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Message: <blockquote data-quote="piperbarb" data-source="post: 157654" data-attributes="member: 12214">And if you are from the metro-New York area, you stand "on line" not "in line."  There are times my students say I "speak funny."  I try to explain to them that geographic regions have different ways of saying things and and use different phrases.  To show you how different people sound in the U.S., my mother was raised in Manhattan and my father was raised in Brooklyn.  You could really hear the difference in their accents.My spousal unit says, "punkin".  When I asked him how he spelled it, he said, "p-u-mp-k-i-n."  He grew up in an area of North Eastern PA that is often referred to as Pennsyltucky because a lot of people who settled there came from Kentucky, West Virginia, and the surrounding area.  He even has some "mountain twang" as I call it.   The migrated to get out of the coal mines.</blockquote>