Yet another reason to love Toledo

Leisy (and the rest of her sisters) had the Ohioan accent down before we moved here! Leisy would often tell people that their mom had called - "Hey, your mom called!" But she would say "mam" and not necessarily mom. Zak can attest to this because whenever he was over Zak's "mam" was "canstantly" calling. (Hey Zak! Your mam called - she told you to blog more.)
The other day we were at Target and Leisy desperatley needed chapstick but we were having such a hard time finding it. She became quite distraught and kept saying "Where in the world could the chapstick be?!?" A very helpful shopping mother with three kids said, "I think we saw chapsticks over in that direction. The kind you eat with right?" Leisy gave her a very quizzical look and stated "no, like medicated chapstick, for your lips." Understanding spread over the mom's face and she said," Chap Stick! Oh - I thought you said chaapsticks!" She prounouced the two words identically.

We recently had another ohioan jargon mix-up. We were having a conversation at my birthday party and Natalie, a wife of a fellow med student, was talking about how her son was being ornery...pronounced "oar-ner-ee" and that it was so cute. Leisy couldn't figure out how that was cute. It turns out the word ornery (yes, they pronounce quite exactly as it is spelled) means mischevious or sly here in Ohio, not crabby and mean. Weird Ohioans. We really do love them.