My fella says I do the extended oooo thing. He is from out East. So, I think you have nailed that one. Might be hard to put in script for effect though. Unless you intend to type it with several oooo's.
Great! I will probably just type toooo or yooooo in the first few lines of dialogue, and let the reader fill in the rest themselves. Is there anything else your fella thinks is interesting about the speech? 
"Ya no" or "doncha no" - yepper I say those.
"You got something to say/show me?" While gesturing toward the door with their hand or head. For a bar fight
"Put up or shut up" Also, for bar fights. But, mostly we are a dirty fighting lot - we just swing first - talk later. And, if we can get the first slug in, we are happier for it.
This is wonderful!! Is there anything that a bartender might say trying to prevent a fight?
I don't hear the working class say D for TH as you indicate. I have 3 degrees and talk a bit odd. My father barely graduated high school and STILL I have not heard such. Not even from farmers here. Not with regularity at all. Surely there are some though.
Maybe I'm wrong about that. I remember it very clearly, but they might have been teasing someone who used to live in Chicago. Nobody in my story has anything approaching your level of education, so I really appreciate your help!
I am not familiar with the 73 year old phrase you offer at all. And, my uncle is a buffalo farmer. He is a man of very few words all together. He DOES say "
I dunno, I am but a simple man" or
"Never had much use for knowin' that". I hear that last one a lot.
Wow, those are great -- I will definitely use them!
Sorry, I should have explained better. Here's the dialogue:
A group of men are sitting around a bar when the conversation turns to past indiscretions. One says, "Okay, I know I used to be an a**hole, but that was years ago! How long does it take for a woman to forget?"
They have forgotten that the retired dairy farmer is even there, until he chimes in, "I don't know. I ain't but 73-years old!" I like the sentiment, but the "ain't but" sounds more Texas than Wisconsin to me. How would your uncle say this?
Work - often referred to as
"the man" rather than the business name or company as a whole.
"head honcho" "dude with the big office" "shirts/suits" for bosses and employees who run offices versus others that may work in plants.
Don't hear many people talk about pay stuff. Course I do not listen to that stuff. I hear
"off to make the rent or bills" in regards to earning/going to work. Or whatever they want/need. For instance "going to get my new stereo or new truck" as they head to work. Of course, we call it the
"daily grind" too - as many other regions do.
This is sooo cool!! Thank you, thank you!!
I do not live in a touristy spot. Green Bay has attractions like that - but they are specific and tourists go there - but usually only briefly. It is not like people travel here to see sights - they come to see Packer Hall of Fame or go to a game - then leave the next day. It is not like they come to see sights for any length of time (that I am aware of). Matera the Mad may have more on tourist stuff. For she lives in an area where more tourists would go based on her location and what it offers to visitors.
Is there any insider Packers stuff that my characters might know? The story takes place after the 2007/2008 season ends. My characters actually get into a lot of trouble, because there's no football game on. I know about team ownership, foam cheesehead hats, I've been to the Packer's Hall of Fame, and I'm onto tiny pink baby-sized packers jerseys. And 17 different biographies of Brett Favre (who was retired during my story) at the bookstore. Anything else?
We say don't cut off your nose to spite your face too - I hear that a lot. We say
"cannot see the forest for the trees" too, stuff that is not regional specific.
I will come back and respond to the rest later. I have a kiddo to get to bed.
Christine
