Guilty as charged

Here's a fun link on verbal ticks associated with life and conversations in the Buckeye State.  

Yes, we know it's Kroger, Meijer, and JC Penney.   But 99% of the time it's given an 'S' at the end.  Kroger's, Meijer's, Penney's.  Perhaps ownership acknowledgement?  Another fun one: Warsh.  As in 'It's in the wash.'  But more than anywhere else I've ever been, I'll hear it pronounced 'Warsh' in these parts.  Why?  I don't know.  The only one I didn't know and, to be honest, have never heard, is calling the trunk of a car The Boot.  In everywhere I've been, including Ohio, it's the trunk of the car.  But the others are fair.  

One that wasn't mentioned: Saying 'Yeah-no' before a sentence. This might be done elsewhere, but I hear it in Ohio more than anywhere else I have lived.  That is, you actually begin a sentence or a thought in this manner: 'Yeah-no, Ohio State will definitely go to the championship this year.'   'Yeah-no, congress is obviously dropping the ball on this.'  'Yeah-no, the Rolling Stones were simply not on the same level as the Beatles.'  Whether the speaker is agreeing or disagreeing with the subsequent statement is anyone's guess. 

Bonus:

My mom had an endless supply sayings.  She was the queen of quips, though never with more than a high school education.  Many were old saws of course.  She didn't invent them, but she had an endless store from which I learned my way around this old world.  Sayings like 'Lazy people work the hardest', or 'Worry about the person in the mirror before you worry about others', or 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.'  Of course some of it was probably from her family.  My uncle, who served in the Pacific in WW2, used to be fond of saying 'Wish in one hand and crap* in the other and see which one gets filled the fastest.'  So some of that inheritance I received was no doubt from where she received it.  Given the reputation her dad had of being rather blunt and opinionated, it's not hard to believe where they came from.  

But my all time favorite, because I have no clue what it means, was this gem she would say before wading into my sister or me to drive home a point: 'I'll to you one thing, and that ain't two things!'  Often proceeded by 'Buster.' If you can crack that code, beyond the obvious fact of the statement, you're smarter than I am.  To this day my sister and I have been unable to figure it out.  

*He didn't say 'crap', but you get the point.