Posted on 03/26/2010 7:00:19 AM PDT by jay1949
An order of the Virginia Colonial Council dated May 4, 1725, concerned an allegation that "divers Indians plundered the Quarters of Mr. John Taliaferro near the great mountains [i.e., the Blue Ridge] . . .[and carried off] some of the Guns belonging to and marked with the name of Spottsylvania County . . . ." The Council concluded: "It is ordered that it be referred to Colo. Harrison to make inquiry which of the Nottoway Indians or other Tributaries have been out ahunting about that time . . . ."
Now, the Colonial Council was an august body and its proceedings were formal, so we can be sure that "ahunting" was not common slang. It was, on the contrary, an accepted usage which is now obsolete except in Appalachia and the Ozarks, where folks still go "out a-huntin'."
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I guess a run is what most people would call a stream.
Nothing here has “stream” in the name but we do say we’re “going upstream” from wherever we are.
[but we should say we’re going uprun, I reckon]...:)
>One thing Ive never heard in the Appalachians or the South in general is the nickname Bubba. But everybody associates that with the South.<
The preferred nickname in the more rural areas around my neck of the woods is “Junior”. Think Junior Samples of Hee Haw fame.
Junior is also sometimes used as a given name.
I went to school with a ol' feller (named after his father) who had the misfortune of having the name Junior Surname deleted Jr..
So, of course, he has gone through life being called "Junior Jr.".
Good gravy, what were his parents thinking.
I wouldn't do that to a kid for no man's money.
LOL. My grandma married after grampa died. My step-grampa had a son whose name was Junior JR too. Western North Carolina.
There were two brothers who were both named James, but they explained that it was OK because they were named after two different people. One after Grandpa and the other after Dad.
Now *that's* messed up.
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