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by Mama
Sat May 13, 2006 2:27 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Wikipedia Describes Southern Talk
Replies: 8
Views: 26159

gone

Yes, I probably would have spelled it gone, but was going for the phonetics, in case someone thought it was gone, as in that's long gone.
by Mama
Fri May 12, 2006 2:06 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Would of
Replies: 22
Views: 89376

Oops!

So you could have had had in a sentence, or have had, but not had have. As in, I had had a bad day on Thursday, and was in no mood to talk about it. Or I have had a headache all week. But not "if I had have" done something. It's just if I had. But I could say would have. I would've done th...
by Mama
Fri May 12, 2006 12:38 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Would of
Replies: 22
Views: 89376

Would of

Well, I don't believe it is correct English, variant or otherwise. Besides, it isn't right to say, if I would've, when you should be using if I had've. You could say I would have done it , but I didn't get the chance. But since it wasn't done right, it would read If I had've done it right, I would n...
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 8:51 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Creeks vs. Brooks
Replies: 12
Views: 41382

Eww..

Ewww to drinking something called branch water.
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 8:49 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: The House vs. Home
Replies: 3
Views: 16957

My house

Well, yes, I would say come on over to my house. Because it is not their home. It is only home to those who live there. As in, I am home now.
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 4:37 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Would of
Replies: 22
Views: 89376

Would've?

It could've, if it hadn't've been written down and misspelled.
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 4:32 pm
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Creeks vs. Brooks
Replies: 12
Views: 41382

Branch Water

Ewwww....
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 9:17 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: THE Interstate?
Replies: 26
Views: 81351

The Parkway

In Pittsburgh, the highway is always called the Parkway, giving rise to the question, "Why do we drive on the parkway, and park on the driveway?"
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 9:08 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: The House vs. Home
Replies: 3
Views: 16957

Tennessee home

I am from Tennessee, and we say go home. Or fix up the house, take your pick. But never go to the house or fix up the home.
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 9:02 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Has anyone out there ever heard of a 6 foot wedge?
Replies: 22
Views: 68080

A wedgie

Here in Imperial, PA (a suburb of Pittsburgh), there is a restaurant called Angelia's, that sells a wedgie (sandwich). It is not a meatball thing, but more like a calzone. I have ordered a veggie wedgie before, and it's quite good, although sloppy. So you actually COULD get cutesy and order a wedgie...
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 8:57 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Where You At?
Replies: 17
Views: 53280

Where you at?

When I was in school, the teacher, when asked where anything was at, would reply "between the a and the t". Someone told her once that it didn't make any sense, and she said it made as much sense as asking where something was at. But then she said she meant in the dictionary. (At comes bet...
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 8:51 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: rinse, ranch, wrench, all, oil
Replies: 13
Views: 62582

Oh-ul

Anybody from Tennessee would tell you that it's pronounced oh-ul. That is 2 syllables. I had to translate once for a Michigan visitor.
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 8:49 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Panking Snow and Cleaning Snow
Replies: 16
Views: 84469

Snow

Thank God I have never had to clean snow or pank snow. I have shoveled it some, and scraped it off my windshield, but that's about the extent of it. It sounds absolutely dreadful.
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 8:33 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Po-boys
Replies: 13
Views: 42862

Hoagies

Well, here in Pittsburgh, we call them hoagies, even when we go to Subway to order one. They should call it Hoagieway. It just doesn't have that ring to it, does it? Not to get off TRACK (pun intended). Hee Hee.
by Mama
Thu May 11, 2006 8:18 am
Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
Topic: Creeks vs. Brooks
Replies: 12
Views: 41382

Branch?

As in, the river branches out from there? Or the left branch of the creek? Actually, I would say the left FORK of the creek. In Pittsburgh, it's crick. My sister-in law asked me if a crick was a creek, then do you have a creek in your neck? Of course she was only ten or eleven at the time.

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