very lightweight small implements called chisel plow - seems the farther south, the lighter the implement becomes.

Note - I'm not 'right' and every other way is wrong. :) Just you asked for my perception, so that is how it looks to me from 'here'.

--->Paul
 
I have heard a disc harrow referred to as a "cutaway harrow".
In response to Paul's comment on a "disc harrow", You're correct in referring to two different implements. I would offer a swag that since a disc levels plowed soil much as a harrow does, would be why it got the name. I know it doesn't get it quite as smooth as a harrow but similar.
 
Saw Buck, and Buck Saw. One is either a 2-X shaped set of modest timbers spaced apart for Using the buck saw, or a Fiver. The buck Saw is a wooden framed turn buckle tightened band bladed saw. Fat chance and slim chance seem equal to me, but differ in inflection. jim
 
How about a mess?? It can be what hapens when you tip over a gallon of paint or means a bunch of something; he caught a mess of fish.... go pull a mess of carrots.....

My Dad used to say fetched up, like; "When I was fetched up, we ate inside and poo'd outside...... nowadays, they got it all backwards."
 
(quoted from post at 00:42:19 12/06/11) I have heard a disc harrow referred to as a "cutaway harrow".
In response to Paul's comment on a "disc harrow", You're correct in referring to two different implements. I would offer a swag that since a disc levels plowed soil much as a harrow does, would be why it got the name. I know it doesn't get it quite as smooth as a harrow but similar.
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dick-harrow is much lighter than a dick plow. One is basically a leveling device & the other a plow....two different implements. 'taint rocket science.
 
memory used to be called "rememory" in the central W. Va. highlands, as in 'My rememory ain't so good no more'.
 
'Harr - rie' was a greeting used by the old-timers when they met in West Virginia, with local variations. Example - 'Harr rie' says one. 'Harr ryp' replys the other. Probably a corruption of the old English greeting 'How are ye?', England being the country from which many of the early settlers descended. Growing up in the '50's, a few people still used the term 'Ye" for the word 'you'.
 
Michiganders insist on calling patio doors "doorwalls". Drives me nuts.

My wife and I in the process of buying a condo down in Florida. I've made it clear that she's not allowed to use the term "doorwall" in Florida!
 
I'm a Yankee by birth (Michigan) and choice (I live in Maine) but spent a fair bit of time in South Carolina and Florida while in the Navy.

I've picked up a few Southern phrases, but the one that stuck is "fixin' to". Wife says "Have you taken the garbage out?" "I'se just fixin' ta do that."

Gets me some strange looks up here in snow country...
 
A lot of the words that our Grandparrents In WV used were derived from old english, galiec & welch. My Grandmother used words like uneses, wenses & themions
 
MIL who was born and raised in the hills of Arkansas always said "Nearbouts". Example, suppers nearbouts ready, 'ya best washup now hear? Or if traveling she would ask if we were nearbouts there yet. Another was purtnear, as in suppers purtnear done. I use the word reckon on a regular basis, 'ya reckon that means I'm from the south?
 
I will be the first to admit that my grammar is not the best and far from perfect.

With that disclaimer said, the [i:654c4848f0]Subject:[/i:654c4848f0] line on this post from a native NE Texan would read:

<big>[b:654c4848f0][i:654c4848f0]Re: What it be where you stay?[/i:654c4848f0][/b:654c4848f0]</big>
 
My favorite expression was when you would do my grandmother a favor. Her standard response was, "Much obliged, "til you are better paid".

I always felt like she was giving a deeper committment to remember the favor and to return as much or more yhsn she received. It sure beats a "thank you" or "I appreciate it", both of which seem to imply closure to any potential future debt.
 
I hear tell East Texas folk talkst thataway sewingst to make it easy to spot furners mongstum.
 
me too. Poosh instead of push, boosh 'sted 'o bush & "I'll whip the tar outa you!"
 
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