Lets make Scranton "The Fiber City"!!!

[KarenRice]

I have to say I had a different idea when I saw "Fiber City."

Metamucil Capital? ha ha ha

[Mr Yuk]

It already is the Fiber City....Bran Flakes, Metamucil, etc....

Edit: I guess I was too late on this joke...some of you already beat me to it!

[Huskyz]

Originally Posted by weluvpa

Nice PM there Husky boy. Your a creative fellow aren't ya. Heina or no...

I think the correct(?) spelling is heyna, heyna?

(How's that?...a valid example of the rare double heyna, heyna?}

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by Huskyz

I think the correct(?) spelling is heyna, heyna?

(How's that?...a valid example of the rare double heyna, heyna?}

Depends on what part of the valley you're in....if you're in Eynon, you're more likely to hear "enna?"

[weluvpa]

Originally Posted by Huskyz

I think the correct(?) spelling is heyna, heyna?

(How's that?...a valid example of the rare double heyna, heyna?}

I'm not from the area originally so I wasn't privy to the correct spelling of words that bash the English language. I wasn't born here so its not entrenched in my nomenclature.

[NEPAbuzzdotcom]

Honestly, how did we come up with 'heyna'? It's just another term for "isn't it", heyna? I don't hear it nearly as much as I used to, but if you say it to someone outside this area, they seem to wonder if you slipped into another language.

[Huskyz]

Originally Posted by NEPAbuzzdotcom

Honestly, how did we come up with 'heyna'? It's just another term for "isn't it", heyna? I don't hear it nearly as much as I used to, but if you say it to someone outside this area, they seem to wonder if you slipped into another language.

Well. I faintly recall, a long time ago when older, ESL speaking folks said 'hey' as 'yes' in commonly spoken East European language(s). It could have been Carpatho-Rusyn (aka: Ruthenian, Rusyn, Lemko, etc) or Polish or a combination or both. It seems possible this contributed to the development and use of the term 'heyna' to mean something like 'ain't it' or 'yes/not?'. This is strictly a guess.

BTW, this thread has drifted significantly from Scranton the Fiber City, but if the Google crowd gets a glimpse of it, they might find it 'interesting' .

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by NEPAbuzzdotcom

Honestly, how did we come up with 'heyna'? It's just another term for "isn't it", heyna? I don't hear it nearly as much as I used to, but if you say it to someone outside this area, they seem to wonder if you slipped into another language.

hayna or aina or enna or henna is just "ain't it" in NEPA language.