Also in upstate NY you'll find old folks like me remember that a Spider can also be a large frying pan, usually about 3" deep and made of cast iron. Also, I remember that Spyders are convertable cars.
A Clothespress (or clothes press) can be an armoire (sp?), or a free-standing cupboard for hanging garments.
I, too (not "to" or "two," too -- here comes the train - HA!), want to beat people who say, "So aren't you/him/her/they."
This country should have no tax problems -- there must be a few million "g's" laying (and I'm not lying!) around, since no one uses them on the end of words anymore.
I'm speekeeng engrlish to be unnerstood, so youins gonna does it, arncha? Dat's more funner.
Knowi'msayin'?
American English is getting so bad that maybe it should be called the Mutha tongue. No matter where you go or to whom you speak (Ha!), the language is brutalized almost as bad as my speling, but I can forgive and forget bad spelling more easily.
(I'm a frustrated old fart with a linquistics minor)