Photo by wageslaves.

While we wait to hear whether and how much the RFK crowd booed Cheney at today’s home opener, we give you this interesting little bit of interweb diversion, courtesy of Gothamist. It’s a dialect survey, reporting how, across the country and in the District, people say stuff that some other people say differently. It seems that in D.C., we say poem with two syllables and you all instead of y’all, and we also call the little bug that curls up a pill bug (not me, where I grew up it’s roly poly or nothing). Fascinatingly, when you ask a person from D.C. what they mean when they say “the City,” half of them will tell you New York and only a quarter will mean the District.

It would have been cool if they could have added, for our sake, the words Washington (warsh?) and L’Enfant, or perhaps Judishuwary. Thank goodness we have the comments to figure these out for ourselves.