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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie
OMG, once you said buggy, I thought maybe you were from Tennessee! They say buggy here, and it drives me crazy! I love britches and fixin', but buggy drives me buggy!
I've always called that piano an upright. Spinet is also a form of upright.
I use sweeper and vacuum interchangeably.
I also use both pop and soda.
And have been told that I actually have zero accent. Undetectable.
Where do you live now?
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I'm in Miami now. There is actually a Pittsburgh accent. Bill Cowher is the poster child for that accent. I don't think I have one but a few years ago I went to an eye doctor here in Florida and he asked me if I was from Pittsburgh. I was shocked. He was from Pittsburgh and picked up on it. We both had not lived there for a quarter century.
Yes we say pop too. TN is also part of the Appalachian valley.
Its hilarious you say sweeper because NO ONE knows what the hell I am talking about. I thought that was only a W/PA thing but apparently not.
Now here is the kicker. Even though I grew up only an hour from the W/VA border, we really thought they were inbreds and had a million jokes about West Virginia. Remember the MTV show Buckwild? It was the Jersey Shore of W/VA. It actually got cancelled because it was so controversial. Anyway, about 15 years ago when it was on I was flicking past the channels and it was on. All their crazy stuff I was like OMG, we did that too. That's when it hit me, OMG we are the same!
Now the million dollar question. Do you know what tick tacking is?