Warshington DC 

 Thars a 'g' in War-shin-ton?  mmm whoda thunk 

 I’m thinking of my SW Virginia friends who say it that way but I’m sure there’s no G in other parts. 

 I grew up with warsh (usually wash) rags.  Those were for the body.  Never use the dish rags for your body.  Shop towels were just rags. Everything else was a towel referenced by size, not purpose. 

 I was just remembering my favorite teacher.  I too every English and Language Arts class she taught.

She told us once (it was the 80s then), our geographic and cultural colloquialisms were a beautiful part of our heritage.  She advised that we should explore them while they still existed and were distinct.  TV and other mass media were homogenizing what was once a beautiful thing.

I've since grown to love all of our varieties of expression and miss them being more distinct to locations and peoples.