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From: "Kenjura Genealogical Services" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Soda vs Pop, and other terms
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:21:13 -0600
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Carolyn,

My aunts and uncles born and raised in Eastern Iowa *warsh* their hands in
the *zinc*. Growing up I drank *pop*, now living in Texas, I drink *Coke*
even when it's Dr. Pepper. In eastern Iowa, and probably Wisconsin and
Illinois too, the plural for you is *yous guys* or sometime just *yous*.

Nicole Kenjura

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Subject: Re: [APG] Soda vs Pop, and other terms


> Carolyn wrote:
>> I can tell you this for sure, I'm not a "true" southerner (raised
>> military),
>> but under no circumstances would I EVER carry water in a pail from a
>> brook
>> <G>. I'd take my bucket down to the creek to get that water. And then I'd
>> probably WARSH something with it, possibly using a warshrag.
>
> Growing up on a farm in the Mississippi Delta, across the river from
> Carolyn's great state (the one we used to refer to as TGFA--Thank God for
> Arkansas :), I was a long way from a creek and the only crick around was
> the
> one I got in my neck from carrying the bucket of water I'd just pumped
> from
> the artesian well.
>
> And, yes, I did *carry* it. I didn't *tote* it, like folks in Northeastern
> Alabama. But never, in the Mississippi Delta, did I *warsh* something,
> not
> even when I used a wash tub and a rub-board. In case anybody's interested,
> I
> also used that old galvenized wash tub for a cooler on hot days, but I
> didn't fill it with bottles of pop or soda. I put it under the pump,
> filled
> it with water from the well (water, not warter), and then lolled in it
> with
> my pet duck.
>
> Elizabeth
>

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