Here is a Philadelphia area pronunciation that I never hear anywhere else:
"Wooder" when they mean "water" And just so this post is not considered
off-topic I will remind everyone not to get wooder on your expensive Olympus
gear.
Bob Winters
> From: ll.clark@xxxxxxxxxxx
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> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:29:24 -0400
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [OM] Proper Texan grammer
>
> In <3B7ECD03.57160A17@xxxxxxxxx>, on 08/18/01 at 03:16 PM,
> Steve Goss <steveg3@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>> Speaking as someone who has lived in both Texas and Philadelphia, PA,
>> youse is regional to Philadelphia. I don't think I've heard a native
>> Texan ever say youse. (See the Rocky movies if you don't believe
>> me)
>
> It's endemic in the New York region.
>
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