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by Parish_Boy
Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:08 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Po-boys
Replies: 13
Views: 41652

Somtimes I forget where I am... I'm from "downaroad" in St. Bernard next to New Orleans, but I'm just got to New York City where I'll be for the immediate future. I went to the deli down the street, I was tired and hungry and said "Yeah lemme get a roast beef poboy, dressed". He ...
by Parish_Boy
Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:57 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: How do YOU say "sauna"?
Replies: 36
Views: 96975

I haven't gotten around very much, but in my travels across the southeast US, the only way I have ever heard sauna pronounced was "SAW-nuh."
by Parish_Boy
Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:41 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Warsh?
Replies: 76
Views: 308810

Addition and Subtraction of "R"

Here in the New Orleans area the letter R is a confusing one. Many of the older NO people will "put erl in mah caw after Ah warsh it, as soon as Ahm off the terlet." Roughly translated, that means "I will put oil in my car after I wash it, after I'm done using the toilet." One of...

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