Fersher, bruh (West Coast, surfer colloquialism).
And, for the record, I speculate that ThermonuclearMarshmallow’s (lost FR handle for ping) use of “drownded” comes from the influences found in the mid-Atlantic States, specifically PA, WVA, KY and eastern OH.
As said before, the diversity found in our language, due to local colloquialisms and carried into the great expanse of this country, only enrich the American Experience.
I may be wrong, too.
One problem that we have now is people are abandoning the local colloquialisms and dialects in favor of some annoyingly perfect way of speaking from a classroom and not life. I want to pull my hair out when I hear it, and I can’t spare the hair.
***As said before, the diversity found in our language, due to local colloquialisms and carried into the great expanse of this country, only enrich the American Experience.
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Howzit bruddah!
You stay right in what you say. Da kine variety in language lidat makes us all bettah!
Aloha!
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Well, either that, or destroy the language.
Cletus, you must be reading the family geneology. You’re spot on.
When my German and Irish ancestors arrived Here, they settled in PA, then some moved to the Ronceverte area in Virginia. From there, some moved to Bath county KY and further west, starting a town named after them in the MO Ozarks where I grew up.
Another branch went to Ohio before coming west. My Grand mother did the family tree on that side and stopped at the Gold Medal Killer. Can’t play cards with the president and be a social butterfly with relations like that even if you are related to the Rockafellers.
Geneology is (can be) so fun(ny).
TM
Drownded was most definitely in common use in western PA, tween Youngstown and Pittsburgh, West Virginia triangle area back when I was growing up. Lots of little kids ran around bear nekkid, and we had to red up and push the door to every morning before school.