Greetings PD Rooters: This is my first time posting, although I have been lurking for weeks. I, too, learned to red/read up the house - but have no idea how my parents/grandmother would have spelled it if they had to leave me a note. So, all I have is the "sound" of it. I also remember "outening" the lights. I think that my mother remembered some of these sayings from her childhood early in the century, when she would have known a number of good Mennonite/Evangelical kinfolk who came to Kent County Michigan from Waterloo County, Ontario - the Kitchener and Breslau areas where the PD from Lancaster and Montgomery Co, PA migrated right after 1800. I remember one that always delighted us - a story about someone who "jumped the bed out and ran the stairs down" If anyone needs lookups I own the Ezra Eby book on "A Biographical History of Waterloo Township" (of Waterloo County, ONT) which includes several thousand PD names and descent of those who moved from PA to Ontario, including lots and lots of Baumanns, Betzners and Clemens, which were my own particular lines. Allan E. Green <allagreen@aol.com>