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Powerful words Move-ins may still be ignorant of

CM is much obliged for this brilliant paper to a Once-of-this-Place Preservist, Unknown Ex-Pat, of the Native Tongue, Extant Somewhere or 'Somers' on this terrestrial orb. Incomers are advise to use the words sparingly at the store, only after practicing on the family until home denigration dies down. As always, identification the the Scribe will not be released. - CM
Click on headline for complete definitions and ways to use in a sentence: teejous, torj, come of banilla, right smart of a hand, that old puke and and that old rip.

By the Unknown Ex-Pat
Don't ask

Yesterday as I was working the garden, I got to thinking about words, mostly colloquial pronunciations, I heard in the Auld Sod when I was a wee tot. Some of them were:


Teejous: Lawsey me, darning a sock sure is teejous work.

Torj: Last time I saw Bill Newt he was headed torj town.

Come (rhymes with roam) of banilla: When we went a-town Sat-dee (Saturday), Pap bought all us young'uns a come of banilla ice-cream.

Right smart of a hand: 1) Joe Sam is right smart of a hand at fixen them new lawnmowers. 2) Jim Bob a right smart of hand 'bout chasin' after women.
That last one reminded me of two of my sweet Mama's expressions.

She was a quiet and Godly woman who kept her own counsel and if she judged someone, she generally kept it to herself.

However, if she referred to a man as "that old puke" or a female as "that old rip," the vituperous tone in her voice informed the listener the person about whom she was speaking was beyond the reach of redemption, hellbound for certain, unsaveable by the likes of silver-tongued G.W. Perryman or even the Dixie Fire-Ball hisself, German Comer.


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