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Quarter 1-Week 5-Day 3-Appendix B

The document defines and provides the origins and current usages of 10 colloquial terms: 1) Ain't was once used by all social classes but is now seen as less educated. 2) Allow meaning "concede" is now obscure except in rural contexts. 3) Conniption describes an emotional fit and originates from over 200 years ago. 4) Fetch is more vivid than "get" but lacks respectability. 5) Ornery evolved from "ordinary" to mean cantankerous. 6) Reckon meaning "suppose" is stereotypical of rural dialects.

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Quarter 1-Week 5-Day 3-Appendix B

The document defines and provides the origins and current usages of 10 colloquial terms: 1) Ain't was once used by all social classes but is now seen as less educated. 2) Allow meaning "concede" is now obscure except in rural contexts. 3) Conniption describes an emotional fit and originates from over 200 years ago. 4) Fetch is more vivid than "get" but lacks respectability. 5) Ornery evolved from "ordinary" to mean cantankerous. 6) Reckon meaning "suppose" is stereotypical of rural dialects.

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APPENDIX B

DLP, Q1,Week5,Day3

Ten Colloquial Terms and Their Meanings

1. Ain’t: Once a fully legitimate contraction of “am not” employed at least in familiar conversation by
speakers of all social classes, ain’t came to be identified with less well-educated people, and in the
United States specifically with poor rural dwellers. It’s unfortunate that in writing, its use is restricted
to humorous emphasis or idiomatic expressions (“Say it ain’t so!”).

2. Allow: The sense of allow meaning “concede” or “recognize” has been relegated to obscurity;
seldom is this usage employed except in faux-rural contexts.

3. Conniption: This word for an emotional fit, usually appearing in plural form (“having conniptions”),
is still employed occasionally in a jocular sense. It was first attested almost two hundred years ago,
but its origin is obscure, though it’s possibly a corruption of corruption, which once had a connotation
of anger, or might be derived from a dialectal form of captious (“fallacious”).

4. Fetch: Fetch has a colloquial air about it, and it’s unfortunate that the word lacks respectability,
because it is more vivid and thorough a term than get (“Could you fetch that for me?”), and more
compact than, for example, “Could you go over there and bring that back for me?” It survives in one
formal sense, however: far-fetched (originally, “brought from afar,” but used figuratively for most of
its centuries-long life span).

5. Ornery: This contraction of ordinary, influenced by the latter word’s less common senses of
“coarse” and “ugly,” developed a connotation of cantankerous or mean behavior. Today, it’s used
only in a humorous or scornful sense.

6. Reckon: The sense of reckon that means “suppose” (“I reckon I ought to get home”) is one of the
most high-profile examples of stereotypical rural dialect, but it’s absent from formal usage.

7. Rile: This dialectal variant of roil, in the sense of “stir up,” is used informally to describe irritation or
anger.

8. Ruckus: Ruckus, probably a mash-up of ruction (“disturbance”) and rumpus (“boisterous activity”)


— themselves both dialectal terms — is now used only light-heartedly.

9. Spell: The sense of spell that means “an indefinite period of time,” related to the use of the word
to mean “substitute,” is confined to rural dialect or affectation of such usage.

10. Yonder: This formerly standard term meaning “over there” is now known only in rural dialect (or
spoofing of it) or in a poetic sense.

Source: https://www.dailywritingtips.com/10-colloquial-terms-and-their-meanings/

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