Crappie, Tuttle, Indy, wings, Coke & colloquialisms

Holy crap, you should hear the crap the environmentalists talk about the sugar companies in central Florida. They use fertilizer that runs off into lake Okeechobee that is destroying the Everglades.

 

I go every Memorial Day week in Cape Hatteras. I have a buddy there with a 35ft deep sea boat & a Captain's license.

 

I still say worsh.....

 

Warshington and Chicargo??

 

Noo-kyu-lerr...

 

My wife had a grandmother that said ford instead of forehead. Confused the hell out of me the first time I heard her say it.

 

That's the kind of buddy to have.

 

Some spanish ones,

Boo-li means Bud Light
Hoopiter means Jupiter
When a Spanish person says "no" you have to count how many times he says it. Odd number means no, even means yes.
Jajaja means hahaha

I'll keep thinking about them.

 

Before I knew what a forward lateral was as a kid, it confused me when my best friend and his brother called it a ford lateral.

 

worsh

usually mispronunciations have some geographic proximity or origin. i've never figured out this one. you can hear it anywhere within all dialects.

 

I always liked tarnation

 

Far is a good one.

I worked with a guy from West Virginia, you could only understand the last word he said. Everything was a jumbled up mumble, then the last word was semi-clear.

 

Frishiggity

Always a favorite

 

Pertnear is another good one

 

Fiddlesticks

 

My granny cooked all kinds of stuff in a "stee-r"

 

You never let me down, love ya man.

 

My Great Grandmother on my mom's mom side use to say "a hoot 'na hollor" to explain how far away someone or something was away. It basically refers to how far someone could hear your hoot or holler. Back before phone service, people would communicate via voice by hooting. It sounds sorta like hog calling.

 

Was lost for a second. Then I realized you were saying fahr-ed.

 

His son did his student teaching under me. When I found out his dad had a boat in Kitty Hawk, I asked him how bad he wanted an "A". The result is a yearly fishing trip where I only have to pay the first mate and fuel.