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Thread Number: 69474
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Do you Wash, or Worsh |
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| Post# 923572 2/24/2017 at 12:31 (2,615 days old) by iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
My grandmother also "wrenched" her clothes.
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Post# 923573 , Reply# 1 2/24/2017 at 12:45 (2,615 days old) by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 923576 , Reply# 2 2/24/2017 at 13:15 (2,615 days old) by revvinkevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land) |
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Post# 923582 , Reply# 3 2/24/2017 at 13:42 (2,615 days old) by kb0nes (Burnsville, MN) |
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Growing up in the East I learned to was "Warsh", it seems to be part of the dialect. The other one I remember well was "Sawl" in place of "Saw".
After moving to the Midwest I had friends tease me about it. It isn't a common pronunciation here in MN. After a few years of being conscious of it, I have dropped the "R" and now say wash. Sometimes I think I even over pronounce it just to be sure. Dialects are interesting. Spending enough time chatting with people around the world on the shortwave ham radio bands, I have got a good ear for it. Sometimes I feel as if I can tell different states apart based on the dialects! | ||
| Post# 923583 , Reply# 4 2/24/2017 at 13:43 (2,615 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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My Country German Grandmother, Wash = Warsh Rinse = "Reince" ( yeah just like him ) Sink= Zinc Purex or Chlorox LCB = Purox
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| Post# 923586 , Reply# 5 2/24/2017 at 13:55 (2,615 days old) by Iheartmaytag (Wichita, Kansas) | ||
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My Aunt in Arkansas | ||
| Post# 923587 , Reply# 6 2/24/2017 at 13:56 (2,615 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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LOL, I forgot about Arning and the vaaaaaakum cleaner. :-) No disrespect intended to those Ladies. My late Gram owned 2 cafes a tavern and a liquor store at different times over the years. She could pronounce money quite well.
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| Post# 923592 , Reply# 7 2/24/2017 at 14:39 (2,615 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
Warsh/worsh...
is definitely a Eastern mid-Atlantic dialect, the Balto-Philly area in particular, possibly due to the heavy German immigrant influence in that area.
SWMBO is 100% Baltimore German ancestry and everyone in her family says it that way. Toe-let for the "water closet" is another classic one. Payment = pavement and zinc = sink were also classic Bawlmer-isms We're both natives, or as the Shoremen like to say, Baltimorons. | ||
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Post# 923598 , Reply# 8 2/24/2017 at 15:00 (2,615 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Post# 923610 , Reply# 9 2/24/2017 at 16:16 (2,615 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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I have a few friends who "warsh", and some that "wrench" their clothes. A couple also say that the brick thing that come up out of their roof is their "chimley". | ||
| Post# 923613 , Reply# 10 2/24/2017 at 16:43 (2,615 days old) by brucelucenta () | ||
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Them peoples prolly has speed queens | ||
| Post# 923632 , Reply# 12 2/24/2017 at 17:52 (2,615 days old) by ken (NYS) | ||
My Grandmother used to say wrench referring to rinse. Cant recall if she said wash or worsh. I do hear some people use prolly in place of probably. I never thought of people from my area of NYS as having any accent like would be evident of people who live in NYC or the southern states. I always though of us as pronouncing words very plainly. Then I spoke with people from different areas of the U.S. and Canada and they would tell me I had an accent. I found that amusing. Guess it's a matter of what you're used to hearing.
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| Post# 923642 , Reply# 13 2/24/2017 at 19:40 (2,615 days old) by washman (o) | ||
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I cool. | ||
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Post# 923646 , Reply# 14 2/24/2017 at 19:48 (2,615 days old) by Jmm63 (Denville, NJ) |
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| Post# 923679 , Reply# 16 2/24/2017 at 23:55 (2,615 days old) by Laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
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Post# 923685 , Reply# 17 2/25/2017 at 00:51 (2,615 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.) |
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Brooklyn | ||
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Post# 923688 , Reply# 18 2/25/2017 at 01:07 (2,615 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Post# 923735 , Reply# 22 2/25/2017 at 09:46 (2,615 days old) by abcomatic (Bradford, Illinois) |
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Illinois I am from central Illinois and I say WARSH. My mom was from Wisconsin and we had a "Wash machine" not a washing machine. This thing with WARSH may be a generational thing? People don't say WARSH anymore that I hear anyway, but no one tells me I am wrong; even thought I am. Happy WARSHING everyone. | ||
| Post# 923758 , Reply# 23 2/25/2017 at 13:12 (2,614 days old) by Laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
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Post# 923770 , Reply# 24 2/25/2017 at 15:25 (2,614 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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 Growing up the only people I recall saying warsh were older folks from the surrounding little towns and villages in the county but I haven't heard it at all since moving back here so maybe it's sort of faded away.
What does prick my ears up hearing is the pronunciation of project, process and data. We always said them like "prawject, prawcess and daa-ta but more and more I'm hearing pro-ject, pro-cess and day-ta.
My partners a newfie and whoa but he's consciously tried all his life to erase the dialect but they still pop out now and again, particular if there's drink involved.. Newfies drop their H's from words beginning with an H but add an H to words beginning with a vowel.. So it's Am hand heggs, not ham and eggs. And it's the chimley not the chimney. | ||
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Post# 923876 , Reply# 26 2/26/2017 at 08:53 (2,614 days old) by Vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK) |
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Having been brought up in Northern Ireland most of what James wrote above agrees with what I recall and still sometimes use.
I believe "press" is also used in Scotland to denote cupboard. On that same theme I would never press clothes I would iron them I would steep badly soiled laundry not soak it And Vacerator, thar is the first time I have heard the use of "red" (although it could be "read" or even "rared") outside of Northern Ireland, where it used to be in common use pretty much as you describe although I associate more with tidying than cleaning. Al | ||
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Post# 924010 , Reply# 27 2/27/2017 at 07:45 (2,613 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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