What did you cook or eat today? (December 2025)

SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I guess that's a use of language problem.

"Was coming" implies it didn't happen in our family. "Has come" means it did happen.

I thoughtfully for a while there all your effort had gone to waste.
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I guess, "was due to come home" or "hadn't yet come home" would be another way to put it. 🤣

JAS_OH1 said:
That's how I read it too. But GH lives in a state where they say "youinz" to mean "you all"...

No worries, every state in the union manages to butcher the English language in some fashion. And many of us here in the US only speak one language, so you'd think we'd be good at mastering it instead of effing it up!
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"Youse", "youinz", and "yinz" are mostly a Western PA/Pittsburgh thing, and seldom heard where I live. But, there's quite a bit of different dialects across PA. If I meet someone with a particular dialect I recognize, I can tell within a minute or two which surrounding county they grew up in, and in at least one instance, which particular town. I've met people before and have said, "Oh, you're from Shamokin!" When they ask how I know that, I tell them, "It's how you pronounce your "o's". (They pronounce it lower and more gutteral.) I'm personally fluent in Pennsylvania hick, and have been pegged myself as being from PA when I've been out of state, just by my manner of speech. And don't get me going on speech in other parts of the country. We have family in the South and we both laugh at how we speak and phrase things. 🤣
 
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When I was in New England, I reported my car was stolen, I had a hard time understand what they were asking me. This was downtown Boston. Not just in the South.
And in North England, I can’t remember which town, I could barely understand some people even when they were working in American chain food store like KFC. It certainly was very frustrating, I was hungry and we were in a fast food place. It seems like fast food place was not very fast.
 
Gone Hiking said:
I guess, "was due to come home" or "hadn't yet come home" would be another way to put it. 🤣


"Youse", "youinz", and "yinz" are mostly a Western PA/Pittsburgh thing, and seldom heard where I live. But, there's quite a bit of different dialects across PA. If I meet someone with a particular dialect I recognize, I can tell within a minute or two which surrounding county they grew up in, and in at least one instance, which particular town. I've met people before and have said, "Oh, you're from Shamokin!" When they ask how I know that, I tell them, "It's how you pronounce your "o's". (They pronounce it lower and more gutteral.) I'm personally fluent in Pennsylvania hick, and have been pegged myself as being from PA when I've been out of state, just by my manner of speech. And don't get me going on speech in other parts of the country. We have family in the South and we both laugh at how we speak and phrase things. 🤣
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My husband's cousins in NY say "youse". I'm from Florida with parents from Texas and I say "y'all".
 
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