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Old 05-22-2010, 09:51 AM   #73
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Originally Posted by tis View Post
That's funny. I never heard people here ever use "pop". We used "tonic" when I was very small but at some point it turned to "soda."

We used to have supper and now we have dinner. We used to have cellars and now we have basements. We used to have dooryards and now we have what, yards? We used to have piazzas (sp?) and now we have porches. All the old Yankee NH ways gone I guess.
"Piazza" is the correct spelling. I remember all those other expressions, too—but I lived in Tuftonboro, not Wolfeboro—where all those flatlanders live.

Member Newbiesaukee must not have read any newspapers' comic sections: I remember where I first saw flatlander used—many years ago:



I don't think there are any flatlanders who appreciate my idea of comfort when viewing Lake Winnipesaukee's vistas from my own acre of lakefront property.

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