Re: [Chrysler300] Re: HOW TO TALK PENNSYLVANIAN

[MRS954@xxxxxxx]

Tom,
Thanks for the reminder. Your email is a good representation of life in PA. 

On a serious note, I have lived and worked in Pennsylvania Dutch country all my life, and I suggest the following:

I would?like to remind those who plan on coming to the Lancaster Meet, that there is a huge Amish population in Lancaster County (pronounced Lang'-kiss-ter Con'-dee). Probably the largest concentration of Amish in the world. You will encounter more than one Amish buggy on the rural roads. The younger Amish folks also ride bicycles and scooters. The buggies?go very slow compared to our 300's and they do not yield to motor vehicles. You just have to be aware that there is probably a buggy over the crest of the next hill, and be ready to slow or sometimes stop for them. Most of our rural roads do not have shoulders for them to escape to.

Also, please respect their religious beliefs and refrain from snapping photos of them and their families without their permission. While there are several sects of the Amish religion, the Old Order Amish and Old Order Mennonites?take literally the second commandment, that a photograph "makes unto thee a graven image" and is therefore forbidden by the Ordnung (the Amish blueprint for expected behavior). The Amish lifestyle is quite different from ours. Over the past several hundred years, the Amish and "English" people have learned to peacefully co-exist. Please be tolerant of them and keep this in mind when visiting Lancaster County in May.?

The most detailed and all-inclusive descriptions of the Amish lifestyle can be found at www.800padutch.com/amish.shtml

We're looking forward to seeing you guys then, and we hope you enjoy your visit to our beautiful Lancaster County and Pennsylvania Dutch Country.

Thank you,
Mark Souders
Mohrsville, PA

P.S. Don't leave Lancaster without eating a piece of wet bottom shoo fly pie.




-----Original Message-----
From: TNHARKINS@xxxxxxx
To: chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 1:02 pm
Subject: [Chrysler300] Re: HOW TO TALK PENNSYLVANIAN



Hi Folks:
For those of you planning to attend  the Spring Meet in Lancaster, we 
strongly suggest that you review the following  phrases and words so that you 
may 
better understand the people you will come  into contact with during your visit. 

Tom & Tony
300s4ever
 
 
TALKING  PENNSYLVANIAN  

For those who  think we 'talk funny' or use 'big words,' here's why ... 

Once a  Pennsylvanian, ALWAYS a Pennsylvanian! 

About  Pennsylvanians: You've never referred to Philadelphia as anything but 
'Philly' and New Jersey has  always been ' Jersey ..' 

We  don't go to the beach, we go 'down the shore.' 

You refer to Pennsylvania as 'PA' (pronounced Pee-Ay). 
How many  other states do that?? 

'You guys'  (or even 'youze guys', in some places) is a perfectly acceptable 
reference   to a group of men and women. 

You know how  to respond to the question 'Djeetyet?' (Did you eat  yet ?) 

You learned  to pronounce Bryn Mawr (brin mar), Wilkes-Barre (wilks bery) , 
Schuylkill  (school kill), the Poconos (poke a nose), Tamaqua (ta ma  qua), 
Kutztown  (cuts town),Tunkahannock (tunk a hon nuck), Bala Cynwyd (balla kin 
wid),  Duquesne (duke cane), Monongahela (mong a heel a), also Conshohocken  
(con 
show hock en). 

And we know  Lancaster is pronounced Lank-ister, not   Lan-kaster. 

You   know what a 'Mummer' is, and are disappointed if you can't catch at 
least  highlights of the parade. 

You know  who ' Punxsutawney  Phil' is,  and what it means if he sees his  
shadow. 
 
The first  day of buck and the first day of  doe season  are school holidays. 
 
At least  five people on your block have electric 'candles' in all or most of 
their  windows all year long. 

You know  what a 'State Store' is, and your out-of-state friends find it 
incredulous that  you can't purchase liquor at the mini-mart. 

Words like  'hoagie,' 'crick,' 'chipped ham,' 'dippy eggs', grinders, 
scrapple, 'sticky  buns,' 'shoo-fly pie,' 'lemon sponge pie,'  'pierogies'  and  

'pocketbook' actually mean something to you. (By the way, that last
 one's PA  
slang for a purse!) 

You can eat  cold pizza (even for breakfast!) and know others who do the 
same. Those from NY  find this 'barbaric.' 

You not only  have heard of Birch Beer, but you know it comes in several  
colors. 

You know the  difference between a cheese steak and a pizza steak sandwich, 
and you know that  you also can't get a really good one anywhere outside of the 
Philly area.  (Except maybe in Atlantic  City on the boardwalk.) 

You live  for summer, when street and county fairs signal the beginning of 
funnel cake  season. 

You know  that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, 
Beaver, Moon,  Virginville, Mars, Bethlehem, Hershey, Indiana, Sinking Spring, 
Jersey Shore,  State College, Washington Crossing, Jim Thorpe, King of Prussia, 
Wind Gap, and  Slippery Rock are all PA towns .... and the first three were 
consecutive stops  on the old Reading RR! (PS - That's pronounced  Red-ing.) 


You know  what a township, borough, and commonwealth are. 

You can  identify drivers from New York , New Jersey , Maryland or other 
neighboring  states by their unique and irritating driving habits and their 
front 
license  plates! 

A traffic  jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a horse-drawn carriage on the 
highway in  Lancaster County. (And remember ... that's Lank-ister!) 

You know several people who  have hit deer more than once. 

You carry  jumper cables in your car and your female passengers know how to 
use them.  Driving is always better in winter because the potholes are filled 
with  snow


As a kid you  built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you 
were.. 

You know  beer doesn't grow in a garden, but you know where to find a beer 
garden. 

You also  know someone who lives 'down the lane.' 

You actually  understand all this and send it on to other Pennsylvanians or 
former  Pennsylvanians! 



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