I always thought that "warsh" was an Ohio thing. Our family left Pa. in 1850s, and we still speak that way. Bruce At 03:15 PM 9/1/97 -0500, Candy J. Gessat wrote: >Joan, > >The older PD still speak that way here. That's Montg., Lehigh and Berks >Co.s I'd say it universal. > >Candy > > >Vee, your Penna Dutch version of the word wash as warsh reminds me of how >my >father would pronounce the name for the "awnings" we had over our porch >windows--he called them "ornings," and I think I must have been about 12 or >so before I learned they were really "awnings!" Was this universal Penna >Dutch pronounciation or was it an Adams and York County dialect I wonder? > >Joan Myers Young >---------- > > > <<bludwig@ptialaska.net> Researching: Pennsylvania - LUDWIG - Columbia & Northampton Counties LONG - Columbia & Northampton Counties RAMBO - Philadelphia & Beaver Counties TEDROW - Philadelphia & Beaver Counties KING - Philadelphia County CREASY - ??? Counties MIKLE - ??? Counties Ohio - LUDWIG - Allen, Hancock, Pickaway and Marion Counties FISCHER - Allen, Hancock, Shelby & ??? Counties MILLER - Hancock & ??? Counties WORTHINGTON - Hardin & ??? Counties ANDERSON - Allen, Columbiana and Hancock Counties SCHALK - Seneca County Genealogy Homepage <bold>=</bold> <<http://www.ptialaska.net/~bludwig/hometree.htm>