Author Topic: Where you live, is "appetizing" a noun? (Read 12618 times)

Jonathon · « **Reply #75 on:** August 07, 2007, 07:45:03 AM »

I saw you post it the other day, and it caught me off guard at first. I would normally use "end up" or "wind up." But then I thought about it a little more, and I think I have heard "land up," before, though I don't think it's common out here.

pooka · « **Reply #76 on:** August 07, 2007, 08:13:04 AM »

I never heard of a hoppy taw until I moved to Utah (when I was 17). I think it might be a brand name. Before that, I never knew anyone played hopscotch with anything besides rocks, which we assumed were stand ins for actual bottled of scotch.

But I do believe "Taw" means something, like a lump of something. Hmm. I guess it probably comes from the "shooter marble" meaning. There is also a meaning that it's a way of preparing leather that makes it white, as opposed to Tanning.

Farmgirl · « **Reply #77 on:** August 07, 2007, 08:15:44 AM »

I've never heard of Hoppy Taw either, but it was probably invented after I was past childhood...

rivka · « **Reply #78 on:** August 07, 2007, 08:48:24 AM »

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Rivka claims that no one but me "lands up" doing anything, and that you are all "ending up" or "winding up".

Actually, I said that no one on Entropical Isle says it. I know plenty of people IRL who do -- but they're all Tri-Staters. Actually, only some of them say it. I guess it must be peculiar to certain sub-areas thereof?

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #79 on:** August 07, 2007, 08:50:07 AM »

Peculiar? It's a perfectly normal Shvesterism!

rivka · « **Reply #80 on:** August 07, 2007, 08:51:52 AM »

Porter · « **Reply #81 on:** August 07, 2007, 09:03:22 AM »

None of my sisters ever land up.

pooka · « **Reply #82 on:** August 07, 2007, 09:15:05 AM »

They should have that checked.

theCrowsWife · « **Reply #83 on:** September 08, 2007, 03:14:29 PM »

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There is also a meaning that it's a way of preparing leather that makes it white, as opposed to Tanning.

Actually, the distinction is between using vegetable sources (bark, leaves) or chemical sources (alum). Technically, tanning only refers to vegetable sources, but that distinction is rarely made anymore. From what I've seen, now if the distinction needs to be made, the leather is called "veg-tanned."

You're right, though, in that tanning solutions made from bark, etc, stain the skins and make them the characteristic brown color. So if you want to preserve a skin (such as a fur) without staining it, you would taw it.

--Mel

imogen · « **Reply #84 on:** September 14, 2007, 05:58:49 AM »

I've never heard of land up. I tend to end up.

But then, you all spell words with a z instead of a s. I figure it's just mass regional colour.

Farmgirl · « **Reply #85 on:** September 14, 2007, 06:31:53 AM »

What's a "Tri-State"-er (from rivka's post above)? Which three states?

imogen · « **Reply #86 on:** September 14, 2007, 07:09:33 AM »

I understand it's NY, NJ and CT.

Not PY, though some may argue the point.

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theCrowsWife · « **Reply #87 on:** September 14, 2007, 10:21:01 AM »

(PA)

The first thing that came to my mind for PY was Pennsyltucky.

--Mel

Jonathon · « **Reply #88 on:** September 14, 2007, 10:28:50 AM »

I seem to be having trouble finding Pennsyltucky on a map.

theCrowsWife · « **Reply #89 on:** September 14, 2007, 10:30:51 AM »

Clearly your map is out of date.

--Mel

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #90 on:** September 15, 2007, 06:54:04 PM »

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I've never heard of land up.

Not even from me? I land up using it in lots of my posts.

Porter · « **Reply #91 on:** September 15, 2007, 07:37:27 PM »

I don't recall ever seeing you use it outside of this thread.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #92 on:** September 15, 2007, 07:49:06 PM »

A search on the "Stuff" side yields these examples.

Ela · « **Reply #93 on:** September 25, 2007, 02:46:53 PM »

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So, this came up elsewhere, and I suspect it is another of my endearing regionalisms. In New York, the game that is known as "hopscotch" everywhere is also called "potsy". The potsy is the thing that you throw to mark your place on the grid.

Do any of you folk call this playground game potsy? Have you even heard of potsy? Or did you just think that the "Happy Days" character's name was made up out of nothing?

When I was a little girl in New York, hopscotch and potsy were two different games, with slightly different "gameboard" layouts.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #94 on:** October 07, 2007, 01:18:00 AM »

Huh. I just happened upon this wikipedia link.

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Appetizing, when used as a noun, typically in reference to Jewish cuisine, is best understood as "the foods one eats with bagels."