I've heard this term a few times, but just thought I was too close to Appalachia. Seems it's more varied than soda, pop, or Coke.    

 

https://homewords99.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/chester-drawers/?fbclid=IwAR0GQNVdruFsIt5Dw2lyAOxqmLpA_xl2jQEXuohiwb5evpE0jWMkUtd6L3Y

 

Pretty interesting read.  Never knew it was so complicated..

Living in south central Pennsylvania, the vocabulary/dialect here is mixture of Appalachia, Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and a bunch of other stuff thrown in- mostly from around Pittsburgh. And, of course, there's our "accent"! 

 

Gotta go get a drink of "woder" but I have got coffee for later!

 

...and more- https://www.pennlive.com/life/2016/07/signs_longtime_pennsylvania.html

23 minutes ago, lew said:

Living in south central Pennsylvania, the vocabulary/dialect here is mixture of Appalachia, Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and a bunch of other stuff thrown in- mostly from around Pittsburgh. And, of course, there's our "accent"! 

 

Gotta go get a drink of "woder" but I have got coffee for later!

 

...and more- https://www.pennlive.com/life/2016/07/signs_longtime_pennsylvania.html

So, yins are going for a gum band?

 

My grandfather was born in central PA and moved to 7 miles into OH with his family as a child.   He had some peculiar expressions that I never fully understood until I lived near Pittsburgh (yes, with an "h") for a year.

 

One brother-in-law grew up about 30 miles east from where I live now.  My sister always got on him for saying "worsh" (wash).

 

I've worked at one time from people from nearly every major English-speaking country in the world (USA, Canada, England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, South Africa, India, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand) and a bunch that had English as a second language (German, Mexican, Polish, Norwegian, French-Canadian, Japanese, Brazilian) as well as Americans from various places like Boston, Texas, Arkansas, California, Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas, Wisconsin, Chicago, and New York City.  I sort of just roll with the dialects/accents.

Edited July 14, 20215 yr by kmealy

J'eat yet? Almost lunch time  

With some roots in southern KY, growing up my mom (who is not a briar) always called it a chester drawer, but she also pronounced "peonies" as "pine-ee". So as my confusion with the English language grew in school classes I learned that regional versions of our language were a real thing, and it doesn't pay to figure out if that word (or pronunciation) is correct.....just go with the flow.

Written as Chest of Drawers.....spoken as "Chest-a- Draws"     Sounds like "Chester's Drawers"......

 

All depends on who is talking.....and..HOW FAST they are talking...

 

Then throw in some Irish Hillbilly.....

5 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Written as Chest of Drawers.....spoken as "Chest-a- Draws"     Sounds like "Chester's Drawers"......

 

All depends on who is talking.....and..HOW FAST they are talking...

 

Then throw in some Irish Hillbilly.....

Fo sho

It is kinda like the joke. The Wisemen were firemen because they were coming from a fire.

27 minutes ago, Gerald said:

It is kinda like the joke. The Wisemen were firemen because they were coming from a fire.

One of the jokes I used to tell my kids at school 

19 hours ago, lew said:

J'eat yet? Almost lunch time  

 

Chubinuptu= what have you been doing

 Hey Lew, what chubinuptu?

 

Here is a couple from around these parts...y'all. 

 

Gully washin toad floater = Thunderstorm

fixin ta = Getting ready to do something

Madder than a wet hen = Angry

More than you can shake a stick at = A lot of something

All hat and no cattle = false

 

.40

Well, let's just not pick on southerners.    I was working with a company in Boston and my main contact was "Linder" (Linda).   I suppose since she drove a "cah" that lost 'r' had to go somewhere (Law of Conservation of Rs)

 

 

And before that country up north had a name, they decided to just pull letters from a hat.  And so it went:

"C,  eh"

"N,  eh"

"D,  eh."

and so it became Canada

 

And I never did learn a lot of Cockney Rhyming Slang, since often the rhyming part is omitted and even if it wasn't, it wasn't always obvious.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang

Okay arse holes that's enough!

Well here is another: frogstrangler==heavy rain

                               knee deep to a grasshopper==shallow water

                               we all know that roundtuits are hard to come by

                               lower than a snakes belly===that is a very low down person or trick

                               Then riding shanks mare home===have to walk home

9 hours ago, forty_caliber said:

Here is a couple from around these parts...y'all. 

 

Gully washin toad floater = Thunderstorm

fixin ta = Getting ready to do something

Madder than a wet hen = Angry

More than you can shake a stick at = A lot of something

All hat and no cattle = false

 

.40

Those are finer than a frog's hair.

 

The one I had to quit using was "anyways"

2 hours ago, kmealy said:

I was working with a company in Boston and my main contact was "Linder" (Linda).   I suppose since she drove a "cah" that lost 'r' had to go somewhere (Law of Conservation of Rs)

My junior high school shop teacher was from Massachusetts. We had to learn to “sar” and she also had a cah 

Just imagine, being caught between a couple Troppies from "Ark-kee-SAW...and an Instructor from New Hampsheer......

If you were drafted into the Army, you heard a common term you knew pronounced so different that you weren't sure what they meant. At the same very instant, the guy you was talking to was confused by how you pronounced it. 

Sir Winnie had it right when he said that England an the US were separated by a common language. We, over here, are further fractured by that same language. Not only do we pronounce the same word in different ways according to regions but often, we use entirely different words to mean the same thing. Then, there's all those new words and, meanings for old words, that have come about recently. Not to mention the plethora of alphabetic terms used to identify certain groups or, one's direction in life.