Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-04-11
A FEW SOUTHERNISMS.
EXAMPLES OF QUAINT SAYINGS IN
GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.

Peculisritie- Of Pronunciation Held by
the southern People a. a CIass-Ths
Word Funny" Iscd with startling If
fects-''To Get to Go''-EIampIes.
Some years ago R.cnarI Grant White
write uei Shtfu.Iy interesting boz: on
Am. anIsus He M. ut well have aivided
the sub ects int two parts: YankeeisIa5
and souJheruis.ns Absoiut. CORE 'tness in
pro eaton, or in tue form ton Of SEN
tencrs, Is IN. st ll.ECult aCcJmp. ishment
AMI lew the q lie, either north or south
" no have reached -uc a degree Of Ierfec-
tlo tIat no exception can be taken by
Carp.ng rtlc,' t. their utterances In tho
matt-r pronunciation the times are
ch - ng. AMI one can scarcely keep pa
with tHs Inn"v It OnS De.nS lntrOdu ed by
the IelI Il o-tneopis.s
Tn. urpr-e Of tus paper is, however, to
pres n, il IA su'cIn way. q ftw Of the
qua n,n'~S-~ o. .OluuCIa-Ion ani ,Onstruc-
tI'' ia b. tie st en- people as q lass.
uu : Il Iue hrs at co .Hes % mind Is
i sUo i o omItti : IL. last two tiers
" II a vols more, store, four
ar FronouuceI mo, sto,7 70"
It 90 l. It " you asa the { Laroliuian,
a-d ten to On he teIl- you it hal--pas
90. ha pen, to the hour.
An" her Common soutDeruisn is the use
OF Ne as #, or Ii for the words as
i LIE iOO ei ii she Knew NE, is
common eAp r-,IOn, Or she 90 ed as If
sh u dI- This Is very com ION in Wa D.
in on, and in all the ,tates south of Mason
anu h. .on 5 line.
ONa I~F. OF THE WORD FUNNY
Tn word "fu ny Is ire Iueutly used, in
steId Of strange, AMI sImeJ. me, with strrt.
ling Effects \ young sout srn girl wss
visiting Us once, AMI cai.er was telling "
the death II her mother thr ugh swallow
ing tish-. one. oh wasn't it funny E az
claiineI our s.tor, at tn. clos. Of the uar-
rauvs i think you mean strauge,' said
the caller. as soon as she recovered from her
astOui,hm 1t Our gIrl friend has never
used tine word funny since
Il you happen 70 hear anybody say rye
Cher yoI may know it is in ended to
mean right here" For instance: South
CarolnIau viii say: Where was he at last
night" ami his fellow citizen will say, He
stool rye cheer with me u, ,ear-pro-
nounc d in one syilable-is not Russian
wOri, as might be supposed; it means do
you near an Is usually addressed To serv-
ants in this form: You Jim. Bring in
that wool, dJear"
To get to 90 is essentially a Georgia
expressI II Thy say, DO, don't faIl to
com tonight, and the reply is, I've tried
to z N three we ks now, 20 | reckon
I'll he there tnight' The expression DO
don't Is heard in Georgia and South Caro-
lima. but rarely elsewhere. One Of the most
laEghable things you ever heard is the pe-
CulIar pronun 'iation of the word about
Ii is impossible TO express the South Caro-
hnIan pronunciation, phOnetically 1t
sounis like ab ut pronounced very quickly
in three sylables. "I'uare,' for queer Is
another word The Of reckon for pre-
sumo" is said 10 have been derived from the
YANKEES, as was the expression right
smart for the word much
Ia imitation of English, perhaps, Is the
custom OF saying I've got L. for Il have
It. and the general use Of the word got
where it is quite unnecessary. AlSo Eng
lish is the use o. obliged, as I'm obliged
to do it for Il must do il; he IS Obliged
to 90. for he must go Ambiguity Of
expression is too prevalent in Dixie, and too
many people sacrifice sense e. sound
PECULIARITIEs OF PRONUNCIATION.
Low-counrry people and the residents Of
middle South Carolina say gee arden for
garden" gee yard for guard with the
hard sound OF g So too, with such words
as card car and cart, into which is
introduced ths sound of "kee," to take the
place of the first consonant, thus: ~kee ard
~kee-ar," "kee-art
The use Of deI htful for delicious is such
a sentence as: The iCe-cream is delightful
is very common Pretty is q word very
often misusei, for instance: Isn't this
pretty dayE"-anI this error is very
general one North CarOlinians say the
scenery is pretty meaning pictureSque;
the day is pretty IN aiming line; and tlat
u persons manners are pretty meaning
well-bred
y on ALL" or, as it issbbreviated, y all"
is one . the mot ridicu Gus OF all ths
u,hernisms | can ca. to mind It uSu-
ally means two or mo persons, but it is at
times us-d when on Y one person Is meant.
For instance, a caller on Ia ing he depart
ure says, y all must come to ses uS' she
means the lady upon whom she Is calling,
and her husband may all
The an -ee, ha guiJe many ridicu-
lous figures Of speech "a those | have MN
.iOn.d as peculiarly southern, an it vii. be
reserved for another paper 10 present th
Oddities Of NaI -ee conversation. In tn
meantime every true-h-arteI Southerne,
reads these ines will declare tnat h
never el any of these sDutnerni ms, IN
Charlestuulan VIII n ne voNs that ne ne er
,ays ~dIs-a way for ~tIiS way and data
way for that way. Dixie