Words That Are Unique to Your Area

[MyGirlSasha]

Hmm, what words do we have in Cali...soda is soda, um...i noticed we say "like" a lot, and we talk really fast. I've heard "flip a b***h" instead of U-turn lol.

[ilovejoel]

I haven't heard any of these words before but I also wouldn't know what words here would be unique to someone else haha! I probably been here to long

[sugarmamma]

Any hurricane prone area is bound to hear hunker down

And oh - SNOW BIRDS!!!

[yorkietalkjilly]

So often here in Texas when someone tastes something or remarks about eating only a bite or so of food they just tried, they say something like "I tasted of it and it was.......". We so often add the word "of" after the word tasted instead of just saying "I tasted it and it was.....". Don't know if we're unconsciously mimicking King James' grammar or what and you hear it less and less as time goes on, but the older Texan you speak with about trying out a small portion of food, the more likely he/she is to say something about "tasting of...." it.

[celstu1]

I had to do a little research because I have no idea what words are from my area and are not common anywhere else... only 1 that I knew of.... WICKED!

As in the Bruins are doing WICKED good this year!!!!
The bomb! Everything is 'da bomb' here! (when something is really good!)
Hoodie - hooded sweatshirt... not sure if thats used anywhere else!
Jimmies - I'll have jimmies on my ice cream! (chocolate sprinkles)
We buy our beer/wine at the packie! (package store, liquor store)
We drink tonic... that is soda/pop.

[My lil friend]

"Fixin to" you hear this alot from the teenagers. Conversation would go like this,.,me"get to work",,,teen "I'm fixin to". Or another example "I'm fixin to start supper". Supper is the last meal of the day,dinner is the midmeal of the day.
My family is from GA so a Coke is almost any soda but a "CoCola" is the real thing.

[Lil Sis]

Originally Posted by sugarmamma

Any hurricane prone area is bound to hear hunker down

And oh - SNOW BIRDS!!!

snow birds.... only the west coast of Florida would know that one

[My lil friend]

We have "snow birds" here in TX. People that come from up north to the southern tip of TX for the winter. They go to "the valley".

[Lil Sis]

I do a unit lesson on dinner vs lunch vs supper. When I grew up Dinner was the big or more formal meal of the day..be it mid day or evening. Lunch would be the lighter mid day meal and supper the evening meal if lighter. Supper is an english term.

I ask how many of yall have your holiday meals mid-day (for example Thanksgiving or Christmas? ) Would you call it Christmas lunch or Christmas Dinner? My students look at me like I am nuts lol

My Grandpa called coke soda pop. We called tea ice tea (not iced tea or sweet tea) ..who would drink it back in the day without being sweet.

I hear baked beans called sweet beans here in miami

My mother and grandmother had so many sayings that I have to think on it to remember which would be odd. I am from the same area as Michele so they would be the same or close.

[GuinnessStout]

Originally Posted by Lil Sis

snow birds.... only the west coast of Florida would know that one

No no we have Qtips in this part of Florida too.

[Lil Sis]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

No no we have Qtips in this part of Florida too.

ok... I stand corrected I guess any warm area would have snow birds. I know when I lived in the Sarasota/Venice area I hated the traffic in the winter!

Just think... we all will be Qtips one day

[yorkietalkjilly]

Oh, we call cold tea "ice/iced tea", too! People are always saying "Do you want some iced tea?" And asking whether they want sweet tea vs. unsweetened never used to come up - EVERYBODY took their iced tea sweet. Now, people are less likely to just make a gallon or two of sweet tea and put sugar on the table.

You'll still here a lot of older people say "white bread" instead of bread. We Texans stick an adjective in front of lots of nouns when talking.

[Lil Sis]

Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly

Oh, we call cold tea "ice/iced tea", too! People are always saying "Do you want some iced tea?" And asking whether they want sweet tea vs. unsweetened never used to come up - EVERYBODY took their iced tea sweet. Now, people are less likely to just make a gallon or two of sweet tea and put sugar on the table.

You'll still here a lot of older people say "white bread" instead of bread. We Texans stick an adjective in front of lots of nouns when talking.

ha ha... this so reminds me of a time I was visiting Bristol Va. with my dh and kids. We were at a small resturant and my dh was ordering a sandwhich. He asked the waitress what types of breads they had.. she looked like he had grown two heads and said

" sir, we only have white bread here" ...but you have to say it with the southern accent to get the effect... "white is why-i-te.

dh is from the "NORTH" and still makes fun of me for that day.


In Miami all the students call female teachers "miss" ..."miss, I need help?" "Miss, can I go to the bathrroom" etc

[yorkietalkjilly]

Many, many men in Texas still say "Yes, Ma'am" to women here when answering a woman they like. It's like a little wink or something to get a "Yes, Ma'am" from a man. I think I fell for my husband the first moment I saw him but when he said "Yes, Ma'am" and smiled with big dimples the first time, it was certain love!

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by celstu1

I had to do a little research because I have no idea what words are from my area and are not common anywhere else... only 1 that I knew of.... WICKED!

As in the Bruins are doing WICKED good this year!!!!
The bomb! Everything is 'da bomb' here! (when something is really good!)
Hoodie - hooded sweatshirt... not sure if thats used anywhere else!
Jimmies - I'll have jimmies on my ice cream! (chocolate sprinkles)
We buy our beer/wine at the packie! (package store, liquor store)
We drink tonic... that is soda/pop.

Bwahaha..I recently was texting with Lisa (sugarmamma) and I said something about the Package store..she had no clue what I was talking about. She said Package store meant UPS or FEDex store around here Package store is where you buy your liquor and wine