Reply #28: Actually, the colloquialisms here get on my nerves...

[NamVetsWeeLass]

If a patient falls the natives say "So and so is IN the Floor!"
(well, how in the hell hard did they fall that they have embedded themselves partially into the floor? Or were they using a jackhammer when this all happened?)
If they are relating a story of having to reach for something an hour ago or whatever... "I Retched right for it." (You almost threw up because why?)
If they want you to hand them something "Reach me that!" (Ummm, how about I hand it to you instead)
If they have a tassle cap or a ski cap on their heads "I got my Toboggan on" (You have a sled on your head?)
If they break something it's always "I busted it Clean Through" (as opposed to not so cleanly through?)
I have had ederly patients tell me "I am not taking those pills offa you, YER a YANKEE......" I hate to inform them that while I may indeed be a transplant from PA to WV they really officially didn't fight for the south either... (I know a lot of them did fight for the confederate army, but still, Officially, they were Union.)So, You are officially a Yankee too, now, take your drugs.
They seem to be fixin things constantly here too "I was fixin to get him ready for dinner"
They have to specify that you hand them an INK PEN "Gimme that there Ink Pen" (ok, but are you sure you don't want the crayon pen instead?)
They don't go home here "I'm goin' the house" (Yes, there is no "to the house" it is as I put it.)
They don't lay in bed "He's laying in the bed, or, I was laying in the bed" (THE bed, at least it isn't MY BED!)

Now, being from Pittsburgh, we also talk funny. But I haven't the time or patience to list that, so I will list the following:
www.pittsburghese.com. Before you ask, Yep, that is pretty much the way we talk.

On Edit: I have to say I hate the Expression "Git 'Er Done!!! Friggin Ron the Cable guy... It is like a Fucking mantra here.