Word: oot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready. Serve again." If Groza's return hit three feet outside the baseline, the sergeant would give Low a stern look, toggle his holster and grunt: "Goot!" And no matter where Low's ball hit, if the Premier couldn't get it, it was always "oot!" "Naturally," says Low, "I didn't beat the Premier. No one does. But I got the re-entry visa, without which I couldn...
...drowned; getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning; bears and cougars; syphilitic Indians; drunken Indians who once paid her a threatening visit when she was alone at night; Author MacDonald got rid of them by grabbing a gun and shouting in her fright: "Shi'll oot!" [I'll shoot! ] which she thinks must be Indian...
...easily guessed. But the listeners had practically no luck in trying to tell one Southern dialect from another. Nevertheless there are distinct regional differences in Southern accent, apparent to a trained ear. A Virginian pronounces ou sounds with a quick upward-looping inflection, so that "out" sounds like "a-oot." A North Carolinian may leave out the r's in "carry," but he puts a heavy r in certain other words. He says "Yes urr no" instead of "Yes uh no," as most Southerners would...