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[crazycanuck]

R U N O F T ??? Can you explain that one?

[Tuckervill]

It's from the movie "O Brother, Where Art Though?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1C2gCXo4Gs

It's based on the epic "The Odyssey".

My ex-husband looks just like Delmar. It's my favorite movie, too, in spite of that little fact!

(R U N N O F T -- that's how you spell "She done run off!")

Karen

[divingbiker]

When I lived in North Carolina, people would always say "might could," as in "Would you fix the sink?" "I might could do that."

Fixin' as in "I'm fixin' to go to town" was a big one also.

[SlowButSteady]

How many of you know what a "hose pipe" is?

"Pull the door to" for close the door.

tea = sweet iced tea. You have to firmly ask for "unsweet tea" to get a glass of iced tea without sugar around here. And then sometimes you get the sweet stuff anyway.

I don't know if these are true regionalisms, but as a vet, I hear "running off" for diarrhea, as in "his bowels are runnin' off".

We also hear "she's cuttin' up" for a female dog in heat.