My newest staffer, Matt, moved up here from Baltimore this year ... so he finds Yorkisms all the time.

So many of them go right past me - they're just the way I've always said things, so I don't even notice.

But the one he pointed out to me recently was to "pitch" something instead of throwing it away. "I keep thinking, is there a batter somewhere?" he said.

Commenter Joe also wrote in recently about two other Yorkisms - referring to a place by what used to be there, and finishing sentences with "then."

Wonder what I have to say on those topics? Check out these previous posts:
What it used to be

Some relatives of doing something "then":
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