Do you Wash, or Worsh

[washdaddy]

DOWNEY OSHUN HON!

Being a born and bred Baltimorean there are too many terms that could be listed because they're influenced by some local dialect from somewhere. Whether it be zinc for sink, url for oil, of course there's Bawlmer for Baltimore. The list goes on and on.
You really realize when you are guilty of using these terms when outside of your comfort zone and someone who you are talking with looks at you with a totally lost expression because they have no idea what you are saying. LOL
You than realize you've let some "Bawlmereze" slip out and try and correct yourself especially after someone ask's you where you spent your vacation!

 

[iej]

Ireland

There's quite a difference between Irish and US terminology on these things:

Not used very often other than in technical discussion: Laundry or detergent.

Detergent : washing powder (sometimes even even it's washing liquid or liquid tablets). Older people tend to call it soap powder even though that hasn't really existed in decades. Detergent is of course understand but it's technical terminology.
Softener: conditioner.
Washer: washing machine or "the machine".
Dryer: Tumble dryer.
Laundry room : utility (room).
Airing cupboard (UK) : Hotpress (Ireland)
Cupboard : press (old English word that clung in in Ireland).
Clothes line : washing line
Laundry hamper : clothes basket.
Water heater : hotwater heating or the immersion (even when it's not an immersion heater which was a very specific type of electric water heating element in the hot water tank)

 

[vacerator]

You say tom`ato,

I say tom^ato. Say it how you please. Free choice. Choice is freedom. No totalitarianism.
My mom used to say she was going to "red up the house", meaning clean it.
Back in the Burgh, they may ask you; "Djyeat yet"? Or, were you dahntahn at the Stiellers game?
The car needs new tiars, etc.
Check out Pittsburgh dad on youtube. Go dahn ta Giant Ego an git some Jumbo-n-nat for sandwiches for the game.

 

[abcomatic]

Illinois

I am from central Illinois and I say WARSH. My mom was from Wisconsin and we had a "Wash machine" not a washing machine.
This thing with WARSH may be a generational thing? People don't say WARSH anymore that I hear anyway, but no one tells me I am wrong; even thought I am.
Happy WARSHING everyone.

 

[laundromat]

Another misused set of words
"Would of", "could of",& "should of"
Using "of" instead of have or 've.
You can't of but you can have.

 

[petek]

Growing up the only people I recall saying warsh were older  folks from the surrounding little towns and villages in the county but I haven't  heard it at all since moving back here so maybe it's sort of faded away. 

 

What does prick my ears up hearing is the pronunciation of project, process and data.  We always said them like "prawject, prawcess and daa-ta but more and more I'm hearing pro-ject, pro-cess and day-ta.  

 

My partners a newfie and whoa but he's consciously tried all his life to erase the dialect but they still pop out now and again, particular if there's drink involved.. Newfies drop their H's from words beginning with an H but add an H to words beginning with a vowel.. So it's  Am hand heggs,  not ham and eggs.   And it's the chimley not the chimney.  

 

[circlew]

One of my friends that says "warsh" also calls the water closet the "terlet". He's by no means old; he's 57, and lived in Cincinnati his whole life. I don't know if his parents, who are both over 90, use these words or not. Neither is the other that says "warsh" and "wrench"; he's 54, and was raised in KY and WV. His son who is 30, and daughter who is 28, also use these words.

 

[vacbear58]

Having been brought up in Northern Ireland most of what James wrote above agrees with what I recall and still sometimes use.
I believe "press" is also used in Scotland to denote cupboard.
On that same theme I would never press clothes I would iron them
I would steep badly soiled laundry not soak it

And Vacerator, thar is the first time I have heard the use of "red" (although it could be "read" or even "rared") outside of Northern Ireland, where it used to be in common use pretty much as you describe although I associate more with tidying than cleaning.

Al

 

[askolover]

I've heard people say wash and warsh down here.  Same for windows/winders/windas.  My grandmother called the fridge the Frigidaire because it was a Frigidaire.  And the car needs new tars.  Don't catch the house a far.  When the light turns yalla git ready to stop.