07 February 2017

[pdx_liff] Me Talk Portland One Day

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Stumbled on this at Oregonlive.

It's not a comprehensive list, but there are certain tells that alert the local Oregonian that You're Not From Here. We don't say "the" before the freeway number, we don't say "on line", and Jo-Jo's are a delicious potato thing you can get at the convenience store (well, at least you could in the 80s and 90s).

The Oregonian gives you a basic Oregon-English/English-Oregon dictionary at this link.

3 comments:

CountZeroOr said...

Um, the link doesn't appear to work.

Samuel John Klein said...

Gosh, I've been having that problem lately. Lemme fix.

Samuel John Klein said...

Link now wholly proper!