Date:    Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:40:49 EST
<br>From:    Laura Johnson  laurance[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]JUNO.COM 
<br>Subject: Re: canoodle [long]
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<br>Total newbie here who has somehow gotten on this list by accident in
<br>trying to subscribe to another list on a completely unrelated topic.
<br>
<br>I notice someone referred to John Dickson Carr in a paragraph about
<br>British authors.  This author was not British at all.  He was from
<br>Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and when he and my mother were kids, she knew
<br>him by name and by sight.  Uniontown is a smallish town in the southwest
<br>of the state, not too far from Pittsburgh, and since I seem to have
<br>accidentally dropped into a list on dialect, you might be aware that
<br>there were some regional words there.
<br>
<br>The side of the road was the berm, not the shoulder, and we'd toodle, or
<br>maybe tootle on over instead of come on over.  We kids would rootsch
<br>around, whereas other kids would fidget.  We'd momix things up, while
<br>other people would mess and mix things up.  I heard my mother use these
<br>words, but I never heard them from anyone else until I met someone from
<br>Uniontown who spoke of the words peculiar to that area.  This is all I
<br>can think of on the spur of the moment.
<br>
<br>And now I will go and try to find out what happened to the list I was
<br>trying to subscribe to.  But if you don't mind, I'd like to stick around
<br>here on your list for a while, because language and dialects are of great
<br>interest to me.
<br>
<br>Laura
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