Durn Son (Dern Shun) = excitement or surprise

Durn Son (Dern Shun) = excitement or surprise

REMEMBER WHEN LUMBEE GRANDMAS .......

REMEMBER WHEN LUMBEE GRANDMAS .......
1. Didn't own a pair jeans. (Ms. Minnie and Ms. Maudie didn't own any skin-tight jeans with frilly designs on the back pockets!)
2. Wore a house dress and an apron everyday but Sunday. On Sunday, she had her church dresses and they all had to come from Pates, BC Moores, Belks, Penny's, or Catos.
3. Cut straw off the ditch bank; gathered it all up; tied a pretty ribbon around them; and used that straw broom to sweep the yard. A blade of grass or a grain of sand didn't stand a chance in their yards. The whole front yard looked like it was paved in concrete.
4. Always had a dishpan of peas and butterbeans to shell on "duh porch".
5. Cleaned coffee cream containers and saved them for spittoons. However; the Clorox jugs was saved for Granddaddy. Because a woman needed something small; not a gallon jug!
6. Could press two fingers on their lips and spit "ova duh porch banuhster".
7. Looked forward to getting the BIG CAN of snuff at Christmas.
8. Washed her hair "eva Saddee", put it in pink rollers then went to Piggly Wiggly.
9. Could hold a dishpan in her lap, roll up collards in one hand, cut them with the other hand, and never need a cutting board.
10. You never looked at them and thought "COUGAR". If she wasn't related to you; you still called her "AINT".
AND no matter how big you got; you were still scared to death of that little woman who would hold a switch and threathen to "beat duh piss out'n you".

The night before Lumbee Homecoming

It'uz duh night before Homecoming, when all through muh trailuh;
No'n wuz up, cept duh rats and duh roaches.
Dat Uhman Uhmine had uh ole pair uh panty hose on her head,
Cause she wanted duh look good fur duh Lumbee Parade.
Duh young'ns wuz packed four to uh bed;
While visions of funnel cakes danced in dur heads;
And mamma in her bloomers, and I in muh drawers;
Had just heisted duh winduh and prayed for uh breeze

LUMBEE REMEDIES: Hog Foot Oil (When ye years iz aching)

Gitchee uh fresh kilt hog foot. Burl until ye see duh fat float'n on top uh duh warduh. Put in kelvinator ova night. Duh next day skim duh fat off'n duh top. Heat up until it melts den pour in uh little bottle. When ye years iz uh hurt'n, warm it up duh melt it and put 2 drops in ye years den plug 'em wid cotton balls. Be sure duh coal caint git in 'em!

LUMBEE NAMES:

Bullards (pronunced Bullutz)
Locklears (Locklees)
Oxendines (Oxmuhines)
Grahams (Grimms)
Sandersons (Santasuns)
Sampsons (Sampunceeses)
Harriss (Harereeces)
Chavis (it aint Chavez; its Chaveeceeses)
Swetts (Sweatceeses)
Hunts (Huntceeses)
Lowery (fur is I know its uh common bu-nuntchee-ashun; day just caint decide how duh spell it!)

git shed of = get rid of or remove

EXAMPLE: I'm fed up wid my uhman! Atter 45 years of misery immuh git shed of 'er.

rashuns = good food

rashuns = good eats EXAMPLE: Who Daddy? What? You wannuh talk about sum good rashuns! Setchee uh far in duh grill; gitchee sum uh dem ribeyes fum dem Moore Boys Moore Brothers Beef and uh bottle uh dat Noble fum Mr. Charlie Locklear Vineyard & Winery and you'll be sot!