>>>>HOWEVER don't ever say "Try and" when you mean "Try to"
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>>>>THAT is grounds for throttling. <g>
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>>>The one that gets me going is: Send the memo to myself....
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>>I don't know Gaelic but I've been told that some of the misuse of reflexive pronouns originates in direct translation of Gaelic grammar structures.
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>>Much like the Polish to English that had kids' parents in my neighborhood saying "He's going to go by Johnny's" meaning "go to"
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>Heard "going by" or "goin by" all the time in Wisconsin. Also "bubbler" for drinking fountain, "stop and go lights" for traffic signals, "upside right" and "Hows by you?" and some highways like "Highway a hundred" and "yooose" for you all and the infamous "Don't ya (or cha) know, hey"

Wisconsin is not an easy state to find your way around in if you are not local. County Trunk A, major roads zipping through corn fields with no signs, stuff like that. I bet the names go back to Scandinavia or Germany.

My favorite Wisconsin related term is "bobbers." This is said by some Illinoisans about their neighbors to the north and the way they look in the water, implying heaviness. Wisconsinites have an equally gentle term of endearment back -- FIBs. The I stands for Illinois and you can probably work out the other two letters.

Most of the time the two states get along all right, at least when the Bears aren't playing the Packers. Lots of us go to Wisconsin on vacation, having no scenery of our own.