> There are also other local pronunciations, which I mock at every opportunity. "Creek" is "crick" here, "wolf" is "woof," "wash" is "warsh," and many similar words. I also notice that almost no one here uses adverbs. A lot of people switch the uses of "seen" and "saw."

Yeah, Mom's plagued me with "warsh" syndrome, too. She lived in Oregon for awhile, but I suspect it's from Texas (which is where she was really born).

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