By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: Crank up: To start something or turn it higher. Usually refers to a motor of some sort, such as...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: About as useless (or useful) as a rubber crutch: Whatever it is, that thing won’t even hold up a...
Since Patsy Brumfield, another Ole Miss journalism grad, picked up on my squash casserole and wrote some kind words on Facebook and porchscene.com, I have another...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com Southernism of the Week: Poor mouthing: A verb that describes how a person moans and groans in self-deprecation about lacking funds or capability...
The B.T.C. Old-Fashioned Grocery in Water Valley has cultivated a word-of-mouth following, and yet many in Oxford still look puzzled upon the mention of its...
Well, it was $25 from a scratch off ticket I bought when I was recently in Georgia, but it’s something! When that Megamillions jackpot was almost...
By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Rode Hard and Put up Wet: A classic term referring to one’s state or condition of being worse for...
Squash and more rock to the beet. By Laurie Triplette ldtriplette@aol.com SOUTHERNISM OF THE WEEK Go around your elbow to get to your thumb: An expression referring...