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To: dangus

Damn The Office.

People aren’t allowed to speak bad Pennsylvania Dutch without referencing Scranton? There are plenty of towns in eastern Pennsylvania that make Scranton look like a booming metropolis, and there are plenty of people in those towns who can’t properly pronounce “hey now.”


9 posted on 11/22/2007 5:18:26 AM PST by flintsilver7
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To: flintsilver7

I live near Benton PA you know the little town in the endless mountains where every last name in the phone book is the same.


12 posted on 11/22/2007 5:24:02 AM PST by TLEIBY308
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To: flintsilver7

Hayna is a NEPA (Scranton) expression that means “isn’t it” or ‘ain’t it”, to signify agreement at the end of a sentence. Sometimes it’s said “hayna or no”


39 posted on 11/22/2007 6:41:55 AM PST by sobieski
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To: flintsilver7

Geez, sorry... I went to “da U” in Scranton, and was just a bit nostalgic for the dialect/accent. My only reference to The Office was just that it hadn’t captured the local dialect. It’s like Cheers would be with out the Bostonian.


55 posted on 11/22/2007 9:51:42 AM PST by dangus
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