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anonymous_coward
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| i've heard frontage road, but i think that's from the south. we didn't call them anything in western pa |
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cookieclaygirl
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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| .45chel wrote: |
And do you have a sofa or a couch at your place? |
i lay on the couch, but i put the sofa pillows on it.
haha! |
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anonymous_coward
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 6:54 am Post subject: |
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| my grandparents had a davenport |
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sassy moose
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| cookieclaygirl wrote: | | .45chel wrote: |
And do you have a sofa or a couch at your place? |
i lay on the couch, but i put the sofa pillows on it.
haha! |
me too!! |
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cookieclaygirl
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:28 am Post subject: |
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davenport for my grandparents as well! haha!
haha sassy! funny thing is as i was driving to work today i was thinking of the sofa/couch thing...LOL...i was like...that's weird that i use both terms.. haha! at least i'm not alone---i feel less odd. heh! |
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Wile_E
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:58 am Post subject: |
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| .45chel wrote: | Uh, can we include translations with some of these? (Like Koozie just did, TY Koozie!)
What do ya'll call roads that parallel the interstate up here? We call them access roads, but DH's people call them something else.
And do you have a sofa or a couch at your place? |
I have a davenport. 
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Wile_E
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:02 am Post subject: |
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Where are you at? I'm with youins'.
Where's it at? It's over there, so it is.
He had his drivers license revocated for DUI. He pert near wrecked, so he did, but luckily he knew where the turn was at, and made it ok.
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sassy moose
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Wile_E wrote: | Where's it at? It's over there, so it is.
He pert near wrecked, so he did. |
That's funny; I know a LOT of people who do that, but only people from the Franklin County area. And they do it at the end of pretty much every sentence. Never understood that one  |
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anonymous_coward
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| was kurt vonnegut from chambersburg? |
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cookieclaygirl
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 12:03 am Post subject: |
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ROFL!!!
ok. so this made me curious.....according to wiki:
"Kurt Vonnegut was born to fourth-generation German-American parents, son and grandson of architects in the Indianapolis firm Vonnegut & Bohn, on Armistice Day."
so am thinking the german bit must've come into play, seeing as we're a germanic sort'o'area.....
apparently i use the word "that" at the end of a lot of sentences....it's really funny that. |
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.45chel
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:34 am Post subject: |
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| anonymous_coward wrote: | | my grandparents had a davenport |
I considered putting davenport into the mix, but thought, "nah, no one but me and a few seniors know that term." Silly me!
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cookieclaygirl
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| same here actually hehe.... |
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ANON22
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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| One that really drives me nuts is frigerater. I mean, really what is a frigerater... I know what a refrigerator is, but not a frigerater. But the "more better" saying really drives me crazy |
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ANON22
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| Coppy wrote: | | I STILL don't know what dippy eggs are. |
One day Coppy, you will be apart of the dippy egg fan club too. One day my child  |
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Jo
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| Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:57 am Post subject: |
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My family is from western PA too and one of the things that made my son say 'huh?' was when we went to visit my gram and she asked my son if he wanted a 'tonic'. When that didn't register she tried 'pop'. I explained that gram meant 'soda'. Never heard 'tonic' anywhere other than Bedford County.
We were admonished to 'red up' as kids and its a comon phrase in my house as well. Not that dh or son actually comply...
Also, whether wood burning stove, oil furnace or electric heat - creating more warmth in the house was referred to as 'stoking the far' (fire - sounds like far).
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