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