“Have you ever seen a more rackety world? You can hear music a goin all hours of the night and traffic a goin to and fro. You use to not see nor hear hardly nothing all the day long.”
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I’ve heard rackety used, but it’s been a while since I’ve heard it or used it.
Ron and Gene, I live near an airport that isn’t used anymore except for housing old airplanes, a bayou and golf course. Maybe a bob cat. On nice days there are three WW2 airplanes that fly low and sometimes come very low to our house. We are rural farmland, but there is that fear of them crashing. One is red, one yellow and one white with red stripes. The are the kind of noise I do like.
My parents and lots of folks now use the word racket. If I am talking to my mom on the phone and she hears something besides my voice, she might ask me “what’s all that racket?” I have also heard “ quiet down or please turn down the tv—there’s so much racket I can’t hear myself think!”
I’ve heard and used rackety but only referring to a sound from a car or some other machine.
Hmmmm I seem to recall another meaning of “rackety” was about the same as “shackledy”. Are either or both of these in DSME, I wonder? Or did I make them up? Anyway, I agree. It is a “rackety” world, and not just in noise. This post really makes me realize, I do not like many kinds of noise. I like whippoorwills, frogs, crickets, owls, birds, distant train whistles, wind in the trees. running water, thunder, rainfall, acapella singing. I guess in short mostly natural sounds. Beyond that it is getting rackety.
I don’t recall hearing rackety but yes have heard racket meaning noise many times as a young person. I think I only heard racket referring to corruption as an adult.
Heard racket referred to shady and corrupt
Racket is a word we use quite a bit especially living in town but never heard of rackety. We have so much more traffic here than use to and only getting worse. I can be at a traffic light and the music will be so loud from another vehicle I don’t know how they can hear a siren sounding. And another thing that I can’t understand is when a motorcycle rolls up beside me and it’s already loud with the exhaust and then they have a radio blasting on it. Husband says, give them time, in a few years, they’ll be hard of hearing. I would say we hear some sort of “racket” every day.
Tipper, last night’s reading was wonderful. Definitely had me shedding some tears.
I still use racket when referring to noise. My grandparents also said “rickety rackety” referring to something like a squeaky worn out rocking chair. I use that, also. I’m still praying for Granny & all of your family. So so glad Matt is home now.
I’ve heard this all my life. I still say it all the time. My grandson gets a little wild sometimes and I’ll say to him I can’t hear myself think for all the racket. He like what that and I’ll say the noise. He’ll say why didn’t you say noise. o my goodness!!!!!!
Good morning everyone. I have not heard “rackety” before. My mom uses “racket” all the time. We have been here 2yrs 2 months and we see a few more cars on the highway going or coming from town. And now they are building 2 houses close to the highway. Weird to me because they are cotton fields. Seems progress has followed me. I hope I won’t have to put up with rackety noise. Your family is in my prayers.
I have heard “racket” all my life: “Stop making all that racket!” I have never heard rackety, but I like it. The meaning is perfectly clear.
Gene, I have also heard “racket” all of my life and have been told many times, especially when I was a kid, “to stop making that racket.” If I didn’t stop, I would soon have another reason for being “rackety!” I grew up in a time when kids were “told” and not “ask” to do something.
“Have you ever seen a more rackety world? You can hear music a goin all hours of the night and traffic a goin to and fro. You use to not see nor hear hardly nothing all the day long.”
Wow! What a powerful description of the visual and auditory tumult that assaults many of us. And what an even more powerful description of the misery and heartache of this world. But underlying it all is a call to accept peace: [Jesus said] “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”, John 16:33 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%2016&version=NIV).
Thanks, Tipper.
One of my neighbors plays “music?” all day and all night. The sound is too far away to know which house it is and what “song?” they are playing. All I can hear is the whomp Whomp whomp whomp of the bass. I can hear it in my house but only so long as there isn’t anything making noise but outside it is omnipresent and incessant. There are no breaks between (songs?) and the rhythm never changes.
At times I have wondered if I was living near a portal to Hell, but when the electricity goes out, it stops. Hell’s run on coal ain’t it? High sulphur coal? I don’t bleave they have electricity, yet. Do they?
This made me smile. My Dad would say “I couldn’t sleep because of all that racket!” I haven’t heard that world in a long time.
Never heard rackety – but we do live in a noisy world. We need to keep our eyes and ears tuned to God always! He can quiet our soul and heart. Prayers for all. Take care and God bless ❣️
I’ve heard the term “racket” all my life, as in “Those fireworks made an awful racket,” or “You’re making too much racket for me to think straight.”
We live close to Anderson Regional Airport and a major highway and are constantly bombarded by noise.There’s also a school and an appartment complex behind our house.I really hate it!!
Ron, I know what you mean. We live just south of the Daytona speedway and the airport. Qualifying was yesterday. Today is race day. At times we’ll hear a steady roar that gets louder if the wind is out of the north. The good part is hearing and seeing the practice runs and the flyover of the Blue Angels and a few WW II warbirds. Makes my heart beat faster. Footnote: I had my first airplane ride at the Anderson airport in a tail-dragger when I was a kid.
Never heard this word. Even in my beloved mountains near Newfound Mountain, overlooking Mt. Pisgah…..There is drastic change! Years ago when my Aunt Margie sat on her porch looking at this view, highway 40 came through. She didn’t mind because she was lonely sitting all day waiting for a neighbor to come up Greene Way. She said, “I like to see people coming and going. ” She could have never guessed that highway would bring such change. The mountain she looked out on now has powerlines going all the way up from the road near the creek. Rumor has it there will be a big development coming in to use all that electricity. That breaks my heart. To me it is as invasive as the huge white monstrocity on top of Sugar Mountain near Linville, NC. CHANGE used to be spelled in lower case letter….now it is in capitals. So I will choose to visit gratitude. I am grateful for the time I got to live in the mountains of my childhood. Somehow it makes my going deaf in old age a blessing.
rackety is a good word for it
I’ve heard “racket” all my life. Mommy referred to unnecessary noise, tv, radio, etc as “racket.” She would say “shut off that racket!” Also, I use racket to describe a suspected scheme of some sort. “They promise you big returns, but it’s just a racket to get you in.” RACKET OR RACKETY are dang good words!
I have not heard that one but I have heard “I can’t sleep in the city because of all the riotous noise.”
I have never heard it called rackety. I have lived all of my life on the same property. There is still a lot of quite times (right now) around me but not nearly as much as it once was . I have been awake for almost an hour as I write this and have heard cars going by my home on a backwoods rural road. Not that long ago this would have been unheard off. My late wife would call the deep bass music some of today’s young people listen to bump, bump music and their cars bump, bump cars. You can hear these cars coming a mile away. It is still quite enough around me to sometimes be able to hear late on Friday or Saturday evenings/ nights the cars drag racing at a track about 10 miles away. Back when trains still came through Honea Path (Sugar Foot to some natives) you could hear the train horns at night. This town is 13 miles away. Way to much growth going on to suit me. Not that long ago when I was either coming or going to work around midnight it was not uncommon to drive ten miles without meeting another car on the major highway, now 4 lanes, in my area, now at times you can hardly pull out on to this road, many cars now traveling on it at all times of day or night.