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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 10:37 PM Original message |
Regional grammatical peculiarities. |
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nytemare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. I used to say "warsh" instead of "wash". |
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soleiri (913 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. my mom says warsh |
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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 03:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
26. I work in Warshington DC |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 03:35 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. I could have swore I remember hearing Dan Rather or somebody saying "Warshington" when I was a kid. |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:46 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. That's the local Maryland accent |
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Bertha Venation (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 12:47 PM Response to Reply #36 |
48. But I live in So. Maryland and I've never heard anyone else use it. |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 02:44 PM Response to Reply #8 |
52. My mom does do, raised in western Maryland. |
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Shell Beau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
64. That one bugs me for some reason. People do it down here in the south too. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Although the usage is now found in Minnesota as well (grrr) |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. LOL, I ALWAYS say "I have ate" |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 12:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. "Spendy" made it to the Pacific Northwest with the folks who emigrated from the upper Midwest |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 03:33 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Y'uys are welcome! |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
37. My Alabama grandmother called cereal 'breakfast food'. |
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madmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 02:49 PM Response to Reply #37 |
53. My in laws say sandwich meat instead of luncheon meat or lunch meat. |
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Orrex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. Yinzers drop the infinitive "to be" in certain contexts |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:14 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. That's interesting! Serial Verb constructions for teh WIN!!! |
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I Have A Dream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 10:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
43. This is done in Central Pennsylvania as well. |
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Sisaruus (703 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 01:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
49. An ex-husband used to talk like that. |
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ScreamingMeemie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
6. The curious need for people from Michigan to pluralize stores, Kmart is Kmart's |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I thought Krogers was Krogers. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. There is a strong amount of Scandanvian and German substratum here. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 01:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. Yes, and the use of "by" for at somebody's house |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:39 AM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Southernerners do that a lot too. nt |
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no name no slogan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 04:56 PM Response to Reply #6 |
34. People in N. Illinois do that too |
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nemo137 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:00 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. Where in NoIL? |
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david13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 03:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
54. You got that one right, but you know where that started? Ford. Or |
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Enrique (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
9. a black co-worker completely reverses word order |
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suninvited (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
44. I used to hear that a lot when I lived in Cajun country |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
10. "I gotta cutchya" is New York for stating, "I deeply regret that I have to murder you." |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:36 AM Response to Reply #10 |
18. 0h fuck |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:46 PM Response to Original message |
12. East Texas doesn't know about helper verbs. |
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EndersDame (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
42. I hate it when people add "t" |
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I Have A Dream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 12:04 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. Of course, some verbs have forms of that type... |
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david13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 03:13 PM Response to Reply #42 |
55. Using t instead of ed. |
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vixengrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-01-09 11:59 PM Response to Original message |
13. Youse--in Philadelphia and environs, there is a plural of the "addressee" |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 07:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
16. That elision is actually very common in English generally |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:18 AM Response to Original message |
14. Many Midwesterners say, "if she would have done it," |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
17. The worst? "So don't I" |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
19. New Orleans-American dictionary |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
20. When I went to a store in Ohio the checkout lady asked, "Didjins all need a bag for that?" |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
22. I have Ohio roots and some of my relatives say "youse" as a plural of "you." |
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LynneSin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
23. Pennsylvania Dutch has both weird pronounciations but oddities in grammer too |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
25. A couple of my friends |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 03:50 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. "G-dropping" is actually perfectly normal, nothing wrong with it. |
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rbnyc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
29. No one here can write or speak. |
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Glorfindel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
31. Actually pronouncing "wh" as in which, what, where, when |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 04:24 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. I still have a voiceless "Wh" sound and I'm from rural MN. |
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Silver Swan (805 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 02:24 PM Response to Reply #31 |
50. I remember arguing with a teacher fifty years ago |
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Blue State Blues (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
33. "Might could" |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
35. "eh" is a Canadian regionalism. What's wierd is here it's "hey" |
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nemo137 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 06:04 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. In the Midwest it's "huh?" |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #35 |
40. Many of us Minnesotans say "eh", too. |
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david13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 03:24 PM Response to Reply #40 |
56. Eh is supposed to be the official way of identifying a canadian. |
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mysuzuki2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 10:32 PM Response to Reply #35 |
45. You must be from Wisconsin |
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madamesilverspurs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
41. Whither "bidness"? |
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eleny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-02-09 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
46. heighth instead of plain old height |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
51. you betcha |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 04:36 PM Response to Original message |
57. "I usedta didn't." East Texas. |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
58. I love these little local differences. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:01 PM Response to Reply #58 |
62. Ours our small compared to the dialects of England and Scotland. |
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Cant trust em (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 08:12 PM Response to Reply #62 |
65. That's definitely one of the reasons I love the UK |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
59. Pfft. That's nuthin. You should hear Pittsburgh-ese. Pittsburghers are called "yinzers" for a reason |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
60. "Grammar" isn't "pronunciation", is it? |
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Inchworm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. I kept thinking the same each time I read thread |
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Ivan Sputnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-03-09 07:19 PM Response to Original message |
63. There's this little greenish guy I know |
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