Well, I'd like to hear your favorite word, phrase or whatever that is native only to the Delaware Valley, such as the obvious "wooder" (as in what we now buy in bottles but can still get out of the"spicket"), or "down da shore" (meaning any point along the Atlantic coastline of "Sowt Jer-zee").
We'll see if I can tell what nayberhud youse are from by what youse send me (remember "Feerrresh pretz-ullz!...Y'awll reddy, fresh pretz-ullz!"? Then you'se are from Kayenay!).
Send them in to me via the email link and I'll compile a list of the top favorites and post them at a later date (prolly on a slow newz day).
C'mawn, youse guys...let's pull out alla stops and take this to the "shtreet"!
B.
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my favorite from my granmom in the north east... jaeatyet?
A few Kenzintin-isms:
the living room = da pah-ler
the sewer = da cole-bert
the refridgerator = d'ice-bahks
the basement = da seller
Are you a "Kenzo", or married to one? Pah-ler is what they called it in Fishtown and "Lower Kensington", below Lehigh Avenue...we called it "da livin' room"
How about: we rode "are" bikes in the "shtreet" and walked "onna payment"?
Mom washed dishes in "da zink" and when she was done, went out and sat on "da stoop".
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