Words That Are Unique to Your Area

[MandiesMom]

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).

[GuinnessStout]

Originally Posted by Maximo

I have never heard of a tavern, but my Iowa-raised dad makes them at home. Not a sloppy joe, right?

McPuckles, I like that! I have never heard that one either.

You ask for a tavern here and we will send you to one of the trendy bars

[Yorkiedaze]

Here in CA. you hear ALL of it because every group the world over live here. We LOVE it!!!

[GuinnessStout]

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

[EarthAngel]

Being from the NJ/NY area..."you guys" would understand the phrase! lol Oh, and my relatives from Brooklyn...the accent is unique.

[My lil friend]

Originally Posted by celstu1

We have 45s in my area. It's only a Merrimack Valley (MA) card game, the older French Canadians brought it to the area. Just like Chinese pie, everywhere else calls it Sheppard's Pie, but Merrimack Valley.

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.

[dinolover]

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!

[sugarmamma]

Originally Posted by dinolover

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!

Lynzy uses CHONGER all the time

[sugarmamma]

We ask every new acquaintance "where are you from?"

Cuz nobody is FROM here

I'm Michigan we only asked that question to people with accents

[Melany]

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.

[Mistymillar]

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)

[MomtoJasper]

How could I forget this phrase? We do a lot of blessing hearts here..'Bless her/his/your/their heart(s)'

[BabyGirl Rosie]

Originally Posted by MomtoJasper

How could I forget this phrase? We do a lot of blessing hearts here..'Bless her/his/your/their heart(s)'

We do that here too!

[MandiesMom]

Originally Posted by MomtoJasper

How could I forget this phrase? We do a lot of blessing hearts here..'Bless her/his/your/their heart(s)'

Oh I (I mean "We") do that here all the time, too. Only it's just a sweet sounding way of getting away with insulting someone.

Like: Well, she tried to do that right. Bless her heart.

[ilovejoel]

Originally Posted by 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.

Hehe, this reminds me of a daycare parent we had, they were Russian and one day she asked if her daughter had dinner (thinking dinner as the last meal) we said no and she was like "she didn't have dinner"! Lol
It took a while to understand eachother but we eventually got the hang of it
They did a lot of things different than us, and they probably thought the same!