Re: Regionalisms

[Peggy Milan <mediacenter@ICT-ILS.EDU>]

Hello, astute colleagues!
I have been enjoying this thread on regionalisms very much as it brings back
fond memories of my early years in teaching. I began my career in a rural
county to the southeast of the Atlanta metro area. I was confused when I
heard my students saying things like "I need to trim my pencil" for
sharpening a pencil, "I got bus left" for missing the bus or "Can I use your
staple machine?" for borrowing a stapler.

I was born in Richmond, VA and grew up hearing "warsh" for wash and "hoose"
for house, but we never used "pop" or "soda" for carbonated drinks. Here in
Atlanta the only caramel carbonated drink is "coke" even if the brand
happens to be Pepsi, people are "carried to" places when given a ride,
grocery carts are "buggies" and boiled turnips or collards are called
"greens."
Peggy Milam
Dir. of Media Services
Interactive College of Technology
mediacenter@ict-ils.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Dawn Sardes <Dmsardes@AOL.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Date: Saturday, January 29, 2000 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: Regionalisms


>My most embarrassing moment since relocating from Buffalo, NY to NC.
>
>A patron calls the library and asks if we have a Lemonade machine.
>I have her repeat it four times (all the while thinking, "Why would someone
>call a library loking for lemonade?).  After this, I say, "I'm sorry maam,
>but the county has a policy forbidding food or drink of any kind in the
>library."
>
>She was asking for a laminating machine (She spelled it).
>
>So, I apologized, saying, "I'm sorry, but I just moved here, and I don't
>speak Southern very well yet."  She laughed her butt off.  Now I have
people
>spell everything.
>
>Dawn Sardes
>Teen Services Librarian
>Cumberland County Public Library
>Fayetteville, NC 28311
>Dmsardes@aol.com
>
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