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re: Why is JORdan-Hare pronounced JURdan-Hare?
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:07 pm to bunkerhill
Posted on 11/13/17 at 12:07 pm to bunkerhill
If you can find any multigenerational natives of Georgia they use a lot of terms like this depending on where they're from. My grandma's people were from Oglethorpe county going back to pre-civil war and she used to use a few terms that were definitely old English....like referring to boys as chaps.
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Posted on 11/19/17 at 3:01 pm to SquatchDawg
Squatch, I know what you are talking about. My ancestors came from England and Wales, as far as we can determine. They got off the boat some time before the Revolution. I heard many terms and sayings, when I was a kid, that were straight out of England. People in rural areas tended to keep customs and speech patterns for many generations, especially before radio and TV. I find these old words and terms very interesting.
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