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One can never be too skinny, too rich, or have too many pluralses.
A recent study conducted by the Penn State Institute of Linguistic Curiosities indicates that central Pennsylvanian residents have trouble enunciating plural words and plural words with apostrophes. They have created a new class of words that linguistic experts are calling wantonly-dictated double […]

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Change? Clean Sweep? What does that mean? We need to red up.

While millions of Americans say they want change in the government, Pennsylvanians remain unmoved. They say the state and the country need reddin’ up.
“Things needs reddin’ up,” says Osceola-Mills resident John Paul Waschniksy. “From Harrisburg to Warshington. Yeah, we need a good reddin’ up.”
Waschinsky […]

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A Penn State Altoona professor declares that the way central Pennsylvanians end their sentences with repetitious declarations is a “unique linguistic tradition,” so he said.
Dr. Alban Myersdeen, an English professor, so he is, has been studying the folk tongues of the area for over ten years.
“It’s unlike anything I’ve encountered,” he said, so he said. […]

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