Texas Thangs Hard To Translate (kitchen, underwater, pay)

[nativetexasgal]

My grandmother from East Texas (Nacogdoches) would ask me to "carry" her to the grocery store in my car rather than "take" her to the grocery store in my car.

Anyone heard of that one?

[carolmcb]

Originally Posted by nativetexasgal

My grandmother from East Texas (Nacogdoches) would ask me to "carry" her to the grocery store in my car rather than "take" her to the grocery store in my car.

Anyone heard of that one?

My relatives in Alabama always said "carry me". I never heard it in Texas, only in Alabama.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by nativetexasgal

My grandmother from East Texas (Nacogdoches) would ask me to "carry" her to the grocery store in my car rather than "take" her to the grocery store in my car.

Anyone heard of that one?

Interesting one, and I think one you don't hear so much anymore. But the mention of the grocery store got me to thinking (something is always getting me to thinking about something else), which is the term "buggy" for what northerners usually mean by a shopping cart. When I was a kid, it seemed like everybody used "buggy." Also, "sack" for "bag."

Also, "Washateria" instead of "laundrymat" (of course, these things aren't quite so common as they used to be, anyway).

I think somebody mentioned it earlier, but a lot of these old Texas/Southern terms seem to be fading out, especially in large cities and among young people. Which is a shame, I think!

[Canine*Castle]

Originally Posted by nativetexasgal

My grandmother from East Texas (Nacogdoches) would ask me to "carry" her to the grocery store in my car rather than "take" her to the grocery store in my car.

Anyone heard of that one?

Oh yes, I hear it all the time. Strange........

I have a Texas dictionary of the English language, and it's totally hysterical. Here are a few writings for a chuckle but nevertheless, very true.

barks - a range of buildings for lodging soldiers ~ "When yore in the Army, yew live in barks."

dye - a twenty-four hour period ~ "What dye is this?"

felled - made full ~ "That song felled mah heart with joy."

My mom and I used to crack up over this book, but one of my relatives, a native Texan, found no humor in it whatsoever. I believe he just didn't get it.

[GayleTX]

The "wail" instead of 'well" reminded me of when we first moved to East Texas....I worked with a man who told me he lived in Bails and mentioned Bails quit often. After living here a year or so and still not having run across the town of Bails, I asked where it was.....he looked at me like I was crazy and told me it was just 2 miles from where I was living - which meant it was, to me, the town of Bells.

[Alatex]

My grandmother from East Texas (Nacogdoches) would ask me to "carry" her to the grocery store in my car rather than "take" her to the grocery store in my car.

Yeah, and old people also used to say they were going to the store to "trade." Now, that's something I haven't heard in years.
My grandmother in AL would ask us to carry her in the car to trade at the grocery store around the corner.

[gypsylife]

Yeah, wail I reckon y'all have forgotten about " tank"...I'm a fixin to go a fishen in that there tank. Go head and grab them there fishen poles outta the turtle(trunk), or we can just go grabbin for them catfish. LOL

[JamesAbilene]

EVen though I grew up in the Panhandle, I never heard the expression "tank" until I moved to Abilene. I kept looking for metal oil storage tanks. Little did I know that they were talking about man-made ponds.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by JamesAbilene

EVen though I grew up in the Panhandle, I never heard the expression "tank" until I moved to Abilene. I kept looking for metal oil storage tanks. Little did I know that they were talking about man-made ponds.

Tank can refer to man-made earthen ponds...and also stock tanks made of concrete/rock/mortar.

[blueskies49]

Originally Posted by nativetexasgal

My grandmother from East Texas (Nacogdoches) would ask me to "carry" her to the grocery store in my car rather than "take" her to the grocery store in my car.

Anyone heard of that one?

Originally Posted by carolmcb

My relatives in Alabama always said "carry me". I never heard it in Texas, only in Alabama.

Originally Posted by TexasReb

Interesting one, and I think one you don't hear so much anymore. But the mention of the grocery store got me to thinking (something is always getting me to thinking about something else), which is the term "buggy" for what northerners usually mean by a shopping cart. When I was a kid, it seemed like everybody used "buggy." Also, "sack" for "bag."

Also, "Washateria" instead of "laundrymat" (of course, these things aren't quite so common as they used to be, anyway).

I think somebody mentioned it earlier, but a lot of these old Texas/Southern terms seem to be fading out, especially in large cities and among young people. Which is a shame, I think!

Originally Posted by gypsylife

Yeah, wail I reckon y'all have forgotten about " tank"...I'm a fixin to go a fishen in that there tank. Go head and grab them there fishen poles outta the turtle(trunk), or we can just go grabbin for them catfish. LOL

My husband says all these. His kids say most of them but I'll have to pay attention and listen. I'm not sure if they say "carry" but "buggy", "sack" and "tank" I've heard. But they all interchange "bag" with "sack". Course, we all say "tump", too, and that was already discussed in another thread. Or maybe it was this one.

Gypsylife, "grabbin for them catfish" is what some call "noodling". You ever heard that?