Local Idioms (again) 1

[2ffat]

Here is a phrase that I grew up with in Idaho but had forgotten about it until I read an article from my home-town newspaper.

Two individuals were standing in the barrow pit near the car. As the officer pulled behind the vehicle, the driver took off, nearly hitting one of the people standing nearby, according to a sheriff's department press release.

(See

http://www.southidahopress.com/articles/2006/06/02/news/local/1arsenal.txt)

Without doing a search, can you guess what a barrow pit is?

It is a popular term in the American West. I discovered that even some states' hunting rules include the term.

James P. Cottingham
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[2ffat]

While I was in Kansas, I was nearly hung for mispronouncing "Arkansas River." Since this river "starts" in Kansas, they insisted it should be pronounced "Our Kansas River!" ;-)


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[BoxHead]

2ffat,

Don't you mean 'hanged'?

See thread1256-1201508



John



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[2ffat]

Sorry, I still can't bring myself to use the word hanged ;-) Something about it reminds me of fingers on the chalk board.


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[SilentAiche]

For what it's worth, my little neighborhood sits hard by a bend in the Neuse (pronounced "Noose") River.

As for whale-hanged or well-hung, it's just a nuisance for sleeping fish.

Tim

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[2ffat]

I can understand Neuse = Noose. Ask SantaMufasa how to pronounce Deuschene and Tooele. [small](I think they are spelled correctly.)[/small]


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[IknowMe]

Deuschene pronounced in Utahnics (credit Santa) DewShane
Tooele when pronounced in Utahnics (credit Santa) TwoWheelAh

Let me know if you agree Santa.

Wow, I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.

 

[2ffat]

SilentArchie,
<off-topic> Did you get flooded?


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[SilentAiche]

2ffat,

Nope - I'm still, er, hanging in there.

Tim

P.S.: I realize [blue]"SilentArchie"[/blue] was a typo, but it was still rather comical.


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[SantaMufasa]

James and MrMilson...although your spellings were a tad off (s/b "Duchesne"), your pronunciation was right on: "DewShane". We pronounce "Tooele" as "Two-Willah".

Other "interesting" Utahnic town pronunciations are:

Hurricane, UT: "Hurruh-cuhn"
Tremonton, UT: "Tree-MON-tun" (instead of the "correct" pronunciation elsewhere: "Tremm-unh-tuhn")

The one that hurts my ears the worst, however, was when we lived in Georgia, all of the local Southeasterners pronounced the town "Buena Vista" as "Byoona" Vista...Please, Latinos forgive us, for we know not what we do.


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