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While most thing about town are almost back to normal, the subway continues to be disrupted-- you can never be sure what any given train will do.
Friday, the train i was on was switched from a local to an express (good for me!) and the conductor announced
"This train is becoming an express. The next stop will be turdy-tee turd (33rd)street."
i didn't think anyone in NY still said it that way.. (it was made popular in a Pre WWII comedy skit!) it made me smile!
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i didn't think anyone in NY still said it that way.Well, Helen...he must've been from Joisey! 
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Maybe Whit, but turdy tee turd and turd, (33rd and 3rd) in Brooklyn was the location of the Naval Health Station, where inductees had to report for physicals. it's close to the old brooklyn navy yards. if it has an association with joisey, it's just since they built the guinea gang plank. (known out side of NY/NJ as the Verenzano bridge.)
and i've always thought it, along with turlet (as Archie Bunker would say) as being low class 3rd generation irish--mostly brooklynese, but i heard turlet as a child in the bronx.
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i heard turlet as a child
When I was little, I had a friend who said turlet. I don't know what her background was. But we were pretty far from the Bronx!
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Also, in Turkish, it's "tuvalet" (too-vah-let). Kind of like turlet, kind of like toilet, kind of like toilette. I think it must be adapted from the French, as many Turkish words are.
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and i've always thought it, along with turlet (as Archie Bunker would say) as being low class 3rd generation irish--mostly brooklynese, but i heard turlet as a child in the bronx.
Yup. The Irish drop their 'h's when pronouncing 'th' words. Thanks becomes Tanks and Thing becomes Ting. Father and Mother are pronounced (in Dublinese anyway) as Far-dah and Mud-dah but I don't know abot an Irish influence for turlet. It's usually pronounced toilah here.
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The Irish drop their 'h's when pronouncing 'th' words.
This is a characteristic of Newfoundland speech as well, but then with the Irish background here, that's no surprise. Also, the hard "th" sound like in "the" becomes "d", so "the" is "duh", and "there" is "dere".
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Did ya know that the winners of last years Tree Felling contest were t'ree fellers from Dublin? (ain't dat roight, G'Ted?) 
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This is a characteristic of Newfoundland speech as well, but then with the Irish background here, that's no surprise. Also, the hard "th" sound like in "the" becomes "d", so "the" is "duh", and "there" is "dere".
dat's right!
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