Do you use works like "fetch" and "yonder"?

[trof]

The older I get, the more I talk like my grandfather.

Someone did me a courtesy the other day and I said "Much obliged".
Where the hell did that come from?
Pure grandpa.
:shrug:

[LSparkle]

1. I especially like the word "fetching" to describe a pretty woman

If someone called me "fetching" I'd probably marry 'em right on the spot!

[trof]

7. Fetch, fetching, and fetched up.

I think it was in Huckleberry Finn I read something about Huck falling off the raft and being fetched up on the river bank.

BTW, I think you're absolutely fetching.
;-)

[Pystoff]

38. Alabama here too

Yeah I use those words and sometimes I wonder "wtf did I just say that?". FUnny thing is soon as I leave the south I lose about 75% of my southern accent but keep the southern slang words hehe.

Roll Tide!

[gmoney]

33. Sparkle, you look fetching tonight...

...just like the Mona Lisa! :)

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. I like to say, "The Big Yonder."

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. "fetch"?

What's old-fashioned about that? Or is this some specific use that you think sounds like him?

[trof]

5. I don't hear it used much.

Kind of archaic.

[tjwmason]

25. From people's responses

I'd guess it's a trans-Atlantic thing.

I see nothing at all archaic or odd about fetch either.

Yonder, I can see (though I do use it).

[MADem]

4. It happens....!

Think of it as doing your part to ensure that interesting words in our language do not die out!

[Richardo]

6. "much obliged"

:rofl:

At least you didn't pronounce it 'obleeeged' (did you?)


BTW: I say 'yonder'. Yes I do. :eyes:

[trof]

9. Nope, long I.

[Dave Reynolds]

8. I watched too much Eastwood as a young'n,

and occasionally say "reckon", as in "I reckon so".

[trof]

12. Fixin' to

I'm fixin' to go to the store.

[Dave Reynolds]

21. Oh yeah, that one slips out too.

The last time I was doing some round-pen work with a horse, he charged and made a kick at me. I told my wife "He's fixin' to stomp my ass!"

I'm such a hick....:P

[The Flaming Red Head]

39. Even Dickens was amused by people who fix things

There are few words which perform such various duties as this word 'fix.' It is the Caleb Quotem of the American vocabulary. You call upon a gentleman in a country town, and his help informs you that he is 'fixing himself' just now, but will be down directly: by which you are to understand that he is dressing. You inquire, on board a steamboat, of a fellow-passenger, whether breakfast will be ready soon, and he tells you he should think so, for when he was last below, they were 'fixing the tables:' in other words, laying the
cloth. You beg a porter to collect your luggage, and he entreats you not to be uneasy, for he'll 'fix it presently:' and if you complain of indisposition, you are advised to have recourse to Doctor So-and-so, who will 'fix you' in no time. And I recollect once, at a stage-coach dinner, overhearing a very stern gentleman demand of a waiter who
presented him with a plate of underdone roast-beef, 'whether he called THAT, fixing God A'mighty's vittles?' American Notes for General Circulation; Dickens, CHAPTER X -

[barb162]

10. no, but I wonder why it's coming out in your speech now

[trof]

14. Maybe because now I'm a grandfather too?

Who knows.
Maybe it's unconsious imitation.
He was a good grandpa, and I want to be one too.

[The_Casual_Observer]

11. I hate the use of "fetch" in terms of what an item will "fetch" at auction

I don't know why, overuse I guess.

[Dees]

13. Yes in deedy doody. You betcha and I reckon I do.

Why use five dollar words when you don't have to.

[Dukkha]

15. how about "why I otta"

or "comeer a minute"

[sniffa]

16. that's so not fetch

[Shakespeare]

17. "Hi, I want you to go up there and fetch me one of them toddlers!"

"They got more'n they can handle."

[elperromagico]

18. "Fetch," yes. "Yonder," no.

I do like the word "keen," though, as in "I am keen on music."

[Danmel]

19. No- I'm from Brooklyn- we don't talk like that

but when I was about 14 ( 30 years ago) I went on Space Mountain at Disneyland in California and I got sick- really sick. I, rather unfortunately for those seated behind me, literally lost my spaghetti lunch.

When the ride ended, I was sick and embarrassed and I was crying like a baby. I profusely apologized to the poor young woman behind me who was wearing my semi-digested lunch. She was from the south and was so sweet it was unbelievable.

She told me "Oh honey, it's Ok. don't cry. Do you want me to FETCH you a MEDIC?" I had no idea what she was talking about, but I'll never forget how NICE she was to me considering I'd barfed all over her.

[Lars39]

20. ayup.

I wish I had written down some of the phrases my grandparents used.
Some of it was like listening to Elizabethan English.

[trof]

22. I had a real good NH "ayuh" going for a while.

I cultivated it during my years living there.

[El Fuego]

23. I think "yonder" and "reckon" are British in origin

A lot of southernisms come from the Brits by way of the Scotch-Irish who settled the south.

[tjwmason]

24. Shockingly - a fair deal of the English language

came from the English - whoda thunk it?

But we mostly pinched them from the French or Germans (the latter in the case of yonder).

[supernova]

26. SNARF!

True. But these colloquialisms sound strange to other parts of the US when we use them. They find it "quaint," I reckon. ;-)

[El Fuego]

28. LOL! I meant

it was part of the British vernacular back when they were getting off the boat. As opposed to a homegrown southern hick-ism.

[peace frog]

27. Way over yonder in the minor key...

I lived in a place called Okfuskee
and I had a little girl in a holler tree
I said, little girl, it's plain to see,
ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me

She said it's hard for me to see
how one little boy got so ugly
Yes, my little girly, that might be,
But there ain't nobody that can sing like me
Ain't nobody that can sing like me


Way over yonder in the minor key
Way over yonder in the minor key
there ain't nobody that can sing like me

We walked down by the Buckeye Creek
to see he frog eat the goggle eye bee
To hear that west wind whistle to the east,
there ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me

Oh my little girly will you let me see,
where over yonder where the wind blows free
Nobody can see in our holler tree
and there ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me



Her mama cut a switch from a cherry tree
and laid it on to she and me
It stung lots worse than a hive of bees
but there ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me

Now I have walked a long long ways
and I still look back to my tanglewood days,
I've led lots of girlies since then to stray
saying, ain't nobody that can sing like me
ain't nobody that can sing like me



ain't nobody that can sing like me

[Hugin]

29. Yeeup. n/t

[bridgit]

30. i reckon...

:shrug:

[gizmo1979]

31. I use fetchins

As in, he's got no fetchins.IE manners.

[supernova]

32. Wow! That's new to me

I've never heard that offshoot. It must be related to "fetching," meaning "pretty" and "charming"

[ldf]

34. i use

yonder. and fixin'.

i may accidentally let a torectly (sp?) slip out. that would be for directly, meaning later, or soon.

i have worked so hard to lose my southern accent. now my coworkers here in nyc tell me it is "cute" and "charming". who new?

[Left Is Write]

35. Fetch, yes; yonder, no.

[DawgHouse]

36. I say those and also "might could"

as in, "Do you want to go to the beach this weekend?"

"Well, we might could"

And of course, "fixin" as in "fixin' to"

[Redstone]

37. Now just a cotton-pickin' minute here; there's nothing wrong

with "yonder." It's a derivative of "yon," whcih was a damned useful word, slotting nicely into the trio of "this, that, and yon."

If you referred to "this house," the person you were talking to knew you were referring to the house that you were in or right next to; if you said "that house," he knew you meant a house right near where where you were; and "yon house" meant a house that was at some distance but still visible.

I vote that we bring back "yon" and "yonder" into common usage.

Redstone

[fishnfla]

40. I reckon so *spits*

yup

[quisp]

41. Fetch me a beer

Fixin' ta git

and the bane of Yankees everywhere

all y'all

[CrownPrinceBandar]

42. I use both..........

but I'm from West Virginia, so I suppose it won't surprise anybody. When I was living down south I picked up, and still use, the term "fixin'", as in "I'm fixin' to go to the store." :shrug: