dead0man
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« on: June 15, 2010, 01:02:21 AM » |
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« edited: June 15, 2010, 01:04:10 AM by dead0man »
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Step away from the teeter-totter*.
*(from wiki)In the southeastern New England region of the United States, it is sometimes referred to as a tilt or a tilting board.
Speakers in northeastern Massachusetts, United States, sometimes call them teedle boards. In the Narragansett Bay area the term changes to dandle or dandle board.
According to Michael Drout, "There are almost no "Teeter-" forms in Pennsylvania, and if you go to western West Virginia and down into western North Caroline there is a band of "Ridey-Horse" that heads almost straight south. This pattern suggests a New England origin or importation of the term that spread down the coast and a separate development in Appalachia, where Scotts-Irish settlers did not come from New England. "Hickey-horse" in the coastal regions of North Carolina is consistent with other linguistic and ethnic variations.
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