Do you know any old people (or maybe not old) that refer to "gums" as "gooms"?

[LeftyFingerPop]

As in..."My gooms ache" or "Make sure you brush your gooms".

I hate that.

Makes me feel dirty when I hear it.

Makes me feel all icky.

Gooms.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. gloom and doom

and brooms...

no, I have never heard "gums" pronounced as "gooms". that is just weird.

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. Once again, they probably just say it around where I live.

Kinda like "cold meat" for "lunch meat" or "cold cuts".

For example..."My gooms hurt because I ate too much cold meat today".

I gotta move out of here.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. where, on earth, would you move?

this could be cataclysmic!

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. I'm doing research now...

there has to be some place where they do not say the following:

cold meat

gooms

heyna (don't ask me what that means... they say it mid-sentence around here, like they are having some kind of fit..."I need to heyna go to the grocery store later")

whoopsiefuckingdaisy

etc etc.

[amitten]

21. Good Christ, where do you live...?

Get out.

[Silver Swan]

5. We called them "gooms" when I was young

Because that's the way my parents said it.

When I learned it was actually pronounced "gums," it seemed funny because gum was like Wrigley's or Double Bubble, not a body part.

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. My parents did also...

I'm thinking that they pronounced to "u" as "oo" to distinguish from the chewing gum type of gum?

[frogmarch]

7. Yes, an elderly relative of

my husband's who described how, when his bottom denture kept falling out, he punched a couple of holes in his bottom gooms with an icepick and wired the denture in place.

[LeftyFingerPop]

8. Seriously?

[frogmarch]

10. Yes. He was a tough old codger. He lived to

be 92. He died of head injuries after being bucked off a horse in the early 1980s. His gooms had healed up fine from the surgery he'd performed on them a decade earlier, and I think his denture was nicely in place at the time of the accident.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. I am pretty old but

I have never heard that one!


but my gooms never ache:evilgrin: I still have all of mah teef

[femmocrat]

11. Never heard that one, but my FIL used to say "prespiration".

I've heard people say "poosh" for push. Maybe it's a regional thing?

[Parche]

12. This Is A Very Doom Post

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:

[Orrex]

15. That reply is full of win.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. A few of my (very) old relatives.

I thought it was creepy, too.

[rug]

14. How are you supposed to say it?

[LeftyFingerPop]

17. "gumorange" - rhymes with "orange"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Seems to be mainly Ozarks and Appalachian from about 100 years ago.

http://books.google.com/books?id=vAr2T4Bh7nkC&pg=PA844&lpg=PA844&dq=gums+pronounced+gooms&source=bl&ots=yO9fexX2tu&sig=xfSuI97fytrzzEHXxG6QmZRba9w&hl=en&ei=v9uJSrTsH47iMMyY3fsO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=gums%20pronounced%20gooms&f=false

[nykiera]

18. Yes

I have a heard the word pronounced that way quite a few times. This is in upstate/northern NY. (I currently work in a dental office.)

[ROFF]

19. I suspect

the German word for rubber is pronounced goom. My mother still uses goom to refer to gums.

[applegrove]

20. I had a grandmother who used to say "fud" for food. I miss her local dialect.