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Originally Posted by SydneyK
I called a friend of mine the other day, and I caught her at a bad time. She had just come home from the grocery store and was unloading the bags from her car. She said, "Can I call you back? I was fixin' to unload my groceries, but one of the poke's broke and I've got cans all over the back of the car." Never knew a bag was also known as a "poke". ??
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One of my favorite southern colloquialisms! Along with the carry versus drive, and how everything carbonated is a coke, not a soda or pop thing, unless it's a specialty beverage (like Cheerwine! or a cherry lemon Sundrop).
My dad's family (from po-dunkville, NC) called a garden hose a hosepipe.
