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To: The_Media_never_lie

When I was in school many years ago and anyone said “Hey” to the teacher, she would say “Hay is for horses and straw is for cows.” Back in that generation, “Hey” was considered vulgar.

I hear it a lot more now and even use it myself, but I can still hear Mrs. Johnson’s admonishment in my mind!

Also, here in the South, a shopping cart is a buggy, and a grocery/shopping bag is a sack. And everyone knows when the devil is beating his wife!


50 posted on 07/04/2014 6:06:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!
grocery/shopping bag is a sack

Traditional Appalachian usage calls that bag a poke. And the carbonated drink is a dope. My grandparents used both. My parents consciously did not.

67 posted on 07/04/2014 7:10:39 AM PDT by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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