Re: USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches

On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 melissap@ocp.org wrote:

>>Quoth Jeffrey Henning:
>>> I heard that plenty growing up in eastern Ohio, though some of my relatives
>>> would have said, "that shirt needs warshed."  Oh, how I miss my
>>> grandmother -- she warshed, she sat on the davenport, she bought us pop,
>>>she liked smearcase, she made kolaches, she swept (rather than vacuumed or
>>> hoovered), she sat on the shore teaching me to suck... eggses... eggses it
>>> is!  And she did a hundred other wonderful things that have nothing to do
>>> with American dialects.
I use davenport, but only for huge, monstrous, overstuffed things like
the one that inhabited my grandmother's house.  I don't say "warsh",
but I do sweep.  I don't drink much pop, but that's the word I would
most likely use.  Never heard of the other two.

>Don, you mean you're one of those *gasp* soda people?
>Jeffrey, I got to ask, what the heck is (are?) smearcase and kolaches?
>
>Somebody asked whether people's conlangs have dialects. Mine doesn't yet (I
>want to get the main language into shape first), but I plan to have them. In
>my mind, dialects is one of the most fun things about language.
>
>P.S. My great aunt and uncle came down from Warshington to give me their old
>davenport just this weekend.  They couldn't stay for "supper" though. : )
>
Some of the old folks say it that way (Warshington), but I think is a
regional element that hasn't been passed on to newcommers or younger
natives.

Padraic.