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 ----------