Diet pop VS regular pop

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

that's where my parents are from. so we'd go visit and the cousins would say 'pahp' and we'd say so-da. ah, the good old days.

I'm from western PA....It was pop...down here it is soda or drink...KY was drink..
Speaking of western PA, i have a coffee mug titled Pittsburghese..all the words common to westPA..Here's a few..

Stillers - Steelers
yunz - all of you - a big favorite
ketch - catch
spicket - faucet
cubbird - cupboard
rilly - really
ignernt - ignorant
babushka - scarf

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by bigrun

I'm from western PA....It was pop...down here it is soda or drink...KY was drink..
Speaking of western PA, i have a coffee mug titled Pittsburghese..all the words common to westPA..Here's a few..

Stillers - Steelers
yunz - all of you - a big favorite
ketch - catch
spicket - faucet
cubbird - cupboard
rilly - really
ignernt - ignorant
babushka - scarf

my grandmother gave me a babushka for christmas, and yeah-we were 'yinz'. we countered with y'all and got grief for that. all in fun. met a guy down here that as soon as he started talking i said 'you're from pittsburgh'. yes, he was.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

my grandmother gave me a babushka for christmas, and yeah-we were 'yinz'. we countered with y'all and got grief for that. all in fun. met a guy down here that as soon as he started talking i said 'you're from pittsburgh'. yes, he was.

One that may be peculiar to PA is "sliding board." When my Western-PA sister-in-law called to tell me my nephew broke his leg on the sliding board, I knew what she was talking about. When I told the story to non-PA parents of toddlers, every one of them said, "What's a sliding board?"

(It's a slide. I don't know why PA'ers sometimes add -ing board, but we do)

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

One that may be peculiar to PA is "sliding board." When my Western-PA sister-in-law called to tell me my nephew broke his leg on the sliding board, I knew what she was talking about. When I told the story to non-PA parents of toddlers, every one of them said, "What's a sliding board?"

(It's a slide. I don't know why PA'ers sometimes add -ing board, but we do)

we called it a sliding board.

several sayings down here have made me wonder at times...

hosepipe. it's just a hose

call out the dogs-i had to ask, apparently that means throw a party.


and of course the worst of all-'fixing to'. bizarre use of words imo.

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

we called it a sliding board.

several sayings down here have made me wonder at times...

hosepipe. it's just a hose

call out the dogs-i had to ask, apparently that means throw a party.


and of course the worst of all-'fixing to'. bizarre use of words imo.

My husband (OK native) confused me the first time he offered to "put up" the groceries. I said I wasn't aware they needed a place to sleep. Then I realized that was Oklahomese for "put away."

"Might oughta" also amuses me.

[Danzig]

'used to could'. now, that's an original.



track, kev, i love ginger ale-scarce around here, and unavailable in diet. and utz chips, good luck finding those around here.

[bigrun]

Originally Posted by Danzig

my grandmother gave me a babushka for christmas, and yeah-we were 'yinz'. we countered with y'all and got grief for that. all in fun. met a guy down here that as soon as he started talking i said 'you're from pittsburgh'. yes, he was.

Back about mid 90's we made one of our frequest trips to KY...Stopped at a Waffle House in Blacksburg for breakfast..I am not a redneck but love their breakfast..as we were leaving the waitress ask 'do yunz want coffee to go'.
I said whoa, you are from western PA...yes she said...turns out she went to school with a nephew of mine and her father worked at the Sharon Steel plant...on a trip the next year we stopped by and she was still there...nice young lady...

[Danzig]

oh, ky....when people mention ky i think back to the first time we ever travelled thru there, many years ago.

stopped at the motel that night, and i went to get the key. the lady was wearing a cocktail dress-interesting choice of wardrobe i think to myself. then i asked her which direction our room. she raised her arm to point, and there it was. the biggest mass of underarm hair i've ever seen. that was over 20 years ago, and i still haven't shed that memory.

ugh.