Odd to think about the differences in family appelations. On my dad's side it was Mema (mee mah) Smith and Papa (pap pah) Smith, I think to distinguish between maternal and paternal in-laws of my dad's older brother and sister. They had children before my dad was married. On my mom's side it was Nan...

Firesignese You wouldn't happen to be referring to Firesign Theater, the all time awesome purveyors of Harvey Tirebiter and Nick Danger - Third Eye, would you? I can still quote large sections of The Climate Controlled Car. ". . . Antelope Freeway on half mile . . . Antelope Freeway one quarte...

Interesting usage of words for meals. i've lived most of my life in Texas and it has always been Breakfast and Lunch for the first two meals of the day, but Dinner and Supper are almost interchangable depending on (usually) the festivity of the occation. Daily we would have dinner or supper in the e...

I had to look at this one twice before I could read it properly. My brain kept seeing 'asbestimeousis' the lung disease from breathing asbestos particles. Gotta get a new brain, this one isn't working right.

Being diabetic I always ask for unsweetened tea. My husband, on the other hand, is still a Southern sugarholic and wants his sweet. Two glasses on the restaurant table, both empty except for the melting ice cubes, in need of refilling and more than once I've had my glass refilled by a very polite wa...

We called it wrapping and I remember it vividly as it is still done here on a infrequent basis. Our house has been wrapped about 3 times since my daughter began school and she will be 20 this summer. You don't see it here as often as you used to because the supermarkets have begun denying purchase o...

A Freudian slip, revealing your true opinion of Snowbirds? I am SOOOOOOO embarrased!!!! :oops: :o :oops: But I laughed till I saw stars and had to run for the bathroom. Back in 1983 I was in a college history class and the topic of human migration came up. Well the joke at the time was that if you ...

#20 none of the above: I learned that that insect was called a "doodle bug" (in Mississippi). I am from Texas and I ,too, grew up calling them doodle bugs and rolly pollies. One day my daughter, then 3, got in trouble at church because she decided that the dozen or so doodle bugs in her ha...

I from near Wouldn't it be cool if I pre-read and spell checked before I posted? But what would be the fun in that. I am from near Houston, native Texan, and I have noticed over the years as the infux of Snowbirds (no offence - ok, only a little) how the accents have mellowed some, not a lot, but t...

Ptolemy (PEE-Tollemy) (no, really!) Busting a gut, what a good laugh. My hubby says that down from PeeTollemy is Copper-nick-us St (Copernicus). And, of course, I from near Houston and we have streets named Cheninvert and Bissonet and they are prounounced almost as they are spelled, Shin in Vert an...

There 'is less', there 'are fewer' Just think about word usage and the thought came to mind that pronounciation and spelling are important here, for instance: "There's only 20 bullets in this box, Joe." "Well, air's lesson that in the one I got." When I was a kid, back in the da...

My guess would have been EH doe wah, but then my dad came from a town called Juaquin and you just have to be from around there or Hispanic to pronounce it correctly. Fewer or less? There 'is less', there 'are fewer' so I think the different usage would depend on the singular or plural subject where ...

100% Dixie on my score and have a Texas drawl to prove it but there are still words that get to me. Potable - from the word 'pote' and pronounced 'pote uble', but around here everyone says 'POT uble'. Ambulance - mostly pronounced 'ama lance' or amba lance' oh, and Wrench - an injury to the ankle or...

"to here my parents"

OMG!! I really meant, 'to HEAR my parents'.

New here and just had to jump in on this one. My mother from the Texas Gulf Coast and my father from Deep East Texas both said 'warsh'. I hadn't read where anyone had mentioned it, but they also said 'wrench' meaning to dip in clear water to remove soap suds. My grandmother, native Texas, used this ...