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The worst breakdown post below got me thinking..

I have never heard of an apron chain on a manure spreader referred to as a drag chain or draper chain before.

How many different differences are there for names of parts or equipment? Around here any mower/conditioner is a haybine regardless of breed. We have brush mowers not bush hogs or brush hogs. We have diggers not field cultivators. Every skid steer is a Bobcat.. I know there`s more.

When I lived in northwest MN snowmobiles were all called snow cats, and snowmobilers were snow catters. One of the first big snows we had, a buddy called and said he and some friends were going snow catting and asked if I wanted to come with. I wasn`t sure what the heck he was talking about at first-- hunting, chasing girls--aaahhh snowmobiling.

What are some of the terms or names heard that are different in your area???
 
I grew up in Kentucky, and there are a few that come to mind from there. All soft drinks are "Cokes" no matter what variety they may be. Lots of old timers call the refrigerator the "Frigidaire." The upper part of the barn, where the hay is stored is called the "loft." It took me a long time to figure out what a "hay mow" is when I moved to Iowa.
Good Luck and God Bless.
 
Grew up in a small town (500) in South Dakota-not on a farm, but still considered rural. We always called lunch, 'dinner' and the evening meal was 'supper'. Moved to Omaha, married an urban wife, found out this was not correct. Now, lunch is lunch, and the evening meal is dinner. Forgot how this was until, worked with a guy who always stopped for dinner at noon! Greg
 
A town near me named Stewartville but I and most locals pronounce it Stertville. I work with all out of towners here and they notice my local lingo on many things that I never give a thought about like I say pop not soda or coke.
 
well, I have a couple...here in southern Ontario every barn has a hay mow, loft is seldom used. What we call a "One way disc" is referred to as a wheel plow in several states. Here we go snowmobiling although in the 70's and 80's everyone went Skidooing even though you were driving an Arctic Cat or any other breed of sled and language patterns....Here my friends say "Do you mind the time we did such and such" instead of Do you" remember"
 
What is correct for one local isn't for another.
Moved to Texas "USAF for 4 years" from West Virginia. This Hillbilly had some adjustments to make found out Pop was Soda Water , you didn't throw a rock you chunked it, A paper sack was a tote sack, and I talked like a Yankee .
 
A'crick is a crick no matter if you call it a 'creek or a brook'. A 'dale' still don't readily click in as a hollow or holler any faster than a hill or rise which is more commonly known as a 'hogback'.
Funniest for me are the people who feel the need to refer to their ride by the name plate. You don't get anymore status from me if you drive a an F-350 XLT dually or K30 Silverado than you do if you say you drive a 'truck'.
 
What most of ya'll refer to as a bush hog, is just a shredder in Nebraska. What ya'll call a haybine is a "swather" (swatter?) hereabouts.

I've always found it interesting that Beaufort, NC and Beaufort, SC are Bo'fort, NC and Bew'fort, SC. I've been to both.

Beatrice, NE is Bee-a'-trice, not Bee'-uh-trice.
Norfolk, NE is Norfork.
 
Yeah, I grew up having breakfast, coffee (around 9am), dinner (noon), lunch (3pm), supper ( after milking). And with the farmer I grew up around, you didn`t dare miss one of them, even if it was brought out to the feild. At noon you took an hour off no matter how busy you were. If you were ever hungry it was your own fault..
 
Having lived in upstate (Rochester) NY for my whole life, here are couple off the top of my head:

Snowmobiles are called 'sleds'
Cabronated beverages are called 'pop'
An old truck that you only drive around your own property is call a 'lot-truck'
Here in orchard country a 'loader' tractor is a tractor with a forklift mast on the front

I'm sure there's more, but I don't travel enough to catch them.
 
Talked to an old timer whose Dad made Applejack. He said booze was called "Pepsi" long before the current drink was introduced.
 
Oh-boy, I am still learning new meanings from New England to Iowa

Toilet is called a stool here in IA
Disc Harrow we always just called it a harrow is a just a disc here and a harrow is a spring tooth type

A bunch more but I"m drawing a blank now
 
Both examples brought back a memory of what I heard once about someone "smelling worse than cat sh!t and coal oil".

Only thing worse was "he's so dumb he don't know the difference between sheep sh!t and cotton seed".

Enough foolishnesh.

I'm fixin to cut off the computer, go over yonder to the ice box, and take out a mess of fish.
 
Hay mow, scuffling weeds from corn with a tractor mounted cultivator. Going back to the bush to hunt or cut fire wood. Ploughing, not plowing. Pop, not soda pop. Creek, occasionally stream, rare to hear brook. Dung wagon, sometimes.
Apple juice and apple cider is considered the same thing unless some old timer or European who considered cider to be fermented. The minister had to get a ride home one after noon after getting over refreshed on apple cider.
Minister or pastor instead of Reverend.
Fish and chips means fish and French fries. Chips usually means potato chips. Never hear tell of a jack leg mechanic up here. The term tinker is heard on occasion.
Ground or milled feed corn or grain is called chop.
There is a tendency to way wharsh instead of wash.
I’d have to listen to my Father or Uncles for more. I used to take a chick home from the city 100 miles away to visit my parents. For the 1st six months she had no idea what my Father or what my Grand parents were saying. She just nodded her head and smiled.
I was shocked when stopped to actually listen to conversations and noted the differences in pronunciation and context. Bilingual and didn’t know it.
 
The township road grader is the maintainer.
Anything bovine is a cattle beast.
The top of a building is a roof, not a ruff, like my Kentucky buddy says. (And she laughs at ME!)
The edge of your farm is the line.
Concessions and sideroads intersect.
It's a market hog, not a fat pig.
You may have 20 ton of grain, not tons.
And so on.
 
"I'll bring you into town." Instead of "I'll take you into town."

"That kid really mopped down the hay with his 4-wheeler" Instead of ran down the hay.

"The cows just mowed all that grain right down." I guess mow means to eat quickly. Pronounced like hay mow in a barn.

Instead of casserole or goulash it's hot-dish.

Pop is pop.

"Scads of old tractors" Meaning lots.

This is in Northern MN. A few things I've learned after moving up here from Northern IL.
 
Buddy of mine in Arkansas doesn't take something into town he "carries" it.

"We needed groceries, so I carried my wife to town last night"

I am going fish "giggin" with a buddy of mine in South MO. in a couple of weekends.

We spent the night at the hunting cabin a few years ago and got up early to go deer hunting.
The old fella that was with me was Mitch Jayne (Bass player) of the bluegrass group the Dillards, AKA the Darlings on The Andy Griffith show.

Mitch steped outside and remarked " it's blacker than the inside of a tire out here"

Never had heard that before.


Gene
 
Around here people own 4 -wheelers, out west they call them quad bikes.

We have hay mows, and pop.

I have a vague idea what a "holler" or "bottom ground" is but here we have ravines, valleys, flood plains etc and bogs, swamps, wet patches, etc.

If drive fast on your snowmobile you are just a pi$$ cuttin 'her on your sled. It vaguely refers to taking a leak on snow thereby melting it quickly but its used in any season.

Road pop's are beer drank while driving.

We only have discs and harrows as posted before.

Old folks here have logging wenchs while younger folks have winches.
 
Regional Differnces-We've got Family Differences!
She doesn't know that dinner is around noon and supper is in the evening! Lunch is somewhere in between the two.
She calls it a "crick" when it is actually a creek.
I call it pop and she calls it soda.
Oh well, I think I might pop another one while she cooks supper/dinner and think some more!
 
Snowball = snowcone
Netural ground = median
PoBoy = kind of sandwich
Lagniappe = something extra for free
Alligator Pear = avocado
When I was a kid a sidewalk was called a Banquette
Bayou = a slow moving stream
Pirogue = a flat bottom canoe
Any kind of soda is called a coke
Praline = a sugary candy
Stoop = front steps of the house

I could go on and on.
 
In the 40s and 50s Coca Cola was called dopes.
Any lift truck was a Hyster.
Any rotary cutter is a bush hog.
Any pastor is a preacher.
Well endowed girl is built like a brick s#!+ house.
Too many to list. David.............
 
I've heard of "gigging frogs" but I don't think it is legal in Indiana (but it is in some states) to "gig fish". A gig is a type of spear.

And to me a crick is smaller than a creek, many creeks are big enough to fish, cricks go dry.
 
I always thought I was putting the crops in during the spring and taking them out in the fall.

But the town folk swear I'm putting them out in the spring and taking them in during the fall.
 
Chuckle ,,,,, We have that confusion here 150 miles east of you , Just as Long as the crops end up in the bin and then become Money in the Bank ,, Way on Down in Ky , When the famlee gits ta'gather, my aunt Will git extry cheers out a the grudge for the folks to set in..
 
WELL I WAS JUST FIXEN-(GETTING READY )- TO GO TO GET SOME SHUT EYE-(SLEEP)- BUT NOW'S I REKON-(THINK)- I BEST GET MY KEYS OFF THE BUFFET-(DRESSER)- AND GO DOWN-(HEAD INTO TOWN-)TO THE TRADING POST-(PARTY STORE)-AND PICK ME UP A SNIPPY POO-( BUY SOME ALCOHOL)- AND HAVE A FEW GOOD BELTS
-(SNORTS, SHOTS, DRINKS,)- ITS GONA BE A LONG NIGHT!
NEED TO GET SUM CHAW-(CHEWING TOBBACO}-TOO AND GO OFF ON A BENDER-(LONG DRUNK, DRINKING )-YOUNGINS-(KIDS)- HAVE PLUGGED UP THE SH&&TER-(TOILET)- AND MOMA-(WIFE)- WANTS ME TO SPELL HER -(TAKE OVER JOB)-STACKING WOOD IN THE CELLAR-(BASEMENT)----- LOL GOD BLESS ALL HERE ,,KRIS
 
Hey, Gene! Have you seen or talked to Mitch lately? He's moved down into the Eminence area but he's still got a website.

The man's a great story teller.
 
GeneMO,

Here are a couple to try on Mitch:

Something that looks out of place can tend to "Stick out like a terd in a punch bowl."

Something that glistens brightly can be said to "Shine like a diamond in a goats' arse."

Good luck with the fish, think I'll go watch some Mayberry tapes with the Darlings.
 
some that come to mind,boomers instead of load binders,ship-lap instead of tounge groove wood,agin not against,louvuhl instead of louisville some others are listed already.i work in a neighbor state the language differences and just overall culture are striking
 
OOPS, MUST OF HAD A BRAIN FART, WAS FIGGERIN ON
RUNNING SUM CORN TOMORROW OVER ON A PIECE SOUTH OF HERE NOW THAT THE GROUNDS HARD UP BEFORE WE GET A DUMP OF SNOW,NOW DON'T GET YOURN nnalert IN A KNOT HONEY, I'LL RICK THAT STICK PILE IN THE MORNIN
 
Here in Maine we have dooryards, so we can have dooryard visits.

A little bit of something is just a dite or just a dossal (phonetic spelling of both of those -- only heard 'em, never seen 'em written down).

Downeast is always someplace east of where you are.

The pile left by the snowplows along the road is called a snow combin'.

If a body could walk through the woods all winter and not need snowshoes, we've had an open winter.
 
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