The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-15
SOME POPULAR EXPRESSIONS.
Curiosities of American Speech Ac-
cOrdIng to Dialect Society.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
Is a pancake fried or baked, or simply
cooked? Is it, after ALL really pancake
and not rather a griddle cake, a fiannen
cake, a buckwheat or a flapjack? What
is a doughnut? When you tear your trou-
sers on a sharp point what is the first
word you instlnctively apply to the rec
tangular rent; trap patch. barn door, or
weewary, as says the New Engander, or
is it winklehawk or nicklehawk, as New
Workers say? What do you mean by ding
bats? How widespread is the use of the
shimmy? Such are the problems set by
the American Dialect Society i'm part eight
Of its notes, which will be published in a
few days.
Three distinct recipes for the preparation
of doughnuts are promulgated by the So
ciety. Dough, raised with yeast, sweet
ened and spiced, cut into cubes, which,
when fried in deep vessel with hot fat,
become round Jumps, forms me dough-
nut of Connecticut. BY substituting soda or
saleratus for yeast, and cutting the paste
into circles or twists, you have the dough-
nut of Massachusetts, which the Dutch
settler calls the olykoek and others the
cruer; while the native of Connecticut
distinguishes between the twisted billed
cake and the round tumble. If mere ly I'M
seasoned dough be used, you have the fried
bread of Massachusetts, called on Cape
Cod seVenty-fours, and elsewhere, it seems
dOughnuts The dingbat has mad an aG-
Venturous career. Starting as a ball of dirt
on the legs of sheep in Vermont, it be-
comes a smart spank to the northern New
Englander, a squabble, a flying missile
and money to the Maine lumberman. the
biscuit of the New England boarding
school, while in Georgia it has turned to
a mothers kiss, and you may say of the
girl you admire: ''She is a regular ding
bat"
1t must not be inferred that culinary
and domestic matters alone engross the
society's attention, though 1t is at home
| that the careless words and phrases are
most likely to be used which deviate from
| literary forms, but have passed from
mouth to mouth since the man first spoke.
| This part of dialect notes contains no less
| than COO new words and usages, collected
| throughout the land, some poetical, many
picturesque; and all curious and interest
/ ing.
in the Tennessee mountains streams
| flowing from the east are sunrise watsSs,
/ a mule that you can trust is a confidential
mule, railroad train is smoke wagon,
| kiss is smouch, cheese is plural, with
/ a singular chez, sugar is sweetening, but
/ molasses is long sweetening, a man sub
| ject to fits it ftiied, and very much is a
| heap sight, or a. good few, or some sew
/ eral, or way yander. A man points to
| a hillside and tells you that he Lives on
| yon, coast and has good scope of
| come on?" and asks you to Come in and
rest your hat" A toothbrush to him
means a snuff stick, Ill means cross, juber-
!
past lenses are fotch and holp and
| seed and squez and swole; he tells you
/ that sickness is nightly interruptn. -
! that it is "a gosh wet SPELL" and hit 3
! too-my-goodness cold" that he has "he
! beatenest boy and talkenest old woman
! ever you see and that that young flrt is
! "tryin' TO git chaw on a Teller"
The sky-baked or stay-at-home Jersey
matron coasters or potters around the
house, calls her preserves do-ups, pork
/ spack, her husband, if need be, a lob
! scouse or loper. meaning a worthless fell
| low. She sides UP or cleans up or goes
/ strultng, wasting time about the village,
/ but she cares not Dutch cuss about
| going down country this is, to New York
Goof is the name for an off-islander in
! Nantucket, on Mt Desert the summer Wis
| itor is rusticrata, a stupid Vermonter
! is dodunk, goober grubber digs pea
nuts in Tennessee. When a man is con-
/ FUSED he is mommiXed in Kentucky he
! IS muXed up in Otsego county, gaueyied
/ in New Bedford, stodged in Indiana and
!wVuzzled in New York. Il don't hurt fer
while Il don't mind it bit'' implies ter ter,
| ror in North Carolina, where great ca
lamity is scandalous. The sunset is day
down on the Virginia coast. A man has
| large money in Cincinnati, he has scuds
| OF it in Missouri and a session of it in
/ Georgia. When Terre Haute citizen
Is sullen he is .putchiky, and If too weak
! to get out Of bed is on the lift, while a
/ paWky Ohioan is one in poor health and
mentally weak Kentuckian is slack
| Hampshire, where a sever storm is a tan
| toaster. Missouri sush is sposh. Green
| corn remain roaStn ear in Florida even
| when it is canned. and there COW may
| give birth to a yearling.
The farmers of Orange and Sullivan
/ counties have the reprehensible practice
| Of making their maple syrup by melting
| the sugar; this they call alamagoozleum
/ on Staten Island, splendid is galloptious.
| ttbits are manavelins, and to turn is 10
/ tarve. Patchogue says noink and SUNK
! Tor nothing and something In the north
western part of the state, when two
| young hearts begin to beat as one thew
are said to be scamuljugated. The Itha-
/ can on entering the house hangs up his
shock, his hat and coat. The Otsego THIEF
| when caught looks meecking or guilty.
even when he has stolen a mere smitch. a
! very small quantity. Quarter eagles must
! be more common In the central part Of
the state than in the city, for they are
Sun known as twenty-shilling pieces. and
silver dollars as bareback. There slouchy
~ loplolly, sticky is taclSy. you are hush
ed when you are tired. you change or
Mhen you move. you 20 large when you
are eNtraNagant, you pronounce hoax az
"a dlssFiiabie you poster about when Won
afe tussYs you are Ia a yang when IN IA
| hurry, and when violent you DO thinea
kapang, kachunk, kaaop kaslam.