Over yonder
@1creekgirl (40523)
United States
February 19, 2017 3:01pm CST
@LoriAMoore got me to thinking about strange southern expressions.
Our son-in-law whom we love dearly is a Yankee from Pittsburg, PA. One day he was helping my husband retrieve something and my husband said, "It's right over yonder."
Our son-in-law thought to himself, "Where the heck is yonder? Is it three feet or three miles?"
He later said he still has no idea where yonder is.
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@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
19 Feb 17
@1creekgirl I'm right although I'm a foreigner and English is my second language. Why didn't your son-in-law understand the meaning?
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
19 Feb 17
@MALUSE For people from the Northeastern part of the United States, the version of English we speak here in the Southeastern United States often seems like another language because of our dialect and idioms, not to mention our accent.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
19 Feb 17
I've lived in the south 17 years now and not once heard anyone say that.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
19 Feb 17
@1creekgirl not once...lots of other strange sayings.
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
19 Feb 17
You never heard anyone say something was over yonder? Maybe it's a regional expression.
@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
20 Feb 17
I have heard yonder before. The other day my friend who grew up in Georgia used "tight as a tick" I had never heard that one
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
20 Feb 17
Yes, it could mean far or not too far.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
19 Feb 17
It could be rather vague, if you know the Christian gospel song " When the role is called up yonder" " Yonder" could or probably meant heaven
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
19 Feb 17
In that song, yonder seems to be in the direction of heaven or above the earth.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
19 Feb 17
Guess we could look it up, but someone here just said yonder in 'up the hill a piece' but not sure if that is right.
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@xFiacre (12597)
• Ireland
19 Feb 17
@1creekgirl I wonder how far we'll be going 'when the roll is called up yonder' and I'll be there.
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@Marilynda1225 (79731)
• United States
21 Feb 17
Kind of like us Pennsylvania's saying its down the road apiece! LoL
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@1creekgirl (40523)
• United States
19 Feb 17
Yeah, a jiffy might be somewhere between minutes or seconds.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
20 Feb 17
lol yes well up north they say down the road a piece, how far a piece is I have yet to determine lol
