Just a little pet peeve... (Charlotte, Gastonia: school districts, land, radio)

[Wisedupmom]

To all Charlotte area business owners who decide to be the spokesperson in their own radio and television commercials:

Please, in the name of goodness, it's pronounced "Hundred", not "hunderd""!

Thank you very much.

[CharlotteGal]

I'm sorry, I think you mean to say, it's pronounced "hunnert". Don't you know you're in NC?

[bugguy]

Everyone here isn't illiterate! But one of my favorites is the HUGE company in Charlotte that talks about "air-e-ating" your lawn. LOL!

Originally Posted by CharlotteGal

Don't you know you're in NC?

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by bugguy

Everyone here isn't illiterate! But one of my favorites is the HUGE company in Charlotte that talks about "air-e-ating" your lawn. LOL!

Don't forget the place in Gastonia that speaks of vee-hickles. I laugh outloud about that. I haven't heard that since one of my great-grandmothers died
(in Michigan).

[brokensky]

And "youse guys"!!! I really hate that one. I used to never hear it, but in the last 10 years, I hear it more and more.

Wonder why?

Oh - and "these ones." Never heard that til the last decade or so. Hmmm.

And "him and I"

"Him and I bought these ones and thought youse guys would be interested."

And when I ask people where they are from originally, they refer to some place I have never heard of before: Long Guy Land

What the hell is a "long guy?"

Weird stuff.

[eman1200]

Originally Posted by anifani821

And "youse guys"!!! I really hate that one. I used to never hear it, but in the last 10 years, I hear it more and more.

Wonder why?

Oh - and "these ones." Never heard that til the last decade or so. Hmmm.

And "him and I"

"Him and I bought these ones and thought youse guys would be interested."

And when I ask people where they are from originally, they refer to some place I have never heard of before: Long Guy Land

What the hell is a "long guy?"

Weird stuff.

eh fuhgedaboutit!

[brokensky]

Originally Posted by eman1200

eh fuhgedaboutit!

ROFL! Yeah, that one, too!

PS> Yo, Eman. Do you know where Long Guy Land is? I keep hearing it is somewhere around Lake Norman. But some folks told me the other day, that was just a bunch of relocated Long Guy Landers and the real Long Guy Land is somewhere else.

<inputting data for Long Guy Land into GPS . . . scratching head>

[nacmd70]

Originally Posted by anifani821

"youse guys"!!!

I guess that in the Mecklenburg County School System they do not teach that youse, youz, and yinz are the plural form of YOU. They teach that in many of the school districts in western Pa.

[brokensky]

Originally Posted by nacmd70

I guess that in the Mecklenburg County School System they do not teach that youse, youz, and yinz are the plural form of YOU. They teach that in many of the school districts in western Pa.

Well, poooo.

Meck schools need to catch up, but since I am hearing it so often these days, I guess the kids are just figuring it out for themselves.

[brokensky]

And what does "down the pike" mean? The only pike I know is a fish. What the heck is a pike you go down? And what does it DO???? <confused>