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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 18, 2016 21:34:51 GMT
My northern MN family all say "Oh for cute" but I haven't heard it anywhere else. what does it mean? It means something is unbelievably cute, adorable, delightful etc. As in, "Oh for cute! Look at that sweet little baby!" The one I've never understood was when I was talking to someone from Utah who used the phrase "Oh my heck!" What is that? I understand "oh my" or "oh heck" even "what the hell" but oh my heck doesn't make any sense to me at all.
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Post by peano on Jul 18, 2016 21:43:04 GMT
That's Boston talk - right? I think north in general but less common as you go west. I only have heard this from people in Massachusetts.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 18, 2016 22:46:11 GMT
going "up" to somewhere is a thing in and of itself, too... whether it's actually "up" from where you are or not (up = uphill?? higher elevation?? north of where you are??) Yes! Everywhere is up in Wisconsin. Even if it's not north. "We're going up to Chicago this weekend." crimsoncat05 are you a Wisconsin native? You seem to speak the language. ^^^ lol!! close, but not quite. I grew up in a small town in extreme NW Illinois; the WI state line was the north border of town. My Dad's family is from the southwestern Wisconsin lead-mining area (ever heard of Shullsburg cheese??) and my Mom grew up about 6 miles away from where they live now. And then, of course, we went to NW Minnesota every summer for a fishing vacation, too!! (uff da!!) After college I lived in the NW Chicago suburbs but visited my sister in Milwaukee quite often. I think there are a lot of similarities with WI-type speak, especially since there's "Chicago-area speech patterns" and the rest of the state in northern Illinois is more small-townish.
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Post by compeateropeator on Jul 18, 2016 23:01:23 GMT
I think north in general but less common as you go west. I only have heard this from people in Massachusetts. I think it is a pretty common in New England in general.
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Post by gmcwife1 on Jul 18, 2016 23:10:30 GMT
We used to use "butt hurt" often back in my high school days (class of "97). I still hear it occasionally from my friends. I'm going to guess this is the age of the people I've heard say it.
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Post by peasapie on Jul 18, 2016 23:14:06 GMT
In Brooklyn, I've heard the word "made" used in place of asked, or suggested. As in, "I made them sit at the table." The first time I heard it, I thought they were literally forcing people to sit down.
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Post by peasapie on Jul 18, 2016 23:15:15 GMT
Well...I'm originally from California and now live in AZ. When I started working for a company who was HQ'd out of the south I frequently started hearing, "we be fixin'" or "he be fixin'" or "she be fixin"....I laughed, and found it very endearing. I work with one of my favorite co-workers of all times right now, she is from Texas and is "be fixin" something all the time! Love it! In my part of Texas, people are always fixin' to do something. He's fixin' to go to the store. She's fixin' to go to work. I'm convinced my friends from Texas have an entire Thesaurus of words and expressions unique to themselves. I love listening to them speak. SaveSave
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Post by TXMary on Jul 18, 2016 23:17:23 GMT
Just recently, someone used the phrase "showing his ass", which I guess is a regionalism for acting like a jerk, but I took it literally and thought the kid had mooned someone. DH and I say that a lot, but it's an inside joke with us. One of our favorite plays is A Tuna Christmas and one of the characters says it in the play except she says "showed her ass" because she was talking about her sister. We used to go to Austin every year at Christmas and see it, but they don't do it there anymore. We had to buy the DVD. That phrase is used a lot at our house.
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Post by kamper on Jul 18, 2016 23:39:40 GMT
In my part of Texas, people are always fixin' to do something. He's fixin' to go to the store. She's fixin' to go to work. I'm convinced my friends from Texas have an entire Thesaurus of words and expressions unique to themselves. I love listening to them speak. SaveSaveWell, it is a whole other country. Why wouldn't they have a different language. Why I first starting dating my DH (west Texan) I had to ask for translations all the time.
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Post by kamper on Jul 18, 2016 23:41:44 GMT
I volunteered at an agency that assisted Katrina evacuees. I would ask "Where do you live?" The response usually began "I stay at___" At first I thought they were staying with friends or family, nope. This was used by people with leased apartments all the time.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Jul 18, 2016 23:42:55 GMT
Just recently, someone used the phrase "showing his ass", which I guess is a regionalism for acting like a jerk, but I took it literally and thought the kid had mooned someone. Very much a Southern phrase. I've heard my mom say "quit showing your butt" many a time. It was sometimes followed with "or I'll jerk a knot in your tail". This is something else my Texan mom would say. I wonder if she picked it during the many years we lived in KY? I've never really heard anyone else use it. Save
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Post by my3freaks on Jul 19, 2016 4:16:39 GMT
I was going to say I have heard it AND used it - just ask my husband LOL. Maybe we are just weird in Colorado. What do you think freecharlie ?? well, there is that 😀 I'm a transplant living in the Denver area, I agree, you guys are all weird! Now don't get all butt hurt because I said that
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Post by my3freaks on Jul 19, 2016 4:25:16 GMT
I think north in general but less common as you go west. I only have heard this from people in Massachusetts. I'm from southern NH, and it's wicked common there too.
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Post by peano on Jul 19, 2016 4:47:50 GMT
I only have heard this from people in Massachusetts. I'm from southern NH, and it's wicked common there too. Isn't southern NH just a suburb of Boston? You would probably also hear it in northern Connecticut, but you don't hear it in Fairfield County, where I live.
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Post by patin on Jul 19, 2016 5:24:01 GMT
Colorado here & we are butt hurt that the rest of you guys don't use this phrase.
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jul 19, 2016 7:08:05 GMT
Only to a masshole...
Along with wicked, there's decent. She's decent, it's decent, my weekend was decent. Or just combine them for wicked decent.
Ayah, I'm from the 603.
I am trying to figure out if the phrase "Jesus to Jesus and six hands around" used as a cuss phrase is a New Hampshire thing or just my dad.
I did learn that "pissed" was a swear word in some areas. In my area, it was just a reflection of being somewhat riled up.
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Post by dulcemama on Jul 19, 2016 13:56:26 GMT
Yes! Everywhere is up in Wisconsin. Even if it's not north. "We're going up to Chicago this weekend." crimsoncat05 are you a Wisconsin native? You seem to speak the language. ^^^ lol!! close, but not quite. I grew up in a small town in extreme NW Illinois; the WI state line was the north border of town. My Dad's family is from the southwestern Wisconsin lead-mining area (ever heard of Shullsburg cheese??) and my Mom grew up about 6 miles away from where they live now. And then, of course, we went to NW Minnesota every summer for a fishing vacation, too!! (uff da!!) After college I lived in the NW Chicago suburbs but visited my sister in Milwaukee quite often. I think there are a lot of similarities with WI-type speak, especially since there's "Chicago-area speech patterns" and the rest of the state in northern Illinois is more small-townish. Yes, lot of similarities. And the farther west and north you go, the more the Minnesota speak starts to show up. *sideways glance* I suppose you're a Bears fan too, huh?
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Post by tiffanyr on Jul 19, 2016 14:02:18 GMT
In my part of Texas, people are always fixin' to do something.
He's fixin' to go to the store. She's fixin' to go to work. I'm pretty sure when I first moved to MN from TX at the age of 21 is when I realized that "fixin to" was not proper English! The blank stares from people is what gave it away?! LOL!
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Post by Zee on Jul 19, 2016 14:04:47 GMT
I STILL say that sometimes, and I'm 20 years removed from Minnesota. I cringe when I catch myself. I always say that! I don't even realize it, I guess... I say it all the time, too. Sounds perfectly normal to me.
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Post by Zee on Jul 19, 2016 14:08:57 GMT
going "up" to somewhere is a thing in and of itself, too... whether it's actually "up" from where you are or not (up = uphill?? higher elevation?? north of where you are??) I've lived in SE TX for a long time. Everything is up from me. In SE PA we would go down to the shore. Then you'd be the first to go down TO the shore, because everyone else without exception seems to go "down the shore" without the to! I've been corrected a few times, lol!
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Post by scrappintoee on Jul 19, 2016 14:15:13 GMT
I LOVE threads on this topic! My family and I have always been VERY entertained by language/ local vernacular! We're from DC......when we moved to San Antonio, Texas, we were entertained by: "soda water" ---(for any type of soft drink). I was a waitress, and my first few times hearing an order for "soda water", I automatically thought of Perrier or Club Soda, and asked if they wanted a lemon or lime twist ..... In DC, we grew up calling ALL soft drinks "Cokes"--whether it was root beer, cream soda, etc. "buggy" ----(instead of grocery cart) --Thought that was so CUTE! ----never heard that in DC. "sack"----(instead of bag) ---never heard that in DC, annnd it made me laugh! "fixin to"----another new one I'd never heard before! I've met peeps from ALLL over the country, and as I said before--- I love and pay close attention to colloquialisms; but I have NEVER heard "butt hurt" until just a few weeks ago....it was on Facebook, from someone I don't know very well; she's in her forties, and originally from Tennessee. She usually doesn't use lots of slang, so when I read "BUTT HURT", I kinda LOL to myself and thought it was one of the weirdest expressions I've ever heard....LOL! Now that y'all are talking about it a lot, I can't believe I'd never heard it until recently!
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Post by compwalla on Jul 19, 2016 15:04:01 GMT
We moved from California to North Carolina my Sophomore year of HS in 1980. My mom still lives there and now says "will you carry me to _______?" as opposed to "take" me to. Also, "mommicked" is a famous term from coastal NC, meaning to annoy or aggravate. My MIL says this all the time. "I carried mother to the doctor and then to Wal-Mart to get her medicine." My Dad's side of the family is all from south Louisiana and when my husband first heard them all talking he had to have me interpret. Some that I can think off that confused/amused him: *It's four or three miles down the road *I made groceries today *You wanna eat a beer? *My-nez or mustard? (my-nez = mayonnaise) *He need to pass a mop over his floor *That baker threw in two sugar cookies as a lagniappe for the babbies *I just got done saving the dishes and now there's more to wash *Don't start that bonfire less you get the hosepipe out first
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Post by Susie_Homemaker on Jul 19, 2016 15:04:38 GMT
I say that so and so was going to "nut up" when she heard what her DD did. I'm in GA and my sister in TX had never heard of it. It means get angry/upset.
Something I've heard that grates on my nerves is saying that someone "went over her friend's house" instead of "went over to her friend's house". I hear it from Dr. Laura who is anything but Southern so I think it's a Northern thing.
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Post by smartypants71 on Jul 19, 2016 15:34:16 GMT
I'm convinced my friends from Texas have an entire Thesaurus of words and expressions unique to themselves. I love listening to them speak. SaveSave Well, it is a whole other country. Why wouldn't they have a different language. Why I first starting dating my DH (west Texan) I had to ask for translations all the time. I think you mean "a whole Nother country."
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 19, 2016 16:02:38 GMT
^^^ lol!! close, but not quite. I grew up in a small town in extreme NW Illinois; the WI state line was the north border of town. My Dad's family is from the southwestern Wisconsin lead-mining area (ever heard of Shullsburg cheese??) and my Mom grew up about 6 miles away from where they live now. And then, of course, we went to NW Minnesota every summer for a fishing vacation, too!! (uff da!!) After college I lived in the NW Chicago suburbs but visited my sister in Milwaukee quite often. I think there are a lot of similarities with WI-type speak, especially since there's "Chicago-area speech patterns" and the rest of the state in northern Illinois is more small-townish. Yes, lot of similarities. And the farther west and north you go, the more the Minnesota speak starts to show up. *sideways glance* I suppose you're a Bears fan too, huh? ^^^ lol!! nope- the Wisconsin border was a lot closer to me growing up than Chicago, so if I have any allegiance at all, it's to the Packers, NOT to the Bears!! I do have that flat Chicaaaaago way of speaking sometimes, and I like White Castles and very much enjoy a good Chicago-style hot dog on occasion (I was really excited when the first Portillos finally opened out here)-- but food very much outweighs any football team alliance.
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Post by librarylady on Jul 19, 2016 16:12:10 GMT
Another saying from native Texans-- I guess I drew the black bean. It means you had bad luck, similar to drawing the short straw.
It refers to an event during the Texas Rev olution at which the persons who were going to be murdered drew from a pot of beans. Those who drew a white bean lived, and those who drew a black bean were shot.
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Post by quinmm14 on Jul 19, 2016 16:33:43 GMT
At my house, we get the red ass at people who get all butt hurt.
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Post by alexa11 on Jul 19, 2016 16:40:24 GMT
Just recently, someone used the phrase "showing his ass", which I guess is a regionalism for acting like a jerk, but I took it literally and thought the kid had mooned someone. Oh, yes! I've heard and said that all of my life. It's a Southern thing.
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Post by leftturnonly on Jul 19, 2016 17:20:24 GMT
I've lived in SE TX for a long time. Everything is up from me. In SE PA we would go down to the shore. Then you'd be the first to go down TO the shore, because everyone else without exception seems to go "down the shore" without the to! I've been corrected a few times, lol! Mom's a stickler for grammar. What can I say? I wondered how long it would be before someone would notice.
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Post by leftturnonly on Jul 19, 2016 17:25:07 GMT
I'm convinced my friends from Texas have an entire Thesaurus of words and expressions unique to themselves. I love listening to them speak. SMy ldh would say "Aaaiight" to that.
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