“Getting to the ‘bottom’ of it!”

[Jerusha Amado]

Rosemary,

I think that I can hear that southerner say “I’m fixin..'”, just by your description!

[unknown-user]

Ah Jerusha, you can be my pal!

I’m hoping to come to the US again soon, and wouldn’t it be fun

[Audrey Nickel]

Oh, the South is full of great expressions!

[unknown-user]

I use hey…but then I’m a hippie…I very much like “might could”. I suppose Tasmanians have a few funny ones. They do not say semi circle, they say ‘half round’ and also instead of it being a long way away, they will say it is “a ways away”. You’ll be talking about something a few months away and they’ll say “oh that’s a ways away yet”. And they will use it for distance as well – “a ways up the road” , or “a ways from here”.

Australia is large, but we do not have the variation of accents that you do. And its more a country vs city accent. Crocodile Dundee and Steve Irwin are defintiely “country”! People in the main cities tend to sound mostly the same but there are a few different words here and there. There is a

[kay-lister]

I lived on an island growing up and when we left the island to go to another town the line usually was “going OFF to so&so town”.

[Audrey Nickel]

Yep…those little shrines typically indicate that a Latino family lives there (not always, but the emphasis on the veneration of the BVM and the tendency to put up shrines is very much a part of that culture).

[unknown-user]

What has all this got to do with a horrible rash on ones bottom. It’s certainly gone off track. For those of you interested in my dilema, I now sit on a cushion and have solved the problem.

[unknown-user]

Hmmm…Sorry S.S…twas a bit off track. But vaguely related, we went onto getting to the bottom of language differences instead of the bottom of..your bottom! Sounds like it was sweat rash..nasty! Glad the cushion worked..I think that was my idea a while ago….before I went silly on you!

[kay-lister]

S.S.

So glad your tush is better.

[unknown-user]

“Tush”.. I love it, what a cute expression for botty! Oops, I’m doing it again….

[Leigh Griffith]

“Tush” reminded me of a term we in the NE have used, “tookus”. A little
while ago, I thought that was what a friend had changed part of her
email address to: tuhkis – turns out it isn’t pronounced that way at
all and is the Maliseet Indian word for lynx.

As a kid 40 years ago, really great things were “wicked” or “wicked
good”. I was a bit surprised to hear Ron Weasley come out with it in
the same context in the first Harry Potter book!

A frustrated Mainer can be heard to say, “Geezum crowbait”. We do have
a lot of crows around here. (What can you say, we’re the home of the
Road Kill Cafe!)

Of course, being this close to Canada, many of us also end a comment
with, “eh?” (rhymes with hay) as in, “That was some game last night,
eh?”

Oh, and speaking of Canada, we often have a fellow who plays Paraguayan
harp participate in our concerts who joins us from “over home”.

Leigh

[Jerusha Amado]

Sorry, S.S.

[unknown-user]

Tookus! I love it, that is the best one yet!! Ooops I’m doing it again….but well you never know when you travel to a far off place for a gig and you get a sweat rash on your “derriere” that you may need to know the

[Audrey Nickel]

My daughter’s first-grade teacher referred to the…er…derri��re as “the back porch” (because you sit on it, of course).

My harp teacher would like me to learn wire harp.

Audrey

[unknown-user]

Now what does wire harps have to do with the scintillating topic of bums??

(tee hee just joking!)

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