CO "official word"
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Crestoner
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CO "official word"
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Re: CO "official word"
14er is a good word for Colorado, though I wonder what percentage of Colorado residents have ever seen the top of one. Even if you include those driving up Pikes Peak and Evans, the number would be way too low.
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Doug Shaw
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Re: CO "official word"
Yes, but the list isn't quantifying experience. Almost everybody in Colorado, whether they have been to 14,000 feet or not, knows what a fourteener is.
I was just relieved when I read the list that our word wasn't "weed" (or equivalent).
I was just relieved when I read the list that our word wasn't "weed" (or equivalent).
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peter303
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Re: CO "official word"
Definately the best word of all 50. The only one that comes close is Hawaii's melodious greeting.Crestoner wrote:http://www.slate.com/articles/life/cult ... would.html
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TallGrass
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Re: CO "official word"
KS word 
sounds picked by the same people who think we ride John Deere's to school and have yellow-brick roads? Think Kaw or Ar-kansas would've been better. All they could come up with for MO was the state name? Like MT's graupel, and got some of it on Granite Peak. UT's seems to fit any Mormon/Amish/Mennonite. MI's yooper is legit. Would've been interesting to see what each state calls a "sidewalk."
sounds picked by the same people who think we ride John Deere's to school and have yellow-brick roads? Think Kaw or Ar-kansas would've been better. All they could come up with for MO was the state name? Like MT's graupel, and got some of it on Granite Peak. UT's seems to fit any Mormon/Amish/Mennonite. MI's yooper is legit. Would've been interesting to see what each state calls a "sidewalk.""A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures.
Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty."
Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty."
Re: CO "official word"
Born and raised in Kansas, and I've never uttered the words "shucky darn". That article is all cattywampus.TallGrass wrote:KS word
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thatmushroom
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In Texas, they call it a "running trail". I wish I were joking...TallGrass wrote:Would've been interesting to see what each state calls a "sidewalk."
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Doug Shaw
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Yinz jelly, hon!RockCaCO3 wrote:Born and raised in Kansas, and I've never uttered the words "shucky darn". That article is all cattywampus.TallGrass wrote:KS word
(Between local linguistics and millennial speak, I am not even sure what I just said!)
