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patriotic said:
My pastor grew up in Georgia, and I've heard him say "wore him slap out", at least until he realized he was in yankeeland (actually southern Ohio more closely resembles much of appalachian culture).
patriot said:
Okay, my mom laughs at the idea that some might consider her a simple hillbilly according to her speech patterns (her mom was a Kentuckian, so she gets it honest
), and your "tarred" statement suits her to a T. So, a story....One day while visitin' with mom I was walking down memory lane with her and askin' bout some relatives from a bygone generation who were no longer with us. She commenced to tellin' me a story about somebody in my dad's family tree. To be honest, I prolly wasn't payin' close enough attention to her story, but as she got into it pretty far she kept referring to an uncle of mine named "Hard Paul". Well, our family tree doesn't have a ton of American ancestry, there's really just not a whole lot of us, and we know each other's kin (or know of them) well enough that I was havin' a difficult time tryin' to figure out who in the world this "Hard Paul" character was, so I finally stopped her in mid-story and asked her who this "Hard Paul" character was. She stared at me as if to say "you know who I'm talkin' about", and then she said "you know, your dad's brother who lived in Florida, Hard Paul". It then dawned on me, that though I'd known my mother for 30-some years at that point, that her dialect was worse than I ever thought. My dad's brother's first and middle name was.... Howard Paul. Doh! Mom was saying "Howard Paul", not "hard Paul", lol.
Of course whe she does the laundry she's actually "worshin' clothes", and don't even think about leavin' that R out.
..... i had no idea what he was talking about but it sounded painful... ???.. they had to explain it to me later..... ..and he was from texas... :-\ ... 
