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Actually "youns" is pronounced more like "yuhns" in north central W. Va where there's a weird mix of northern and southern going on. We're too far north to be rebels, and too far south to be yankees...and pretty close to Ohio too...we love everyone.
Well, bless yer hearts, y'all, yuhns'r goin' with, aintcha? Where'r yuhns agoin? Up air ta at air far department where at boy has em tars fir sale. You gettin new tars on yer car are ya? Iss'l be d'second time won'tin it?
Ah, takes me back to my childhood. My big sisters used to slap me for talking like that.
It is important in the understanding of word definitions to know the root words too. It is also important to understand the original meaning of phrases. I hear phrases being misused by mostly younger people who probably never heard them before. Not that their use is wrong since it is usually the young that give them meaning in the first place in the form of slang.
For example, "hot and bothered" is a phrase from the 1950s, and was more acceptable than saying horny. Horny was in use then but not in "polite company", which of course is another out of date phrase.
"Hurry up and wait" is Army slang that goes back at least to WW II if not to the Roman Legions. Soldiers are forever being given orders too early by superiors, then forced by lessor superiors to rush to line up, ready for whatever, and end up standing in line waiting because "whatever" isn't ready for them...running out of the barracks to line up for chow before the cook is ready to feed them is an example.
Can't defend "same difference" except they mean "it's the same thing", and are trying to be cute. One of those errors that people know is wrong but do it anyway, such as saying "I couldn't care less". Lot of folks say "same ol, same ol", or SOS DD, too. I see nothing wrong with an author using those as long as it is in keeping with the way his charactor talks; does anyone disagree?
Whatever. Term meaning, I don't care, say whatever you want. I hate that. It means you've already lost control of the situation. They don't want to hear anything else you want to say.
Few more here...as you might have guessed (another one), cliches and catch phrases are one of my pet peeves (oops, another, can't get away from them!).
There are so many irritating catch phrases coming from today's cables news, like "waiting for the other shoe to drop"
Take this offline
Another I can't stand is "We're" pregnant or baby instead of "a" baby or "the" baby (e.g., new clothes FOR BABY).
misuse of could of, would of, rather than would have, could have.
more to come
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