CAT FIGHT (was ot posts)

Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen wrote in message ...
kirby19711 wrote:
The sure fire way to tell the difference between NY and NJ is the
pronunciation of the glass container that contains wine. For most
it's bottle. For NY city it's boddle but for Passaic, Essex and now
Bergen counties it's bah'ull with a slight gutteral stop.

Yes, that's it exactly! My mom's wine comes in a bah'ull, and she tells
the kids to seh'ull down! Bergen County (though born and raised in NYC)

Sue

My father first told me about it. He was born and raised in Paterson.
He was stationed in Virginia (among other places) during WWII and the
"natives" kept trying to get him to say bottle and stoop (front
porch). They found out that it works both ways when his buddy's
sister went to work in Macy's in NYC and everybody would come to her
counter to talk just to hear her accent.

Anne
from Bergen county too although right now I'm in Delaware