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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 19, 2016 17:40:50 GMT
"all right" ?? "eight" ?? I like these kinds of colloquialisms, too. (hey, I actually think I spelled that right, lol!)
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Post by newfcathy on Jul 19, 2016 17:46:52 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. I grew up NH, as did my dh, & that Jesus phrase is new to us. We live north of Boston, now. Wicked is definitely commonly used in MA, & parts of NH. Dh's cousin will often say that something is 'wicked pissa' because around here we drop the r's (pisser) and add them where they don't belong ( girls named Paula, four becomes forer). Dh's cousin will often say 'Sweet' instead of Cool.
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Post by leftturnonly on Jul 19, 2016 18:37:12 GMT
"all right" ?? "eight" ?? I like these kinds of colloquialisms, too. (hey, I actually think I spelled that right, lol!) Aaaiight? All right. ETA - alright
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Post by caro on Jul 19, 2016 20:48:07 GMT
My BFF says, "I carried her to the mall today." One day I said to my BFF , " was she heavy?" She just looked at me for a moment then burst out laughing.
She is from L A. (Lower Alabama). 😂
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Post by deekaye on Jul 19, 2016 23:15:46 GMT
I love this thread! I don't think we Pacific Northwesterners really have any cool terms.....
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Post by anxiousmom on Jul 19, 2016 23:18:11 GMT
My BFF says, "I carried her to the mall today." One day I said to my BFF , " was she heavy?" She just looked at me for a moment then burst out laughing. She is from L A. (Lower Alabama). 😂 Some times I carry, sometimes I take and sometimes I tote.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 19, 2016 23:21:16 GMT
I love this thread! I don't think we Pacific Northwesterners really have any cool terms..... yes, but don't you have, like, 25 different words for coffee in the Pacific Northwest?? (sort of like Inuit people have 50 different words for snow?? )
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Post by deekaye on Jul 19, 2016 23:30:01 GMT
I love this thread! I don't think we Pacific Northwesterners really have any cool terms..... yes, but don't you have, like, 25 different words for coffee in the Pacific Northwest?? (sort of like Inuit people have 50 different words for snow?? )
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Post by femalebusiness on Jul 20, 2016 2:25:15 GMT
I have Missouri relatives and they say set instead of sit. I'm going to set right here and drink my coffee. Or will you sit this on the table for me. I think it is weird to change those two words around.
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Post by PLurker on Jul 20, 2016 5:10:26 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. No. No. No. Going up is north. Going UP to Green Bay. Going DOWN to Chicago. (south) yes, Cheesehead born and raised. crimsoncat05 Portillos is in AZ now? Who knew? Barnelli's, too? Yum. Another one that varies by region... do you wait "in line" or "on line". "In line" here. Is "on line" just out east?
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Post by mom on Jul 20, 2016 5:14:53 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. Showing his ass is something I hear a bunch in my area.
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Post by mom on Jul 20, 2016 5:17:11 GMT
I would think showing you ass or butt would mean you needed to pull your pants up or get a longer shirt I interchange 'quit being ugly' with 'quit showing your butt' regularly when fussing at the kids. I also have a kid who is very slender and had a hard time finding shorts that were long enough but weren't constantly falling down. Subsequently, he was told a lot to 'quit buttshining and pull your britches up.'
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Post by SabrinaP on Jul 20, 2016 7:09:28 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. Soda Water must be a San Antonio thing. I've never heard that in my part of Texas. Everyone says Coke for any kind of soft drink.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 20, 2016 13:24:03 GMT
PLurker : sadly, just Portillos... no Barnellis. And no lemon cake, only chocolate.
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Post by maryland on Jul 20, 2016 13:32:07 GMT
There are a lot of words/phrases I read on these boards that I have never heard in western PA.
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Post by scrappintoee on Jul 22, 2016 7:57:33 GMT
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- I am just loving this thread!!! And wowww, compwalla ----those are some VERY unique ones! My faves are: **EAT a beer **MAKE groceries **SAVING the dishes I googled LAGNIAPPE ----fun new word to learn!
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Post by scrappintoee on Jul 22, 2016 8:05:48 GMT
Instead of "we need to leave by 10:00", I heard someone from North Carolina say: "we need to get left by 10:00." I had NEVER heard that until recently. I cringe when people say "where are you AT?" instead of the much nicer sounding: "where are you?" ---this has ALWAYS grated my nerves, since I was a teenager!
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Post by mommaho on Jul 22, 2016 10:03:47 GMT
A co-worker who grew up in New York says something I had never heard before "She is having "acomeapart" - meaning melt down. I use it now myself!
Being from Ohio I say a lot of things that I am sure is regional Do you want a pop to drink? How come? Same Difference! Another co-worker from Brooklyn said I had an accent, but to him I guess I did sound different!
DH and his family have a few lines too: Well if a person was gonna . . . meaning I know I need to get up and to this, that or the other but I really don't want to! Can you make me a samwich? GLORY (said very loud and in a singsong way) meaning oh my goodness! It is down by the crick (creek)
Fun thread!
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Post by scrappintoee on Jul 22, 2016 11:45:47 GMT
@mammho---I know lots of peeps who call Coke, etc. "pop", and I think it's a cute word sammich----like that one, too. I was on a kick where I kept calling 'em "sammies", but it annoyed my sister soooomuch, she BEGGED me to neverrr say it around her again! LOL! I might start saying "comeapart" .....that's a good one I've never heard before.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Jul 22, 2016 14:42:33 GMT
pop was a NW Illinois thing, too... I now finally call it soda, but pop still comes out occasionally.
And I've always said 'same difference' and 'how come' too!! (and 'crick' --that's not wrong, at least not in my book!)
(I probably should put "northern Illinois transplant to AZ" in my profile to make it easier for people to figure out why I write some of the things I do, lol)
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Post by compwalla on Jul 22, 2016 15:01:34 GMT
I cringe when people say "where are you AT?" instead of the much nicer sounding: "where are you?" ---this has ALWAYS grated my nerves, since I was a teenager! Then stay away from New Orleans. "Where y'at" is how they say hello. Where y'at?
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Post by debmast on Jul 22, 2016 15:23:14 GMT
Grew up in Ohio (west side of Cleveland) but have lived in Kansas, Minnesota, New Jersey (twice), North Carolina (twice), Georgia, and now Texas for 10 years. Haven't heard many of these, but some I have.
"Come with" used to confuse me in MN. Come with ... what? who?
My mom (originally from OK) has been known to whisper "stop showing your ass" if one of us was misbehaving in public. She would also have quickly "jerked a knot in our tail" if we didn't.
And Coke and the like will ALWAYS be "pop" to me. It was pop growing up and I still call it that.
Even certain items get called different things. In Ohio growing up we called our Nikes "Tennis shoes". When I lived in NJ they thought that was so funny. They called them "Sneakers". They would say "Do you play tennis in them?" and I was like "Do you sneak in them?"
The city I grew up in was pretty ethnically diverse. Probably due to US Steel and many folks coming there from other places for work. I remember a friend's mom (they were Hispanic) used to say she was going to "make groceries".
Then there is the whole shopping cart, buggy, basket debate.
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Post by annabella on Jul 22, 2016 16:55:21 GMT
Some tourists stopped me once and asked me where a "package store" was. I said there was no UPS or fedex around and they said no "we want to buy liquor." Never heard that one before! lol
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jul 22, 2016 19:53:15 GMT
I'm English - do you really want to get me started? We have shopping trolleys and baskets. I also say "same difference" and "how come". Fizzy drinks are called by their names; coke, lemonade, cream soda, ginger beer etc. Soda water is only carbonated water. We call sneakers trainers. Tennis shoes are daps, or if they don't have laces they're plimsolls. We have sarnies, not sammiches. We don't have cricks or creeks, we have brooks, streams and rivers. Pissed means drunk, always. Never annoyed. If someone is annoyed here, they're pissed off. We don't say four or three miles, but the older generations (and me, because it's how I was brought up and I think it's quaint) do say "five and twenty past" when we're telling the time.
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Post by Zee on Jul 22, 2016 19:55:12 GMT
I have Missouri relatives and they say set instead of sit. I'm going to set right here and drink my coffee. Or will you sit this on the table for me. I think it is weird to change those two words around. Very Midwestern, esp more rural IA and MO!
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Post by Zee on Jul 22, 2016 19:57:42 GMT
Some tourists stopped me once and asked me where a "package store" was. I said there was no UPS or fedex around and they said no "we want to buy liquor." Never heard that one before! lol Haha, I think I saw that in Ireland (I could be wrong about that) and was mystified. I saw it somewhere anyway. I also didn't understand the "off license" liquor stores. Called that, officially, on the signs. Sounds illegal.
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Post by Zee on Jul 22, 2016 19:59:21 GMT
pop was a NW Illinois thing, too... I now finally call it soda, but pop still comes out occasionally. And I've always said 'same difference' and 'how come' too!! (and 'crick' --that's not wrong, at least not in my book!) (I probably should put "northern Illinois transplant to AZ" in my profile to make it easier for people to figure out why I write some of the things I do, lol) I'm originally from NW IL too. Must be why I "get" you
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jul 22, 2016 20:07:44 GMT
Some tourists stopped me once and asked me where a "package store" was. I said there was no UPS or fedex around and they said no "we want to buy liquor." Never heard that one before! lol Haha, I think I saw that in Ireland (I could be wrong about that) and was mystified. I saw it somewhere anyway. I also didn't understand the "off license" liquor stores. Called that, officially, on the signs. Sounds illegal. In the UK, you need a licence for people to buy alcohol AND drink it on the premises. An Off Licence (or Offie) means a shop that can only sell alcohol. Pubs and bars are licensed premises.
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Post by Zee on Jul 22, 2016 20:10:54 GMT
Haha, I think I saw that in Ireland (I could be wrong about that) and was mystified. I saw it somewhere anyway. I also didn't understand the "off license" liquor stores. Called that, officially, on the signs. Sounds illegal. In the UK, you need a licence for people to buy alcohol AND drink it on the premises. An Off Licence (or Offie) means a shop that can only sell alcohol. Pubs and bars are licensed premises. Thank you! We figured it out eventually but it sure sounded funny to us!
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Post by annabella on Jul 22, 2016 20:15:40 GMT
Some tourists stopped me once and asked me where a "package store" was. I said there was no UPS or fedex around and they said no "we want to buy liquor." Never heard that one before! lol I googled this because I was curious and it says "From the US state laws of Connecticut and Georgia that declare that purchased liquor must be in a sealed container and/or removed from the premises in a bag or other package." "Connecticut, also known as the "P," a liquor store. probably derived from the brown bags/packages the liquor comes in. "
In my city liquor stores always have black plastic bags. Seems inconvenient to leave with a paper bag, but I guess in CT everyone is driving vs here everyone is walking.
peabay our resident CT, can you confirm?
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