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To: NYer

Being from Rhode Island and now living in Texas I get a lot of grief. I say pocketbook, not purse; cellar, not basement; Aunt, pronounced ahnt not ant; bureau, not dresser; and carriage, not shopping cart. I say sneakers, yuz guys, and God bless you, not just bless you.


6 posted on 07/04/2014 3:27:26 AM PDT by heylady
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To: heylady

“Carriage” for shopping cart? Now that’s just wrong!
Are you trying to give me a hat attack? Hmmmm.


15 posted on 07/04/2014 4:08:33 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: heylady

How odd... I grew up on Long Island, my parents came to LI from Brooklyn and we used all of your examples interchangeably with the exception of carriage/shoppingcart (we said shoppingcart).


26 posted on 07/04/2014 4:47:32 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: heylady

“I say pocketbook, not purse”

Isn’t a purse carried inside a pocketbook?

How did they react to the word “toothbrush” in Texas?

JUST KIDDING!


38 posted on 07/04/2014 5:04:59 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: heylady
One of the mechanics who worked at the family coal mine liked to add a verbal exclamation point to his declarative sentences. He would say, “Well, I changed the oil in the dragline. What I did.”
42 posted on 07/04/2014 5:38:55 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: heylady

nightstand or bedside table?


73 posted on 07/04/2014 7:22:44 AM PDT by Oratam
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