Words That Are Unique to Your Area

[BabyGirl Rosie]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

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.

Yep!

[msyorktown]

I have a few, some local, some traditional...
'Are you bent?'....Are you crazy/nuts/insane/have you lost your mind
Polluted...drunk
Duppy...ghost....that one is traditional...
One from my 21 year old son....'that's sick yo!' I do believe 'sick' is a good thing
Backside and pelican!....meaning 'damit!'
'Holy headfry....meaning 'Holy Shi*!'
Crash, bam, badam!! meaning a loud noise
What the blouse and skirt?....meaning what the h**l?!'
Skeeters....mosquito
A'nancy spider....cameleon
Cheesed.....pissed off

To name a few...I'm sure there are a lot more that I'm forgetting!

[Deb1]

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.

Yes, like a sloppy joe!

[Deb1]

Originally Posted by GuinnessStout

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

Lol......see but a tavern in Iowa is a sandwich! We have "bars" not taverns!

[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Deb1

Yes, like a sloppy joe!

We make sloppy joes too. I just asked dad if he has heard of it referred to as a tavern, and he said yes.

[GuinnessStout]

Originally Posted by MandiesMom

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.

When you see an ugly baby.. Awe bless his little heart

[GuinnessStout]

Originally Posted by Deb1

Lol......see but a tavern in Iowa is a sandwich! We have "bars" not taverns!

Tavern is more of a trendy beer and food type beer usually selling local made craft beers.

[brezofleur]

In Savannah, they say "yes Miss" to older woman and "yes ma'am" to the younger girls, lol.

Here in the Bay Area, we refer to San Francisco as "The City". We use a lot of 70s terms ("groovy") and surfer terms ("rad", "gnarly", "dude") and of course of a lot of "Valley Girl" ("Like", "so", "whatever").

"Hella" is also really popular ("hella gnarly", "hella cold", "hella sick", etc).

[sugarmamma]

I found out when we moved to AuStin for 9 months that people there don't know what HAMBURGS are. That may be a Michigan thing.....

Oh!! And even from Detroit to Grand Rapids a couple of strange things ( I'm blanking out on one but I will figure it out)

We called a sliding glass door a SLIDER. My friends from Detroit area called them DOORWALL

[sugarmamma]

Found out where DOORWALL came from

Urban Dictionary: doorwall


A door wall is a sliding-glass door or patio door. The term is yet another example of banal Michigan vernacular, where in the residents latch on to company names, trademark names, marketing terms and product names from local companies. The terms become embedded in the local vocabulary and eventually become accepted as actual valid words and phrases. In this case the term comes from Wallside Windows in Taylor, MI (a large window manufacturer), where 'door wall' is their created word for sliding-glass door.

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by 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).

I've never had a mint Julip but I have had a mimosa

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by sugarmamma

I found out when we moved to AuStin for 9 months that people there don't know what HAMBURGS are. That may be a Michigan thing.....

Oh!! And even from Detroit to Grand Rapids a couple of strange things ( I'm blanking out on one but I will figure it out)

We called a sliding glass door a SLIDER. My friends from Detroit area called them DOORWALL

OMG hahaha I have never heard a sliding glass door called a doorwall!!

[jadabug]

I just thought of another good one I was in HS and had a part time job in a local dept store. A little old lady who was hard of hearing came into the ladies lingerie dept. she was talking really loudly and kept asking me where the step-ins were. I kept asking her to repeat what she was saying. She kept getting louder. She yelled STEP INS!! My supervisor heard her and came over. She told me the lady was looking for panties I said why didn't she just say panties or underwear. Seems old folks from the mountains called them step ins because you step into them Lol

[jadabug]

OMG another one came to mind. My MIL will not say the word pregnant. She always says looking for a little one haha

[gemy]

Parkways , freeways, we usually call them highways

Oh course excepting the Don Valley Parkway, which is truly a parking lot most days...

In Canada like the USA we have different idioms across the country

As a child moving to Toronto from Montreal, after church that first Sunday, we pulled into a five and dime store, the owner asked me if I wanted a "pop" at that time I had no idea what he meant; I looked to Mom and Dad .... and then they said he meant a soda.

I say a quarter to the hour (shades of our old british past) or a quarter past the hour.

With the advent of digital timepieces, that is going out of fashion.

We do not have a divan, or sofa. we usually use a couch

We have not great rooms' but rec rooms or family rooms.

Vinegar is not an unknown commodity in restaurants but *gasp* actually available at take out counters.

Kleenex and not a "tissue".

We go to the cottage or the country.

BBQ's and not cook outs - well except for certain sections of our maritime lands

And yes we do use "eh", but not nearly as often as shown on US programs, and never as hard an "eh". Usually softly at the end of the sentence, or sometimes abruptly and shortly put on.

We don't do grits.... I'm still not sure what grits are. We have homefries.

We call potatoe chips - potatoe chips not crisps

We spell things funny... lol