Did you make that cake or is it boughten?
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Are they Pennsylvania Dutch?
No. Ultimately German going back to 1800's, then United Empire Loyalists who settled in Niagara area. A lot of farms, quite a few Mennonites, so there's that kind of influence.
That's pretty close actually! Despite the name, Pennsylvania Dutch would be better translated as Pennsylvania German. "Boughtten a cake" wouldn't surprise me at all, as we grew up saying things like "outten the lights".
Well burn that bridge when we come to it
I recently learned that one of the older men in my family does, in fact, have and use a poop knife.
should remind him enlarged bowels are very popular within the pegging community.
The idiom "fleshed out" confuses foreigners and children.
My kids say "tomorrow after that day" instead of the day after tomorrow; my oldest came up with it as a toddler and it just stuck.
Love this one!
We don't feel "a bit off" or "confused."
We get "discombobulated." Now, I don't think it's necessarily weird for the whole country, but AFAIK, it's something usually heard in the Midwest. We're Californian.
Bingpot!
When I was a kid my mom called something newly cleaned or washed "brand clean".