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.

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 >