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On another forum, someone used the phrase "a high whole time", meaning, I assume, having fun. This is not the way I'd say it. Does this sound like anything any of y'all would use and, if so, how would you say it?
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My Mom alwys said it as "a high old time" and who am I to argue with Mom.
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formerly known as etaoin...
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ol' 
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well, the detail of my perniciation would prolly be:
er~hi ole tie'm
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er~Dang you non-rhotic people using Rs in yo' phonetic spellings. I never knows what you means when y'all does that. 
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stretch that e, baby ;)
I guess it's the Shah of Schwa ~ mebbe you'd see it as ur?
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Is there any chance that this term "high old time" translates the German "Hochziet" meaning wedding but literally translated "high time"? I found one website which suggested it.
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I guess it's the Shah of Schwa ~
... or are you just shwoing your humanity?
( - yes - there is a typo in there, but it is so serendipitous that I haven't the heart to spoil Faldage and AnnaS's enjoyment!
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ur
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[ white] - yes - there is a typo in there, but it is so serendipitous that I haven't the heart to spoil Faldage and AnnaS's enjoyment! [ /white] Thank you!! 
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spoil Faldage and AnnaS's enjoyment!
Huh! If'n you hadn't'a pointed it out I'd'a never noticed it.
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OK, then
( - yes - there is a typo in there, but it is so serendipitous that I haven't the heart to spoil .................. AnnaS's enjoyment!
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What's curious and intersting about this is just yesterday I was writing about something--and I wrote I was (or someone was) having a 'high old time.' And then I posted. But when I went back and read what I'd posted I'd actually written that I (or someone else) was having a 'high whole time.' Weird. So I edited what I'd written. This is just too coincidental and I'm wondering whether Faldage had read what I'd written before I went back and edited. Could have been. If so, then it was simply a matter of typing quickly and a word that sounded like 'old' slipping in subconsciously. But if it wasn't my post, then it is truly coincidental.
Edit: I returned to the site and the edit I am sure I made didn't appear on my post. Anyway, Faldage, I'm assuming that it was my post to which you were referring and I would like to go on record here saying that I typed in haste and didn't mean 'high whole time' at all--but didn't catch the error till I edited. And I did correct it. But must have pushed the wrong button so the edit didn't go through. Sorry about the confusion. I've never heard of a high whole time till I read what I'd written yesterday.
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tut! tut! darlin'
If nobody ever flubbed what ever would we talk about?
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hah, lovely word, wow! I haven't heard that used for a while, and now I can't even find out where it came from, apart from vague "1904 - origin uncertain" type references.
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both W3 and OED agree, origin unknown.
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The phrase is definately of West Indian Origin , and is
translated thus : A [I am ] High [drunk ] whole time
[all the time]. Another guy may say : Me pisstoratically
sweet all the time....or Him sugared all the time.
Same thing ..the guy is forever drunk.
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