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From: "donsylvester" <>
Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Descriptive Language
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:41:58 -0500
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It is not only Massachusetts that pronounces their town names strangely. I
live close to Kittery, Maine. Beleive it or not it is, locally, Kittr'y! As
in "I'm goin'ta Kittr'y"

Yes, things are slower than cold molasses running up in in January!

Many folk from away, (tha't MA and NY) call antoehr town Sayco, it si really
Sawco (Saco. Maine)
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Subject: [MASUFFOL] Descriptive Language


> There is a great nostalgia on my part for the wonderful and colorful
> expressions used by my great aunts and uncles while growing up in Maine -
> maybe these
> will jog memories of a few others.
>
> Bless My Stars and Garters (aka bless my stahs and gahtahs) which I guess
> denoted astonishment
>
> Leanin Toward Sawyers (Sawyahs)
>
> smells worse than clams at low tide
>
> busier than a cat on a marble floor
>
> slower than cold molasses going up a hill in January
>
> So- whether we natives pronounce Worcester as Woostah, Gloucester as
> Glostah,
> Havehill as Hava-ill- or make sure that all one sylabble words become two
> (e.g., four becomes fo-ah), celebrate the differences! Ten to one- the
> expression "Goucester/Manchester by the smell" was originated with the
> natives- we do
> have a sense of humor about ourselves!
>
> J.
>
>
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