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Originally Posted by Summerrain
Heck, everywhere I go, people can't understand half of what I say... I have been everywhere and have picked up so much that people everywhere make fun of me... I say "crick" instead of "creek", "warsh" instead of "wash", "zink" instead of "sink"... "o'er" instead of "over"...
Don't think it is PA - I think it is a lot of the places that I have lived all combined - I have picked up a little bit from everywhere...
No one, ANYWHERE can guess where I am from!
I do the same things, but also other things. Here's a partial list of weird pronounciations I have.
"Wurk" for work
"Wurd" for word
"Noot" for nut
"Rein" for rain (maybe more like "rine")
"Hus" for house
"O'ar" for other
"R'ed" for rapid
"Wy" for we and also for way
"Smoarch" for smirch (very rarely used word)
"Droy" for dry
"Droechte" for drought (with a hard German "ch"), sometimes without thinking
"Snie" for snow, once in awhile without thinking about it
"Wald" for forest (think "wild")
"Wud" for wood
"Half" with the "l" pronounced in it, like "hawlf" instead of "haf" that most use
"Efter" for after
"Cofye" for coffee, once in awhile
"Pine" for pain
"Mear" for more, sometimes
"Meast" and "Almeast" for most and almost, once in awhile
"Sumer" for summer
"Melk" for milk
"Iepen" for open, but almost never really, just once in a blue moon
"Brege" for bridge
"Weter" for water (if I'm not thinking about it)
"Fer" for far
"Fest" for fast
"Geen" for gone
"Lang" for long
"Yinz" for multuple second person ("Yinz" is plural of "you), well maybe that's a normal PA thing
There's others too, some I probably forgot. Hell, I think I sound more like a foreigner, like maybe a Dutchman, than a Pennsylvanian. Plus, we can't overlook how I usually drop the "do you" clause from questions if it follows a what or a where. For example, I would ask something like "Do you live here?", but instead of "What do you think?" I ask "What thinks you?" or if multiple people "What think you?", or instead of "How do you feel about the new building?" I might ask "What feels you o'er the new building?", because I use "over" to mean concerning or about, and not finished, in that case I say "done". I also like to use Germanic words over Latinate words, even when lesser known, such as "sundry" for multiple.
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