An older Christian hymn still sung in some churches is When The Roll is Called Up Yonder.

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So let me get this straight, your American wife is both more Viking and more English than you are despite hailing from an English town settled by Vikings.

I did my DNA I am 63% from the UK. My ancestor was regent of Scotland when Mary Queen of Scot’s was a child. I did write HRH King Charles III wishing him good health, he may be distant from me but he is still blood.

Right. Men can be homely-looking too.

@@jilliemc They can be. But people aren't as inclined to be polite about it. This is a word so you can call a girl ugly to her face. No one tends to care if you call a boy ugly to his face. Or at least they didn't by old fashioned standards since girls are "sensitive" and boys are not supposed to be.

It's not even ugly, because if you're ugly, it's because you have one distinctive feature like a funny-looking nose or your eyes are spaced too far apart, or whatever. "Homely" is just neither so ugly nor beautiful, it's someone who can just blend into the wallpaper, and you never notice them. In some ways, it's more sad than ugly .​@jenniferhanses

@@LindaC616 right, it means plain.

@@jenniferhanses I've never seen the word "homely" being used directly to someone's face. If someone is going to be that malicious, they usually just say "ugly." I have heard it used when one person is talking to a second person about a third person who isn't present or is out of earshot as a well to say that person number three is ugly without person one making themselves look like a d-bag to person number two (but generally fails to attain that goal unless person number one is a d-bag).

Lmfao

Yes, the "sit on a cake" task. I couldn't figure out why that was a pancake either.

Idk... I can think of many time where an emergency pancake would have come in handy... Ofc you also have to have emergency syrup and bacon...

LOL. I love the thought of someone having an emergency pancake in their purse! 😂

In Wisconsin, I've only ever heard people say "kitty-corner" when talking diagonals. I've heard people described as "catty," but the only "catty corner" we have up here is that one corner in the Wisconsin Dells that always has... "Ladies of the Night" 💃 😂

I think pancake is more Scottish, I can imagine flapjack being English

As someone who grew up in western Georgia and eastern Alabama, I say yonder and caddy-corner, but prefer a good griddle cake. 😊

Grew up in the Midwest, my family used the words catty corner, we never used the word flapjack, it was pancake. I use yonder nowadays because I have lived the the south longer than the Midwest and I heard the word alot and picked it up.

@@Ajax_Kennedy I've lived in Maryland, Kentucky, and Alabama. I've always heard it called "catty corner". As a kid, I used to think that it was called "catty corner" because our pet cats used to knock picture frames askew (aka catty corner) on the walls. As an adult, I know that is not where it came from, but our cats still do that. That was before I learned to use the word correctly. It is meant to be used directionally between two fixed objects, such as buildings at an angle to one another.

One of the few American "Patriotic" songs that isn't just an English or German song with the paint changed and the VIN number filed off.

It's actually "wide blue yonder", not "wild"

@@PhyllisTausch No, it isn't. There's a movie called _Wide Blue Yonder,_ but the song lyric has "wild."

The original difference between "here," "there," and "yonder" is related to the first, second, and third persons. If something was near the speaker, it was "here." If it was near the listener, it was "there." if it wasn't near either, it was "yonder."

Over yonder makes me think of the Brits still using Reckon

It was common where I grew up in Oklahoma, too. And hear it occasionally where I live in New England now, too.

So is "catty wampus"(south)

In PA, I have heard both kitty-corner and catty-corner.

I grew up with kitty corner. It's basically placing something in a corner but facing out into the room. I still use it.

in Canada too

We marked em all return to sender. Then we sent in our box tops and Declaration of Independence to the crown. We’ve been dodging the notes that say all is forgiven please come home. Signed HRM and PM.

as someone in the UK I can confidently say we seriously don't give a toss

Is that 100 percent or 100 per cent? 😉

"Fall" wasn't broken, so we opted not to fix it.

Don’t give a toss? Is that a British thing? 😊

🎯🎯🎯

Way up on the hill?

That's where my baby stays

Indeed, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada utilize it, as do Japan and parts of Ireland to varying degrees.

I respect British English, but if "soccer" was good enough for the Victorian upper classes, it's good enough for me (I'm a Yank).

@@Norvaal3 Soccer is opposed by Rugger - Association football and Rugby football. All rather public (i.e., private) school, of course.

@@BotoburstSoccer is used in South Africa as well.

I’d echo every word of this!

Yup, I'm from Texas too, and I've always heard it used in the phrase "over yonder."

I was born and raised in Houston but only heard my family in Arkansas use it. That’s wild 😂

North Carolina. My mom and her mom always said "over yonder" or "down yonder". Means "over there".

Tennessee hicks over yonder over the hill. Colorado rural yonder up to a couple hundred miles. But never close, more like to hell an gone.

​​@@A13XLairceyOver yonder by the crick in the holler?

I like the word pail better. One syllable.

I don’t think pail is that common in the US. At least not the part I live in. I always hear people say bucket, but I’d know what they were talking about if they said pail.

Funny how one state can be so different. My 80 year old mom is from Dallas. She says catty-cornered and was not familiar with the term catty wompus. She does say over yonder, and of course "fixin to."

My grandmother (also born in 1932) also used that word, but she used it to refer to something that had been placed crookedly. For instance, my sister had a toy bear with a crooked nose, and she said it was "caddywumpus." We use the word today because of her. :)

Where I'm from, cattywampus means - An unexpected, flipped over object. As in "That book case is all cattywampus!" What happened?

I've always understood "cattywampus" to mean crooked.

Catawumpus in our family means askew.

I think you heard it wrong. MA people use kitty-corner.

Yes! As an American, I was confused while watching a British home decorating show in which they were trying to make the house look "homely." I thought, "Why would they want it to look ugly?"

well I am british and I always thought "homely" meant a plain girl and "homey" meant cozy"

But this is so weird, the British meaning is just so intuitive and obvious and sensible. I assumed for a very long time that that was what it meant, because that is immediately what anyone would obviously think of when hearing it, without even second-guessing. The American use is by far the weird one, it has no apparent connection at all to "home". It isn't even very commonly used, so this really stands out, but I feel nuts that no one else sees this? I'm an American

@@HuckleberryHim I think the point is that a plain girl would probably be expected to stay at home and not catch a husband and so remain with her parents looking after their home

@@ludovica8221 Also, an attractive girl was said to be "comely". So, yes, an unattractive girl would be stuck at home with no suitors. "Homely" would fit that situation.

That is awesome!

Her own personal port and starboard.

@@s.h.6858 Or her own personal gee and haw.

Hilarious!

Hahaha! I heard that in my head perfectly!

Back when Tony Curtis was a leading man in Hollywood, they miscast him in an historical movie. To this very day people mock him for the infamous line: "Yonda is the castle of my faddah" pronounced in Brooklynese.

Forry Ackerman, editor of "Famous Monsters of Filmland," referred to himself (on the mail page) as "Dr. Acula." Special features were labeled "You Axed for It." I miss him.

The only bad pun is the one you hold back.

@@SpamLamb1 You're all right!

@@dj-kq4fz Thanks!

She seems to be even more Viking than Lawrence. LOL

American here. And my DNA is 90% England. So I'm more "English" than Laurence. And 5% Norwegian so maybe there was a Viking daddy back when. 😄

:)

@@kathywiseley4382Kind of how Diana was more English than the Royal Family.

You mean the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha aren't English?

Also in Northern Ireland

Like "yonder", "yon" is an archaic word in the U.S. We used to say "hither and yon" to differentiate objections in the line of sight near and far.

@@GeraldM_inNC We say hither and thither meaning all over the place!

Your "caddy" pronunciation is the standard neutralizing usage of the alveolar flap as an allophone of both alveolar stops in certain environments in American English. I wouldn't be surprised if Laurence has a video about it.

Same here, "caddy-corner".

Kitty-corner is what I heard growing up in Michigan.

yeah nobody uses the ed on the end...

We used kitty corner in Mchigan

According to his map, I'm right on the border of that, but I'm almost 50 and I've never heard "kitty-corner" in my entire life. It's catty-corner[ed]. Weird!

Did he call it an apartment or a flat? From what I hear apartment is becoming more accepted in the UK, whereas it used to always be "flat."

@@JohnSmith-ys4nl Flat

And western like cowboys saying over yonder I reckon

Yonder is a very rural word. I've lived many places in the US and in every rural area yonder was regularly used but in the urban areas it was rarely used.

@@graywolfdracon The word predates America, it comes from old English and Dutch or thereabouts. Anyone with yankee ancestry understands it and may use it from time to time.

@@samanthab1923 Ha ha "reckon" is another interesting word - it sounds old-timey to most Americans but Australians seem to use it in the modern day.

@@farrahupson The do! I used to watch Mr Inbetween & he used it 👋

It means "diagonal". Which is funny. both have 4 syllables, so why make another word?

What state are you from?

@@Mick_Ts_Chick New England

O my goodness, visiting Americans would have no idea about these distinctions!

@@karenk2409 I'm an American who lived in Scotland for about a year and a half (for university). One of the best things there were the amazing flapjacks. They were so good. Thicker, chewier, and more seeds than in an American granola bar. Probably made with golden syrup; they were very sweet. And because I come from a part of the US that doesn't use the word "flapjack," I adopted that word pretty easily. Yum. But there were definitely some words that I had never encountered before. ("Cagoule" is one that comes to mind. I'm guessing most Americans have never heard that word! I certainly hadn't).

Johnny Cakes in New England

Also, French Canadian buckwheat flour pancakes are called Ployes.

​@@samanthab1923Seem to recall they need cornmeal, to be called that.

except that crepes are normally quite thin... Pancakes are usually at least a 1/4 inch thickness, unlike crepes which aim for more like 1/16th.

Joke is on you... you are making not only pancakes but flapjacks and hotcakes.

Same in my Michigan, non farm childhood, 50 years ago

No, it isn't "skimmed milk", it's "watery swill".

@@lauralake7430I’m from Michigan, and my grandparents and great grandparents had dairy cows and I remember them saying “skimmed milk”

Indeed. I was raised on a dairy in South Texas and it's "skimmed milk". As pointed out, it's still watery swill :). The closest I've found to real Jersey cow milk today is called "Half and Half" (and you have to be careful which brand of that you buy).

That's the REAL Air Force anthem. It's been replace with some insipid tune ... evidently the "flames from under" and "give 'em the gun" was too warlike for a ... military force. (sigh)

When I was a kid I thought that 'yonder' was a noun in that context. Later I realized it meant 'to yonder wild blue' or 'the wild blue out that way.' Dummmbbbb...

I grew up in the East Riding and never came across Yonder, but on moving to West Yorkshire it was a common word

Yorkshire is hands down the best accent in England! I swear I could listen to someone reading from the dictionary just to hear it. Cheers from North Carolina, USA. 🍻

“Kitty corner from”, never cornered

It doesn't come up much in my part of California but when it does, it's "kitty corner from" as well.

I from just outside of NYC, and we say either catty-cornered or catty-corner. It depends on the context.

Cattywanpus

Same here. Have lived in many states and heard both kitty and catty but never with -ed anywhere. I wonder if Lawrence is hearing a hyper-local variant.

Thanks. I'm a huge Trollope fan and consciously model my fiction on his style.

The Fall of the Roman Empire. A bunch of guys in centurion armor, raking leaves.

I listened to Frank Sinatra just yesterday singing 'It Was a Very Good Year' which contains; 'But now the days are short I'm in the autumn of the year'

also in WA 90% people I know and me just use diagonal

@@stevenwagner983 Been in Washington my whole life and ive never heard of kitty-cornered or catty-cornered, its just "diagonal from/to."

@tristenparish2783 I've heard of kitty corner so I know it, but know no one that uses it personally

Yonder is also in the Air Force song and in a gospel song called Goin’ Up Yonder.

Meanwhile, in Louisiana `hotcakes` is the lower class version because it's literally only used for the ones at McDonald's.

As a 70 yr. old Central Californian in the San Joaquin Valley, the word 'flapjack' is on par and synonymous with 'hotcake' or 'pancake' and no one thinks a thing about it. 🥞

As a 3rd generation 35 yr old from the San Joaquin Valley, I've always heard pancakes lol.

Pancakes for the win‼️

@@uprebel5150Always pancakes in my house growing up. NY/NJ metro area

In Pennsylvania describes nothing, given how very, very different accents are. Eastern PA sounds entirely different than Western (the better part) PA. It's kitty-corner, by the way.

@@clvrswineAgreed but I’m not PA born & raised. Only here in Bucks Co. 30 years. NY/NJ transplant. Catty cornered for me

My son had a great observation about skim milk: it's a bucket of water over which a cow has been waved. I agree--the stuff borders on nasty.

@@clvrswine catty corner in York.

@@clvrswine I live in York and when it's used it's "katty", pronounced "kaddy".

In the USA homely can be either plain or ugly. I remember reading Anne of Green Gables as a child, and she was described as homely aka plain.

more surprised to hear you say "older folk" than "kitty corner"

The south still is mostly UK derived, which explains why those old words still exist.

By that context, i would have interpreted "skim" to mean "steal".

You have to skim the fat off the milk to churn it into butter!

@@s.h.6858 Yes, I think it means to steal the cream off the milk.

I just saw your comment after posting my own on this passage. Yes! You're absolutely right! :) It can be a bit tricky to catch that this is a verb phrase because the syntax is different from modern English. "Are you not he that frights... skim[s]...labor[s]...make[s]...make[s]...mislead[s]..."

@@s.h.6858 The word itself doesn't mean "steal," though what Puck is being accused of is removing the cream (the valuable stuff) from the milk. The meaning can be traced back at least to the 1400s. Here's the etymology from Etymology Online: "early 15c. skimmen, "lift the scum from by a sliding motion, clear (a liquid) from matter floating on the surface" (the agent noun skimmer, for the utensil used, is attested from late 14c.), from Old French escumer "remove scum," from escume (Modern French écume) "scum," from a Germanic source (compare Old High German scum "scum," German Schaum; see scum)."

I've been living in Charlotte and then east of Raleigh the last ten years and I've never heard "yonder" even once.

That’s an interesting semantic development as only women would be described as having purses in Britain, not men.

I can remember when "yogurt" used to be spelled "yoghurt" on the package. I can also remember when "ketchup" was spelled "catsup."

Skimmed milk is actually better grammar. The milk has been skimmed (fat removed). However, it’s easier to say skim milk, so that’s likely why we changed it to that instead.

Yeah. My ancestors were mostly Colonialists between the 1600's and mid-1700's and we show higher percentages of England, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, too. I'm guessing that they had an influx of central Europeans settle there since that time with which they mixed.

Funnily enough, I'm from California, with a grandparent from Oklahoma and I've always said catty-corner lol

I'm impressed at your erudition. My pastor, David Wilkerson, was a huge fan of Spurgeon.

We use "catty-corner" all the time in my area of Pennsylvania, so I don't think it is specifically Midwest. However I live in a weird area with particular dialect, so that might have something to do with it.

​@@daffers2345Pa born and catty corner is what I use. Berks, Lancaster counties.

It's kitty corner in Michigan... but I have heard cater corner too.

It was "kitty-corner" in Michigan, only southerners would say "catty-corner."

@@garryferrington811 No: I grew up in Brooklyn, and the entire northeast said “catty corner.”

Ever heard of a silent letter? Or are you one of those goofs that pronounces the "L" in salmon?

@@SkunkApe407 everyone in the UK pronounces the ell in solder. I just want to know why there’s a difference.

@@mariowolczko1396 maybe for the same reason you pronounce an "L" in aluminum, that isn't there?

@@SkunkApe407Who says "auminum"?

I’m sure you’re right that those are originally Americanisms but ‘an item’ doesn’t strike me as a remotely foreign phrase, I’d say it’s been fully nativised. ‘The whole 9 yards’ is still a little bit American though and ‘shellacked’ is extremely American to the point where you simply wouldn’t hear native Britons say it, or perhaps even understand it (though I’ve personally encountered it before).

It ain't archaic if you're from the South.

I reckon that's probably right.

Henry Cho comes to mind

@@Hillbilly001 or from Appalachia, where the sentence " I reckon I'll go over yonder directly." is common. (we tend to make "directly" a 2 syllable word btw)

Not in my part of America it aint. I reckon. Take a trip into appalachia or pretty much anywhere in the southeast. You'll hear it.

Kind of reminds me of _Fiddler on the Roof._ Every time Tevye tries to ascribe a quote to a different prophet, someone corrects him and says, "No, no--that's Moses!"

I can explain “burglarized”. We like extra syllables. Using them makes us posh and sophisticated. Sometimes, we even pronounce words with more syllables than they actually contain. (Southern USA catches the most flack over this, but as far as I can tell, it’s pretty much universal among speakers of English.) So naturally, if the word comes ready-made with the superfluous growth already in place, we are going to use it. There is a valid argument that it makes the language richer. However, this propensity to favor complex words over simple words also leads us to substitute a longer, incorrect or awkward word in place of a correct, shorter word. So, “utilize” takes the place of “use”; “myself” is sometimes selected where “me” or “I” would be grammatically correct; and even the word “simple” is tossed aside in favor of the egregiously wrong and insulting “simplistic”. (To be clear, if you mean that something is not complicated, then “simplistic” is egregiously wrong. If you mean to say that an idea, theory, etc. ignores significant factors of the subject in hand, due to the ignorance or duplicity of the person promoting it, then “simplistic” is the right choice.) Oh, I think there is only one “U” in burglarize. As my own fascination with phantom syllables often leads my spelling astray, I could very well be wrong.

I can explain burgle/burglarize. Even when I was young, I knew the word "burglar," but I never heard a verb corresponding to this noun. The correct way to form a verb from it would be "burglarize." The word "burgle" is what's called a back-formation. That is, someone wrongly interpreted the R at the end of "burglar" to be the suffix "-er," meaning "someone who does something." An example would be "baker," which is someone who bakes, for instance. Another back-formation would be "edit" from "editor." Again, someone wrongly interpreted "editor" as having the same suffix, and thus created the word "edit," which had not previously existed.

@@aLadNamedNathan I will grant that your explanation is better, but mine is more simplisticer.

@@Sm2Lb LOL.

I'm from NC Piedmont and am not familiar with either of those, lol.

Maybe those terms have died out. I'm in my eighties and have lived in California for more than sixty years.

@@davedaley9093 Certainly possible. The people in the mountains do sound different and use different sayings than those of us in the Piedmont or coastal plain.

So what I'm getting is that you don't make nearly enough gingerbread cookies

@@woodfur00 correct!

Can’t be right when he’s born in England

Ironically for your grandpa at least, the term "johnnycakes" was also used for pancakes back in the day :)

Skim milk is still used where I'm at. While low-fat milk is either 1% or 2% milk and whole milk is the real deal. At least in the supermarkets here. Cheers from Tennessee

@@daffers2345 Where I'm from a johnnycake is one made from cornmeal. Just saying. Cheers from Tennessee

You might go into the wild blue yonder, but you'll never get there. Whenever you think you have, the place where you are is what you call "here."

Johny cake is corn bread and I'm from the upper midwest.

Ditto. Also kitty-corner and yonder. Another NH person.

@@tamarlindsay8382 Where in NH?

Finding out that I am 10% Maltese was a total shock!!! I'm assuming they fled Malta for Sicily when it looked as if the Turks were going to conquer the island in the 16th Century.

MN born and raised here. Never heard catty corner growing up but always Kitty corner