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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (1076)4/6/1998 12:12:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 4711
 
Regionalisms 3.
When I was a kid, we vacationed once a year on the Delmarva Peninsula. I heard such things there, and then later in Baltimore where I went to college.
My Saturday ritual was to walk to the Lexington Market, where I heard all manner of parochial diphthongs. So I gathered up my courage, walked to a meat counter, and requested a "pind of grind rind". No problem. Withoat batting an eyelash, the grandmotherly Marylander behind the counter measured me a pound of ground round.
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