"Ain't got no gumption" was a favorite of my granddad's, but his meaning for gumption was backbone. He also called the car trunk the "turtle" and spare tires "casuns". Granddad was a Fannin County guy. But my Dad, who was born and raised in Avery, had a favorite saying about the useless among us, About as useful as tits on a boar hog." Nancy Texarkana -------Original Message------- From: [email protected] Date: 08/10/05 11:37:19 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [TXREDRIV] Red River Dialect Hidy John, How about "Ain't you got no gumption, child? for "sense". Bonnie Idabel, Ok >From: "John at Cox" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [TXREDRIV] Red River Dialect >Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:50:10 -0500 > > Enjoyed reading about tow sacks, bar ditches, poke, et cetera. I >wonder if list members can't supply a lot of other good examples of our >parents' "folk language" that we genealogists should preserve. such as "go >butt a stump" for "go to H___," "fine as frog hair," "useless as >hip-pockets on a hog," "mama-sow mean," "sucking on hind teat," and such. > > >==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== > > > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > ==== TXREDRIV Mailing List ==== ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx