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In an attempt to reverse this trend, a Southern friend of mine offers the alternate when the grits hit the pan , but this usage seems destined to remain a regionalism at best, the kind of Southernism collected by John H. Felts in Bumps, Grinds, and Other Lewd (1389) Gestures [XVI,3].
But there are genuine regionalism lurking in both the written and the spoken language: corinna (an Aboriginal name for the Tasmanian tiger), mariner (a corruption of the Aboriginal merrina for a seashell used as a physical ornament), quoib (an Aboriginal term for a wombat), and wing-wang (again an Aboriginal term, this time for a fiery piece of lighted bark thrown by Aborigines).
I mourn the lost clichés of labored regionalism and my own inability to figure out these "search engine" thingies.
It does wonder if this question promotes an unattractive regionalism, as if it were a personal accomplishment to be born in, say, Paris?
This regionalism was used mainly at Christmas: if a person wanted to make it clear he had not given a friend (?) a gift, he would say, I gave him a Yankee dime.