@Mamapolo2016 Worked at Walmart long time ago, in automotive department. Guy comes up to counter, "where's the all?". Sir, all 3 of us said, that's laundry detergent, over there <points> in grocery. "No no no, all!". Sir, again, grocery because it's laundry detergent. "Hmm". "Well can you just point me to the all?". (i was listening this time). Sir, are you saying oil? "Yeahhh!". "oiall" didn't even hear the o the first 2 times. Geeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzz that was crazy.
@twiigss When I was a kid, my family was in the Appalachians, up in the hills, looking for a preacher buddy of Dad's who lived in a place Dad called Bear Creek.
Several people looked puzzled and said, 'Naw, couldn't rightly tell ya."
Finally the last guy shook his head but as Dad was getting back into the car, the guy hollered, "Y'all wouldn't mean B'ar Crick, wouldja?"
@Mamapolo2016 This is a good reminder of how Missouri/Missoura has much of its history tied to the east coast. Also a testimony to the diversity.
"The South" starts somewhere in Missouri. We use to debate about exactly where that was, and the consensus was that it's where the snack rack at the Circle-K has more pork rinds than Cheetos and potato chips.
My mother always used to say "warsh". She lived in Maryland near D.C. with my father before I was born, and she told me once that she picked up that pronunciation while she lived there. She also used to say "squarsh", and "Warshington".
Hard to believe, isn't it? They couldn't have lived there for more than 3 years.
The rest of her family were from Nebraska, and they never place an "R" into those words...but my mother seemed to get stuck on those pronunciations.
