Things we say: July 2007 Archives

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What about butter bread? And dippy eggs? And sock feet?

These Yorkisms seem to stem from yet another chance to drop a word or a syllable. Not "feet with socks" or "bread with butter" for us. No, why not just reverse it and save?

"Dippy eggs" would be slightly different, but since it's basically an over-easy egg, it's "egg with dip" and you should definitely dip the toast in the runny yolk!

As far as butter bread, I read that it's from the Penna Dutch butterbrot, which follows the German language's habit of attaching an adjective right in front of a noun to make a single word.

By the way, as a side note? Don't do a Google search for "sock feet." I got a LOT of frightening foot fetish sites and nothing relating to the local phrase. :)

Is stubbornness a Yorkism?

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So last week, for the Fourth of July, you might remember it poured, at least in many parts of the county.

Despite this, I stood in my driveway (about a mile from the Expo Center, uphill from it) and watched the fireworks. Further, I drug out my husband in his sock feet* so he wouldn't miss any. (He took off the socks before going out the door, wisely.)

* Now there's a Yorkism. Sock feet! Like butter bread - feet with socks, bread with butter?

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