You Don’t Say 2006

By admin | November 19, 2013 |

Last week a lady called in regard to this article telling me she remembered her grandmother talking about playing a game called “Hull Gull” and she had not thought of the word in years and years. It’s nice to hear that Country Living sparks a memory for the readers. This conversation just reminded me of how different our every day conversation is from what it was 60 or 70 years ago. When have you heard talked about or seen a cradle used for gathering wheat, a hand-turned sausage grinder in use, or a black wash pot filled with boiling water and clothes?

I’m listing a few terms that were used in every day conversations in days gone by – can you remember seeing or hearing these things talked about?

Celluloid doll Purgative Sifter
Chop block Plow Line Hames
Side Comb Fine-toothed comb Dime Bank
Wheel & Click Milk Bucket Potato Hill
Eye Lifter Dehorners Calf Muzzle
Calf Yoke Hay hook Ice Tongs
Ice Pick Rub Board Kerosene can w/ potato on spout
# 2 Wash Tub Ash Hopper Zinc Jar Lid
Sernators Syrup candy (sorghum) T Model Ford
Yoke of Oxen Soot Rake Sythe
Sickle Corn Sheller Corn Crib
Grind Stone Play House Usable Churn Dash
Lard being Rendered Well Bucket Milk Bottle — Qt. or Pt.

Perhaps you can add to this list and if you can, then you are like me — older than dirt. Such is country living.