Activtys = what keeps the primary kids busy in church
Apern = something you wear around your waist to protect your clothing
Ar = belonging to us
Arruhdy (pronounced "are-uh-dee"): Before. "I arruhdy heard that joke.
Asbestos: "Well, ayz just doin' asbestos I can."
Ayz : I was. "Ayz sane I'm not gonna set here and listen to yer gritchin' no more!"
B'zackly: precisely
Bless her heart: A phrase that releases the speaker from any guilt over saying a mean thing about someone else. Example, "Tom's daughter is the ugliest child I think I have ever seen, bless her heart." or "My mother, bless her heart, is such a busybody. She drives me crazy." This phrase is also common in the south.
Bolth: two things
Chester drawers = a piece of furniture for storing folded clothing
Childern = the preschus little ones.
Come: past-tense for come (i.e., there is no past-tense) "He come to your house yesterday but you wasn't home."
Confurnce = twice-annual meeting of the church
Cor = a vehicle for driving
Crik = a creek ... unlike an east coast stream which is attached to the ocean, any small stream in Utah is a “crik.”
Difcult = not easy
Doctern = an official principal
Eem = him, e.g, "I told eem you don't eem to do that no more"
Elments = parts thereof
Expecially: A whole lot. "Ayz expecially innerested in learnin how to toll paint at relief society last night.
Figgered = surmised
Geowsh: a distorted pronounciation of gosh, but it's usually used in a disappointed way, "Oh geowsh Arlene, why did you do that?"
Gethered = sewn with an elastic waistband, or as if it had an elastic waistband. Also: brought together
Guna = intend to
Hafta = (rhymes with NAFTA) = must
Hawrses = horses. This is found particularly in the southern part of the state.
Herda: not known to the speaker. "Well, you might say it's true, but I never hearda that before." huuhh- uh = no ma'am
Ignernt = disrespectful. Note that it does NOT mean uneducated when pronounced this way. It is its own word.
Impornt' = somethun that I shudda got done but didn't
Indivijuls = each important member of a group
Interstd = what the Amway guy hopes you might be
Jusa = a little bit
Kren: a colored wax pencil that children use for drawing pictures
Messige: We read the scripshures daily to receive spirichul messiges.
Mewchal = Tuesday night activities for the youth
Miin-ehet = 60 seconds, or "soon"
Miinruhls = an important part of "strength 'n nurishment." "You should take yer vitamins and miinruhls every day."
Mothers'= where mom lives
Moystchure = rain or snow that eases a drought condition, fer which we're grateful.
Nah-chet = not at this time
Nuh-uh! = I do not believe you
Op'ning: Marking the beginning of something, e.g., "Op'ning prayer," or "op'ning exercises"
Poim = eluhquent werds
Prahley = most likely
Pree-shee-ate-cha= grateful for all you do
Presdn't = the leader of a church group
Rer Ril = true, genuine
Rilly = "is that so?" or "very much"
Sane = (only a sentence works here) "What ays sane beforrya innerupted me wuz..."
Schwee: Schwee go rent one a them edited movies tonight? (Also: scheego)
Sec = in a moment "just a sec"
Sez: So we was all in this big fight, and I was like, "That's a buncha hooey," and then he sez, "Well, you can jes shove that where the sun don't shine," so I sez "Wul, if that's how you rilly fil, then I'll just pack my stuff and go backta Vernal."
Sh-guud = irresistibly delicious
Simler = like unto
Slater: Good-bye
Slep: "I jus haven't slep good lately
Slong: Good-bye
Spectud = Thought might be a possibility
Speshul = sweet in spirit (regarding a person), or a spirachul meeting
Spirahchul = relating to matters of God or religion
Spirut = a guud filling
Sundy = a day like tuesdee, wednesdee, thursdee, but more speshul.
Ta = in the vicinity of
Thereuzees: "I tried to find the kind of chips you like, but instead thereuzees other kinds I never herda"
Thut = The one. (In reality, I don't think there is a vowel in this word...it's more like a really short "th't")
Timea: "It's that timea year again!" (Direct quote--but with a space between the time and a--from a local company's newsletter)
Uptah = at
Varely: Recently. "Congratulations about getting pregnant, I just varely heard!" or hardly, "Speak up, I can varely hear you"
"Well fer heck sakes." Context: "Mother, did you hear that Myrna Loy bought the Mortensen's house?" reply, "Well fer heck sakes, I hadn't heard that!"
Werkin = "whatcha doin'?" "Werkin."
Wewuz: Something we were doing
Wullallahzihnoh (pronounced Wull-allah-zih-noh): The one thing I know: "Wullahzihnoh is alluva sudden there was this big explosion and stuff was flying everywhere."
Wuush: to clean "Saturday is a special day, it's the day we get ready for Sundee. We wush our clothes..."
Yar: "Yes yar!" "Nome not!
Yoostakuud = was able to in the past
Youwuz: Something you were doing
Updated May 24, 2004