Salmon or Samon

[slow motion]

The thread @sinclair1 started about changing times and stick shifts had me pondering about other things that have changed. Started to post there but thought might be a little off topic. That usually doesnt stop me but I'm trying to be better. Been thinking about the word salmon. Growing up we read and dreamed about catching salmon on spawning migrations and how the bears would line up and gorge on them. There was canned salmon and people made patties out of it and pan fried it to eat with biscuits. Occasionally there would be a story told of someone who had met a fella who had traveled and witnessed such. Then somewhere along the line the L disappeared from the word. Guess its the fancy way to say it. Still has an L in my speech. What about you? What else has changed? Lots of big things. More people, traffic and such. They're easy to see and try to avoid but I think it's the little things that seep in and erode away at the Southern culture.

 

[DannyW]

Salmon for me.

Durn you...you done flung a craving on me for those samon patties my mom used to fry. Probably been 50 years since I had one.

 

[fishfryer]

The thread @sinclair1 started about changing times and stick shifts had me pondering about other things that have changed. Started to post there but thought might be a little off topic. That usually doesnt stop me but I'm trying to be better. Been thinking about the word salmon. Growing up we read and dreamed about catching salmon on spawning migrations and how the bears would line up and gorge on them. There was canned salmon and people made patties out of it and pan fried it to eat with biscuits. Occasionally there would be a story told of someone who had met a fella who had traveled and witnessed such. Then somewhere along the line the L disappeared from the word. Guess its the fancy way to say it. Still has an L in my speech. What about you? What else has changed? Lots of big things. More people, traffic and such. They're easy to see and try to avoid but I think it's the little things that seep in and erode away at the Southern culture.

Couldn’t agree more

 

[huntersluck]

Samon and salmon patties are good either way don't care how you say it

 

[Danuwoa]

Salmon. Every time I hear a Southerner say “samon” I die just a little inside.

 

[Mars]

My Pappy used to fry up some saLmon patties and we'd drizzle some vinegar over them. He would usually cook some hoecakes accompanied with Blackburn cane syrup to go with them.

I miss those days.

 

[fishfryer]

Salmon for me.

Durn you...you done flung a craving on me for those samon patties my mom used to fry. Probably been 50 years since I had one.

I had some three days ago, weekly event here.

 

[Shane Dockery]

I don't think I've ever heard it any way other than samon, except on those fancy British cooking shows my wife watches.

 

[pjciii]

The impact of Ebonics. Like the way chick fil a spells everything on their billboards.

 

[hopper]

Samon here but I di grow up in the suburbs outside Atlanta but my family in Cochran taught me how to speak writing and it was always Samon but we shorten alot of stuff

 

[hopper]

The impact of Ebonics. Like the way chick fil a spells everything on their billboards.

I've noticed the younger crowd speakes in short hand. Drives me crazy always having to ask what is any 3 letters here

 

[Batjack]

Salmon for me.

Durn you...you done flung a craving on me for those samon patties my mom used to fry. Probably been 50 years since I had one.

Get ready for sticker shock.. that stuff in the red can is spensive.

 

[pjciii]

I've noticed the younger crowd speakes in short hand. Drives me crazy always having to ask what is any 3 letters here

Separate's them from the rest of the world. Speaking in tongue.

 

[furtaker]

I say samon. As does almost everyone else I know.

 

[specialk]

we only afforded mackerel patties growing up....we were classified poor white trash.....

 

[Pig Predator]

I say salmon. My wife says samon. She use to try and correct me until she slipped up and called Yosemite, Yose a mite. She ain't my english teacher no more.

 

[Silver Britches]

I say salmon. My wife says samon. She use to try and correct me until she slipped up and called Yosemite, Yose a mite. She ain't my english teacher no more.

Sir Nutcase can’t say it. Remember this?

 

[Gbr5pb]

Salmon patties and cane syrup! Yummy

 

[slow motion]

we only afforded mackerel patties growing up....we were classified poor white trash.....

I'm still classified as such.

 

[Buck70]

I'm still classified as such.

Me too. When my Mom dropped us off at the school bus stop, she got a ticket for littering.