Eddie from Petoskey, Michigan, learned double-talk from his mother, who picked it up from girlfriends in the 1950s or early 1960s. In his family’s version, ib is inserted around each syllable: for a word like cat, it follows the initial consonant...
What do you call the wheeled contraption that you push around the grocery store? Shopping cart? Shopping carriage? Shopping wagon? Buggy? A former Kentuckian wonders if anyone besides her calls them bascarts. Check out this dialect map featuring...