A-huntin' The Sources of Appalachian English

Backcountry Notes ^ | March 26, 2010 | Jay Henderson

[Salamander]

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]...:)

[Darnright]

>One thing I’ve 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.

[Semper Mark]

"The preferred nickname in the more rural areas around my neck of the woods is “Junior”."

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.

[gitmo]

LOL. My grandma married after grampa died. My step-grampa had a son whose name was Junior JR too. Western North Carolina.

[Semper Mark]

For some reason the Junior Jr. thing puts me in mind of a movie that I saw some years back.

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.