With great enjoyment I have been reading the e-mails. My children always tell me I have reverted back to the "South Iowa Brogue" when ever I return from Iowa. Can that be true?? Does anyone else do it? When our granddaughter was about 3-4 we were going shopping and she was in a big hurry and I said "Oh hold your taters". She had no idea what that meant. My grandmother used to say to hold your horses also. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sherry Balow" <balowmsg@earthlink.net> To: <IADECATU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 10:14 PM Subject: [IADECATU] Re: Iowa Brogue > My 2-cents: > > I left Iowa as a 5-6 year old and don't believe I have any trace of > "Ioway-nian" in my dialectal utterings, however, I STILL have people ask > me > where I'm from! (54 years later.) Having this discussed here reminded me > of my Mom's name...Dorothy----always pronounced "Door-thy" EXCEPT by my > great-grandmother, (and also Auntie Em in the Wizard of Oz), who > pronounced > it "Dar-ah-thy". My great-grand was born and raised in Van Wert so I'm > wondering if "Dar-ah-thy" is how it's typically pronounced in Iowa, (and > Kansas). Anyone know? > > Just got several inches of rain in Northern Calif---some snow in the > mountains---so looks like we'll get to use our ski passes afterall! > Missed > the rain since we were in Southern Calif., but we're back now and READY > for > Christmas. Hope everyone is enjoying "the season". > > Sherry > > > > > balowmsg@earthlink.net > NOW BLOGGING > http://www.settlethedust.blogspot.com/ > > "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed > until it is faced." > - James A. Baldwin > > > > > > > > > ==== IADECATU Mailing List ==== > Stacey Dietiker, Momdit@aol.com: Decatur County List Administrator, > Website Coordinator, Decatur County IA Genweb - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~iadecatu > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >

I still say "hold your horses", even to my horses. My parents always said that. Barbara Texas