Do you call it Hay?

[M-5]

Then why didn't you word your question to ask only Kentucky hillbillies to explain the difference in hay and grass . the rest of the civilized world knows the difference as this thread is an example.

 

[Bright Raven]

Then why didn't you word your question to ask only Kentucky hillbillies to explain the difference in hay and grass . the rest of the civilized world knows the difference as this thread is an example.

The objective was to determine if any other parts of the country have the same practice.

 

[Fire Sweep Ranch]

It is NOT just California, but also Missouri. When it is standing in the field, it is called grass. I am going to "cut my grass to make hay". Not "I'm going to cut my hay to make hay". A hay field is called that, but the green stuff growing is called grass until it is actually cut....
Even Webster says "Definition of hay
1
: herbage and especially grass mowed and cured for fodder"

Note the MOWED AND CURED

I do not think Ron was trying to prove he is right, just that there are differences in regions as to how it is labeled. My teacher background does not allow me to ignore the error in his speech, but forces me to correct him everytime he uses it incorrectly! I am sure it gets irritating! Hay and cutting grass consumes most topics the last few days... since it is that time around here.
I am the one that wanted to start this thread, and begin with a voting thing on it to see what the consensus was. I was just busy teaching classes today and could not get on here to beat him to the punch, so to speak. I have a life off the farm...

 

[Bright Raven]

It is NOT just California, but also Missouri. When it is standing in the field, it is called grass. I am going to "cut my grass to make hay". Not "I'm going to cut my hay to make hay". A hay field is called that, but the green stuff growing is called grass until it is actually cut....
Even Webster says "Definition of hay
1
: herbage and especially grass mowed and cured for fodder"

Note the MOWED AND CURED

I do not think Ron was trying to prove he is right, just that there are differences in regions as to how it is labeled. My teacher background does not allow me to ignore the error in his speech, but forces me to correct him everytime he uses it incorrectly! I am sure it gets irritating! Hay and cutting grass consumes most topics the last few days... since it is that time around here.
I am the one that wanted to start this thread, and begin with a voting thing on it to see what the consensus was. I was just busy teaching classes today and could not get on here to beat him to the punch, so to speak. I have a life off the farm...

:bs:

 

[Bright Raven]

In all my life, I have yet to hear a Kentucky farmer say, "Well, boys. We got a stretch of dry weather ahead of us. I'm gonna mow my grass."

If he did, you would reply. "HeII, make your wife mow the lawn."

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

In all my life, I have yet to hear a Kentucky farmer say, "Well, boys. We got a stretch of dry weather ahead of us. I'm gonna mow my grass."

If he did, you would reply. "HeII, make your wife mow the lawn."

Aren't these the same guys who call fencing staples, "steeples"?

 

[Bright Raven]

In all my life, I have yet to hear a Kentucky farmer say, "Well, boys. We got a stretch of dry weather ahead of us. I'm gonna mow my grass."

If he did, you would reply. "HeII, make your wife mow the lawn."

Aren't these the same guys who call fencing staples, "steeples"?

Yes sir. I heard them called that most of the time.

 

[Bright Raven]

They also say nary and airy. Meaning NONE.

 

[dun]

In calfironia if it isn;t alfalfa it isn;t hay

 

[Craig Miller]

In all my life, I have yet to hear a Kentucky farmer say, "Well, boys. We got a stretch of dry weather ahead of us. I'm gonna mow my grass."

If he did, you would reply. "HeII, make your wife mow the lawn."

We don't mow hay either. We cut hay.

 

[Clodhopper]

In all my life, I have yet to hear a Kentucky farmer say, "Well, boys. We got a stretch of dry weather ahead of us. I'm gonna mow my grass."

If he did, you would reply. "HeII, make your wife mow the lawn."

We don't mow hay either. We cut hay.

+2. Also, staples are what holds pieces of paper together. Steeples hold barb wire to wooden fence posts, but good luck driving them in a hedge post (not osage orange).

 

[Bright Raven]

Trying to think of words I have heard only here in Eastern Kentucky.

Poke means a paper sack.

Quarn- means a real nasty dirt. Like what you see between the cracks in the kitchen table.

Nary- like I don't have nary a penny.

No one here says Bathe. I am going to take a bath. Not I am going to bathe.

Pen is pin.

Tire is tar.

Fire is far.

 

[Craig Miller]

Sounds like they are saying it all right to me.

 

[Bright Raven]

https://youtu.be/03iwAY4KlIU

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

In all my life, I have yet to hear a Kentucky farmer say, "Well, boys. We got a stretch of dry weather ahead of us. I'm gonna mow my grass."

If he did, you would reply. "HeII, make your wife mow the lawn."

We don't mow hay either. We cut hay.

+2. Also, staples are what holds pieces of paper together. Steeples hold barb wire to wooden fence posts, but good luck driving them in a hedge post (not osage orange).

Read the word on the tub they come in. You'll see the word staples.

Churches have steeples, fences do not.

 

[dun]

We don't mow hay either. We cut hay.

+2. Also, staples are what holds pieces of paper together. Steeples hold barb wire to wooden fence posts, but good luck driving them in a hedge post (not osage orange).

Read the word on the tub they come in. You'll see the word staples.

Churches have steeples, fences do not.

That's where things start to drive me nuts (more of a putt then a drive)
When people use pin for pen is the one that alwasy confuses me. Local saying/terminology can be some confusing.
After 45 years of marriage my wife still hasn;t figured out what "half again as much" means

 

[Bright Raven]

We don't mow hay either. We cut hay.

+2. Also, staples are what holds pieces of paper together. Steeples hold barb wire to wooden fence posts, but good luck driving them in a hedge post (not osage orange).

Read the word on the tub they come in. You'll see the word staples.

Churches have steeples, fences do not.

No one is saying it is "Proper". The reality is that is what many of us grew up hearing them called.

 

[Rafter S]

+2. Also, staples are what holds pieces of paper together. Steeples hold barb wire to wooden fence posts, but good luck driving them in a hedge post (not osage orange).

Read the word on the tub they come in. You'll see the word staples.

Churches have steeples, fences do not.

That's where things start to drive me nuts (more of a putt then a drive)
When people use pin for pen is the one that alwasy confuses me. Local saying/terminology can be some confusing.
After 45 years of marriage my wife still hasn;t figured out what "half again as much" means

I haven't been married quite that long, but I still can't get mine to use the proper terminology for meals. Although we agree on breakfast, despite my best efforts she still insists on calling the noon meal "lunch", and the evening meal "dinner", when everyone knows that it should be "dinner" and "supper".

 

[M-5]

I agree rafter and after much thought I sure hope we get some rain on my hay ..... oh wait! I put hay under the barn so it wont get wet ..... so should I hope for rain on my grass ??? that cant be right....... So should I say I feed hay 12mths a yr ??? cause ive been know to let the cows graze a field I bale ...... why the heII are we even considering what a hillbilly in kenphucky says about proper terminology

 

[Craig Miller]

Read the word on the tub they come in. You'll see the word staples.

Churches have steeples, fences do not.

That's where things start to drive me nuts (more of a putt then a drive)
When people use pin for pen is the one that alwasy confuses me. Local saying/terminology can be some confusing.
After 45 years of marriage my wife still hasn;t figured out what "half again as much" means

I haven't been married quite that long, but I still can't get mine to use the proper terminology for meals. Although we agree on breakfast, despite my best efforts she still insists on calling the noon meal "lunch", and the evening meal "dinner", when everyone knows that it should be "dinner" and "supper".

I'm pretty sure you're talking about "lunch" and "supper"