A couple too tree: How many times have you been on the Coal Mine Tour? Ackamee: The place where you get da grocery order. (ACME R.I.P.) Alla Youz: How you address several people at once Arthur Idas:What retired atha leets take Excedrin for. Atha Leets: Lots of good ones play for Penn State. Axe: Ask Axed: the past tense version of Axe (see above) Baah-ul: That ting dey put Gibbons and Steg in. (A Baa-ul is a barrel, steg is beer) Ba-tree: battery Ba-troom: a place to relieve yourself Be-endat: Means “because.” Beer garden: The place where you go to pick up a six-pack of Steg. Bigmintin: Binghamton Bot tings: What you did with your money at dee Eynon. Bub: light bulb Budaydos: potatos Buh-uns: Those little white round things on the front of your shirt. Burgalry: A garbled form of burgarly. Burgarly: When you enter a building without permission and maybe take something. Chalk-lots: chocolates, what ja buy at Gerty Hocks when yur up da mall, wockin and tockin. Chimley: chimney Clozeda light: Will you please turn the lamp off? Corpse house: Where else in the world do they call funeral parlors corpse houses? Crick: a place where wadder run truit and ya can go fishen Da boad of em: The both of them. Da moll: The Viewmont Mall up on the highway. They’re always having big sales. Da rena: First Union Arena, Wilkes Barre PA (also called the "FU Arena") Da Steamtown: The other mall over town. Da You: The U. (The University of Scranton) Dahn tahn DOpahnt: Downtown Dupont, PA Dee Eynon: Sugerman’s Department Store. (R.I.P.) Doverman: The dogDowntown: Over town. Er wha: or what? Febwery or Febuery: The second month of the year Fil’em: In some cultures, this is what you say when you bring your empty beer glasses to the bar. Here “fil’em” is the thing you put in your camera. Haf a cuppa caffee: half a cup of coffee Haitch Beeyo: HBO, the cable TV all night movie station, I tink. Hayna: Excuse me, but did I just sound as silly as I think I did? (It really means “ain’t it?”) Hoddog: Tastes great with soss on it. Hose house: The place where dey keep da fire trucks. Sometimes called a fire barn, and usually found between a corpse house and a beer garden. Hox: The basketball team in Lanna, Georgia I totso: I thought so, too. Jaunt-too?: Do you want to? Jeet jet?: Gee, I was wondering if you had anything for dinner? John: People named John typically don't have last names. They're only referred to by profession as John DaBanker, John DaCarpenter, John DaRoofer (or DaLeaker), or John DaPlumber. A guy named Frank who ordered a cup of coffee in the diner everyday became known as John Caffee. Karpendale: Carbondale, PA Kupple-too-tree: The number of missing buh-uns you might have. Kuzzints: Your uncle’s children. Lannick City: That place on the Jersey Shore where all of the bingo buses are going these days. LCC: LCCC Lie-berry: Where lotsa books are kept Lonn more: It cuts the grass. Melk: A drink that goes good with cookies. Nangano: Nagano, Japan, where dey had dem `lympics Nanny Coke: Across the river from West Nanny Coke. Nooyourkas: people who vacation in the area (from anywhere outside the area) for the summer, generally found in the Moscow-Gouldsboro area of Lackawanna County Offah: He knocked da glass offah the table. Onnakowna: Because (“I got a flat tire onnakowna someone dropped nails on da road.”) Otto: A car. Over town: Downtown. Pank: as in if you sit in the snow when you get up it's all panked down. Paupack: Lake Wallanpaupack Pellow: Where you put your head when you sleep onnakowna you’re tired. Pie-ano: the music instrument with 88 keys Pitza frita: fried dough Plimmit: A muted reference to Plymouth, Pennsylvania. Punkin: Goes well with thanksgiving dinner Quanity: Quantity Radarater: the thing heat comes out of Roof in the leak: a common saying when water comes down from the roof Recon-eyes: Seeing that something or someone is familiar. Rude aidy: The road that takes you to Penn State. Sangwitch: What cha eat when you go up dee Eynon. Sowside Scrah-uhn: Southside Scranton, PA Swoyerville: Swoyersville. Don't ask why. No one knows. Tarupe: Throop, Pennsylvania. Termistat: thermistat Tinkin: when you put your brain in gear. Tock: What you do on the phone. Tot: What Mr. Jones tried to do in school Tree: The next numba afta one, two Tray of pizza: tray of pizza Tumb: (noun) Your thumb; (verb) to hitchhike, example = I tumbed in onnakowna my hog got stolen. Turdy-ate: Used to be WOLF-TV, Channel 38.Now it's WSWB 38. Twahny yearce ahgo: 20 Years Ago Up Da Line: Up Scrah-un way. Up da mall, and down da mall: Viewmont and Steamtown respectively Up da mount'n: Montage (Sno) Mountain Ski Resort, where concerts are held Wadder: Comes out the fosset. Wah?: What?! Warsh: Did you remember to warsh behind your ears? -or- I warshed my shirt. Winda: as in "closeda winda, da ya live in a barn?" Wock: What you take the dog for at night. Yuge: Really big. Zenit: That brand of TV that you watch the Penn State atha leets on. |
