In a message dated 12/14/05 9:37:54 AM, didrwood1@netcommander.com writes: > My mother, who was born in Mercer Co., MO, "warshes" also.  She also has a > daughter, my sis, who lived in "Warshington."  My Grandma, Mom's mom, also > used to say "pertneer".  > "Warsh" sure rings a bell with me as whenever my cousins and I get together we kid each other about that way of saying wash. My grandmother (from Lineville, Wayne Co., IA) used to say "we-uns" and "you-uns," which I had not heard growing up in California, and some folks across the line in Mercer Co., MO used to say "hain't" rather than ain't. A linguist/geographer could probably trace these Midwest expressions to an earlier locality in the Old South. I know my grandmother's ancestors came to Iowa from Virginia, with a brief layover in Ohio, but she never said "you-all," just "you-uns." I've mentioned the above on the List before but it seemed to fit the current "thread" combining snow tales and regional language. Rick