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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David on July 08, 2007, 03:10:30 am ---What is a Hoosier?
Hoosiers are described as "shrewd, independent, horribly stubborn, conservative, ... fair minded, and somewhat shy, observant and evasive, but the best friend a person could ever have once they get to know you".
The truth is that the old man wasn't deef, he was contrary. This is the chief Hoosier character trait, when all said is done.
Hoosier contrariness is different from other forms. It is a mixture of stubbornness, skepticism and occasional downright foolhardiness carried to such an outrageous degree that it reverses itself all over again and becomes sensible and calm."
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Sounds like Hoosiers have lots of cousins in Iowa. ;D
(Ref.: "Iowa Stubborn," from The Music Man, which I watched over the Fourth of July holiday. ;D )
I question whether there is anything particularly Hoosier about the words icebox, crick, and even deef. My grandpa always called a refrigerator an icebox, and my dad says crick and deef, and both of 'em are Pennsylvanians born and bred. ;D (In the last case, my dad being Pennsylvania German, I tend to think deef is actually a corruption of tief, German for deaf.)
Yeah, I'm bored, too! :laugh:
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 09, 2007, 03:58:32 pm ---Sounds like Hoosiers have lots of cousins in Iowa. ;D
(Ref.: "Iowa Stubborn," from The Music Man, which I watched over the Fourth of July holiday. ;D )
I question whether there is anything particularly Hoosier about the words icebox, crick, and even deef. My grandpa always called a refrigerator an icebox, and my dad says crick and deef, and both of 'em are Pennsylvanians born and bred. ;D (In the last case, my dad being Pennsylvania German, I tend to think deef is actually a corruption of tief, German for deaf.)
Yeah, I'm bored, too! :laugh:
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Well, it's nice to know we aren't the ONLY ones who talk like that! :D
Still, it's pretty bad. Do you say "perscription" (not PRESCRITION) instead of "subscription" out there in Pennsylvania?
I'll bet ya don't!! ;)
:laugh: :laugh:
Thanks for getting bored with me, Jeff! :D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: David on July 09, 2007, 04:04:34 pm ---
Well, it's nice to know we aren't the ONLY ones who talk like that! :D
Still, it's pretty bad. Do you say "perscription" (not PRESCRITION) instead of "subscription" out there in Pennsylvania?
I'll bet ya don't!! ;)
:laugh: :laugh:
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No, not instead of subscription, but my dad does go to the drug store to pick up his perscriptions instead of his prescriptions. :D
--- Quote ---Thanks for getting bored with me, Jeff! :D
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Any time, David! :D
karen1129:
David, we talk like that in Texas also. Especially East Texas.
Crick, perscription, etc.
Window is winder !!!!
Yellow is yeller !!!!
Aunt Nita is Aunt Niter !!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
When I have been home for a visit with my parents.......when I get back everyone here in Central Texas asks me.....
you been to East Texas? ;)
K
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: karen1129 on July 09, 2007, 07:11:16 pm ---David, we talk like that in Texas also. Especially East Texas.
Crick, perscription, etc.
Window is winder !!!!
Yellow is yeller !!!!
Aunt Nita is Aunt Niter !!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
When I have been home for a visit with my parents.......when I get back everyone here in Central Texas asks me.....
you been to East Texas? ;)
K
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We're a trip, aren't we Karen?? :laugh:
;) ;)
Once when my friend from New England was here in Indiana visiting me, he asked me why the Hoosier dialect was different from other Midwestern dialects, and I didn't have an answer for him. Since I live here, I never really noticed it. But other non Hoosiers have also mentioned this, so I decided to do a little research, and there is a reason for it.
Back in the early 1800's, people heading westard from the East moved through Indiana without stopping (can't say I blame them ;) ) but those from the South (places like Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas) often stopped and settled in Indiana. Over the years, some of those Southern speech patterns have survived. So, from Indianapolis southward, people will often hear a slight southern drawl when they speak with Hoosiers. Now up in Northern Indiana, (north of Fort Wayne and Lafayette) Hoosiers sound more Northern; similar to the dialects in Michigan or Wisconsin. You've heard that accent before, haven't you? They sound like their noses are all stopped up! :D
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