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Re: USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches

From:B Elliott Walker <umwalk05@...>
Date:Thursday, December 9, 1999, 19:20
>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.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
she sat on the shore teaching you to suck eggs? what? please explain. byron.