Word: oney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand to sing old Scottish scolding ballads was Mrs. Lyda Messer Caudill, who says she is a hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots. Bud Oney, mighty, black-mustached blacksmith of Long Horn Hollow, fiddled Cherokee Girl, Lost Indian, other lively tunes. Youngest headliner was Bud McCoy, 4. whose family feuded bitterly for 57 years with the West Virginia Hatfields. Announcing numbers in her mountain dialect was tiny, thin-lipped Author Jean Thomas (Blue Ridge Country), the "traipsin' woman," who started collecting folk songs while she "traipsed"' over the mountains as a circuit court reporter, then founded...
...young people, U.S.-born and schooled, don't use the old folks' "regelleh." They say "regella." Their mistakes belong not to Yiddish, but to The Bronx: omitted consonants ("lease" for least, "oney" for only, "finey" for finally, "subjeck" for subject); misconceptions ("grain matter" for grey matter) ; transpositions ("dastric" for drastic); mixed metaphors ("Mac Fine, honestly, if there's any figgers arounn, your nose is bound to be knee-deep in them...