I am totally discombobulated by your comments. Someone on the List here told me about the source of a word I used before. It was a "Dusey!" I really liked that one.
From Deusenberg - a very high end carriage built sports car from the 20's and 30's. Jay Leno owns one and says it is the one vintage auto that he can ride on the freeway without getting rude hand gestures because it will GO. He's taken it to plus 100 mph.
An old Hollywood story has it that Gary Cooper and Clark Gable used to have a "leading man" feud going and that Cooper claimed that "his was 2 inches longer than Gable's".... he was talking about their respective Deusenbergs of course.
This is great. NOW I can get with it, so to speak. There's words in here I'll never even be able to find a circumstance to use, but you can bet I'll try
I knew just what he was talking about. Actually I know just what Jeff Foxworthy means before he explains what his redneck words mean. This doesn't look good for us down here in Oklahoma, does it? I like the latest phrase "widja-didja". You didn't bring your big truck widja didja?(That's with you did you for you northern folks)
catywampus, kittycorner, discombo(o)bulated and kludge are all part my family's language...but when used in "mixed company" some folks don't have a clue what we are talking about.
My grandma also used "youens" or "yens" like in "what time youens comin over fur supper?" Never did get that one...
Shari
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I guess we can consider this lesson in literacy officially hijacked! And all these years that I described something great as a real "dusey," I was borrowing from Dusenberg? Daddurnit, wudja know? ~G
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I guess we can consider this lesson in literacy officially hijacked! And all these years that I described something great as a real "dusey," I was borrowing from Dusenberg? Daddurnit, wudja know? ~G
What a funny thread... I particularly like the cancelled rally monkey....
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Your Grandma must have grown up in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh...
That is the only place in the US where the term "Yunz" is used to mean you or you and your friends.... It is similar to You all or Y'all in the deep south, or Youse (as in "youse guys..") from the New York/New Jersey area..
I'll bet she says Dahntahn to describe going into town, has an interesting pronunciation for Shopping...
John McG
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Your Grandma must have grown up in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh...
That is the only place in the US where the term "Yunz" is used to mean you or you and your friends.... It is similar to You all or Y'all in the deep south, or Youse (as in "youse guys..") from the New York/New Jersey area..
I'll bet she says Dahntahn to describe going into town, has an interesting pronunciation for Shopping...
John McG
(worked in the Mills along the Mon back in the day....)
Very close! Only about 100 miles off! She lived near Akron Ohio (very western PA) when I knew her...I think she may have lived in PA sometime as a child but she was born in Italy.
It was always alot of fun to read her letters, she wrote just like she talked. BTW, I think your spelling of "yunz" was more accurate than mine. Don't remember dahntahn (we didn't have one)...but that sounds about right, if we did.
Shari
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Your Grandma must have grown up in western Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh...
That is the only place in the US where the term "Yunz" is used to mean you or you and your friends.... It is similar to You all or Y'all in the deep south, or Youse (as in "youse guys..") from the New York/New Jersey area..
I'll bet she says Dahntahn to describe going into town, has an interesting pronunciation for Shopping...
John McG
(worked in the Mills along the Mon back in the day....)
Great! My dad grew up in Clarion up near Oil City. He went cosmopolitan when he moved out to become a pilot in 1943, but I've always enjoyed the family accents. Still have an aunt living in Tracy, CA, who sounds just like my Grandma.
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She lived near Akron Ohio (very western PA) when I knew her...I think she may have lived in PA sometime as a child but she was born in Italy. 
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