This list was published previously in the Times-Leader and is being reprinted without permission. I thought it would be helpful to have a handy guide to the area lingo for those of us who have chosen to spend four years of our lives in this peculiar enclave of society. Scrah-un, land of the odd saying! Kuzzints : Your uncle's children Clozeda light : Will you please turn the lamp off? Onnakowna : Because (I got a flat onnakowna someone dropped nails on da road) Pellow : Where you put your head when you sleep onnakowna you're tired Buh-uns : Those little white things on the front of your shirt Kupple-too-tree : The number of missing buh-uns you might have Hayna : Excuse me, but did I just sound as silly as I think I did? Jeet jet : Gee, I was wondering if you had anything for dinner No, jew : Well, no, golly, but I was wondering the same thing about you Wok : What you take the dog for at night Tock : What you do on the phone Plimmit : A muted reference to Plymouth, PA Dee Eynon : Sugerman's Department Store Turdy-ate : WOLF-TV, Channel 38 Up da line : Up Scrah-un way Nanny Coke : Across the river from West Nanny Coke Lannick City : That place on the Jersey Shore where all the bingo buses are going these days Melk : A drink that goes good with cookies Da you: The U. Otto : A car Swoyerville : Swoyersville. Don't ask why. No one knows. Over town : Downtown Downtown : Over town Tarupe : Throop Ackamee : The place where you get da grocery order. there are Ackamees in Plimmit and Nanny Coke, and there's one not too far from Tarupe Haitch Beeyo : Dat station where you pick up da Frank Snotra specials. I tink Baah-ul : Dat ting dey put Gibbons and Steg in. I totso : I thought so, too. Corpse house : Where else in the world do they call funeral homes corpse houses??? Hose house : The place where dey keep da fire trucks. Sometimes called a fire barn, and usually found between a corpse house and a beer garden Beer garden : The place you go to pick up a six-pack of Steg Wah? : Pardon me, but could you repeat yourself? Tot : What teachers did to you in school Hox : The basketball team in Lanna, Georgia Lonn more : It cuts da grass LCC : LCCC Rude aidy : The road that takes you to Penn State Atha Leets : Lots of good ones play for Penn State Bot tings : What you did with your money at dee Eynon High-boll : You can only get one of these in the classier beer gardens Da moll : Where dey got Penney's and Sears and da 10-cent bathrooms, and you can go wokking all day with da Mrs. and buy neat tings. Wadder : Comes out the fosset Be-endat : Means "because" (I can't be wit my kuzzints in Tarupe be-endat I'm in the beer garden in Plimmit.) Hoddog : Tastes great with good soss on it. Fil'em : In some cultures, this is what you say when you bring your empty beer glasses into the bar. Here, fil'em is the ting you put in your camera Arthur Idis : What retired atha leets take Excedrin for.