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I used to hate going to visit my fiances family in Lockport, NY his friends and family would always just stare at me and beg me to just talk.. They did not care about what I was talking about as long as they got to hear my accent. Depending on who I am around, how much I have drank or if I am nervous my scary redneck accent appears!! |
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I just thought of a few more...My FIL who is very Southern Appalachian calls skim milk..Blue John :p and my MIL and SIL call a sink..zinc and sewing machine Zewing machine. |
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Pop for soda. Euchre. Our major building/location names are shortened (Ren Cen, The Joe, The Soo, The Thumb). Then there is the UP (pronounced you-pee) or Upper Peninsula. people who live there are Yoopers. people who live in the LP are Trolls (bc we live below the bridge). |
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It is the best card game ever. |
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In Iowa, where everyone says this is hicksville.......we say pop instead of soda, crick instead of creek, going muddn' instead of four-wheeln', warsh instead of wash are just a few that come to mind. Recently we had taverns for supper. Some one asked what a tavern was......it is a loose meat sandwich made of hamburger. Some call it Manwich or loose meats. We also say supper in place of dinner....our dinner is at noon time and supper is our evening meal. I am sure there are more! |
I say.... I'm going to get a drink from the Bubbla (water fountain) I say.... Can I have a Coffee Cabinet (coffee milkshake) I say.... no suh (you're kidding me) I say.... Let's go to Mickey D's ( McDonalds) Supper is at 6pm everyday, Lunch is at noon Monday- Saturday and Dinner is on Sunday at noon. |
Oh, and we say Wallie World instead of Walmart and McPukles for McDonalds! |
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We say a lot of y'all..fixin'...meat n taters for supper....how bout d:Dem Memphis Tigers!?! :D I could go on, but y'all get the picture! Hey MandiesMom...do y'all drink mint julips(sp?)? I've always heard of those, but never had one. :p |
I've never had a mint julip, but I bet Michelle probably has..? :) A lot of the things I was gonna say have been said already. We always say "Coke" for any cola/soda pop. I'm always fixin to do something. I was asked if I wanted to go to my sister's house last night and I said, "A'ight". :) When I lived in Maryland, my coworkers always made fun of me for fixin ta do somethin'. And I found out that this county is not only divided by the Mason-Dixon line, but also by the "Sweet Tea Line" (this is round about Richmond way). :D |
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Here in CA. you hear ALL of it because every group the world over live here. :D We LOVE it!!! |
I am training an associate from our St Louis office this week and was telling her that I just finished planning my trip to the "Mouse Compound" she just looked at me like I was nuts until we explained that is what we call the Disney area :p |
Being from the NJ/NY area..."you guys" would understand the phrase! lol Oh, and my relatives from Brooklyn...the accent is unique. |
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The only "45s" here in TX,go bang, bang. I read a book a bit ago that is called "GRITS Girls Raised in the South",oh my is it funny. You need to read it outloud. |
Miami had a ton of those words! Telly- Hotel Party Getty- Get together Super- We tend to say super in front of a lot of words "Super Cute" "Super Nice" "Super Random" Like- Most people I know will say the word "like" 2-3 times a sentence. Transportation- A simple often old beat up car only used to get you from point A to point B. Eating s**t- When you're bored not doing anything Chonga- Ghetto Hispanic Female with distinct style Supposedly- everyone I know says it all the time. Faded- Drunk The thing is that- I say that way more than I would like to admit! |
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Lynzy uses CHONGER all the time :sidesplt: |
We ask every new acquaintance "where are you from?" Cuz nobody is FROM here :D I'm Michigan we only asked that question to people with accents :p |
we say robots for traffic lights and a whole lot of things in a different language to english. nice is used a lot, so is "lekka" which also means nice. |
I was 12 the first time I visited Canada to holiday with my aunt. I went shopping with some local girls for art stuff, I had picked up a drawing pad and most everything else but couldn't find the last thing I was looking for. I told the girls I needed a rubber and if they could see any, they looked at me like I had just murdered somebody and asked me what I needed it for so I told them "to rub things out" an eraser is called a rubber here. They never told me what a rubber meant there and I didn't catch on until years later. Ireland I think we must have hundreds of names for being drunk Steamin' Legless Paralytic Banjaxed Blootered Pie-eyed Tanked Visitors to Northern Ireland are so baffled by what we say there are loads of books and links to translate. (Baffled means confused) How till spake Norn Iron (A guide to local phrases) |
How could I forget this phrase? We do a lot of blessing hearts here..'Bless her/his/your/their heart(s)' :p |
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Like: Well, she tried to do that right. Bless her heart. :D |
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It took a while to understand eachother but we eventually got the hang of it:D They did a lot of things different than us, and they probably thought the same! |
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