A term from the past

Bruce from Can.

Well-known Member
My Dads generation always referred to cow water
bowls in the barn as nose bowls, a phrase I never
hear anyone use anymore. It is always just called a
water bowl. And I think the old lads call them ? nose
bowls? probably because if you took your team of
horses some where , like taking grain to the mill to
grind, while you waited in line, you might put a ?
nose bag ? on the horses, and let them have some
grain.
Any other terms from the pass that you don?t hear
much anymore ?
 

We always called them drinking cups, and the thing hung on the horses nose was a feed bag. I find it interesting what different names are used for things in different parts of the country.
 
Regional dialect is something interesting we always called them drinking cups but the ones for humans in public in Wisconsin there called bubblers only in Wisconsin .
 
Well, not really on topic but up here north of the 49th, we call drinks like Coke and 7-UP "pop" ..... while south of the border it is usually "soda" I think as a generic term. Either word means rotten teeth (my dad used to tell me) and nowadays they say not good stuff to drink for a number of other reasons.
 
Well I live in Ohio and am 74 years old and it has never been soda here, only pop. Only on here have I ever heard it refered to as soda. If soda was used at all it was in sodapop as a single word.
 
The only one I can remember is my Grand Father always said hitch up rather than hook up, Hitch up the disk not hook up the disk. I think it just carried over from him growing up with horses.
 
One other holdover i discovered was my dad and uncles never backed into a wagon with either chopper or baler we always pulled them in by hand. Wasn't till i seen the amish do the same that the light came on it was a holdover from horses it's easier to pull the wagon in then back the teams up. Whoa is probably another thing
 
Here is a wide open statement! When stoped holding for a stop light to chainge or at a stop sign holding for trafic to pass. Faced with a seamingly unending line of trafic, I have often used a statment, I usually heard my parents and others in the area I grew up in (Sanrnia Ontario)" SOME ONE LEFT THE BARNYARD GATE OPEN AND LET ALL THE COWS OUT" The first time I said this in the car with my YL,now, my wife she said " what are you talking about." She now even says it.
 
Out in the country here we say "looks like the plant let out". There are no plants around to let out.

In Oklahoma you get pop or Coke. If you order soda they think baking soda and are confused. As we're driving in to a drive in restaurant I always hold up my fist and ask my wife if she wants a pop in the mouth.
 

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