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Originally Posted by Jenn
Canada is our next door neighbor, but your a ways from me, hey? Yeah, im picking on ya a little, hey?  |
That would be.. eh? or EH! or maybe eh?!
Where I live its "There" that drives me nuts... you know there that guy there, come on there... or my daughters favorite, "ben there", meaning: come on, your not serious, lol, it's the franglais, or Frenglish.
When I moved back from Vermont, I got in trouble all the time for asying, "ain't"! lol[/QUOTE]
Well in Michigan I guess da yoopers have polluted it till its "hey". It just sounds like "Eh". Yes, that "there" thing sounds like Minnasota or Noth Dakota. Its too funny when your just visiting, but grates on your very last nerve when there for any amount of time.
My husband spent a good deal of time in California growing up and im a phonetic sponge so now Im part Cali, part Michigander, part lowland South Carolina (we went there when I was growing up for extnded vaca) but not a yooper.
