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9:38 pm
July 25, 2010
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I am from Wisconsin and we always had breakfast, lunch and supper.We used to sit on a davenport but over the years we changed it to sofa or couch. We also call a water fountain you see on street corners a bubbler. Brat is not pronounced braat with a short a but braht as in short for bratwurst, a type of German sausage. Of course we still have brats( spoiled naughty kids) like everyone else. When I was a kid we also pronounced wash and squash as worsh and squorsh. I don't know why- the only link to the South was my grandmother from Missouri. I think she pronounced Missouri like it ended with an 'A'. When I learned to spell I realized that we were all pronouncing those words wrong and would correct everyone who still spole like that. My oldest sister still occasionally says those words like that.
10:17 pm
July 25, 2010
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Oops I meant to say drinking fountains not water founatins. I know they are going the way of the dinosaur but small towns still have them. We also drink soda or pop, although pop is usually used by children and soda is the adult term. Sometimes kids will say soda pop.
8:35 am
February 22, 2010
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Cheryl, people who have lived in Missouri for generations still debate the ending vowel sound.
Worsh…yep, hubby still says that…my mother born and raised in southern Ohio says it too …and wish rhymes with bush. :-)
3:31 pm
November 16, 2011
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I have lived in North Alabama my whole life and we call a garden hose a "hose pipe". We eat breakfast, lunch and supper; drink cokes, and sit on a couch.
4:27 pm
February 8, 2009
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Here they call a hoody a Bunnyhug…not anywhere in Canada..only in Saskatchewan.
5:35 pm
December 14, 2010
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A man explained to his daughter that the word was pronounced "idear" but when you spelled it the "r" was silent.
7:35 pm
May 6, 2011
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That particular word is very high on my "bugs me" list.
11:57 am
May 31, 2011
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Was reading these, hadn't for a while. Reminded me, we always said "sofa" or "couch." I remember wondering wtf "chicken divan" was and why would you want a chicken dish that looked like a couch?
Happy holidays everyone!
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1:42 pm
June 1, 2010
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I thought chicken divan was a fowl-shaped couch!
4:56 pm
August 25, 2008
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Enjoying reading these posts.Got me thinking about some of the sayings I grew up with.
Winder lights-windows
Crack the winder or door-open it a little
Fixin to-Getting ready to do something
Mash the button-push the button
Worsh-wash….dishworsher,clothes worsher, car worsh,worsh your hair,face, hands, etc:
A fur piece-a long way off
Studyin-thinking
Hind end up between his/her shoulder blades-stuck up/haughty
And many more I can think of, not fit for a family forum, but funny as aw get out.
Fill in the blanks:
Hotter than…………
colder than………….
uglier than…………..
busier than………….
drunker than………..
lazier than…………..
If you're from the South, I bet you know all these answers and more, some I never heard of.
11:04 am
February 10, 2009
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I also get the added bonus of grandparents who were immigrants. Our family dialect is spattered with Polish words that I sometimes totally forget that not everyone knows.
This is a fun topic though isn't it?
11:07 am
February 22, 2010
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just heard my Mom say pocketbook…no one says that much anymore when referring to a lady's wallet.
11:45 am
April 1, 2009
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Miss Judy said
just heard my Mom say pocketbook…no one says that much anymore when referring to a lady's wallet.
I still say "pocketbook" ocassionally when refering to my handbag, trying to retain myself.
3:21 pm
June 1, 2010
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BEG: Similar experience here. Lots of folks say they can't understand the 80+ lady across the way. I can understand her perfectly. Then one day I realized that about every 3rd or 4th word was German. Who knew! (Dad immigrant from DE)
6:22 pm
August 5, 2012
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I really enjoyed reading through these! I'm a PA Dutch lady, and so familiar with redding up, things that need done, and the "throw me down the steps the laundry" speech patterns! Totally normal to me. In my job, I communicate with people in the Far East, UK, and Canada, mostly, so I have to be very careful how I speak as not to confuse them.
I wonder: how many of us have very different speech patterns at work vs at home with our families?
In my world, there's nothing bad about saying "outen the light" or "there's pie back" or "the milk's all". We know what we mean! 
2:03 pm
January 10, 2010
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Love this!
I'm from TX. We ate breakfast, lunch, supper- ifn' youereon time.
I lived in Colorado with a family that had three young girls. One day I was helping the oldest with her spelling words. She was very sharp and spelt all the words except window. I even banged on the window for a hands-on training but, she could not spell it. Her Mother came to the rescue. I was pronouncing it winda!
girl was gull, ain't was the back bone of speech, whacha' watchin', fixin'- you never pronounced the g ending in any word, yonder ways, over yonder, yella-yellow, ya'll, gottcha bag?-do you have your purse? And on top of that I have what they call a lazy Texas tongue so I could not pronounce several cosonants with-in the words proper. Had to take speech therapy in school.
My favorite was my Mother's saying. When we would get mad, her final saying was, "You got da same breetches to git glad in".
2:48 pm
March 6, 2012
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I was born in Central Michigan, and have lived in Southern California for 30+ years. Do you say hot chocolate or cocoa? Was wondering that the other night, who knows why!
My grandma always called the couch a davenport, ate her dinner at noon and her supper at 6pm. My grandpa used to say "I gave" instead of "I paid". They lived in Central Michigan their entire lives, a great deal of that time on a farm. The farm is still there, but you can't read my grandpa's name on the barn anymore. But I know it's his!
11:26 am
April 4, 2010
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My Dad grew up in Texas but moved to CA and then on to Oregon where I was raised. Whenever we asked him to do something or to help us he would say "I will get to it directly". As a kid I heard "dreckly" and thought it was just my Dads word for later. I was 25 when I realized he was saying directly.
8:30 am
February 22, 2010
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Has anyone heard someone say "I swear to my time"? I think that is such an odd saying. I've heard my husbands aunt say this many times…She's lived in south Missouri for about 50 years.
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