Originally Posted by RufusG
Thirty plus years ago when I was in the Navy I was driving across Florida with a bud and I bet him a car up ahead had Ohio plates on it, which of course it did. He's still probably trying to figure that one out. If you're from western PA I don't have to tell you what they were doing.

Yikes, I hate to say it: I'm from northwest PA and I don't know what they were doing. But then, folks from northwest PA happen to have more in common, language-wise, with people from the midwest. I was an adult before I ever heard "yinz," and "red up the kitchen," and other Pittsburgh colloquialisms. However, I always have said "crick."

One more town not mentioned is Pithole -- a long-time ghost town now, but a real jumpin' place back in the early oil-boom days.

Steve.

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