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Sentences
"Go get pine knots." (Knots from a pine tree apparently made a hotter fire for the "canning kettle.")
"Be careful of that wood stove. It's hot."
"Be careful when I'm chopping the heads off these chickens. You'll get blood on your clothes."
Don't shoot the messenger here.
This is the only word I can personally remember. My grandfather on my dad's side used a disparaging word for a certain race. Not among the top five or thirty that would instantly come to mind, but still quite jarring. I heard it the first time when I was 13. I was stunned. I never figured out why such a calm, caring, progressive guy would ever dream of using that word, especially in front of a young kid. My grandfather was my hero. Now there's an asterisk next to his legacy.
Sentences
"Go get pine knots." (Knots from a pine tree apparently made a hotter fire for the "canning kettle.")
"Be careful of that wood stove. It's hot."
"Be careful when I'm chopping the heads off these chickens. You'll get blood on your clothes."
Don't shoot the messenger here.
This is the only word I can personally remember. My grandfather on my dad's side used a disparaging word for a certain race. Not among the top five or thirty that would instantly come to mind, but still quite jarring. I heard it the first time when I was 13. I was stunned. I never figured out why such a calm, caring, progressive guy would ever dream of using that word, especially in front of a young kid. My grandfather was my hero. Now there's an asterisk next to his legacy.
Don't know how old your grandfather is (or was) but it is quite likely that when he first learned "that word" it did not carry the same emotional impact that it does today. It didn't when I was a chid---or if it did I wasn't aware of it. Mostly, we said "negroes" or "coloreds" but "that word" was not the degrading insult that it is today.
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Lol, my Dad said that all the time. He used to always tell my nephews to pull up their britches.
I had a woman in her 40's tell me to pull mine up just a few months ago, a Southern Belle type. I think it's still a commonly used word in that neck of the woods, y'all.
I had a woman in her 40's tell me to pull mine up just a few months ago, a Southern Belle type. I think it's still a commonly used word in that neck of the woods, y'all.
Yes, some still use that word even in todays time.
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Still use it occasionally.
