ISO Iowans

[Angie]

Originally Posted by Constance

Thanks for the reply, Angie.

Would you say pickin' or picking?

Gunny sack or toe sack?

Black top or hard road?

Do you say, "You bet'cha"?

Picking

Gunny sack

Black top

You bet'cha I say you bet'cha!

We also have roofs...like Ruhf...not rooof.
We have creeks, not cricks.
We also eat tomatoes, not tomahtoes.

Keep 'em comin'!

[suziquzie]

I thought only my St. Louis and vicinity relatives "warshed" the clothes.
They drink "sodi-pop"
I didn't really think anyone east of IL warshed anything.
When I lived in Indiana a year, they "ran the sweeper" when they vaccuumed.
And when asked a the grocery store if they had any frozen tortellini, they reply,
"Turtle-what!?!?"
I can't type that accent.

[pacanis]

I run the sweeper when I vacuum.
I vacuum when I run the Food saver

[Angie]

I vacuum...and sweep and dust. I also vacuum the carpet, but some older folks around here vacuum the rug.

[Barbara L]

Yes Radar was supposed to be from Ottumwa. James said that they had a big "M*A*S*H Day" celebration in Ottumwa one year. They invited the M*A*S*H actors to come for it. The only one who refused to come was "Radar!"

Barbara

[QSis]

Angie, do you say "crick" for "creek"?

Lee

[Angie]

Originally Posted by QSis

Angie, do you say "crick" for "creek"?

Lee

Creek.

My husband grew up in California and he went crickin'...

[Dave Hutchins]

I was born and raised in Des Moines Iowa and we sweep the floor with a vacume sweeper, and a crick is still a crick. Soda is acceptable for pop, and we mash the starter on the car to start it . and some of us Iowaowins still go courtin with my sweety. Pigs are called hogs and they make the smell of money to a farmer to every body else they stink. Cows are called a milk factory and a steer is T. Bone on the hoof. and we do not talk of sheep we are a beef, pork, and corn state and very proud of it.

[Angie]

Originally Posted by Dave Hutchins

I was born and raised in Des Moines Iowa and we sweep the floor with a vacume sweeper, and a crick is still a crick. Soda is acceptable for pop, and we mash the starter on the car to start it . and some of us Iowaowins still go courtin with my sweety. Pigs are called hogs and they make the smell of money to a farmer to every body else they stink. Cows are called a milk factory and a steer is T. Bone on the hoof. and we do not talk of sheep we are a beef, pork, and corn state and very proud of it.

Isn't funny how you were raised 2 1/2 hours from me and we talk differently! Could be a generation gap to blame as well!

[Constance]

St. Louis is only an hour an a half from here, and "you bet'cha" we speak differently. We do "warsh" clothes (fortunately not on a scrub board like my grandma) and run the sweeper.

Dave, have you ever been out in a cornfield on a still, hot, humid summer night to hear the corn grow? You can actually hear it pop and rustle as it grows.