>...>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.