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How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
new york times ^ | 12/21/13 | nytimes

Posted on 12/23/2013 10:13:31 PM PST by eastforker

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To: Cvengr

Lol.. won’t deny that I do NOT like Coka-cola ;^)

(Speaking of DP.. reminded me of what my dad would get me on long trips for a snack... DP and peanuts to put with it in a bottle :^D)


61 posted on 12/24/2013 3:51:06 AM PST by Bikkuri ( those would have been affected.)
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To: Fresh Wind

So, I got Cincinnati, Akron and Salt Lake City.

Pretty darn close


62 posted on 12/24/2013 4:22:04 AM PST by LadyBuck ("Notafinga!")
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To: eastforker

Augusta-Richmond, Columbus GA, Tallahassee


63 posted on 12/24/2013 4:35:36 AM PST by arderkrag (An Unreconstructed Georgian, STANDING WITH RAND.)
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts
Growing up an hour west of Boston...

It's amazing how quickly the accent fades once you get outside the 495 loop, unless you're going north, of course.

64 posted on 12/24/2013 4:56:30 AM PST by j_tull (Massachusetts - once leader of the American Revolution, now leader of its demise.)
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To: Cvengr

“espinades” ????????????
I have no clue what that is...so I guess, no we don’t!

Although Boston has an outdoor theater called the Esplanade where they hold Fourth of July Fireworks. Is that what you meant?


65 posted on 12/24/2013 4:57:25 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: eastforker
How do you pronounce 'About to do something'?

I'm Fix'n to go make me another cup of coffee.

66 posted on 12/24/2013 5:22:11 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: eastforker

One of the mechanics at our coal mine had a unique verbal signature.

He would say, “Well, I got the oil changed in the dragline. What I did.”

He was from north Missouri but I’ve never heard that line from anyone else in the Show-Me...


67 posted on 12/24/2013 5:39:14 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts

An esplinade is a grass strip barrier between two trafficways. It might be a grass strip between a road and a canal, or a road and a sidewalk or in between 2 roads such as a median area. Used in the Southwest, probably Spanish in origin.


68 posted on 12/24/2013 5:57:37 AM PST by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: KoRn

Me too.
Reno Stockton Modesto. Have lived in the Central Valley most of my life.


69 posted on 12/24/2013 7:53:12 AM PST by sheana
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To: jocon307

My hubby calls them berms but I personally have never had a word for them. He is a retired firefighter though and they have a descriptive term for everything.


70 posted on 12/24/2013 7:55:11 AM PST by sheana
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To: Darksheare

Well, at least there’s only one father. That’s better than “Caitlin’s baby daddy, Aidan’s baby daddy and Connor’s baby daddy”!


71 posted on 12/24/2013 12:41:00 PM PST by Nea Wood
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To: Rome2000

TMI!


72 posted on 12/24/2013 12:53:49 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: Nea Wood

There is that.
But in conversation in this area that is not readily apparent.
The usage is usually along the lines of, “Well, I spoke to the kidses fathers today.”
Sometimes the word is “speaked” as well.
*groan*


73 posted on 12/24/2013 1:09:17 PM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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To: eastforker

Interesting. The map shows me as western, strongly Californian, but it also shows a warm spot in PA/MD. I grew up in CA, but have lived in MD most of my adult life.

Many of the questions had multiple answers that worked. However, at the end, the “defining answer” for me was to the question, “What do you call a drive-through liquor store?” I answered “I have never heard of such a thing,” which is apparently a common answer in San Francisco, Fresno, and Bakersfield.


74 posted on 12/24/2013 2:09:56 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: eastforker

This test was exactly right.


75 posted on 12/24/2013 3:46:25 PM PST by TheConservativeParty
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To: sheana

Thanks, I think that was one of the choices. I think I think of a berm as more a raised up thing.

I’m going to ask my brother-in-law, he used to be a landscaper.


76 posted on 12/24/2013 3:59:41 PM PST by jocon307
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To: papertyger

Sorry

Pegged me for NYC.

Pretty cool test


77 posted on 12/24/2013 4:38:41 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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