Richard Emlin Reed, you make me giggle! I am SO guilty of using of using "what for"....like when my guy makes a trip to the grocery, I'll ask him "What for kind of ceral did you buy?". Or askinmg my nepfhew "What for college did you decide upon?" And I'm *not yet* 50years old! My stepgrandparents and my PA Dutch grandparents' siblings always called their cars "machines". If they were using the horses instead, they would "hitch up the bukky (buggy) or wagon wunst and let's go naw". ~Karen from Berks