If you’re a local to Norristown then there’s a few things you know that resonate specifically with the area. Here’s our list:
- When you have to explain tomato pie.
- When you have to explain how to make a zep at Subway.
- When the local groundhog, Nora, can track the weather better than Punxsutawney Phil.
- When someone asks about the time a lion bit off a guy’s arm.
- When you just assume every town has its own zoo.
- When you refer to the shopping mecca in King of Prussia as “the plaza” and the one in Plymouth Meeting as “the mall.”
- When you don’t question why there’s a North End, East End, West End but no South End.
- When a heated argument debates the pronunciation of the word “creek” — should it rhyme with “pick” or “peek?”
- When the same heated argument applies to Fornance Street — FORnance or FIRnance? — and the Roosevelt School — ROSEvelt or ROOSEvelt?
- When you shorten contractions — isn’t it becomes “init,” didn’t it becomes “dint” and weren’t becomes “wernt.”
