Pool and Pole

[Mama]

I grew up in Tennessee, where I learned to say pool, for a swimming pool, and pole for a telephone pole, but now that I live in PA, my kids say pool to mean a telephone pole. Is that a Pennsylvania thing? It drives me nuts.
Mama

[Slava]

Any Pennsylvanians out there? I'm curious myself, and it's been a long time we've been waiting for an answer. Anyone care to clue us in? It would drive me nuts, too.

[bnjtokyo]

The Good Doctor lives in Lewisburg PA and should be able to speak with some authority on the local dialect. Actually, since there is quite a bit of dialectical variation within Pennsylvania, it would be helpful if Mama would tell where in Pennsylvania she and her children are living.

[Mama]

Certainly. I live in Southwest Pennsylvania, about 15 miles west of Pittsburgh.

[Stargzer]

Ah, Pittsburgh, birthplace of my wife and her cousins. You can always tell someone from Western Pennsylvania; they say "This needs cleaned" instead of "This needs cleaning" or "This needs to be cleaned." That, and the personal pronoun "yuns;" it just ain't the same as y'all. The Maryland public school system just couldn't learn them any different.

I think this quote says it all:

Surely you are one of them. Thy speech betrays thee.

BTW, that "ain't" is spelled a i n ' t. Somebody must've hacked the Profanity Filter! Doc, are you reading this?

[Mama]

Yuns is supposed to be a contraction - You ones, or you'ns just like y'all stands for you all.
The bad word insert is funny. I guess it's like my teacher used to say ain ' t ain ' t a word.
And did the Maryland school system teach them or learn them? You know if you teach them, they will learn. LOL