Journey Proud

February 22nd, 2009 by admin

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  1. John T. Wilcox:

    September 25th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

    My mother (born 1897 in middle Georgia) used that expression, “journey proud,” in the sense Clay Witt asked about: “I hardly slept last night, I was so journey proud”–meaning nervous about the upcoming trip. But my wife, born near Atlanta and much interested in local language, had never heard the expression until she married me. There is a lady in my home town in south Georgia, born in 1909 and now 100 years old and still mentally sharp, who says she never heard the expression until I asked her about it today, 09/25/2009. PS: Is “Clay Witt” a pseudonymn? It’s a great name for a clever fellow from the country, especially if he is from a clayey part of the country, like south Georgia.

  2. clay witt:

    December 5th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    No, Mr. Wilcox, Clay Witt is my name, and my family is from Virginia and Kentucky.

  3. Mary:

    October 12th, 2010 at 9:56 am

    My mother said “journey proud” at any occasion of a tripShe also said “land o Goshen” and my yankee brother in law thought she was saying “atlantic ocean. She had many others as well. She was raised in N Florida by a mother from SC.

  4. Dale Williams:

    August 20th, 2012 at 10:31 am

    My 72-year-old cousin, from a small North Carolina town, used this phrase yesterday, which led me to this site.
    I’m 62 and from the same town but had never heard the phrase before. Thanks for the education!

  5. Janet Krohn:

    September 5th, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    My mother, born and bred in MS, always used this expression when the family was headed on a road trip. I, too, use it to mean that I can’t sleep for being so excited over what the journey will bring.

  6. Peter Logan:

    January 9th, 2013 at 5:17 pm

    My mother used “journey proud.” She grew up on a Kansas farm in the 20′s and 30′s. After introducing it, its become a favorite of some of my friends, here on Cape Cod.

  7. Peter Logan:

    January 9th, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    My friend who loves to say, “journey proud,” coined a new phrase this morning. He said he couldn’t sleep last night because he was, “work proud.”

  8. William Taylor:

    February 19th, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    I am from Eastern NC and I have heard the expression “journey proud” all of my life. However, the meaning of the phase in this locality usually referred to someone who comes back excited from a trip who can’t stop talking about it.

  9. Victoria Solt Dennis:

    April 22nd, 2013 at 2:34 pm

    My mother always confidently diagnosed any queasiness or ‘feeling funny’ on the eve of a trip as ‘journey pride’. She was born (in 1921) and bred in West Essex, on the outskirts of London, but her mother came from Somerset in the West Country. That may be significant, becaus the Oxford English Dictionary cites this from the London Times of 21 Dec 193: “‘Journey-pride’..will be familiar to your west-country readers”.

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