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Sunday, October 25, 2015

Today's Survey Question 10-23-15

What Is Your Favorite East Shore Slang?

Example, Ba Time I Got There...
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51 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 12:24 PM

    I'm "tared" for I am tired.

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  2. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 12:27 PM

    Arn for iron.
    Murry for the name Mary.

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  3. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 12:27 PM

    I'll get up with you.

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  4. towjamOctober 23, 2015 at 12:36 PM

    Wooder.....for water.

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  5. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 12:37 PM

    Bless their heart.

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  6. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 12:50 PM

    Ersters (oysters). Sammitch ( sandwich ).

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  7. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:03 PM

    ----- went up As in broken

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  8. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:08 PM

    "Whole nother" and "Supposeably"

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  9. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:15 PM

    his self....hate that one!

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  10. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:20 PM

    I always liked the Smith Island speaking in opposites. "She ain't purty is she?" is beautiful.

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  11. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM

    i hope to my never thanks sjd my grandmother used this saying

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  12. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 1:41 PM

    "Hun"!

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  13. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 2:00 PM

    1:20, My favorite as well, but have you ever heard,
    "Hardly nothin'"

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  14. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 2:38 PM

    I need to Warsh (wash) my car

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  15. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 2:42 PM

    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.

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  16. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 2:48 PM

    Up to
    As in------ "Where's Mary? Murray's up to the house."

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  17. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 3:02 PM

    djeet for did you eat

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  18. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 3:10 PM

    I tell you whuut

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  19. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 3:12 PM

    Blogger towjam said...
    Wooder.....for water.

    October 23, 2015 at 12:36 PM

    I believe the proper pronunciation is "wuder".

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  20. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 3:28 PM

    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.

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  21. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 3:49 PM

    Yall

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  22. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 4:10 PM

    When I went up Aerr!= When I up there. Something like yak! = Something like that!

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  23. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 4:16 PM

    I heard that.
    Mung you.
    Turn to.

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    1. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 5:09 PM

      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

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  24. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 4:33 PM

    She's goutd lookin

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  25. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 4:35 PM

    3:12....yeradoosh

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  26. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 4:53 PM

    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)

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  27. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 5:04 PM

    cam for calm and drecly for directly (as in "I'll be there drecly") meaning later.
    These from my grandmother born around 1910.

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  28. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 5:21 PM

    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

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  29. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 5:31 PM

    I'm fixing to...

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  30. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 6:19 PM

    Taters,Maters and nanners

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  31. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 6:34 PM

    "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.

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  32. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 6:37 PM

    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!

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  33. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 7:12 PM

    Ax for Ask. Deer Head for Deer's Head Hospital.

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  34. Pete da PirateOctober 23, 2015 at 7:45 PM

    I got cha
    It's on far
    Ain't gonna happen
    Pert near here
    Round yonder
    Gone arsterin
    Come fresh

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  35. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 8:40 PM

    Baltimore County slang blows me away.Words like "Balmer" especially.

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  36. AnonymousOctober 23, 2015 at 9:45 PM

    He/She is 15 year old. No, He/She is 15 years old.

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  37. AnonymousOctober 24, 2015 at 6:47 AM

    Fi dollars for five dolars

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  38. AnonymousOctober 24, 2015 at 9:06 PM

    The plural for "yall" which is "all yall".

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  39. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 6:48 AM

    Guess who I seent over to the Walmart?

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  40. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 8:01 AM

    Air for our.

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  41. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 9:02 AM

    B;longs t" be. (should be..)

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  42. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 12:29 PM

    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.

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  43. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 12:39 PM

    Davenport for couch

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  44. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 1:11 PM

    "just over yonder"
    "bless her heart"
    "I'll get up with ja"

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  45. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 2:17 PM

    Furry for ferry.

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  46. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 4:48 PM

    Jury for jewelry... what is that??? lol.

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  47. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 5:16 PM

    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.

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  48. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 5:39 PM

    5:16 PM

    Get used to it. It's Delmarva.

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  49. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 5:40 PM

    Even the newspapers occasionally let slip by a "met up with". Funny, but kind of sad.

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  50. AnonymousOctober 25, 2015 at 5:48 PM

    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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