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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m from north Wilmington and my parents grew up in blue collar Philly neighborhoods (they always called it Philly, not sure why that is a no-no).
As noted above, wooder=water and quooder=quarter. There is also a weird long “o” in home or throne (or just the word Oh) - not sure how to type it, but it’s like “heooome”. We drop words. For instance, “I’m done my soup” is perfectly acceptable, whereas uptight DMV types insist on extra words I.e. “I’m done with my soup.” All of my relatives are far more direct than people typically are in the DMV. I get told a lot that I am “very genuine” - by which I suspect people here mean rude or blunt.

Tastykakes are the best! Wawa is the best! [/quote]

both of which are readily available elsewhere.[/quote]

Yeah, but there's a difference.  It's like the people who work the counters at Wawa in the DC area take three times as long to do something as people at a Wawa counter in PA/NJ take, and are probably a different ethnicity, too.  It's just not the same experience. [/quote]

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