South Georgiaisms

[Geoff Nathan]

A close friend born and raised in Central Illinois uses 'bumfuzzled' all the time.  Can't say I've heard any of the others, though.

Geoff

Geoffrey S. Nathan
Faculty Liaison, C&IT
and Associate Professor, Linguistics Program
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----- "Bill Palmer" <w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET> wrote:

> From: "Bill Palmer" <w_a_palmer at BELLSOUTH.NET>
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> Subject: South Georgiaisms
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> My late mother in law (born and grew up in Moultrie GA, in the SW part
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> of the state) used a number of words and expressions I have never
> heard =
> anyone else use, either before or since.  She was born in 1908 and was
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> college educated, Wesleyan College in Macon GA and U of California,
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> the only one there was,  was in Berkeley.=20
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> Exx:
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> "Tight as Dick's hatband" for a parsimonious person
> "Tough as whit-leather"...someone we would call hardnosed=20
> "Bumfuzzled"...surprised or disconcerted
> "Pine burr" for what I would call a "pine cone"
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> Google hits on all, but I'm wondering if these expressions still live
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> anywhere or are now just theoretical, or if they are known to anyone
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> the list.
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>
> Bill Palmer
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