w Terrell wrote: > > Now I'm a newcomer to this list, and I'm surprised. I'm currently from > MN and I thought all those funny sayings like "Will you throw the > garbage" and "What are you doing then" and "Anymore, I get up at six" > were localisms. I think I can still claim "Yah, shure, ya betcha" and > "It could be worse", tho'. We are well recognized since "Fargo" as > thenational center for funny frases, and there's a whole paperbook > devoted to "How to speak Minnesotan", but I didn't see an old movie > "Throw mama from the train a kiss" , so I don't know much about PaD. > Nevertheless, my AR granny said Warsh and Rinsch and my OK m-in-law > called irises Orishes. And then there's the Californians who end > everything with "huh?" In a way its a shame that TV is sort of > standardizing our speech: youngsters with parents who have a drawl from > somewhere usually speak straight (there's aDutch phrase and I didn't even > try!) Win in MN Win -- Ya shore ya betcha! Is Norwegian! :-) They say it around here in the Norwegian communities (especially Ballard, which is near Seattle). Brenda Hébert