Originally Posted by
FireSprite 
OMGosh Amy, I grew up in that region & I haven't heard anyone speak like this in SO LONG!!!
No one had arthritis. They all had Arthur-ite-us
No sandwiches, but plenty of sang-witches.
Heyna is actually pronounced "A-nuh" - we used it at the end of every sentence like the equivalent of ending it with, "aint' it?" (shudder)
Nice day, heyna?
I had to consciously work at my inflection & enunciation at a teen to avoid having this lazy dialect - it grated my nerves even as a child! This sums it all up pretty well:
Scranton Dictionary
I hear all of those things a lot here. I went through that dictionary, and I really wasn't surprised.
I also hear that they make monkey meat sang witches here also.
Oh, for anyone not from around here ---Nanny Coke, is Nanticoke Pa, there is also a West Nanticoke which is across the riva. Luzerne Co resident and proud of it. I don't know if I can go back and look at what they call foreigners here, it's people from NY, NJ. It's nooyookers or suttin like that.
amy