Love that!

I think a lot of these words and phrases may come from the Irish because many of them were used by the Irish side of my family in Ohio.

I grew up in Northern Tennessee In a small town named Westmoreland and I now live in Scottsville Kentucky right cross the border from Westmoreland. I have heard all these since a small girl my parents and grandparents said them and now I use em

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I've heard that one too 😀

@@CelebratingAppalachia i think that's a snapping turtle or mud turtle that's suppose to do that.

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Love your mama's saying! Welcome and thank you for watching!

Much of the Deep South culture is taken from British cultures. Thomas Sowell outlines a lot of it in different excerpts from his books nailing down the different regions that settled in Appalachia and even further down south. It’s amazing how much of it has been preserved, even in the black communities

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Omg I talk like this all the time, even out in public - now I wonder if folks understand me …..

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My uncle use to use the phrase “fair to the middling” but I always thought he was saying “fair to the midland.” I don’t have anyone to ask what the phrase was that he used because they have all passed away. I have always used the word foundered. I always said that I would get foundered on things that I would get a craving for & would eat it about everyday until I was sick of it or foundered on it & wouldn’t want to eat it again for ages. The first time I ever heard anyone say they were carrying someone someplace, was after I moved to the south. I thought it sounded hilarious because I pictured in my mind, them actually carrying them! There were other things that y’all said that were familiar, but I can’t think what all y’all said now. I was raised in Columbus, OH, but my cousins were from southeastern Ohio & they pretty much had their own language. Instead of saying you guys or y’all, they would say you’ens, I don’t know how to spell it, but I think you get the gist. Some of their adages were hilarious. I remember one of my cousins saying that the fog was so bad on her way to work that the birds were walking🤣😂She had an adage for everything. I would die laughing listening to her. I wish I could remember half of the things she use to say. Do you have any videos of adages that the Appalachian people use?

I’m from ND, and my dad always said “fair to middlin’” and “pert near” and I say it all the time. Not so common in this territory but my dad somehow had loads of southern/Appalachian sayings and I don’t know how he acquired that vocabulary!

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You can also say a horse foundered.

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I’ve got family members that use the word in the same way. The way they pronounce it, it rhymes with “Mary” They also call a refrigerator a “frigid air”

@@BangBang-hk4rg I've heard people say that as well. I believe there is (or at least used to be) an appliance company called Frigidaire. I think that's where it probably came from.

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Thank you for sharing! I've heard betwixt a whole lot more than atwixt 😀

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I've always heard and used that expression as well. I've also heard that it originally referred to the Creek Indians.

That's interesting this may be the origin of this phrase, but I've spent parts of my life being on or near the Ohio River and it was a phrase that people who lived on the feeder streams into the main river often used because when big rains come or back when he still had much of a consistent snowmelt at the end of the winter, those "creeks" or "cricks" were the first waters to rise and flood before the main river began it's rise. So, I think somehow that saying traveled to river folk and they appropriated the phrase to literally refer to the rising of the creeks and the phrase morphed into it being a general saying that you hope things go good and not bad, like your health or of friends and family remained good or generally that bad luck did not befall you and yours. It's one of my favorite sayings. It's interesting to hear it's probable original source and meaning. Kind of cool how sayings like this originate, spread and change over time and place.

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That's a good one 😀

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Go Poke seems like a good name for a bug out bag ..lol