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Dear Sparteye: Just to tease you, what was your capacity in those "strip clubs" in Windsor? Patron or entertainer?
I confess to deliberately misunderstanding.
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Faldage self-references chuhcaaguhwun I wonder if that has been tempered by upstate New Yorkish? Or reinforced? 
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Checagou was a spelling I remember from an exhibit at the Chicago Historical Society, a small museum of history, natural and otherwise, of Chicago on the edge of Lincoln Park just off of North Ave.
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Dear Faldage: Is it only in New England that Chicago is pronounced "Shicago"?
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No Vermont slang page, but I checked out the Boston slang (having grown up there). The actual slang terms (Spa, Packy, The T) were right on, but the pronunciations were a bit exaggerated -- more like the Boston accent you hear in movies than what you really hear day to day. Foddy Doll Us ($40.00) is perfect, however.
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Bill asks, "Is it only in New England that Chicago is pronounced 'Shicago'?"
It's not pronounced "Tshicago" anywhere, other than, perhaps, in some Hispanic communities, as far as I know, if that's what you're asking.
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Dear Faldage, I wanted to know if the "Ch" is like chicken, or like French Charles.
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Charles and chicken are pronounced the same here... (belabouring the obvious emoticon  ) ...however, shi-cah-go, as Frank Sinatra sings, is the way 'round my hood! (the one I'm in when I'm on the 'net)
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But there was an old song my pappy used to like to sing:
Chickie in the car, that car won't go. Chick car* go.
With the Chick pronounced like Chicken.
*No, I have never heard it pronounced with an R by a native.
Now that I think about it too long, I can't swear that I haven't heard Tschicago. Or Tsch'caw go with precious little vowel sound between the Tsch and the c.
Where Tsch represents the initial consonant cluster in Chicken.
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Baltimore speech as noted in Slanguage
A good bit right on, but the following not correct:
It's not "bulled egg", it's more like "bowled"
I have never heard the following: "avalanche" thru "AssX", "looney yum fool" thru "dug", "elfin", "balled ham" (as noted above that would be "bowled ham", "share".
"Hollandtown" (Highlandtown) is actually pronounced "Hollintown", just as Highland Avenue is "Hollin" Avenue. This makes for a lot of difficulties between cab drivers and tourists who want to see H.L. Mencken's house on Hollins Street (which is a totally different street on the opposite side of the city.)
"Droodle" is correct for Druid Hill (Park or Avenue), but not "pork" for "park".
Then there are lots of omissions, among my favorites:
"The payment is front of the house is made of seement."
"The far men rode the far engine to the far house."
and a favorite of housewives, "I'm so tarred from arnen' the laundry all day."
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