They Just Delivered Several New Sears-Bought Home Appliances and Installed Our Cable Modem and All I Have to Say Is:

Congratulations and happy warshing. Nope…that just feels too weird. Guess I have no soul. Oh well.

ah, ’tis herself the salt of the airth who pronounces it “warshing.”
a family i grew up with pronounced it “wurshing” and it was a bottomless, endless source of laughter when they ended up moving to wurshington state.

growing up in saint louis, we had a warsher.

we also had highways farty, and farty-far. and when they turned part of farty into an interstate, it became sixty-far.

don’t get me started on qwater and carner.

Just don’t call Interstate 5 “The Five.” I Hate that.

i used to work in a geriatric cafeteria chain in which one old man always requested acorn squarsh.

it drove me nuts, until one day, i laughed until i blew snot from my nose into a pile of broccoli.

that didn’t go over very well.

its like being at home again in indiana.

“lets go warsh our hair in the crick what runs behind the house.”

the “what” in place of “that” is my personal favorite.

While in school I worked in a camera store. We’d get people bring “flim” (no typo) in to get it “warshed”.

We’d ask if they wanted 2 sets of prints with their flim warshing.

You say tomato, I say keep it off my burger.

You say potato, I say goes great with everything but sex.

You say warsh, I say once a yaar wedder I needs it or naht.

Longtime listener, first time caller:

would like to {just quietly} add my enormous kudos to this gorg site. some of your mastheads are actually sex on toast, im sure.

Warsh your plate in the zink while we go have a sit in the davenport. Central Illinois, baybee.

Congratulations on the warsher, BlurboDooces. I think one of the happiest days of my life was moving into my house and finding the Kenmore Extra Heavy-Duty warsher and dryer combo quietly waiting for the first load.

I also think that “warsher” is a cross-country pronounciation; my gramma (Rochester, NY) and my neighbors (Baltimore, MD) all say it the same way.

“Aw fer cryin’ out loud, der Dooce!” I’m from WI and we say a lot of dumb stuff, warsh isn’t one of them, thank goodness. I’m in Virginia now and thankfully it’s not here either, though I do here a lot of deep southerners sliding it in and out of their drawl. (Deep geographically, not emotionally or philosophically.) Next: Cola vs. Pop, Bubbler vs. Fountain, “Roof” vs. “Ruff.” Discuss.

My dad says warsh, and he says crick, as in a crick in the backyard, although he can also get a crick in his neck. The days of the week are also Sundee, Mondee, Tuesdee and so on. His mom is from West Virginia if anyone is trying to track it down.

cherie: the alternative to “warsh” is “wAHsh” (the correct pronunciation).

xioban: for this texan in colorado, it’s Pop (although back home, everything’s Coke), Fountain, Roof.

Huh. And they say us Alabama rednecks talk funny!

[I always thought that this was a Michigan thing when I lived in Ohio.]

the notwist! excellent choice in listening material.

Heather, I know how you miss the star sightings, that are part of everyday life here in Los Angeles. So, you’ll appreciate the fact that I saw Josh Gracin from American Idol last night at the Chevron Station on Sunset and Laurel pumping his own gas. Brad wanted to talk to him, but I wouldn’t let him! Granted not as good as the Kelly conversation I had last year, but still gratifying. Miss you three, and oh how I know about Chuck peeing on the neighbors!

holy crap, same here. New washer, dryer, fridge and cable modem… only we’re in Kentucky and there are no extra r’s here.

Is it “warshing” or “worshing”?

I live in western michigan…”youse better warsh your clothes in the zink, dummitall….and then, too yet, make sure youse do it in dezember. I’ll give you a kwatter (not a dime) if youse do it”.

My family originates from eastern Tennessee, and have said warsh for generations. I never imagined it could be a midwestern thing, or even reach as far as Utah! What about the word ‘yonder’? As in “Your sister went down yonder holler.”

Beerzie: who the heck calls it the five? And for that matter, who the heck calls it Interstate 5? I-5, baby, I-5.

And Pittsburgh is great for a lot of things, but definitely NOT pronunciation. (Sidebar: I had a post about that once. Haloscan lost it. Imagine that.)

Hey Dooce – I’ve been meaning to thank you for a year now for The Notwist. Neon Golden is now in my top 10 albums. They are excellent and I owe it all to you!

Everybody else – buy this! You won’t regret it.

PS. I think that guy was from Oakley, UT.

I agree on “Nucular”. But there is (as with most odd things) a dark, conspiratorial, mass-control oriented governmental reason for it. “Nuclear” is scary. “Nucular” is homely, hospitable, and oh, so very Southern.
Trust the Bush administration on making “Nucular” part of American govspeak (tip o’ the hat to Mr. Orwell there).

As for Warshing, it could be worse.
Try “Woshing” in Britain….or “Weshing” in Australia….
WHY CAN’T EVERYONE JUST TALK THE SAME, DAMNIT!

Well, if you are from Texas, then everyone adds the “r”. But there isn’t a G on it either- it is just warshin’ as in “I need to do some warshin” also we say, “Warsh the car” “Fixin” and “ya’ll” we got soul.