Ohio Voices 1

The following story was reflects data contributed by a white male in his mid 70s from Glouster, Ohio.

Transcript

Well, yes, actually, really, truly seriously. We didn't do anything like they have nowadays with these games and with the activities and stuff. We did. We went hunting, we went fishing, we built snow forts in the wintertime. We did all kinds of things. So a bunch of us kids and I'm going to say something to I probably shouldn't say but we did the dumbest things in the universe that you can possibly imagine like take a brick pad and whack us in the side of the head. What were you doing Thinking My God, you know, if you've ever seen I don't think... I'm like I'm thinking they're regular bridges here are just like bridges with sidewalks and little railings and so forth on there. If you would go through town. I don't know if you can see from here, but there's a bridge that has like iron eyebeam girders and like the bottom like spokes of a wagon wheel, and the bridge goes over and supports it by the the arch and so forth on there. We would walk across the top of that arch and go down the other side. And I think my god, how stupid could we be the other dummies... Now I wasn't as dumb as the other kids. They would walk across the crick side the streams side, that's CRICK that's southeastern Ohio. You're supposed to say 'poosh', 'boosh',  'feesh', 'deesh', and 'pitcher' that southeastern Ohio dialogue - 'poosh' is push like push the cart, fish is 'feesh' and pictures like a picture of On the wall, and the 'deesh' is dish, you know, at southeastern Ohio accent. As a matter of fact, I'm interrupting my own story. When I went to Ohio University, we had a study for all the kids from southeastern Ohio. And Danny Madden, like you know, who I'm talking about was from Ironton,  and he had an accent about as wide as this table, and we recorded it and then they did whatever they did with the study of it. And they said, Yep, that's Dan. He goes, he had won. And now he went on. We're stopping pause for dramatic effect. Small Town boy from southeastern Ohio. He went on to be the Vice President, Senior Vice President for marketing of Amalie Oil. He goes all over the world. He's been to China, Russia, Japan, South America, everything Africa name it. And I thought my god, how could he who would ever have thought we thought he was going to be in the cattle business because He always was a good bull shipper. And I cleaned that up a little bit. Since you Gentleman, and he parlayed his people skills into that he when he graduated, he got a job with Amalie Oil. They make Wolf's Head motor oil, different things around there. But a lot of it is industrial products. You know, like the industry, they sell lubricants and everything to them. And he really made something of himself, but he had an accent about wide as this table So when we say 'poosh', 'boosh', 'feesh', 'deesh', and 'pitcher', I clean my accent up my accent - I speak flat with pretty much flat Midwestern standard now. So anyway, back to the story. You remember the other dummies run over this crick side where you fell in the water? I wasn't stupid. I went over this the middle side. So if I'd fall I'd fall off the railroad or the road bed side or the sidewalk side see...