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To: Graybeard58

Nah that’s almost certainly PA Dutch. A similar shortening you won’t hear much beyond 100 miles of Lancaster County PA is simply “all” instead of “all gone”: “Hey can you pass the peas?” “No, the peas are all.”


58 posted on 02/07/2011 6:06:47 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: jiggyboy
I lived in Reading, Pa. for awhile, believe me, I got my fill of PA Dutchisms. But I do loves me some shoo fly pie.
68 posted on 02/07/2011 6:16:18 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Of course Obama loves his country. The thing is, Sarah loves mine.)
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