I love this. You guys make me laugh so much!

MMario: I'd forgotten, my dear, dear mother-in-law used to ask me if I'd like a "tonic" meaning a soda pop; that was in NH.

Cara: another one I just shook my head at, esp. living one town over from Groton (Graw-ton) CT where the Navy is BIG. People there were always getting trasnferred to Norfolk, VA. NOONE ever pronounced it any other way except Nor-fuck and it was always said very fast with the latter part kind of cut off towards the end. Out here everybody says Nor foak, BUT they DON'T say "Foak OFF!"

In CT there is also a town named Lebanon, but they pronounce it Le buh nun with no accents on any of the syllables. we'd always called the country Le bah non.

Catspaw: since you live in Bremen, does that make you THE town musician of Bremen? My kids want to know ***Grin***. Also, nice to know there is a corner just for us "cats", eh?

katlaughing....really!