My Pa Dutchman left Lancaster about 1776. Through Canada and back to the US apparently the warsh word continues. I've been teased unmercifully through my lifetime for mispronouncing wash. I never knew before Vee's story where I had learned to do the warsh. A speech therapist in school tried to correct me. I was told I couldn't get a teaching certificate unless I cleared up my speech. After all, there couldn't be a generation of Michigan children also warshing their hair, their car and their dogs! Joyce Stevens Livonia, MI