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Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 6:16 pm
by Bailey
Absolutely not. He thinks he's always right as it is!
but that's the nature of the beast.
mark
Re: Worsh - Wisconsin!
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 5:54 pm
by april61
I posted earlier that I grew up in Iowa (in the land of little Germany, as my husband calls it) and generations have pronounced it "worsh".
I think it may have somethin' to do with German ancestry... I've always wondered why my mom said "warsh." I think my dad's dad might have said it, too. Both were from German immigrants.
Grampa on dad's side also said, "crick." And probly a host of other localisms that I'm not remembering.
This is a fun board!
In grace,
april
"woish"
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:46 pm
by april61
No, wait! My mom doesn't say "worsh." She says "woish," with the vowel as in joy. My kids reminded me of this slight variation, which invariably causes them to snicker.
My dh agrees--he knows lots of people who say "worsh" around here. I wonder if instead of an ethnic peculiarity, it could be a generational thing. Was there some tv or radio program mid-twentieth century that used the word? Lyrics in a musical, perhaps?
Oh well, time to woish some dishes.
april
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:28 pm
by gleedgirl
Well, I grew up in central Warshington, way back when. There is an 'r' there. People there still use it. Those around Seattle (Puget Sound) use the Wahshington. Sort of like they are from the other coast?
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:07 am
by skinem
Hey, gleedgirl, I was a Selah boy during the mid 70s (Medical Lake before that) , and we figured if we heard someone say "Warshington" they were from somewhere else!
...and you're right! I caught your "local" joke! Seattle is like from the other coast!
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 3:37 pm
by j.kipper
Here in Missouri there seem to a whole lot of people (including many of my relatives) that pronounce it "warsh" somewhere between "war" and "wore". I have always pronounced it wash, probably from not living all over the country and outside as well. When I lived in Middletown, Maryland, I never heard anyone other than those from West Virginia pronounce it as warsh.
By the way, I end Missouri with the "ah" when it precedes a consonant and "e" when it precedes a vowell. My wife insists it should NEVER have the "ah" at the end.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:27 am
by sluggo
Here in Missouri there seem to a whole lot of people (including many of my relatives) that pronounce it "warsh" somewhere between "war" and "wore". I have always pronounced it wash, probably from not living all over the country and outside as well. When I lived in Middletown, Maryland, I never heard anyone other than those from West Virginia pronounce it as warsh.
By the way, I end Missouri with the "ah" when it precedes a consonant and "e" when it precedes a vowell. My wife insists it should NEVER have the "ah" at the end.
J, I'm with your wife. (Phonetically I mean!)
It's another of the fascinating facets of language that we can apply such variations to different circumstances without conscious analysis- reminds me of how some (e.g. NYC and UK) can insert an "R" between words that end/begin in vowels.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:30 am
by Perry
J, I'm with your wife. (Phonetically I mean!)
Good thing you clarified that point.
Re: Warsh
Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 6:30 pm
by txmusicgirl
Where I come from in SouthTexas a significant number of the older peopel pronouncee the word "wash" with a long o and an r as "worsh".
Thats how I say it
I spent all mornin worsh'n clothes.
Re: Warsh-Ohio River Valley
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:43 pm
by kibbles
Hi, new here. I have been a truck driver for some time and can often pick out dialects. Warsh for the most part shows up in people that were raised or influenced by those raised in the Ohio River Valley.
I'm new too, and just HAD to join to post on this pronounciation.
I think Maygen has a good point. Here in Ohio some of the older people, especially in the Southern part of the state, say "worsh" and "Worshington". Rhyming with "porch". I always thought it sounded weird, but then my parents were from the Dakotas...where they say "aunt" as "awwwnt".
Accents are so funny.
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:25 am
by kadoodle76
my mommas friend (who is from philly) always warshes with wooter. I dont get it. My mom used to get mad when her husband called her Linder (linda) she insist he show her where the 'R" is in her name. He's a new yorker
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:24 pm
by Perry
my mommas friend (who is from philly) always warshes with wooter. I dont get it. My mom used to get mad when her husband called her Linder (linda) she insist he show her where the 'R" is in her name. He's a new yorker
Well then, obviously you can take the New Yorker out of New York, but you cannot take the
R out of New York.
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 12:51 am
by sluggo
my mommas friend (who is from philly) always warshes with wooter. I dont get it. My mom used to get mad when her husband called her Linder (linda) she insist he show her where the 'R" is in her name. He's a new yorker
Wooter (or maybe
wudder is closer) is just what we're made of in Southeast Pennsylvania, errybody knows 'at. But
warsh is from off to the west, you know, that other state- Pittsburgh.
Re: Warsh?
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 7:40 pm
by jacobcak545
Re: Warsh?
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2020 5:06 am
by wordlady1
In Baltimore, where I'm from, we have a lingo called Baltimorese, or as they pronounce it, "Ballamorese." My grandmother when she was doing laundry would say she was going to do the "warsh." She would also "wrinch off the dishes in the zinc." More: "Ballamore, Murlin, is right next door to Warshinton, D.C." "It's so hot you could fry an egg on the payment." "My car needs new taurs and an ul change." And a diphthong o: "If you don't stop, I'm gonna call the poelice." Going to the beach: "I'm going downa shore." And my favorite, when I'm going to visit you: "I'll see you over the house."