[laplata]

I almost used “tetched” but didn’t think many or any would recognize it. Glad you did. :)

A lot of the old words and phrases are going away and it’s a shame.

Pretty soon there won’t be any left. Pertinear (sp) all are gone.

[verga]

I almost used “tetched” but didn’t think many or any would recognize it. Glad you did. :)
Pretty soon there won’t be any left. Pertinear (sp) all are gone.

Here in the south both are completely acceptable and still used.

[Hawthorn]

>> A lot of the old words and phrases are going away and it’s a shame <<

Indeed. I sometimes travel thru parts of Appalachia, where the old guys hanging around the courthouse square still talk like Roy Acuff or Grandpa Jones, and the young waitresses at IHOP talk like Valley Girls. Almost makes me wanna cry!

[MHGinTN]

Yup, been decades since I heard ‘I’m mad as a frog in a dry well’. or ‘If I don’t eat somethin soon my stomach will swear my throat ‘s been cut.’

[kiryandil]

A lot of the old words and phrases are going away and it’s a shame.

I make it a point to use "forgotten words" many tines a week.