
“You already drunk those I bought last week?”
“Yep. I just soak em in me.”
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Tipper
Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia
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“You already drunk those I bought last week?”
“Yep. I just soak em in me.”
—-
Tipper
Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia
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“Before you leave I need you to go down to the basement and bring up some jars if you can.”…

“He’ll be so excited he won’t be able to sleep.” “He’ll worry me to death is what he’ll do!”…

Overheard: “I’ve been trying to do that facebook thing where you post something you’re thankful for each day of November….

“I don’t know if it’s the truth, but we’ll just have to take what we get won’t we.” Last night’s…

“He was a wild man. I seed him out in the woods many a time when I was a’going squirrel…

A durn yearling jumped out in front of him about dark. He like to have hit it. It woulda tore…
My mother was the daughter of a school teacher. She was always correcting our English. Crunk was my mother’s least favorite word. It was often used by my Daddy. Sometimes, I feel, he did it a purpose. LOL
I’ve heard “soaking up suds” referring to benge beer drinking. I guess it would apply to just about any beverage you overindulged in.
I recently overheard, Are you going to the funeral? Yes. Where is it? Catlettsburg, in the big white house that looks like a southern mansion. Now, do you know where it’s at? No, can’t picture it.
I do that, use ‘drunk’ instead of ”drank’. Somehow it is just more correct-sounding to me. I once did that in the company of our daughter’s schoolteacher mother-in-law. Our daughter corrected me and I felt like I had to acknowledge for her sake that I realized I had departed from ‘standard’ English. That was not so long ago but since then she has changed and doesn’t correct me. But for my part I try to avoid embarrassing her. I would take any number of being embarrassed rather than embarrass her. She will outgrow it, maybe has already.
Overheard many times in the mountains, boy your a Doozie.
Reminds me of the time my daddy bought a 6 pack of those tiny cokes. We 3 girls were supposed to split ine not have the whole 6 oz ourselves