WV idioms and colloquialisms (Elkins, Keyser: how much, home, buy)

[David Kennedy]

We are losing these from our culture...many are leftovers from the pioneer days of 200 years ago and rooted in the 'old english culture.

Fetch: to go and bring
Ketch or ketched: catch or have caught
Hoot and a hollar: a measurement of distance, almost two miles.

Do you remember any of them? Words or phrases that were used in your family or people around you?

[millersangel]

Well, I could go on and on with this one but you'd think I was funny turned.

How about "over yonder." I don't think a day goes by that I don't hear that one.

And "bless his/her heart."

I got my tobaggan out yesterday when the cold front came through. (I think that's a newer one though.) And I put on some warm britches too.

I want to go sanging today iffen ya know what I mean. Get me some chinkypins too.

[confusedTee]

oh my..didn't take me long to fall into this.....yepper apart of my most popular words..LOL

[David Kennedy]

My lands...Ya'll have a masterful good time at 'Bridge Day'! Yep!

[confusedTee]

Hey NOW i can blend in with the locals or the foreigners i can speak ummm how much slang...........LOL whooooooohooooooooo..and PROUD of it too..ooh maybe WV PROUD>>ROFL...........

[GottaHerdOn]

Some of the slang I remember from home (Elkins) is... " El " like a shortened " HUH, or how about that "

[Margery]

I remember putting items in a poke, rather than a bag or sack. Also, fixin' to do something rather than intending to do something, and to bile something rather than boil it. I'm originally from Keyser, in the eastern panhandle.

[x1x]

(Ya'll come Back now....Ya' Hear) Often used when your leaving someone your visting.

[Bobilee]

When I did something bad my grandmother would say "I swan, Bobby Lee!". I heard that a lot.

[snorpus]

"Poke" meaning a sack, as in "don't buy a pig in a poke."

"up ta" meaning towards, as in "He lives up ta Smithfield way."