Buy props used in MaryJane’s books and magazine!
5% of profits will benefit www.firstbook.org, a non-profit that provides new books to children from low-income families throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Here’s how:
MaryJane will post a photo and a description of a prop and its cost along with a few details as to its condition here: https://shop.maryjanesfarm.org/MaryJanesCurations. It’s a playful way to be the new owner of a little bit of farm herstory.
Furthermore!! Yep, that’s one from my neck of the woods. Warsh as well. In fact I need to do some warshing today. Midwest are my roots.
My mom was raised out in the toolies in Warshington state. Lots of our sayings migrated here from the Midwest (also known as “Back East”) and Tarheel country.
I come from Western Virginia, also known as West Virginia and here we call it the :Buggerwoods” in a Hollar that you have to pump sunshine in.
LOVE buggerwoods:)
We live in the boontoonies, rural Granville County, North Carolina — right outside of Stem and Shoofly. Really.
Oh there are so many from my childhood on the Chesapeake bay . “Bo” – thats short for the local brew that all and sundry drank, called ” National Bohemian Beer” , as in : ” y’all want a bo ?” . Bloody Blue Murder as in ” she was screaming bloody blue murder “. Ofcourse I mentioned in an earlier dialect post ,” a passel”, and ” a whole slew” . Teensy and/or weensy was always for small. All sentences spoken to a child ended in
” ya hear? ” always . I was especially fond of ” yowssir” for yes, which my mother discouraged as it was more of an African -American dialect. There are tons more as my memory banks open up, I may have to leave a second post later on.
Ok, after working in the garden getting ready for yet another of “Jack Frost’s paintings ( frost) , and our possible late spring snow tonght : ” onion snow”, I remembered a really old fashioned one. ” I swan” (pronounced like the bird) for ” I swear”. You ” don’t hardly never ” hear that one anymore. I grew up with “yonder” but don’t usually hear that one anymore. “haighnts” ( spelled several different ways) for the word “ghost”. “much obliged ” for thank you -so polite. “hang a louie” for turn left and ” hang a ralph ” for turn right . My personal favorite phrase for folding money: ” dead presidents”. Calling any old woman you don’t know by name : ” Aunt” or “Auntie”, and for old men ” Uncle” , a leftover from slave days. We all are familiar with ” a mess o’ ” for any large amount usually referring to food. ” I heard tell” always referring to gossip.
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