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Old 07-08-2008, 09:44 PM
 
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Is it me or is our area losing its bad grammar charm.
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Old 07-08-2008, 09:48 PM
 
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Is it me or is our area losing its bad grammar charm.
Personally, I never thought it had any...
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Old 07-08-2008, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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If I hear one more ignorant person say "crick" instead of "CREEK" I think I'm going to smack them upside the head with a dictionary! In church, do you say the "Nicene CRID" or the "Nicene CREED?" Creek and Creed are both spelled where an emphasis should be placed upon a long "E." The same could be said for "CREEP." You don't say "CRIP," do you? ARGHHH!!

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Old 07-08-2008, 11:38 PM
 
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It's an older population thing.

Although, young or old, I never met an auto-mechanic who didn't use the NEPA dialect.
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Old 07-09-2008, 05:06 AM
 
Location: Pocono Mts.
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Is it me or is our area losing its bad grammar charm.

Couple Two Three, something my Dad always says! And henna - of course!
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Old 07-09-2008, 06:37 AM
 
Location: Selinsgrove, PA
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The one I think is hilarious is that the plural of "you" in the coal region is "yous". We were in the Schuylkill Mall one Christmastime and encountered Santa, apparently on a break. He was walking along, saw our kids, and said, "Ho, ho, ho! How yous doin'?" LOL!!
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Old 07-09-2008, 07:00 AM
 
Location: Scranton
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Is it me or is our area losing its bad grammar charm.
Most of the old "bad grammar" is mostly coming from the older generations. Most people under 40 don't say things like "hayna" or "couple too tree." I'm sure I say some things from the local dialect, but definitely not "hayna" "henna" or "aina" and I have never used "tree" for the number 3. The one thing that drives me UP THE WALL is when people say "HAYCH" for the letter H.

Although I will say that it is a CRICK and a pizza is a TRAY.

Probably among the stranger things I've heard around here, aside from hayna and couple-too-tree, is "chimley" for chimney. And "heddick" for headache.
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Old 07-09-2008, 07:10 AM
 
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Is it me or is our area losing its bad grammar charm.
God I hope not!! Those "heyna's" & such are great memories for me!!

I always love local dialects & think it adds so much "local flavor" to an area!! When we went to Savannah, it was so cool to hear all the "y'alls" flying 'round (and they don't say "y'all"...it's more like "y'aw" like "how y'aw doin'??")...

My uncle was born & raised in Brooklyn & we always gotta kick outta the way he talked..."I gotta go put some erl in the berler down on toity-toid street"...
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Old 07-09-2008, 07:35 AM
 
Location: Portsmouth Virginia
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I sort of escaped it....a couple two three of my friends..well let's just say that the dialect is still in tact with my generation. Funny thing, my dear wife, from Philly, has started taking up the "heyna" as a joke, but it has spread to her twin sister in Colorado! Who knows where this will take us!
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Old 07-09-2008, 07:49 AM
 
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I've lived in Scranton since 1971 and still haven't picked up the local dialect, of course I still don't know what the words mean.
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