Another one I don't know

[Brian Beauchamp]

No, that is an American Linden. Get it right! 

[WDH]

DanG, Bro. Noble.  That is the biggest English Ivy Tree that I have ever seen ;D.

[jon12345]

I'm glad ya kept lookin tilia found the right one  :D :D :D

[SwampDonkey]

Yup, looks like a basswood.

Not saying you should do harm to the tree, but that bark will come off in long strips and was used for rope making.

Also, basswood tends to have those stump suckers a lot.

T. americana



Flower and distinctive bract.




buds




twig




leaf

[WDH]

In Swamp's twig pic, look at the third bud down from the top of the twig.  See how the bud is referenced to the side of the leaf scar?  They sit catywompus to the leaf scar ;D.

Jon12345......... :D.

[Dave Shepard]

Those pictures confirm that what I sawed up last month was, in fact, basswood. Same bark, with the little holes. See my "I thought it was ash..." thread in sawmilling. Catywompus, that is a great word, is that anything like being "kitty corner to"? :D


Dave

[WDH]

"Kitty corner to", say more ???.

[Ron Scott]

Yes to basswood. Good pictures for its ID.

[Dave Shepard]

It took some cogitating, some recolecting,(back to high school geometry), and even a little pondering, but I finally found the word I was looking for. If something is kitty-corner to some other thing, then it is adjacent to it. I don't know who came up with kitty, or sometimes catty, cornet, it is a little weird, I guess. Catywompus is certainly foreign to my ears.


Dave

[beenthere]

I always have heard kitty-corner (and used it) to mean diagonally across an intersection of two streets. Works for me. 

Cattywampus meaning 'crooked', out of sorts. Nothing to do with a direction, but works good for the basswood buds. 

[Lanier_Lurker]

Yes, catty or kitty corner = opposite corner, not adjacent.

Catty-wompus or katty-wampus usually means something different - depending on the dialect you speak.  In my dialect it is a generic term for off-center, inequal, unequal, incongruent, distorted, half upside-down, tilted, skewed, unbalanced, unhinged, or just "not right".  ;D :D

[WDH]

Yep, LL, you nailed it ;D.  Just like a Basswood bud .

[SwampDonkey]

You fellers and your unbridled word games.  ;D

How did ya come up with that one?  ;)

[Tom]

come up with that one??    That one been around lots of generations.  Yep passed on from Pappy to Pappy to Pappy.....

Probably came from up your way unless it might be a language spoken by my ancestors.  You know, the ones that the king sent over here to keep their jails from becoming overloaded.   A lot of us down here are a bad bunch.  No telling what we'll say. :D :D   We'll shoot danged near anything too.  ;D

[beenthere]

My Grandmother used 'em both (kitty-corner and cattywampus), and she came from New Hampshire in the early 1900's 

SD leads a sheltered life... ;D ;D  Good thing he has the forum.....

[SwampDonkey]

kitty-cornered, catty-cornered or cater-cornered, yes hear it all the time and it's even in the dictionary. But, cattywampus or derivatives there-of, ain't heard of it. 

[LeeB]

I,ve heard derrivatives of cattywumpus, but I can't say them on here.

[Phorester]

Heard a West VA gal use the term "wobberjawed".  Never heard it before.  She meant something out of line, crooked, twisted, warped. She was referring to a cattle guard on a farm lane, it had become wobberjawed over the years.  ???

[Tom]

I've heard a similar term years ago, "Whoppyjawed", used in the same way.

[Corley5]

Lopjawed is a term used up here just as whopperjawed is used south of us  ;) ;D

[SwampDonkey]

I here a lot of 'hog-wash' and 'horse-pucky' lately to. ;D  ;)

[OneWithWood]

From MSN encarta:

catawampus

 

 
cat·a·wam·pus [ kàttə wómpəss ]


adjective 

Definition:
 
diagonal: in a diagonal position or arrangement




adverb 

Definition:
 
diagonally: diagonally


[Mid-19th century. Origin ?]

I liked Danny's definition better 

I have heard this term used a lot in my shorter-than-some-of-your's lifetime.  Fairly common in hoosierland, which is in the midwest, which is where all the news anchors come to practice their accent so they can be understood by the masses.  :D

[Tom]

Still, as hard as they try, they give themselves away by not being able to prounounce Kissimmee, Eau Gallie, Weewahitchka, Loxahatchee, Apalachicola, Valdosta, Vidalia or Vienna.  There is plenty around here to trip up a  tourister  new person.    :D

[SwampDonkey]

Kinda like Arkansas.

It's R-Can-Saw  not  R-Kansas.

Gotta use a little drawl do it. ;D

[OneWithWood]

Tom, never had a problem with any of those.  Can you pronounce Terre Haute?  clue: it ain't terry hotie  :D