What is a Northerner ?

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Does it mean that wind is blowing out of the North or is blowing toward the north ? I am guesing that it is coming from the north blowing south..

Want to get the lingo correct... could be a problem.

Joel
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And it snowed last night from the Northwest...
 
Some would say a "northerner" is a native or one who lives in
the north, originally north of England but now any region even
the US.

A "norther", or a north wind, blows from the north toward the south.

A "north" river current is the opposite; it flows toward the north.

Aye.
Grandma used to say, "The Devil is in the details".
 
Even though I "know" the terminology I have been known to get mixed up on occasion :oops:

Years ago we rented a houseboat(translation: large windage, small power). From our anchorage at the north end of Pigeon Lake we had about a 15 mile run south to get it back to its home base. The night before I had listened to the marine weather forecast and heard a strong south wind predicted. A tail wind! That will be good I thought - it might bring our cruising speed up to 6 mph from 5 mph! Well it wasn't long after rounding the north end of Big Island that I realized the wind was coming from the south! Translation: the 3 hour trip I thought might be shortened was lengthened to 4 1/2 hours. On the plus side I now know most of the scenery down that lake most intimately - from my viewpoint on the flybridge it went by painfully slow!

Regards, Rob
 
Northerner - (noun) Someone who doesn't eat grits, drink sweet tea or pull for an SEC team. Prounouinced "Nor-ther-na" aka Yankee.

Used in sentence:

That Northerner over there did not know that Mama's cornbread, collards, fried okra, and BBQ is the best in the state. We were watching the 'Bama game, when he spit out the okra. Bubba over there about knocked him into tomorrow. We escorted him to his CDory and him to not come back. That was one rude Yankee we hope we'll never see again, but if we do - there's fixin' to be a a** whoopin' I tell ya. Make that war of Northern Aggression look like child's play.

:wink:
 
jbdba01":3hbfdalw said:
Northerner - (noun) Someone who doesn't eat grits, drink sweet tea or pull for an SEC team. Prounouinced "Nor-ther-na" aka Yankee.

Used in sentence:

That Northerner over there did not know that Mama's cornbread, collards, fried okra, and BBQ is the best in the state. We were watching the 'Bama game, when he spit out the okra. Bubba over there about knocked him into tomorrow. We escorted him to his CDory and him to not come back. That was one rude Yankee we hope we'll never see again, but if we do - there's fixin' to be a a** whoopin' I tell ya. Make that war of Northern Aggression look like child's play.

:wink:
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As an almost 'blue coat' who now lives in the north but was born in the south
(I saw a light), that's coming' close to wavin' the Confederate flag...

Aye.
 
El and Bill.... I have been reading your book....like a fine wine, just a chapter at a time...and enjoying it more than I have enjoyed any book in years..... it is so neat .... knowing you all these years and now reading your philosophy of long cruising ... how you did it and what it's all about...

Years ago. when we were at Lake Powell I felt like you were teaching a great course in Geology...and I should get at least 3 units of credit... now,
I feel I am learning from the Masters... I so much enjoy your company...

Yer Pal

Joel
SEA3PO
 
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