What Is Your Favorite East Shore Slang?
Example, Ba Time I Got There...
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I'm "tared" for I am tired.
Arn for iron.
Murry for the name Mary.
I'll get up with you.
Wooder.....for water.
Bless their heart.
Ersters (oysters). Sammitch ( sandwich ).
----- went up As in broken
"Whole nother" and "Supposeably"
his self....hate that one!
I always liked the Smith Island speaking in opposites. "She ain't purty is she?" is beautiful.
i hope to my never thanks sjd my grandmother used this saying
"Hun"!
1:20, My favorite as well, but have you ever heard,
"Hardly nothin'"
I need to Warsh (wash) my car
The use of the word "weren't--makes me crazy.
Eastern Shore use in a sentence: I walked to the store to look for Mabel, but she weren't there.
Up to
As in------ "Where's Mary? Murray's up to the house."
djeet for did you eat
I tell you whuut
Blogger towjam said...
Wooder.....for water.
October 23, 2015 at 12:36 PM
I believe the proper pronunciation is "wuder".
These are probably not heard much any more but my mommom and poppop use to say the following things that I thought were so cute.
Zink for sink
crik for creek
all for oil
Probably alot more but I was little when they passes and they were pretty old.
Yall
When I went up Aerr!= When I up there. Something like yak! = Something like that!
I heard that.
Mung you.
Turn to.
She's goutd lookin
3:12....yeradoosh
You're old enough for your wants not to hurt ya.
That's poor (meaning it is good)
Stuck your finger in it (tastes good and homemade)
cam for calm and drecly for directly (as in "I'll be there drecly") meaning later.
These from my grandmother born around 1910.
Turn to is military, not limited to the Eastern Shore. In case you don't know it, it means get to work.
Hun is Baltimore, not Eastern Shore
I have not heard a lot of these (wow) and I have lived here for more then 50 years. Makes me wonder. One I do remember is my mom saying "read the table" for clear the table. map
I'm fixing to...
Taters,Maters and nanners
"Anonymous said...
I'm "tared" for I am tired.
October 23, 2015 at 12:24 PM"
I've heard "I'm tared" for I'm tired. I've also heard "I need new tars" as in vehicle tires. The vehicle is usually a pick up truck.
My grandmother used to say, "you're eating your white bread now and don't know it." Needless to say at my present age, I know what she was talking about!
Ax for Ask. Deer Head for Deer's Head Hospital.
I got cha
It's on far
Ain't gonna happen
Pert near here
Round yonder
Gone arsterin
Come fresh
Baltimore County slang blows me away.Words like "Balmer" especially.
He/She is 15 year old. No, He/She is 15 years old.
Fi dollars for five dolars
The plural for "yall" which is "all yall".
Guess who I seent over to the Walmart?
Air for our.
B;longs t" be. (should be..)
Describing something as "common" to mean it's nasty, low or worthless. Used often by my mother-in-law who spent her entire life on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
Davenport for couch
"just over yonder"
"bless her heart"
"I'll get up with ja"
Furry for ferry.
Jury for jewelry... what is that??? lol.
I find this whole post sad. Wow, slang is one thing, but laziness it a totally unacceptable.
For instance
Fi dollar? Seriously, it is five, pronounced with a "V". Add that to the likes of axing me a question..in which I will gladly get out the way in fear of being sliced open. Oh and anything more than one is plural. It is 10 cents, not 10 cent.
That being said, my family on the western shore, think we all have accents, not necessarily slang, but accents. Funny.
5:16 PM
Get used to it. It's Delmarva.
Even the newspapers occasionally let slip by a "met up with". Funny, but kind of sad.
For those of us who remember parents or grandparents who used to say some these things, it brings back good memories of people long ago lost from this world, and maybe seeing these in print brought some happiness even if it is not perfect English.
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