Ok During a very rainy week... I noted that the creeks are rising fast today. The big boss piped up (knowing I'm just a hillbilly with a good shave) ask "is that creek or crick". I said that depends on what side your on. The response was, " good answer !" tp
My Wisconsin relatives(particularly my Uncle)would call it "crick". This brought to light for me how my Dad(also a Midwesterner)would say "a-PRISH-e-ate, for "appreciate".
Round here it gets even worse. We have towns that you have to be schooled in how they pronouce them. The new news people go nuts. Langcaster is pronouced Lank-est-er Chuancy is chancy Buchtel is book-tell And Rio Grand is rye-o-grand Gota love it tp
Ask, where you from? The rumor is that, the locals called Chauncey, chan-see in case the dry officers came to town. That would tip off the bootleggers the law was in town, and it stuck. If a person called it Chauncey insted of chan-see, they were an "out of towner" and could be trouble. tp
I didn't know where else to post this, but this thread seemed most appropriate. As we head towards another New Year's Day, this is a New Year's Eve scene I'd love to see on TV. : Reporter: Look at all these happy faces! Let's see if I can get someone to talk about a New Year's resolution. Here's someone..ya got any New Year's RESOLUTIONS(big smile):? Interviewee: Yes, I've given this a lot of thought over the last months of this year. I'd like to resolve to make a better personal effort to get along with others, to improve my interpersonal communication skills. We must be kind and friendly to others, to keep our sense of humor on the good-natured side, rather than showing cynicsm. In these times of..... Reporter: Just say lose weight, will ya? I need to go to a break. Interviewee" ME? I'm not concerned with that. Do you really think I need to...... Reporter: This is.............reporting. Now a message from our sponsor.
The question actually is, why do we drive on a parkway, but park on a driveway? Or why is something sent my truck a shipment, but by ship it is cargo?
Gotta love Costco... We've been invited to a Christmas brunch and when I asked what we should bring, the host suggested Danish. So, I went to Costco this morning, figuring they'd have a tray of lots of little ones. Nope! They sell these 4-packs (2 for $7.99) of a pastry which has roughly 1/4th the land mass of Denmark itself.
Anyone who's lived in southern California for a while knows that the proper Spanish pronunciation for San Pedro is San-Pay-dro. Except that it's not. The place was settled by Croatian and Italian immigrants who named it San-Pee-dro. The name stuck and that's what all the locals call it to this day. If you really want to sound like a local you just call it Pee-dro.
I did not know spiders had first names like Rex. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/wor...ming-why-dont-you-die-at-spider-a4028206.html
