laggin: lumber used for support in coal holes. Usage has carried over to any type of board used as a support or prop. 

"I need a couple'a laggin's to prop this up."

Lake Hauto Patch: outside Nesquehoning. The highway here is sometimes called the "Hautobahn" due to the speeding, fog, and sadly many deaths. See also Hautobahn

"didja fly down da hautobahn to get here?"

lasjeer: last year.

"Lasjeer duncha know, Mikey played basball"

laundrymat: laundromat. Gramma was our families laundrymat. Miners often wore dickies or bib overalls. Grandpaws mostly wore bib overalls pretty much 7 days a week so laundry was a daily chore.. On sundays or going to town they had a stiff, new set of liberty overalls that usually got worn with a suit coat/sports jacket and a collared shirt. When they were still young and working in the mines it was overalls, long sleeve work shirts and some type of work jacket. Heavy leather boots, and a round aluminum dinner bucket rounded it out.

lectric: as in electric. 

"Gotta go pay da lectric bill"

left: very common word at one time which meant allowed or  permitted also know as the past tense of let. See also yooj.

"Yuz ain't left doing that down here"

left-handers: can be referred to as non-Catholics. Some may perceive this term as derogatory 

"I aint working with no left handers"

lie-berry or li'bry: often referred to the library. 

lightening (or lit'ing) bugs: fireflys. 

Fun Fact: ligtning bugs do not appear west of the Rocky Mountains except for a small surviving patch at a farm in Utah

Lit-a-wayne-yun: Lithuanian nationality. 

"Are pierogies a Polish or hilltoper origin?" 🤣😂

lokie: a steam saddle tank engine that ran on narrow gauge railroad tracks and hauled about 30 mine cars of coal from colliery to breaker. Short for locomotive.

"Youz guys see da Lokie pass by today?"

The Lokie: the steam train at the Pioneer Tunnel, Ashland's only tourist attraction. In the coal mining days, a lokie was a small locomotive used to haul miners, tools, and coal in and out of the mines. Check out our Youtube page for an Ashland Coal Mine Tour video from the 1980s! 

"Let's go up da Lokie"

long johns: often known as long underwear traditionally sewn by gramma or bought from JE. Morgan Knitting Mills. Sometimes also referred to as a rectangular shaped creme or jelly filled doughuts, usually topped with coconut.

loogie: a wad of phlegm. The more talented coal region kids would claim they could hawk loogies for miles 🤣 Also known as a "hawker", "lunger", or "lungie". See hawk a loogie.

"Oh yeah, i cud hawk a loogie da mile father than youz"

looka, lookit: look, look here, or see here. Very popular coal region word

 "Lookit here, if I wanted yer opinion, I'da ast'ja fer it!"

Loscrik: the proper pronunciation of "Lost Creek". Many coal region towns had their own lost creek. Also called the village west of Lower Shaft.

lot-ree, lot-tree: as in playing the lottery. This was immensely popular in the Coal Region long before most other states discovered it. Many folks would religiously tune in nightly on WNEP to watch the lottery numbers being announced.

"I gotta go up town Summit Hill ta play da lotree"

lurnt: past tense of learn.

"I lurnt something real good at St. Mikes after gettin' beat by da nuns"