There was a time on Maine's midcoast when a common greeting on the street was the phrase, "Do you think they'll have it?" And the responses were equally odd.
"I heard one once, that was the men's got the tents up and women's got the pies all made," Luthera Dawson told Keith Shortall in an interview from the MPBN archives.
Some of the localisms and dialects that were once part of our state are still heard on the street, but others are disappearing.
MPBN and our media partners at Down East magazine have been working together on an exploration of Maine language, and as part of that we've compiled an online map of the unique voices that define the different regions of our state.
MPBN news director Keith Shortall will talk about this project at noon Wednesday on our call-in program, Maine Calling.
