Thank you so much to all of you who made me feel about about my “Joanism” of yesterday night. I was worried that it wasn’t even a Yorkism, because even some Yorkers were making fun of me for it. Well, my friends were happy to make me feel better, even
On Nov. 3, I wrote about skinned, skanned and skunned. And about a week later, I heard from perhaps the most definitive source on this sort of grammar and usage trickery: One of my high-school English teachers, Sheila Webb of Dover. Mrs. Webb, by the way, is awesome. And hearing
Whether you call it stuffing, filling or dressing, I think we can all agree that it’s a carb-filled side dish of holiday fame in York County and beyond. Today, since I know everyone is busy getting ready for the holiday, I decided to round up some of my favorite posts
Over the summer, I’d asked how you address a crowd of people. You all? You? Y’all? Yinz? Youins? Yous? Or something else? I was surprised that I hadn’t gotten more answers, and I’m really curious about what’s most commonly said in the area, so I’m asking again! Mark over in
Today’s Yorkism comes courtesy of Pat Azriel of the York County Community Foundation. A little while back, she wrote me a note and said, “I love reading about all the Yorkisms as I am from New York state.” She mentioned our use of awhile when doing things, and our habit
I had gotten two comments from friends in recent weeks about something I say that is, apparently, odd. (I know, you’re shocked.) It’s the phrase “yesterday night,” which I say in place of “last night.” When I used it in an email to longtime reader Jo, she replied, “I think
You didn’t think we’d just end our bologna conversation with yesterday’s discussion about the local nature of butcher bologna, did you? We’re just getting in the meat of the conversation! (You should probably laugh now. That’s about it for my level of joke quality.) No, you’ll probably also remember that
Longtime readers – really longtime – might remember that a few years ago, I talked about how dropping the phrase “to be” as part of our verbs is a prominent Yorkism. That’s come up a few times since then, and every time, there’s heated debate – mostly between my boss
One interesting side benefit of the “Ask Joan” feature is that even people who I’ve known for ages are starting to ask me questions about life in York County, which hadn’t really happened before. But another neat thing is that I’ve been introduced, through it, to tons of people who
Today’s fun Yorkism is one I heard at a work meeting last week. “All’s I’m saying is,” one of our coworkers started his sentence… and I thought: I should blog that! I must say, to be fair, that he was using the phrase as a joke; it’s not something he’d