05-24-2021, 01:13 PM
(05-16-2021, 04:43 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: A LOT of people around this area used to pronounce the word "wash" like "worsh".
"Did you put the clothes in the worshing machine?"
"I'm going to go worsh my car."
"George Worshington was our 1st president."
Seeing your post reminded of this. Hadn't thought about for awhile and I'm not even sure it's common anymore.
My wife makes fun of my pronunciation of "worsh".. I don't hear it, but apparently she does..
When I was a kid, around 17 I was in Job Corps in Darby, Montana . There were guys from just about every state, NY, Boston, all over the south, Texas, even Montana..Anyway I picked up on the different accents and still speak with different dialects to this day depending on the subject at hand.. The most pronounced to my ear was from Bahhstun.. Boston..they drank tarnic (tonic) instead of soda pop..
Quite a hoot watching new kids from Brooklyn seeing snow capped mountains for the first time in their lives..
I remember one kid telling me he never knew mountains were real. He thought they were just made up..lol One guy thought bears were just stuffed animals.. Quite an eye opener for a lot of guys back then..
In the immortal words of my old man, "Wait'll you get to be my age!"
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