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.]