May292007

Words of Wisdom for Yankee-land

According to one of my students, you can’t request “bag help” in a Yankee grocery store the way you would in the South. We would say, “Can you get some bag help?” or “Do you have a bag boy?” Apparently, in northern climes, you must say, “Have you no baggers?”

 This makes me laugh.

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