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Hi Louish and welcome to the board.
The first time I came across 'stoop' was in Laurel & Hardy's film 'The music box' where they make several unsuccessful attempts to deliver a piano to a house at the top of a very long set of steps (100 or so?) which is referred to as a 'stoop'.
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Welcome from here, also, louish. (I first read your name as Louise, probably because that was my mother's name!)
Like you, and unlike in paulb's movie, I always thought a stoop was at the top of just a few steps. Also that it was pretty small: just about big enough for two or so people to stand on. Much bigger than that, and it becomes a porch.
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Oh no, a Gyro is a greek sandwich, served in a Pita bread. Most sidewalk venders don't have gyro's, since gyro's have sliced strips of roast lamb, or sometimes lamb and beef. a gyro is served with "white sause" (Humas) and vegetables. (lettuse and tomato) most Gyro shops also serve Falafal, a "meat ball" made from ground chick peas and other vegetales (parsley, onion, garlic) that has been deep fried. Falafal is commonly available from "The falafal guy", who for the most part has replaced the "Dirty water hotdog" guy. the falafal guy usually also serves Halal chicken from his rolling steel cart, but Gyro's are usually only available in a shop.
I think Gyro is a from the greek, and depending on the local make up of your sandwich shops, this could be the source of the word gyro to mean oversized sandwich.
the pronounciation is like gyro-scope. (maybe even the root? the bread is wrapped AROUND the meat/filling?)
In NY, all dinner are owned by greeks (local truism), small motels out side of manhattan are owned by indians, (sorry shank, but i am not sure if they are indian or pakastanies--Indian subcontinent immegrees) gas stations are have a large percentage of turish and central africa ownship. Immigrants fill niches, and when one is successful, many others follow.
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Is "how's come?" (pronounced "howz cum") a midwest phrase? Living in Flori-duh now, I only hear this from
Ohioans & Michiganders. Anybody know?
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"how's come?"
whizzper, I have never used and seldom heard that expression. I thought it was a Yankee thang (hi, Anna!).
But--I don't think I've ever heard Florida be anything but
FLOR-ih-duh. How else is it said, please?
I am DELIGHTED that you have returned to posting!
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Hi Jackie: thanks for the gracious welcome (and Father
too--thank you).
The "Flori-duh" was only an embarassed reference to our
State of confusion. And, what about "toodle pip" as an old Brit "ta ta"--does anybody use those localisms anymore?
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>"ta ta"--does anybody use those localisms anymore?
"Ta ta" is used by small children, in the main, to mean bye bye. I assume it's mainly a Northern expression. Lots of words are repeated in traditional nursery talk "din din" means lunch or dinner, "woof woof" for dog, "chuff chuff" for train. These days we've all read the psychology books and tend to use "real" words instead, for better or worse. I love local family words, my daughter always said "moats" for milk. A little boy visiting recently was asked to remove his finger from an orifice and said "mummy, I can't, I have nostril ache!"
The other local variation on words is timing of meals. I was aways brought up (in a Northern working class-ish are) to eat dinner at dinner time (midday-ish) and tea at teatime (5pm ish). It was rare to find anyone eating lunch and dinner. We didn't get confused about when to have a dinner party as we didn't have dinner parties!
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As a Southerner, I can assure you ta-ta is used down there (or up there as you prefer) as well. We children had dinner and tea, and maybe supper. Dinner was the mid-day meal -- after all it was served by dinner ladies at school. But then again we had Sunday lunch. I think I'm still totally inconsistent over this. Whichever feels like the main meal of the day is dinner and the other one is lunch or tea as the case may be.
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I assume it's mainly a Northern expression
No, also widely used in Wales - although it also has the variant "Ta-rah".
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it also has the variant "Ta-rah".And I thought Cilla Black had invented that to mark her out from the assorted ex-popsters doing TV...  And I have never done dinner at lunchtime. (Arriviste parents. It had to be lunch. Dinner was when tea was late, and large...)
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