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So many of the things listed here are things my friends and I say.
For example, starting off with "so". If you say "so" firmly, and then pause, everyone is on alert that they need to pay attention, you're about to ask for a decision, you're not just commenting. "So. What have we decided to do about the car?"
I love "welp". It's just funny. "Welp, that cat litter box isn't going to clean itself".
And "what not". If you say it after something that's kind of shocking. Like, "let's go in the afternoon, after the park service has had a chance to clean up all the used condoms and whatnot".
What bothers me is people who use phrases that they obviously have no idea what they mean. Like cafe au lait poodles called cafe ole, or "for all intensive purposes".
Another like that is "a hard road to hoe". Let's think about that for a minute. How many people have you seen try to hoe a road.
People who refer to America as Murica! That annoys me terribly.
I see it a lot on U.K. forums, usually in a derogatory way, e.g., when there’s been a shooting incident somewhere in the U.S., “What do you expect, it’s Murica!”
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Oh yeah? Well I don't like "an what not". I don't like it!
Also, my 9th grade Latin teacher told the class that the definition of "stuff" was "worthless junk" - and literally did not allow stuff in her class (including gum).
My New York inamorata in the eighties, would sign her letters, “Take care Jean, love ‘n’ stuff, Régine.”
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Saying wolla, instead of at least an attempt at voila. At least put a "v" on it - vwolla.
With my French inflection, I say”Vwahlah.”
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Uneducated people say IN-surance for insurance.
These people could easily be out-sured.
I don’t find anything wrong with INsurance, but as a
goddam furriner, I’d better shut my pie hole.
Another like that is "a hard road to hoe". Let's think about that for a minute. How many people have you seen try to hoe a road.
It's actually a hard row to hoe, as in a row of a crop.
You might be thinking of skid row, which was a trail or road where logs were dragged down, usually, which became known as roads as opposed to rows.
But as far as I know, the saying "hard row to hoe" meant a situation that was difficult, like manually hoeing a row in a field that might have contained a lot of stones in the soil, etc.
When I went away to college (FSU), I had to work very full time in town. I actually had a good job and the owners let me work around my class schedule. Some of us were there at night until 2 AM.
During the day, there were a lot of ladies there who lived out in the country in actual trailers (not mobile homes - real trailers). Lovely people from the country.
Since I was from South Florida, they would laugh at some of the things I didn't know but were very kind.
One weekend, I had to fly back home and one of the girls told me she could "carry me out there" - I found out later that meant give me a lift (as to the airport)!
There were a couple of other expressions but we all used to laugh and laugh about different words as we were doing our work now done by a computer most likely. It was fun at the time.
Hey, my ex husband starts talking with a German accent when he's in Germany. Which I think is really weird! At least you're not doing that - at least you did actually HAVE a Texas accent!
When I went back to my high school reunion in Georgia, after living in Texas for 20 years, everyone was saying "Wow, you sure do have a Texas accent!" but my husband was saying, "Wow, your Georgia accent just jumped right out!" (I lived there for ten years, through high school and college and before that I lived in NC and VA so I definitely have a southern drawl, but Texan has more of a twang to it I guess. Or I reckon. )
Haha. I can't believe there is a contraction for "fixin to". I watched the PopWatch video. Hilarious. When I got to the point where he said "fidna", I didn't hear that word. I heard "fixin tuh".
That is funny about your husband.
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Just an expression I heard years ago
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