I've heard all of the expressions mentioned except "tumped over". What word or phrase is "tumped" even linguistically related to?
I make fun of my friend from Arkansas by using phrases like "I seed that afore" to annoy her even though she's pretty intelligent. The one that she has no idea why it's considered incorrect by others is "might could". "I might could do that". She also gave me a lecture about "tump" being a word, too.
Also, on a bit of a tangent, but it always blows me away that pockets of people speaking damn-near their own "english" language exist around the US. A lot of them seem to be around the Carolinas. lol. The Gullah Geechee people The Brogue speakers Appalachia... not sure it's really a language, but so many words that are foreign to me...
Oh, now you're opening up "use'ta could" for judgement. "I use'ta could do that, but now I'm too old."
You know, now that I see the canoe example in the Webster citation, I'm having childhood flashbacks and I think I have heard it before. It's just been so long.
Yeah, I remember joking about that one and saying it puts me into a temporal paradox or something ... "used to ... coulda ..." ... am I going backwards or forwards in time. Am I talking about something that happened or will happen? Maybe I'm being efficient and talking about both in one sentence. Of course, "coulda" coulda been past tense, too. I don't know. Too much for my peanut to process.
My favorite part of this video is always when that second guy comes in, reads it, and then gives that confident nod like "yeah, I nailed that". Cracks me up. "Tumped" is popular at my house. My wife and I use it ironically all the time because it just sounds hilariously country.
I had quite a few old relatives on my mom's side that spoke this French language and would constantly mix in phrases with English.
Tittybaby was a great insult as a kid. I once heard a redneck friend of mine insult another kid by calling him "pickle loaf." We were like 8, maybe. Not sure where that came from.
