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Engineered to do it all. That's a laptop evolved with Intel Evo Platform. Welcome to another mini-cast from Away with Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

Here's a linguistic puzzle for you. Suppose you stop by my home and you said,

Martha, did you know there's sculch in your door yard? That's right, sculch in my

door yard. So in what part of the country would you expect to hear these terms?

Well, the answer is we'd probably be in New England, most likely in Maine.

There the word Sculch, that's SCU L C H, means trash.

And in much of New England and in part of New York State,

you'll often hear people refer to the yard near a house

as the door yard. Over the next few weeks, I want to talk with you about regional expressions like these.

Terms that will be perfectly familiar to those who live in one part of the country,

but mystifying or even jarring to those living someplace else, or as

they say in Maine to someone who is from away, that is from anywhere other than Maine. Another word you'll find mainly in Maine is Dite. It's spelled either

DIT E or DIGH T. In Maine the word diet means just a little, a smidge, as in, oh just give me a little

dite of butter, or move over just a dite, will you?

It appears the term dite comes from a scot's word that means the same thing, and that word derives in turn from a Dutch word that means a small coin.

Well, that's just a dite about some of the words you'll hear in New England and especially in Maine.

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