"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
It's also interesting to note that, like it is spelled....boat.....is
a TWO syllable word.....boo-it

If we wanted to say it as a one syllable word, His Majesty would have
had it spelled BOTE.....

While driving through the old city, yesterday, I saw two kids enjoying
another old Chao-stun tradition, a joggling board. This flexible
wooden board, tricky to stand on, is loosely supported on either end
by equally shakey vertical mounts, making staying aboard with your
opponent trying to shake you off great fun.... Many old Chao-stun
houses have joggling boards on their verandas ovahlookin' tha gahdin.

Y'all stop by and have some tea....



One of the requirements for the boat that turned out to be Fintry was that
we could get her draft to less than seven feet for trips between here and
Florida -- so, a few years from now, we might just do that.

--
Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com


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"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:15:06 -0500, "Jim Woodward" jameslwoodward at
attbi dot com wrote:

Isn't the southern one "Bufert" or maybe "Buferd"?

Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com

Right....Beaufort, in SC is pronounced B(long)u-Fut

South Carolinians have a similar heritage to British colonies like
Maine. They don't prounounce R either. Bu-fut

Charleston has a special dialect called Geechee. You can also hear it
in Norfolk, Va, (pronounced in Geechee Nofuk, which is where the Navy
sailors got it, not from their sexual discoveries).

Charleston, here, is properly pronounced Chao-stun.....

Do a google search on geechee and learn it. When you come to
Chaostun, I'll take you out to Rockville on Wadmalaw Island and cut
you loose after we take off your blindfold. The Geechee people, black
and white, will direct you back to the city and if you make it (many
don't and we have to send out the rescue squad) we'll issue you a
Geechee Certificate and put a special code on your driver's license
indicating to the local people that you know Geechee and can accept
basic instructions in Geechee, endearing you to all of them,
instantly.

Of course, drenched in coastal island hospitality, many Yankees refuse
to be rescue, choosing, instead, to stay in Rockville. Many seem
attracted to the shrimp, which sells there for $2/pound, to their
astonishment compared to "back home".

Another interesting pronounciation is one of the major islands close
in, James Island. It's proper geechee pronounciation is Ji-mile.
Makes perfect sense....reduces a long name to nearly one syllable, as
do many Geechee words.

I learned Geechee sitting at the lunch counters of the old Eckards
Drug Store just South of downtown Chaostun on US 17. Old Geechee men
used to sit and talk for hours and eventually let me sit in so I
wouldn't miss anything. Don't ask for translations, though. They
figure anyone who's not crazy already KNOWS Geechee, obviously.

Your reporter in Chaostun,
Lah-e
(Larry)

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 09:15:06 -0500, "Jim Woodward" jameslwoodward at
attbi dot com wrote:

Isn't the southern one "Bufert" or maybe "Buferd"?

Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com

Right....Beaufort, in SC is pronounced B(long)u-Fut

South Carolinians have a similar heritage to British colonies like
Maine. They don't prounounce R either. Bu-fut

Charleston has a special dialect called Geechee. You can also hear it
in Norfolk, Va, (pronounced in Geechee Nofuk, which is where the Navy
sailors got it, not from their sexual discoveries).

Charleston, here, is properly pronounced Chao-stun.....

Do a google search on geechee and learn it. When you come to
Chaostun, I'll take you out to Rockville on Wadmalaw Island and cut
you loose after we take off your blindfold. The Geechee people, black
and white, will direct you back to the city and if you make it (many
don't and we have to send out the rescue squad) we'll issue you a
Geechee Certificate and put a special code on your driver's license
indicating to the local people that you know Geechee and can accept
basic instructions in Geechee, endearing you to all of them,
instantly.

Of course, drenched in coastal island hospitality, many Yankees refuse
to be rescue, choosing, instead, to stay in Rockville. Many seem
attracted to the shrimp, which sells there for $2/pound, to their
astonishment compared to "back home".

Another interesting pronounciation is one of the major islands close
in, James Island. It's proper geechee pronounciation is Ji-mile.
Makes perfect sense....reduces a long name to nearly one syllable, as
do many Geechee words.

I learned Geechee sitting at the lunch counters of the old Eckards
Drug Store just South of downtown Chaostun on US 17. Old Geechee men
used to sit and talk for hours and eventually let me sit in so I
wouldn't miss anything. Don't ask for translations, though. They
figure anyone who's not crazy already KNOWS Geechee, obviously.

Your reporter in Chaostun,
Lah-e
(Larry)

Right....Beaufort, in SC is pronounced B(long)u-Fut

South Carolinians have a similar heritage to British colonies like
Maine. They don't prounounce R either. Bu-fut

Charleston has a special dialect called Geechee. You can also hear it
in Norfolk, Va, (pronounced in Geechee Nofuk, which is where the Navy
sailors got it, not from their sexual discoveries).

Charleston, here, is properly pronounced Chao-stun.....

After you have mastered Geechee, come south about 60 miles to Beaufort
and learn Gullah. I had a friend that did and I learned to understand a bit of
it.
I checked out a Gullah talking book at the library and it was basically the Brer
Rabbit, Uncle Remus stories in the Gullah dialect. It is a lot of fun to
listening
to it. Gullah is peculiar mostly to the sea islands of southern SC. Not spoken
by the younger people any more which is a shame. At one time they were
paying college students to take the class to learn it.

Leanne - on P'troyal Island

Right....Beaufort, in SC is pronounced B(long)u-Fut

South Carolinians have a similar heritage to British colonies like
Maine. They don't prounounce R either. Bu-fut

Charleston has a special dialect called Geechee. You can also hear it
in Norfolk, Va, (pronounced in Geechee Nofuk, which is where the Navy
sailors got it, not from their sexual discoveries).

Charleston, here, is properly pronounced Chao-stun.....

After you have mastered Geechee, come south about 60 miles to Beaufort
and learn Gullah. I had a friend that did and I learned to understand a bit of
it.
I checked out a Gullah talking book at the library and it was basically the Brer
Rabbit, Uncle Remus stories in the Gullah dialect. It is a lot of fun to
listening
to it. Gullah is peculiar mostly to the sea islands of southern SC. Not spoken
by the younger people any more which is a shame. At one time they were
paying college students to take the class to learn it.

Leanne - on P'troyal Island

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:39:57 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:



Jim Woodward wrote:
All right, I'll be the straight man --

Korea: What UPS and FedX are.

Carrier?

Close, Courier. The Charleston paper is the Noose and Korea.

Not quite right, either. The locals call it the Nooseless Cooriah....

There isn't any Noose in it, just ads, CAR ads. No wonder a Chevy
Cavalier is 30 grand.....



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:39:57 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:



Jim Woodward wrote:
All right, I'll be the straight man --

Korea: What UPS and FedX are.

Carrier?

Close, Courier. The Charleston paper is the Noose and Korea.

Not quite right, either. The locals call it the Nooseless Cooriah....

There isn't any Noose in it, just ads, CAR ads. No wonder a Chevy
Cavalier is 30 grand.....



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:11:40 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:



Larry W4CSC wrote:


Y'all stop by and have some tea....

BIG difference between Charleston and Savannah. In Charleston they
serve you tea and ask who your daddy is. In Savannah they just ask what
you want to drink. :-)

In Savannah, they're pretty sure who yo' daddy is...(c;

It's not genteeel ta offah Mint Juleps to strangahs jis walkin' in
offa the screet (street). That comes mush latah afta a few
visits.....

Daisy, bring this nahce gentleman a glassah ahced tea, honey. He's
lookin' a li'l pahched. Sit heah, Suh. Daisy'll be raht back.

Some may think this is all in jest, but if you are walking alone (no
tourguide collectin' city guide taxes for the Democrats) down
Charleston's old streets and make some nice remark about how pretty
the garden looks, especially better'n the neighbors, you may find
yourself in a rockin' chah on the side porch of a 4-story Antibellum
mansion with that sweet iced tea in your hand hearing much more about
Chaostun than any tourguide could ever tell you.

I remember when I was a young sailor in civvies walking down historic
Tradd Street by some of the finest homes and said hello to this nice
old gentleman tending his roses out by the huge iron gates. "Come
'round back and take a look", the old gentleman offered, opening one
of the big gates to let me in. "Ah'm kinda proud of my Chinese garden
in the back.", he continued. A total stranger, I was given the grand
tour of one of the most historic homes in Chaostun by the owner of the
Charleston Oil Company....no not the one who ran it that day...THE
FOUNDER! Being a techie and gearhead, the most interesting item on my
nice tour was a 1920-something, 2-cylinder DC power plant used to
power the lights in the house when Mr Edison's DC power plant a block
down, blew a fuse or had steam engine troubles, again. He even let me
crank it! It still put out 110VDC on its beautifully-made Voltmeter
next to its equally beautifully-made Ammeter. It fed a big knife
switch on a black bakelite panel so you could switch from street DC to
generator DC with a wooden handle so you didn't get too close.

Charleston's historic buildings aren't the only thing that's historic,
here. In the past 6 months, I've fixed a 1955 Seeburg Select-O-Matic
juke box, a couple of 1930-something upright radios and a
1920-something Radiola with a blown 2nd RF Amp tube I bought from a
guy over on rec.antiques.radio+phono newsgroup.



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 11:11:40 -0500, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:



Larry W4CSC wrote:


Y'all stop by and have some tea....

BIG difference between Charleston and Savannah. In Charleston they
serve you tea and ask who your daddy is. In Savannah they just ask what
you want to drink. :-)

In Savannah, they're pretty sure who yo' daddy is...(c;

It's not genteeel ta offah Mint Juleps to strangahs jis walkin' in
offa the screet (street). That comes mush latah afta a few
visits.....

Daisy, bring this nahce gentleman a glassah ahced tea, honey. He's
lookin' a li'l pahched. Sit heah, Suh. Daisy'll be raht back.

Some may think this is all in jest, but if you are walking alone (no
tourguide collectin' city guide taxes for the Democrats) down
Charleston's old streets and make some nice remark about how pretty
the garden looks, especially better'n the neighbors, you may find
yourself in a rockin' chah on the side porch of a 4-story Antibellum
mansion with that sweet iced tea in your hand hearing much more about
Chaostun than any tourguide could ever tell you.

I remember when I was a young sailor in civvies walking down historic
Tradd Street by some of the finest homes and said hello to this nice
old gentleman tending his roses out by the huge iron gates. "Come
'round back and take a look", the old gentleman offered, opening one
of the big gates to let me in. "Ah'm kinda proud of my Chinese garden
in the back.", he continued. A total stranger, I was given the grand
tour of one of the most historic homes in Chaostun by the owner of the
Charleston Oil Company....no not the one who ran it that day...THE
FOUNDER! Being a techie and gearhead, the most interesting item on my
nice tour was a 1920-something, 2-cylinder DC power plant used to
power the lights in the house when Mr Edison's DC power plant a block
down, blew a fuse or had steam engine troubles, again. He even let me
crank it! It still put out 110VDC on its beautifully-made Voltmeter
next to its equally beautifully-made Ammeter. It fed a big knife
switch on a black bakelite panel so you could switch from street DC to
generator DC with a wooden handle so you didn't get too close.

Charleston's historic buildings aren't the only thing that's historic,
here. In the past 6 months, I've fixed a 1955 Seeburg Select-O-Matic
juke box, a couple of 1930-something upright radios and a
1920-something Radiola with a blown 2nd RF Amp tube I bought from a
guy over on rec.antiques.radio+phono newsgroup.



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 12:07:29 -0500, "Jim Woodward" jameslwoodward at
attbi dot com wrote:


One of the requirements for the boat that turned out to be Fintry was that
we could get her draft to less than seven feet for trips between here and
Florida -- so, a few years from now, we might just do that.

--
Jim Woodward
www.mvFintry.com

A French Canadian who left his 38' sloop here so they could go home to
see the grandkids for Christmas met some French sailors at the
Maritime Center dock. I'd befriended Yves and Claudette on this
newsgroup a few years ago and invited them to stop by for a visit.

They wanted to eat some South Carolina food and meet the people,
without it being SEAFOOD they were all sick of by then. I piled them
into my old, restored Mercedes and drove them up to Ridgeville, SC,
about 35 miles from the city. Dinner was at Duke's Barbecue, the
finest country restaurant $5 can buy (all-you-can-eat) NOONE goes
away hungry. Dukes own the farm the hogs are raised on!

I don't think anyone in Ridgeville, a tiny town of about 500, had
heard anyone speaking French, before, especially not standing in line
at Dukes! The whole place was unusually "quiet" (meaning you didn't
have to scream to be heard). Ms Dukes was thrilled to have them.

I don't know if they liked it or not, but the men went through THREE
plates piled high with SC Open Pit BBQ cooked very slowly over an open
pit loaded with red oak coals from a nearby fire....yum, yum!



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"