Local/Regional Sayings

[sirrahbed]

Too funny! I guess it's all a matter of perspective. I met a lady in Galveston, Texas who refered to the American Civil War as "The War of Northern Aggression". She pronounced war as 'wa-wa".

YUP! "The War of Northern Aggression" is what hubby calls it too. But then, the matter of perspective is that hubby is from South Carolina.....he says that is the commonly used name.

[animal_rescue]

hmm I don't know anything to hoosiery but I live on the "westside" aka rough part of town, even though it's not that bad, so I guess I could say I've learned some ghetto sayings.
Dip- running really really fast

Bust Down- someone that sleeps around

Nappy Hair- tangly hair

Aw Nawh- no way

and that's all I can think of right now

oh and here Pop is POP

[Dorothy39]

I have done a little research into "Hoosier" dialect. As a child, I memorized poetry by James Whitcomb Riley!!!! My Mother knew many of his poems by heart and she taught me a few of them before I could even read.

"Little Orphan Annie" and "The Raggedy Man" are a few that I know by heart!!!!


I have a vast collection of his poems!!!!!