My from Warwick RI former roommate called it "Warrick."
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue - Jan 31, 2005 3:52:24 pm PST #2631 of 10002
hip deep in pie
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 3:53:54 pm PST #2632 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
As I noted, many, many, pronunciations.
Henry Higgins could have a field day at the Warwick Mall.
Trudy Booth - Jan 31, 2005 3:55:56 pm PST #2633 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
OOH! Like when I realized the mother in Little Women is actually called "Mommy."
She IS?!?!?
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 3:58:12 pm PST #2634 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's my guess, anyway. "Mar" in New England-ese = "mah." Mah-mee = mommy.
Trudy Booth - Jan 31, 2005 4:04:10 pm PST #2635 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Holy COW!
That makes sense. And I'm stunned. Seriously.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 4:14:35 pm PST #2636 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
It took me forever to realize that too!
(I suppose that "Mommy" was so colloquial that there wasn't yet a conventional way to spell it.)
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:17:14 pm PST #2637 of 10002
Ok, that's so something I had missed in nearly 30 years, despite hearing many many stories of my dad's mystification at his car being called a cahmengear and various other NE-ese stories. And knowing my dad grew up without Js.
Never occurred to me it was an accent. Huh.
Just emailed what I hope is another lost friend (in her case, I lost all her contact info in a computer disaster.) It's like a plague!
amych - Jan 31, 2005 4:19:14 pm PST #2638 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
mystification at his car being called a cahmengear
Hey, now, my marmee drove a cahmengear.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 4:19:17 pm PST #2639 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Granted, I made this up out of my head, but it makes sense, doesn't it??
JenP - Jan 31, 2005 4:24:36 pm PST #2640 of 10002
cahmengear
I was following along nicely with all the pronunciation talk until this word. I can't deaccentize it.