> > For those of you who want to build your vocabulary so that you can communicate better when you travel, learn these Eastern Kentucky terms:
> > year - ear, those things you hear with
> > hit - it, third person singular non-gender pronoun
> > "Hit jest goes in one year and out the other."
> > yeller - yellow, a color between orange and green on the solar spectrum
> > dawg - dog, animal sometimes kept for a pet
> > jest - just, I think that's an adverb
> > "Hit was jest a little yeller dawg with a spot on hits year."
> > Howard(known in Eastern Kentucky as "Hard.")
>
> Thanks. It'll make things easier next time I visit my Kentucky relatives.
>
> My real name is Julia, and they call me Joo-yah there. I always chuckle when I hear it that way, and my relatives wonder what I'm laughing about.
>
> Qua "There, you made me reveal my real name. Happy?" rtz
> ~~*Q*~~
I have a daughter named Joo-yah, I mean Julia. She was named for her grandfather, Julian. We usually call her Julie.
Howard