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- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Thu May 11, 2006 4:32 pm
- Forum: The Rebel-Yankee Test
- Topic: Creeks vs. Brooks
- Replies: 12
- Views: 41382
Branch Water
Ewwww....
- 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?"
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.