Jess, my mom was born in Joplin, MO, and raised most of her life in the Midwest. Most of my older relatives said "warsh" too.
Captain was looking for a pilot. I found a husband. Seemed to work out.
Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Strix - Feb 01, 2012 8:47:24 am PST #19564 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Steph L. - Feb 01, 2012 8:48:13 am PST #19565 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Jess, my mom was born in Joplin, MO, and raised most of her life in the Midwest. Most of my older relatives said "warsh" too.
Yup. My Dad's family, all rural SW Ohio, say "warsh."
amych - Feb 01, 2012 8:53:28 am PST #19566 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
MIL (rural midwest) says "warsh", FIL (urban midwest) say "wash". I know the Balt-Wash warsh, but it's a different-sounding one. And now I wish I had gotten around to learning IPA notation when I was hanging around linguists.
aurelia - Feb 01, 2012 8:53:42 am PST #19567 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I think of "warsh" as a Baltimore-Washington accent
There should be a map for this! My parents say it and they're from SW Missouri.
amych - Feb 01, 2012 8:54:35 am PST #19568 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
wash warsh Wash wish whoosh.
amych - Feb 01, 2012 8:54:35 am PST #19569 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Jesse - Feb 01, 2012 8:54:39 am PST #19570 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think it's too bad when people think regional accents sound uneducated.
amych - Feb 01, 2012 8:55:08 am PST #19571 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think it's too bad when people think regional accents sound uneducated.
Also this. Plus they're endlessly fascinating.
Calli - Feb 01, 2012 9:02:04 am PST #19572 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My mom was from Saginaw, Michigan. I don't remember her parents or siblings saying "warsh," though, and they all grew up in the same place, more or less. She use to tease Dad about his yooper accent (U.P.-er, aka, from the Upper Peninsula of MI) and he'd tease her about "warsh."
Now I've lived in NC for longer than I lived in MI, and "ah reckon" is as much a part of my vocabulary as "ya, sure, you betcha."
Strix - Feb 01, 2012 9:04:08 am PST #19573 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I think it's too bad when people think regional accents sound uneducated.
Yep. Although it's fun to see people with accents flip the channel on people who think they're stupid because of an accent or dialect usage.
I find code-switching endlessly fascinating, linguistically, and it's an endlessly useful skill to have. I used in in teaching all the time, to great effect.
But it's really wince-inducing when someone tries to code-switch and they DO IT WRONG. But you see this trope played with endlessly in TV, movies, books and commercials.
ETA: Jebus, could I have used "endlessly" more?!