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.
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Pool and Pole
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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:
BTW, that "ain't" is spelled a i n ' t. Somebody must've hacked the Profanity Filter! Doc, are you reading this?
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?
Regards//Larry
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