Thank you for this information. My wife (Kathey) and I were discussing the “Hope” you with the table. And “Hope” I hope you are happy. —- This form of usage of this English USA used word. We heard it here in the south from the elders all the time. Thank you for this nice piece of information. I you need anything “Holler” we just live up the “Holler” and like to “Hope” people out .. Nice page Andm. — We have to stick together , I have many pages as well. Thank you –Glen Reynolds
I was searching this very word “hope” for help. My father and his mother used these words like the person above said his grandmother did…and guess what, we live in East Texas too!! My grandmothers g grandfather came from Ireland, to England, to America, early to mid 1800’s and my father still says other weird words like “plummer” for “plummer”. “Harse” for horse. I have been trying to figure out why myself and you have helped a lot.
I grew up in rural eastern NC and to this day my relatives in their 80’s and older use hope instead of helped as in ‘I hope my neighbor pick beans yesterday”.
Elisha Powell:
March 17th, 2018 at 6:04 pm
My Grandfather used hope to mean help. For example he would say “let hope you” meaning let me help you.
One set of my grandparents, my father all used this word hope for help. Their ancestry shows as Ireland to England to America. So I see I am not alone in wondering where it came from.
Ron Tucker:
June 7th, 2018 at 6:00 am
My grandfather often said ‘Cain’t be hoped’ meaning that a situation was beyond ‘helping’ rather than beyond ‘hope’.
Lexa Jones:
June 18th, 2018 at 4:47 pm
I grew up in South Carolina. My grandfather would always say, “Come and hope me in the garden.” I thought this must be a part of his dialect he picked up along the way.!Rhanks for the post. I was searching for this topic.
Grandmother would say, I hoped him. Or went to hope. Come hope up me. Jesus come up me. In that type of sentence she loved mostly on Warren, Ar. Ruby Hassie Reddin. She married Smith. She was born 1919. So glad I found this. My dna is 96% Europen. My great grandmother was from old Prussia. I grew up in Northwest Ar.
Ruby Huddleston:
December 30th, 2019 at 9:53 pm
My father used the word hope for help. We live in middle Tennessee.
Ronald Hughes:
March 26th, 2020 at 12:39 pm
I miss hearing these words in phrases from my culture in South Carolina, “it hope my cold”, “it was a stobbing pain”, “I do declare”, “great crown in glory”, “I have aplenty, thank you”, and I miss the voices that spoke them.
Pat McCutchen:
July 11th, 2020 at 9:08 pm
I grew up in rural west Kentucky. Many of our older neighbors in our small farming community used “hope” for help. I often wondered where that came from. I still use a lot of those old sayings and some of those words even today. My college students always find it a source of entertainment when I do, especially those coming to us from urban areas and northern states. It is my way to preserve a bit of our culture.Thank you for this tidbit of information. Some of this language has been preserved in the rural parts of this area and I am thankful. Thank you again!
Anonymous:
July 29th, 2020 at 2:59 pm
My Grandmother Eunice Payne used “hope” for help, too, I thought bless her little heart, but then when I was in an English Literature class in college, I found out that “hope” is the Celtic word for “help”. My grandfather is a direct descendant of Irish immigrants. They originally settled in SC, but then moved to Alabama after the Civil War, so all of this makes sense. Thanks!
Anonymous:
November 12th, 2020 at 7:21 am
I found this blog because I was puzzled by the Greek word elpis (pronounced helpis with the breathing mark over the e). I have not found any traceable correlation, but it sure seems like there is some traceable relationship between these two words based on what everyone is saying in this blog. Does this help or hope anyone?
Believe it or not, I used to have an older Webster dictionary that had the word hope, and it actually defined hope as “help”.
I cant seem to find one dictionary online that shows thus.
But if there is a local library that has some older versions of dictionaries, then maybe you can find it. Please keep me posted.
Dionne:
September 16th, 2021 at 10:19 am
My grandmother and my father used holp or hope for “help” all my life. We are from North Alabama and our people are from TN/GA/NC – we are from the southern foothills of Appalachia, basically. Granny was born in 1905 and Daddy in 1928.
We also say “steer” for a cooking pot. I always wondered about that one and assume it stems from differentiating the type cookware in which one would “stir” (which we also often pronounce as “steer”) versus a flat fry pan. My mom, age 87, still requests that we get out her “big steer” so she can make stew or chili or whatever she would need to make in a larger pot.
Margie Morris Thibert:
February 8th, 2022 at 5:15 am
My grandmother in East Texas also used hoped for helped. Her family moved to Texas from Kentucky and their ancestors immigrated from England to North Carolina.
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Glen and Kathey:
February 26th, 2016 at 8:15 pm
Thank you for this information. My wife (Kathey) and I were discussing the “Hope” you with the table. And “Hope” I hope you are happy. —- This form of usage of this English USA used word. We heard it here in the south from the elders all the time. Thank you for this nice piece of information. I you need anything “Holler” we just live up the “Holler” and like to “Hope” people out .. Nice page Andm. — We have to stick together , I have many pages as well. Thank you –Glen Reynolds
Debbie Pike:
March 19th, 2017 at 12:19 am
I was searching this very word “hope” for help. My father and his mother used these words like the person above said his grandmother did…and guess what, we live in East Texas too!! My grandmothers g grandfather came from Ireland, to England, to America, early to mid 1800’s and my father still says other weird words like “plummer” for “plummer”. “Harse” for horse. I have been trying to figure out why myself and you have helped a lot.
Debbie Pike:
March 19th, 2017 at 12:22 am
Made a mistake toward the bottom. He uses the word plummber for plumber.
James Garner:
August 27th, 2017 at 8:47 am
I grew up in rural eastern NC and to this day my relatives in their 80’s and older use hope instead of helped as in ‘I hope my neighbor pick beans yesterday”.
Elisha Powell:
March 17th, 2018 at 6:04 pm
My Grandfather used hope to mean help. For example he would say “let hope you” meaning let me help you.
Debra Pike:
April 3rd, 2018 at 11:33 am
One set of my grandparents, my father all used this word hope for help. Their ancestry shows as Ireland to England to America. So I see I am not alone in wondering where it came from.
Ron Tucker:
June 7th, 2018 at 6:00 am
My grandfather often said ‘Cain’t be hoped’ meaning that a situation was beyond ‘helping’ rather than beyond ‘hope’.
Lexa Jones:
June 18th, 2018 at 4:47 pm
I grew up in South Carolina. My grandfather would always say, “Come and hope me in the garden.” I thought this must be a part of his dialect he picked up along the way.!Rhanks for the post. I was searching for this topic.
Peg miniard:
June 5th, 2019 at 2:15 pm
Isn’t this Elizabethan English? I’m from Appalachia and my grandmother used this term a lot. As well as calling her household goods her house plunder.
Diane moore:
December 20th, 2019 at 11:51 pm
Grandmother would say, I hoped him. Or went to hope. Come hope up me. Jesus come up me. In that type of sentence she loved mostly on Warren, Ar. Ruby Hassie Reddin. She married Smith. She was born 1919. So glad I found this. My dna is 96% Europen. My great grandmother was from old Prussia. I grew up in Northwest Ar.
Ruby Huddleston:
December 30th, 2019 at 9:53 pm
My father used the word hope for help. We live in middle Tennessee.
Ronald Hughes:
March 26th, 2020 at 12:39 pm
I miss hearing these words in phrases from my culture in South Carolina, “it hope my cold”, “it was a stobbing pain”, “I do declare”, “great crown in glory”, “I have aplenty, thank you”, and I miss the voices that spoke them.
Pat McCutchen:
July 11th, 2020 at 9:08 pm
I grew up in rural west Kentucky. Many of our older neighbors in our small farming community used “hope” for help. I often wondered where that came from. I still use a lot of those old sayings and some of those words even today. My college students always find it a source of entertainment when I do, especially those coming to us from urban areas and northern states. It is my way to preserve a bit of our culture.Thank you for this tidbit of information. Some of this language has been preserved in the rural parts of this area and I am thankful. Thank you again!
Anonymous:
July 29th, 2020 at 2:59 pm
My Grandmother Eunice Payne used “hope” for help, too, I thought bless her little heart, but then when I was in an English Literature class in college, I found out that “hope” is the Celtic word for “help”. My grandfather is a direct descendant of Irish immigrants. They originally settled in SC, but then moved to Alabama after the Civil War, so all of this makes sense. Thanks!
Anonymous:
November 12th, 2020 at 7:21 am
I found this blog because I was puzzled by the Greek word elpis (pronounced helpis with the breathing mark over the e). I have not found any traceable correlation, but it sure seems like there is some traceable relationship between these two words based on what everyone is saying in this blog. Does this help or hope anyone?
JOSEPH:
December 29th, 2020 at 12:46 pm
Believe it or not, I used to have an older Webster dictionary that had the word hope, and it actually defined hope as “help”.
I cant seem to find one dictionary online that shows thus.
But if there is a local library that has some older versions of dictionaries, then maybe you can find it. Please keep me posted.
Dionne:
September 16th, 2021 at 10:19 am
My grandmother and my father used holp or hope for “help” all my life. We are from North Alabama and our people are from TN/GA/NC – we are from the southern foothills of Appalachia, basically. Granny was born in 1905 and Daddy in 1928.
We also say “steer” for a cooking pot. I always wondered about that one and assume it stems from differentiating the type cookware in which one would “stir” (which we also often pronounce as “steer”) versus a flat fry pan. My mom, age 87, still requests that we get out her “big steer” so she can make stew or chili or whatever she would need to make in a larger pot.
Margie Morris Thibert:
February 8th, 2022 at 5:15 am
My grandmother in East Texas also used hoped for helped. Her family moved to Texas from Kentucky and their ancestors immigrated from England to North Carolina.