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Bamboozle said:
When you are through, please use the Hoover and clean-up!! 😉
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Dear Bamboozle,

That reminds me of when I was a kid in Saint Clair PA. Every refrigerator regardless of the actual brand was called a Frigidaire. 😉

When my aunt and Uncle who were raised in Schuylkill County moved to Sunbury the Hoover was used to redd up the house before compney came over. The phonetic misspellings are for ackracy. 😉

I miss hearing the older folks talk, my mom and dad and my aunt Judy are the only old coal region people left anymore from my immediate family.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
TimMurphy said:
Dear Bamboozle,

That reminds me of when I was a kid in Saint Clair PA. Every refrigerator regardless of the actual brand was called a Frigidaire. 😉

When my aunt and Uncle who were raised in Schuylkill County moved to Sunbury the Hoover was used to redd up the house before compney came over. The phonetic misspellings are for ackracy. 😉

I miss hearing the older folks talk, my mom and dad and my aunt Judy are the only old coal region people left anymore from my immediate family.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
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My in-laws are from Scranton but sadly both gone. My mother-in-law's brother played the accordion, known as a "core-deen" in the coal region.

One day I was talking to my father-in-law about his brother-in-law who had just passed and he said, "You should get his core-deen." I looked at him and said, "What?"

He repeated, "You should get his core-deen."

And again I said, "What?"

Getting pissed, he repeated a bit louder, "You should get his CORE-DEEN."

And I said, What's a core-deen?"

And he starts moving his hands in and out frantically like he's working the bellows of an accordion while screaming, A CORE-DEAN, A COR-DEEN!!"

😉

The funny part about the "coal speak" is SO many of the pronunciations are identical to the way folks talked in Philly & the Philly burbs where I grew up. Ack-a-me (instead of Acme) comes immediately to mind.

I attribute that to the large numbers of folks from the region who settled in Philadelphia over the years especially during WWII looking for work and when the coal mines started closing. There was also a lot of Reading Railroad employees who traveled daily between the region & Philadelphia.
 
Up here in my part of the NW, we speak a patois that is one part Cleveland, one part Buffalo and one part Burgh-ese, sometimes leavened with a sprinkling of the Canadian "ooot" sound. It is difficult to describe other than by quoting examples. Here is a direct quote from the late Louis J. Tullio, six term mayor of Erie from 1966-89. He is speaking to a TV reporter and complaining about the people at the Erie Waterworks: "And I told him, y'uns guyz down at the water atority are doin' the wrong ting.."

Thus spake Mayor Tullio..

There are also some folks around here who call the gas pedal or accelerator in an automobile the "exhilarator", which is actually functionally correct if you think about it. Or it may have been that it was just my Father's cousins who did this. Dad always said they were a pretty odd and unique bunch, claiming that almost all of them had ears that extended well above the crowns of their heads, despite the fact that they had uncommonly small ears...
 
RLeep2 said:
Up here in my part of the NW, we speak a patois that is one part Cleveland, one part Buffalo and one part Burgh-ese, sometimes leavened with a sprinkling of the Canadian "ooot" sound. It is difficult to describe other than by quoting examples. Here is a direct quote from the late Louis J. Tullio, six term mayor of Erie from 1966-89. He is speaking to a TV reporter and complaining about the people at the Erie Waterworks: "And I told him, y'uns guyz down at the water atority are doin' the wrong ting.."

Thus spake Mayor Tullio..

There are also some folks around here who call the gas pedal or accelerator in an automobile the "exhilarator", which is actually functionally correct if you think about it. Or it may have been that it was just my Father's cousins who did this. Dad always said they were a pretty odd and unique bunch, claiming that almost all of them had ears that extended well above the crowns of their heads, despite the fact that they had uncommonly small ears...
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Dear RLeep2,

Dropped "H's" are common in NEPA especially Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. It led to the saying, 'Where do you find the trees in Wilkes-Barre?" "Between the twos and the fours," was the answer 😉

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
wildtrout2 said:
I actually remember my grandparents referring to it as an icebox.
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Dear wildtrout2,

My mom has an actual icebox that was in her childhood home. She refinished it 50 years ago and it serves as the liquor cabinet.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
TimMurphy said:
Dear RLeep2,

Dropped "H's" are common in NEPA especially Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. It led to the saying, 'Where do you find the trees in Wilkes-Barre?" "Between the twos and the fours," was the answer 😉

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
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Dis Is How We Speak, Heyna?

Our own dialect takes a ribbing “I thought the video would get maybe 10 hits and that five of them would be my wife,” . “But it circulated like wildfire. People told me they even got it sent to them from Italy.” Christopher O’Donnell Wilkes-Barre attorney, and author of the “Heynabonics” skit...
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TimMurphy said:
Dear RLeep2,

Dropped "H's" are common in NEPA especially Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. It led to the saying, 'Where do you find the trees in Wilkes-Barre?" "Between the twos and the fours," was the answer 😉

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
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Speaking of H's...

Even though that letter doesn't exist in the Scranton/Wilkes Barre alphabet, when it appears it's pronounced "haitch."

BTW - My in-laws used to refer to a woman of ill repute as an "H" because they thought that was the first letter in the word whore...

Which means they also drop "W's." 😉

The dropping of H's like saying "tink" instead of think comes from the Irish influence in the region. If you watch "The Quiet Man" this St. Paddy's Day you'll hear it clearly.
 
Bamboozle said:
Speaking of H's...

Even though that letter doesn't exist in the Scranton/Wilkes Barre alphabet, when it appears it's pronounced "haitch."

BTW - My in-laws used to refer to a woman of ill repute as an "H" because they thought that was the first letter in the word whore...

Which means they also drop "W's." 😉

The dropping of H's like saying "tink" instead of think comes from the Irish influence in the region. If you watch "The Quiet Man" this St. Paddy's Day you'll hear it clearly.
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Dear Bamboozle,

There are so many different ethnic groups in the Coal Region, and all of them have contributed to the dialect.

I'll never forget when I was in the USAF in Florida and told the guys in my shop that I was fishing that morning, and it was kind of chilly, so I had a hooded sweatshirt and shorts on. I said I was surprised by the woman who came by with a winter coat, gloves, and her Nana's babushka wrapped around her head. Only Airmen Kohut and Trojanowski understood what I said, everyone else looked at me like I was from outer space. 😉

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
JackM said:
Ham Loaf anyone? Favorite glaze?
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We used to buy ham loaf from Willy's Smokehouse in Harrisville PA. Favorite glaze was whatever they put on it, or maybe my wife made the glaze. Long time ago, but I'd imagine a glaze with maple syrup would be good. We haven't been there in years. I think the grandson runs it now.

We may have to make a road trip.
 
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Swattie87 said:
I like American cheese on Lebanon bologna sandwiches. And some type of spicy or deli mustard. Currently into Mike’s Deli Mustard.
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Kunzler sweet bologna (more sweet than smokey like Seltzers) , regular mustard, and Italian bread. It's the only time I eat white bread.
 
I remember moving to Pittsburgh as a kid and everyone being obsessed with Islay’s Chipped Chopped ham. Found it most frequently served in a Sloppy Joe or Arby’s reminiscent sauce. Most people called in ham BBQ. It was ok. Never fully understood the obsession with it, but I could eat it. Easy to make and common in a crock pot at parties.
 
Swattie87 said:
I remember moving to Pittsburgh as a kid and everyone being obsessed with Islay’s
Chipped Chopped ham. Found it most frequently served in a Sloppy Joe or Arby’s reminiscent sauce. Most people called in ham BBQ. It was ok. Never fully understood the obsession with it, but I could eat it. Easy to make and common in a crock pot at parties.
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I've eaten this type of dish. I would give it a good solid rating of "meh."
 
jifigz said:
Kunzler is inferior to Seltzer Lebanon in every single way. Taste, texture, etc.
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Dear jifigz,

We must be hogs from the same litter of piglets. 😉 Kunzler's is mushy goo. I'll add that sweet bologna of any kind is an abomination though YMMV. Weaver's regular Lebanon bologna is pretty good too.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
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