arvo

You mean not everyone talks like this? :-)

I had to laugh recently when I used the term arvo in a conversation with a colleague and she genuinely didn't know what it meant. I thought she was joking at first, but she was serious. She's lived here for years! We decided that she'd obviously been hanging around with much more 'refined' people than myself who wouldn't use such a slack abbreviation. :-)

Language is such fun at times, isn't it?

"Redd" is Scots (not common around Edinburgh any more, but I think it's still current north and west of here). For some reason it seems to have ended up as a linguistic marker for Pittsburgh - since Pittsburgh is about the most ethnically heterogenous city in the US, with the great majority of its people of non-English- speaking origin, I'd put that down to evolutionary fluke.

The other one I've no idea about - the words are Scots but the phrase isn't, as far as I know.

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Howdy!

...sounds like Brownsville & El Paso, Tx.

R/Sandy