In a message dated 97-09-01 00:12:14 EDT, PENNA-DUTCH-L@rootsweb.com writes: << Monday: Do the wash (or as Grandma pronounced it, �warsh!�) >> 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