[FreedomNotSafety]

Also, if you click through to the original article, the author cites a source for “hunky-dory” were the writer says that the use of “hefty” has disappeared. Seriously? Is my dialect that regional? I would swear that hefty is understood and used everywhere. Am I wrong?

[jay1949]

Well, don’t we all tend to think that people who grew up elsewhere “talk funny” or have an accent? There are many Appalachian English words and phrases that have spread south and west. “Mend,” in the sense of “heal” or “get well,” comes to mind. “Redd up” is, or was the last I know, still used in Ohio and it is definitely a regional term.