That's my pet peeve, also. Axed 'em. Good Grief!!! Another one is "their for they're" in writing. PULLEEEZZZZ!!!! Doesn't anyone take English in school anymore? :lol: :roll:

That is interesting, but --

that usage in 1995 in St. Paul, Minnesota?

OK, how about "Sodee" for "soda". My German descent cousins in MO use that all the time. My mom was born and raised there (central Missouri), but came to CA when she was 19. All the ones that stayed there talk like that, and their kids. My mom took up "west coast-ese" right away.

My grandpa used to say "refrigiator".

To be honest with you from this end of the world - my sister always played with words - she is so good at that - and she rhymed wash the squash and "funned" it a little bit by saying warsh the squarsh!!!

Five inches of snow here - in a snow emergency, so I had to move the van so it wouldn't get towed away!!!!! And my feet are cold!!!! Edie

The German word for wash is wasch pronounced Vahsh - waschtag means washday. I have a sign hanging on the wall going down to the basement:

Mag die Hausfrau
Sonnenschein
haben an jedem
Waschtag.

May the housewife have sunshine on her washday. Isn't that sweet? Edie (again)

to describe something as being over yonder.

I've explained that word as meaning "there plus about 50 feet". ;)

OK, but in 2009 in California? I don't really get it. It's lazy speech.

A phrase I use all the time is Holler when you're ready or Holler if you need me. I don't think anything of it til I wrote it on the board and I thought boy they must really think I am a hick! Ok A hick who lives in the sticks!! someone who is backwards(doesn't know much) and lives out in the far back regions and doesn't have much contact with the civilized world! Iowa has this stigma that everyone who lives in Iowa is a hick. No brains and no manners.

Another version of the holler is-- It's just a hoot and a holler away.

Have no idea - explain, please

Holler bloody murder