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- Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:57 am
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Warsh?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 343059
dialects within metro areas
My husband was born in Maryland, we went to visit his relatives last year and sometimes I about laughed. Balmer...and said so fast you were saying huh? they lived in Carrol County... which they pronounce as Carl Canny. I about died with laughter on that one. I was told that Carrol County too had it'...
- Fri Apr 07, 2006 2:23 am
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Minnesota-isms...anyone???
- Replies: 21
- Views: 135844
Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Upper Michigan
Some of it gets diluted, you know my sis-in-law was telling me the the yooper... yooper-someone from the Upper Pennisula of Michigan....the people in the Lower Pennisula are called trolls--because we live under or below the bridge...the Mackinac Bridge. ...dialect is the fastest dying dialect in the...
- Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:39 am
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: KMark & WalMark
- Replies: 19
- Views: 55732
litte off the walmark but same vicinity
I went to school in Northern Michigan....I always had an issue with some of my friends (black) who were born in Michigan, saying asked or ask as axed or axe. I noticed when I became a truck driver this is very popular in the south among black folk and some white folk. It is like wash and warsh... ad...
- Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:21 am
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Warsh?
- Replies: 76
- Views: 343059
Warsh-Ohio River Valley
Hi, new here. I have been a truck driver for some time and can often pick out dialects. Warsh for the most part shows up in people that were raised or influenced by those raised in the Ohio River Valley. My grandfather (from Terre Haute-pronounced by the 'natives' is Tar Hote...with an a like in fat...