Things Only A Kentuckian Knows

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:Banane44: Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.

Onced and twiced are words.

It is not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.

People actually grow and eat Okra.

Fixinto is one word.

There is no such thing as lunch,
there is only dinner then there's supper.

Ale 8 is appropriate for all meals .

Djeet is actually a phrase for "Did you eat?"

You don't wear a watch becasue it doesn't matter
What time it is.
You work until you are done,
or it is too dark to see.

You don't push buttons, you mash them.

YOu measure distance in minutes.

YOu've ever had to switch from heat
to A/C in the same day.

All the festivals across the state
are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain,
insect, animal, or Tobacco plant.

YOu install security lights on your house
and garage and leave both unlocked.

YOu know what a dawg is.

You carry jumper cables in your car.....
for your own car.

The local papers cover national and international
news on one page, but require 6 pages for
local gossip and sports!!

You think the Opening day of Deer season
is a national holiday.

Goin to Wal-mart is a favorite passtime known as
Wal-martin" or off to Wally World".

A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola
or coke it's simply a pop.

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

We don't need no stinkin drivers ed.
If our momma says we can drive,.. we can drive.

[Maxwells]

Ggetit (Did you get it)

[mom36]

That's funny, my dad tells me there is no such thing as BRITCHES, they are pants or trousers.
I love the ky lingo
mom36

[mark]

That's funny, my dad tells me there is no such thing as BRITCHES, they are pants or trousers.
I love the ky lingo
mom36

............yep, when your dad bought those "britches", I bet he asked the clerk to put them in a polk, so you could put them into the "boot" of your car.

Once you got home, you popped out a parasol because it was raining & I saw you running across the veranda...thru the door of your house into the parlor to try them on.

Ky lingo, I love it too..............see ya mark

[Flame]

Got a question, just wondering what you call it.
When your momma whooped your butt cause you were being bad and you got a red raised area what is that raised area called?

[mom36]

Flame I don't no what others called it but my word for it was Welped. I had a few of those. LOL
MOM36

[Flame]

I always called it a welp too, but I got schooled on that one after I put up quite the little arguement. This seems to be not a Kentucky word but a Southern KY word. I work in the Northern KY area and I was told it is a WELT. Looking in the dictionary I was wrong. It is a welt. Welp is not a word and whelp has something to do with a dog and giving birth or something like that. But in my neck of the woods I'll always call it a welp. That is what daddy gave you on your behind when he told you to pull them britches down so he could whoop ya. You know what is sad though, they tell not to whoop your kids anymore because he hurts their self esteem and instills violence. Well I'm here to tell you when i was a youngen and daddy whooped me I knew better than to take one of his guns to school or I'd get worse than a whoopin. If I talked back to the teachers or anyone else I may need dentures at a young age. (all the teeth in my mouth was given to me by God). If I stole sumpin, (I did Christmas bows once at age 4 from the local drug store we lived across from) I took it back and told them what I'd done, then I got a whoopin. Well I went on to graduate high school, college and never robbed anyone, assaulted anyone, killed anyone, feel good about myself but not arrogant and have self confidence. Guess them whoopins weren't so bad for me after all.

[mom36]

Flame thats a whole nuther topic, but I agree with you totally. My parents made me a strong lady becoz of them there whoopins and I thank and Love them for it daily. I gave birth to 4 youngins and raised them by the good book, My oldest is in the armed service and the youngest boy is a hard worker for his wife and kid. The 2 girls get away with to much but ole well I got tired and old.
MOM36

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Mom used to whip me and my brother every morning for all the things we were gonna do that day. Never hurt me any, except for my hind end at the time......LOL
Remember the old saying, " spare the rod, spoil the child"
Mom had an old doubled razor strap. When I was about 14 I took that thing and walked over the flood wall off second street, tied a rock on it and threw that sucker in the river. It was many, many, years before she ever knew what happened to it.

[Flame]

My daughter used to say when she got a whoopin that it hurt her "peelings" (feelings). She don't know it and she is 22 but man it hurt my peelings too. But she works and goes to school and pays for her own car and she is paying for her education. Guess it made her a strong woman.

[mom36]

I remember the phrase "I'm gonna cut me a switch" all to well. It reminds me of going into a local store lately and a child I would say was about 9, His Kentucky language was lingo I still don't know the meaning to. But you can bet this if he was mine, he'd have a few of them welps. LOL
MOM36

[acoolmom777]

I was raised in the south....we had a den and a parlor....up here they call it a familyroom and livingroom
The "boot" thing really threw me off....lol....shopping with a girl friend and she told me to "go ahead and put my "stuff" (packages) in the boot" I about died laughing.....but then again, I say "water" weird and I call it "tinfoil", not just "foil"

[Maxwells]

I can remember my whoopins, I have a twin sister, so it was funnier, when she got one and I was watching in fear, and just had to laugh, and my dad would say, "you want a little of it". Like, yeah dad bring on that big ole whooping, I want one. LOL My twin and I started working when we were young, had morals, respect for others, we both still work and have good careers, I can't say that them whoopings ever hurt me.

[Maxwells]

I was raised in the south....we had a den and a parlor....up here they call it a familyroom and livingroom
The "boot" thing really threw me off....lol....shopping with a girl friend and she told me to "go ahead and put my "stuff" (packages) in the boot" I about died laughing.....but then again, I say "water" weird and I call it "tinfoil", not just "foil"

I thought no one ever knew what a boot was. LOL We had a training at work, this guy came in and did his training, when he was fixing to leave, we told him he had better shut his boot, he kept saying what, what is a boot, well we all thought he was kidding, he wasn't, we said your trunk. He looked at us like we were absolutely crazy, and said I have never heard it called that. :)

[mom36]

The good ole radio tower, it was always radio tire to me.
The console of a car is known as the dash to me, my aunt that lives in indiana dies laughing when I say that one.
The best is when I lived in Georgia and I ask for a pop, they kept asking and finally I had to say soda or coke.
MOM36 LOL

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dreckly as in " I will be there directly "

[Maxwells]

cantcha "can't you"

[mark]

...................you know....

I really hate to open my mailbox because there are usually a dun or two in there.....and.....when I was in high school, ( 1970's ) I really liked to check out the culotte my girlfriend was wearing while she was sitting on mom's davenport.

Ahhh, those were the days...........see ya mark

[Maxwells]

I had forgoten all about those "Culotte", where has the time gone. Yes they were the days!

[acoolmom777]

what the heck is a "Culotte"?????

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Culottes are a split or divided skirt.[1] The term skort (a portmanteau for skirt and shorts) is more widely used in some areas. While some garments sold as culottes resemble short trousers, to truly be a skort it needs to look like a skirt. Thus, they differ from trousers or shorts by being much fuller at the bottom (hem) than at the waist. Culottes were developed in order to provide more freedom to do activities such as gardening, cleaning, bike riding, etc. and still look like one is wearing a skirt.

[acoolmom777]

lol.....ok ken....you are good, and thank you...lol

I think it would be on the smae line as "peddle-pushers"....we would wear them when we rode our bikes, and therefore our pants wouldn't get caught in the spokes.

[Maxwells]

If I remember correctly the culottes were shorter than the peddle pusher, They were like shorts, but had a flap in the front built in with them. They were real cute and very popular at that time.

[acoolmom777]

ok, I get it....I think...
we had "shorts"....and then we had the "skirt" with regular shorts we wore under them (not made together).....then we had our "tennis skirt"...then the "peddle pushers" and then our.....major "bell bottom jeans"

I got a really good kentuckian one....but I like my friends and my life and my health....so I will just keep it to myself and laugh.....lol

[Maxwells]

Bell Bottom Jeans, those were the days...........

[snowtiger]

When I lived in North Carolina for awhile, they called me a yankee because I called pop, POP, and I said BOOT also. Why do they think that is yankee talk?? I said well you all sound like a bunch of wussies when you say soda. Can anybody tell me why they called me a yankee for using pop and boot??

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Pop vs Soda

Check it out
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[uprivergirl]

"Yonder", all directions in two words! Just say "Up yonder", "Down yonder", or "Over yonder". Add "a fur piece" for longer distances, and you can get "purt neart" anywhere in KY. :biggrin:

[kileyrowland74]

So boot is used in the Maysville area? I have never heard it used by Americans outside of Adams and Scioto Counties.

Yes, a belt mark placed on a child by an abusive adult is called a "welt."

I was belted (and spanked and willow-tree-branch whipped and slapped and punched and kicked and cussed and razor strapped and beaten with broom handles and coffee cups and horse whips and called names) a lot as a child and I can promise that it hurt me, physically and mentally. I am disappointed to see it treated so lightly by so many of you. (Okay, go ahead and edit this post, Chuck, I know it's coming.)

[acoolmom777]

No....I don't think it needs to be edited....just lets get back to topic....

[acoolmom777]

I never said the word.."recken" until I lived here for at least a year....

[kileyrowland74]

I wrote this in response to some of the comments that were made in this thread. I thought that was on topic?

[mark]

Goin to Wal-mart is a favorite passtime known as
Wal-martin" or off to Wally World".



When I was a kid growing up in Maysville's east end, ( 1960's ) we didn't have the privilege to attend a Walmart, we went to the "dime store".

A "dime store" ?

Ahhh, those were the days.............see ya mark

[ponto]

Even better pricing than the dime store, is the




5 and dime..........




I remember buying a bag full of little green soldiers. That bag contained hours of fun.

[Maxwells]

When I was a kid growing up in Maysville's east end, ( 1960's ) we didn't have the privilege to attend a Walmart, we went to the "dime store".

A "dime store" ?

Ahhh, those were the days.............see ya mark

Mark those certainly were the days. I can remember those warm cashew peanuts you could get scoops of. Hung out alot at the dime store.:Banane36:

[Flame]

What about the little glass bottles of Mountain Dew that said Yahoo Mountain Dew. Then I put peanuts in them. Man that takes me back.

[Maxwells]

What about the little glass bottles of Mountain Dew that said Yahoo Mountain Dew. Then I put peanuts in them. Man that takes me back.

:) Flame, I never put peanuts in Mt. Dew, but I did in the little Pepsi bottles. I will have to try the Dew thing. I wish there was somewhere where you could get a bottle (GLASS) of Pepsi, it seems like ages.

[Flame]

Pop or soda or whatever you want to call does not taste the same as it did in glass bottles.

Now those were the good ole days. ( I used to hate to hear my parents say that)

[mark]

What about the little glass bottles of Mountain Dew that said Yahoo Mountain Dew. Then I put peanuts in them. Man that takes me back.

Remember Orange Patio drinks??

They were a favorite at Beechwood Park every summer.........see ya mark

[Flame]

What is an orange patio drink? Don't remember them.

[mark]

................they were bottled drinks the pop machines at Beechwood Park sold. They came in grape, orange & some kind of red.

Here's what the bottles looked like:

http://cgi.ebay.com/PATIO-10-Fl-Oz-Pepsi-Cola-painted-label-soda-Bottle_W0QQitemZ120099926276QQcategoryZ13915QQssPa geNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Flame]

WE just called it orange, grape or red pop. Simple words for us folks that were raised in the hollar.

[mark]

........I saw some at the MCHS football game last Friday night........so.......when was the last time you saw someone wear some buddies?? ........see ya mark

[scjackson]

The first thing you got when you got whupped is an education and the next thing is a whelp.

[farmgirl]

My cousin in Indiana thinks my saying "y'all" is hilarious. They say 'yous' for the same thing & she calls me weird??

My grandparents hung their clothes in a press. Now known as a closet..

And welp is what my momma put on my backside more than once. And I think I turned out pretty durn good...

The Dime Store was a great place. Loved the Maple Nut Goodies too. I liked it better 'downtown' than 'out on the hill.'

I did put peanuts in Pepsi. (Little Spanish peanuts or Redskin peanuts)

Maxwells, Bell Bottom pants. What a trip down Memory Lane. I just wonder how my mom ever got those clean. Not only were they huge bell shaped but also dragged the ground.

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I think I still have a pair of the bell bottom pants in the attic. There was to much material in them to get rid of them and my kids didn't believe we ever wore anything that looked like that. Think there's a pair of those white go-go boots too!!

[maysvillebulldog]

Some of those "good old words" have a certain class! Personally, I always used to say "borry" for borrow and my kids say that I say "wherebouts" instead of where are you? I still cannot make a distinction when I pronounce pen or pin but that's o.k. Now, would you retch me a biscuit?

[preciousnurse]

ok i got a couple that i can remember. the first was when i stayed the nite with my grand parents we were "going to town on Saturday", even though going to town was here in Maysville and we did the same thing every time Mama would get her hair fixed, and we would go to Krogers(yes at that time Krogers set were big lots set) and when i got older i remember my parents saying "where going to the city" which usually referred to either Newport or Florence

[John Deere "B"]

Kentuckians that live next too a small stream call it a "CRICK", But going farther southeast they call it a "CREEK". Also in Kentucky most farmers have a POND on their land, If you live in Texas on a farm or ranch this is called a "TANK". Also in Texas, Mobil Homes are called "TRAILER HOUSES".

[Maxwells]

Yep..I called it a Crick when I went on the farm to my grandparents every weekend..oh I miss them and those good times...no running water drawed it from the sistrun..I know I didn't spell that right..Papaw had a old metal cup hanging on the porch pole to draw him some water...Wow where has the time gone...The bell bottoms, now them were the days, they were hip huggers, except then we didn't let everything hand out..I would wear a body suit with them and a wide white belt....Yep them were the days...

[farmgirl]

I nearly forgot about the metal cup. Only one set of my grandparents had a metal dipper that hung on a rack for all the grandkids to get a drink out of instead of dirtying a glass. My older brother has that in his possession now. My other set of grandparents had a spring near their house in Lewis county & there was a metal cup hanging on the hillside on a branch that everyone used. Goodness, we didn't even know who we were drinking after! Never got sick from it though.
Maxwells, we must be close in age because I have a picture of me somewhere at my grandparents house with bell bottoms, blue bodysuit & the wide white belt. Does anyone else remember bodysuits???
And up the crick without a paddle is another saying my grandparents always said meaning someone was in trouble & there was no way out.

[Maxwells]

farmgirl...The ole metal cup..we all drank out of it when we were outside playing and got thursty, man was that water good tasting and always cool....as for the bellbottms, and white belt, my bodysuit was red with a white color..Man wasn't that fun when you had to go potty...LOL

[patches-4]

I had totally forgotten the body suit, and yes you didn't wait until the last minute to go potty either!!!