I just heard that on Watertown NY morning TV as a description of a humid day. That is up there with the Pictou Co., NS phrase "it was darker than the inside of a cow."
...and are they "mash potatoes" or "mashed potatoes"?
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Hans - June 20, 2007 9:12 am
I believe it is either "mashed potatoes" or "mash b'dayduhs".
Alan - June 20, 2007 9:48 am
I believe you are referring to "marsh b'dayduhs".
David Janes - June 20, 2007 9:52 am
They're both. Dropping 'ed' from the participle in the noun phrases is quite common; I'm actually suprised there isn't an offical grammar name for this. I.e. "iced cream" -> "ice cream"; "boxed set" -> "box set".
Here's an OK page on this.
gorthos - June 20, 2007 10:37 am
Definitely MASHED potatoes.. or Poh-day-do's as they say at my inlaws.. then again they claim a hay LOFT is a hay MOW being Rural Englander types. And they say hamburg instead of hamburger which drives me BONKERS..ANd they say "shut the door to" which apparently means donlt quite close it, but I always play dumb and say "shut it to what?"
Gordo - June 20, 2007 11:19 am
Bashed tatties. :-)
Knut Albert - June 27, 2007 11:30 am
And old son lyric popped up in my mind:
-Do the Mash, the Monster Mash...