I'm not a granny yet either but mine are old enough for me to be. I can remember slang being used too but I have a couple of more that I haven't seen yet. Moo juice = milk (of course) cow suave = butter cackleberries = eggs My dad is always saying funny things like this. Like when he told me about the first time he ate boiled orka. He said the buger slid down so fast he had to jump up and see if it was laying in his chair. Or one time some one asked him what size shoe he wore, he said that he wore a 10 but an 11 felt so good he gets an 12. So will miss him when he is gone. Take care all Carol In a message dated 04/09/2000 12:29:58 AM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << -------------------- X-Message: #10 Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 21:18:50 -0500 From: "M. Young" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Civil War Slang Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am not a granny---yet. My oldest is 12. I grew up in SC. Those expression were commonplace. It was not just the older folks using them, either. Some of those same expressions are used in TX, along with a few specific to TX. Questions: My grandfather used to refer to a "jot'em down store". My Dad said it was the store on the corner. Is that all it means? By the way, we say "as snug as a bug in a rug" rather than just "as snug as a bug". Melanie Young >>