[ABC] LOST IN TRANSLATION: WHAT DID YOU SAY

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LOST IN TRANSLATION: WHAT DID YOU SAY

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): We think across America [1]we're all speaking the same English.  But in fact, we're not.  And we've been hearing from you all day because [2]a new dictionary is out.  And it's the Dictionary of American Regional English.  It's just arrived.  And Peggy e-mailed, for instance, a whiskadillar means that's really something, if you're in Wisconsin.  Linda in Oklahoma told us grocery carts are buggies there.  And here's ABC's John Berman with more.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(VO): [3]Behold, [4]conclusive proof that America is the world's only superpower.  To you, this might look like a...

PEDESTRIAN (FEMALE): [5]Dust bunny.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(VO): That ball of hair and dust that collects under your bed.  But in the northeast, they call it a dust kitty.  The south, house moss.  Pennsylvania, a woolie.  And California, a flug, or a...

PEDESTRIAN (MALE): Mungy.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(VO): The mungy.  174 words for this same thing.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(VO): We truly are [6]the land of plenty.  Plenty of words.  [7]Quirky, colorful, different words, depending on where you're from.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(VO) Heavy rain?  In the Ozarks, a fence lifter.  In Tennessee, [8]a gully washer.  And on the gulf coast, a toad strangler.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(VO): A large sandwich in Pennsylvania is a hoagie.  In New York, a hero.  And in New England...

PEDESTRIAN (FEMALE): Grinders.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(VO): Except the parts of Boston where they call it a spucky.  And in Appalachia, you can wash it down with a pretty girl's station, which is what they call lemonade.  Or grab a drink at the bubbler in Wisconsin, [9]a water fountain to the rest of us.  It's perfect for [10]a parched throat.  Or as they say in Mississippi, a parched...

PEDESTRIAN (MALE): Goozle.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(VO): It's a celebration and reminder of our rich, real diversity, a country where you can eat a plate of noodles or hit a river to go noodling.  That's [11]barehanded catfishing.  I tried it in Missouri.

JOHN BERMAN (ABC NEWS)(OC): We all might speak differently but we all speak American.  And if you don't like it, you have a bad case of [12]mulligrubs, and you should go shut yourself in the [13]rumplekammer.  John Berman, ABC News, New York.

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[1] 우리 모두 같은 영어를 사용하다

[2] 새 사전이 나왔다

[3] 보라!

[4] 결정적 증거

[5] 먼지 뭉치

[6] 풍요의 나라

[7] 꾀바른/변덕스러운

[8] 집중 호우

[9] 분수식 식수대

[10] 타는 목

[11] 맨손으로 메기잡기

[12] 복통/우울/울적함

[13] ????(새로 나온 방언 사전을 보세요.^^)