Comments on: Running Errands and Doing Chores

By: bargainph

bargainph — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:23:56 +0000

Yep Errand and Chore isn’t commonly used in the Philippines. I believe ‘tasks’ is the one that 99% of them use.

By: Trey Morgan

Trey Morgan — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:39:39 +0000

Brad K. I came on here to say the same thing you said. The word “chore” does have a whole other meaning on a ranch or farm, as you so correctly said.
As far as the teacher from the Philippines, I’ve spent a lot of time there, and haven’t heard anyone use Errand or Chore as if they were interchangeable, but if both words are used for simple tasks, I can see where her question comes from.

Like My sentence endings Anyone ?

By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:41:10 +0000

Maeve,

But pigs and hogs gets into technical jargon terms. Hogs, at home, were the entire operation, from baby pigs, to feeders, to sows and boars. At about half-grown, gilts and barrows (we didn’t raise boar pigs) were collectively calls “hogs” if we didn’t care about the gender. Gilts and sows applied to individual young or second litter and later breeding females, if separated and kept specifically for breeding.

I guess I was thinking about the younger pigs, shortly after weaning. Of course the sows and feeders needed fed, too.

By: Maeve

Maeve — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:52:56 +0000

Brad K.,
Great comment–a commentary on more than a word. That’s what “chores” meant to my daddy and uncles. The “pigs need fed” was an idiom they used too. Only they would have said “hogs.”

By: Brad K.

Brad K. — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:52:50 +0000

Peter,

‘need to be fed’. It is either dialect or a mis-usage I grew up with. How am I to know?