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Up in the mountains of Western Maryland and West Virginia, instead of saying "You guys" they say "Yoose guys".

Arghhhhhheeoowwwww - that voice is in my head now!!!!

My Granny “Iffin youins dont quit that I’m gonna smack you so hard you’all starve to death abouncing”
My Grandad—“Thank You Paw Paw”
“It’s alright youngin—you and me be blood kin and long as I got so much as a biscuit you entitled to half”

Few years back while deer hunting in Wyoming spotted a couple of boys walkin in the middle of no where. I stopped to help them out and asked them where their truck was. They told me their truck was, "stuckered". After scratching my head a few times I figured it out. They were miners from KY working out of Riverton, WY. Nice guys, just talked funny.

When going to get water for camp, I'll tell my Wyoming buddies I am going to go "make water" It just drives them crazy.

I heard an old timer say, "he clum that tree to get that girls cat down"

I been around the Pennsylvania Dutch thing a good bit, it took some getting use to. I'd hear much the same but we had horses.
It'd be throw the horse over the fence some hay one time or make the lights out....

Not hillbillies but years ago we had cousins move to NE Texas that had grown up in Lincoln Nebraska.
They had some funny sayings. If you asked Keith where he was from he would say, I growed up in Lincoln. They would be piecing instead of snackin.
They didn't oversleep, they slept in. My favorite was
instead of needing to take a dump, for them it was I gotta go grunt.

Gunner
Earl Hollerman(spell) told John Wayne something like that in the sons of Katie Elder.

I used to know a guy who grew up in Sweet Home Oregon. He graduated High School in late 60s.

He is the only person I have ever heard say "yuins". I have no idea where he acquired the idiom.

"Did I not see you in church ?"

Answer:

No.

Yes.

Both correct as it's how its said rather than the spoken word.

Um, aren't those the same thing?

Oops !. Meant to say " the words themselves"

Thanks.

Lots of oil and gas workers here from all over the country. Often get blank stares in conversation with them.

Interesting ones are the people from Louisiana. Great fun listening to an old boy and a cajen try to make sense of what each other’s saying.

Nicknames around here are unique. Some so ingrained that only close friends or former classmates know a persons real name. Ex; Panger, T-Bone, Fats, Bench, Coony, Whip, Iggy (Ig for short), T, Sister, Sonny P, Weed, German, Murph, MudDuck, Buttons, Rafe, .....endless list. Don’t know about other areas but here nicknames are very common.

Neighbor lady son's given name is Cooter

On the birth certificate.

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Probably a family name.




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Is their last name Brown. There's a lot of people around
Here that get drunker than Cooter Brown!😉

I can remember grandma talking about leather britches and the like.

She also followed the wives tale about lightning.
She'd pull the shades if a storm blew up, said lightning was the devil and if it/he saw your eyes he could get in to your soul.

My wife's grandma, rest her soul, used to say that. She was from Payna, Illinois and lived most of her life in Michigan City, Indiana.

SWVA it's "you'ins or y'all "

I hear '' don't pay 'em no never mind'' a lot around here.