https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:51:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1635868 Thu, 15 May 2014 10:29:58 +0000 imbali 1635868@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@californiadreams: so interesting :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1635861 Thu, 15 May 2014 10:27:28 +0000 sorrycharlie 1635861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Shutterbug: my Dad grew up in MA, so I mimic a lot of words like he says them - my hs friends always ragged on me for rum/room! my argument was that rum and room (even pronounced rrrruum) did not sound the same! </p> <p>btw, a water fountain is actually a bubbler ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1635823 Thu, 15 May 2014 10:14:56 +0000 alohaorchid 1635823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@californiadreams: I forgot about duotang! When I first moved to Canada I thought wtf is a duotang?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1635812 Thu, 15 May 2014 10:12:19 +0000 MrsKRB 1635812@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm from Long Island and now live in New England so I say a lot of things weird - it's a heron or a sub or grinder, and I say Ant not Aunt </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1635715 Thu, 15 May 2014 09:51:17 +0000 2PeasinaPod 1635715@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>From Pennsylvania here! I say hoagie and cheesesteak. It's my understanding that it's a steak and cheese elsewhere. At least a friend of mine from Boston makes fun of me for saying cheesesteak instead of steak and cheese! </p> <p>The further into Philadelphia I go, I hear wooter instead of water. That's a funny Philly thing though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1635693 Thu, 15 May 2014 09:46:39 +0000 californiadreams 1635693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@imbali: a duo-tang is a type of folder where you put holes and keep the papers in. </p> <p>All dressed pizza is pizza with pepperoni, mushroms, and green pepper. That was one i had NO clue was not a common term until i was on my internship in the states and we were deciding to order pizza and i offered to pick it up. My supervisor told me what toppings and i said "so I should get 2 all-dressed and 1 pepperoni?" And he really thought i said something crazy and i totally did not get the joke.</p> <p>i found this link after you commented:<br /> <a href="http://inoveryourhead.net/the-mystery-of-all-dressed-pizza/" rel="nofollow">http://inoveryourhead.net/the-mystery-of-all-dressed-pizza/</a> </p> [attach=4175/14/n5medr.246x162.000001.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1635253 Thu, 15 May 2014 08:01:33 +0000 LuLu Mom 1635253@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@photojane: HAHA glad I'm not alone, I think it had to be one of our daycare teachers or something because all 3 of us do it, but not my parents! haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1635054 Thu, 15 May 2014 06:11:02 +0000 imbali 1635054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@californiadreams: what's duo-tang and an all dressed pizza??</p> <p>@Indi: 'oh fer' - i love it haha! for a cute baby, we'd say, oh shame she's so sweet :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1634806 Wed, 14 May 2014 20:58:46 +0000 californiadreams 1634806@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm from Quebec. When I lived in the states for a year, I got weird looks like I said something absurd when I said:<br /> Duo-tang<br /> All dressed pizza<br /> "Z" pronounced the Canadian way<br /> Terrasse - enunciated the French way but I grew up thinking it was an English word</p> <p>Now I live in Ontario and I have had to repeat or "correct" myself when I've said :<br /> Deppanneur (corner store)<br /> Metro (instead of subway)</p> <p>I also say "interac" machine (as in ATM) but can't remember if that is a Quebec or Canadian thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/3#post-1634786 Wed, 14 May 2014 20:49:06 +0000 yellowbird 1634786@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Appalachian<br /> I say appa-latch-an<br /> Most people say appa-lay-shun </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1634728 Wed, 14 May 2014 20:20:43 +0000 photojane 1634728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsTiz: Walmart/Food Lion bags here too! </p> <p>@theknest: @LuLu Mom: I've said "crowns" my whole life! I'm trying to consciously call them "cray-ons" now, so that Sadie doesn't say it wrong!</p> <p>I think the only other "funny" things I say is "nekkid." My husband thinks I'm a hick. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1634716 Wed, 14 May 2014 20:12:18 +0000 Marfi 1634716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Jump Rope: My husband and I argue about what words are right all the time. He's from Pittsburgh and I'm from Cleveland. Specifically about buggy. That one drives me crazy, a buggy is what you push a baby in! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1634629 Wed, 14 May 2014 19:34:22 +0000 indi 1634629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm in the midwest, close to Canada. I'm not originally from here, so I don't sound quite like this, but many of my husband relatives and their friends sound just like this: <a href="http://youtu.be/3neOuPV2J9w" rel="nofollow">http://youtu.be/3neOuPV2J9w</a></p> <p>And we say "oh fer" (oh for) up here. Cute baby? "Oh fer cute!" Got a ticket? "Oh fer dumb!" And we drop "oh, yaaw" "yaa, sure" and "you betcha" on the regular. *sigh* I feel shame for what I have become :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1634525 Wed, 14 May 2014 18:34:40 +0000 mrsdwing 1634525@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@heartonastring: true!</p> <p>@alohaorchid: @grace: So interesting! I'm from Ontario, in between Toronto and Ottawa. I've never heard anyone refer to transports as "semis"! Sometimes we say "transport trucks" instead of just "transports". Fin is more of a slang term for the $5 bill, you'd never go to the bank and ask the teller to withdraw "$100 in fins" but if, say, you're at a store and are short on cash you might ask your husband "do you have a fin?" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633875 Wed, 14 May 2014 13:21:12 +0000 PixieStix 1633875@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: To dump. I dunno if other Texans say it or if my parents just had bad English. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633661 Wed, 14 May 2014 12:14:24 +0000 Anagram 1633661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@alohaorchid: that's funny! I didn't know that was a Texan thing, but I think I say that, too. Like..."I'm not sure. Maybe you can get with Cheryl and see what she says?" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633607 Wed, 14 May 2014 11:52:58 +0000 alohaorchid 1633607@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Grace: I've never heard of $5 being a fin either! It's just a $5 bill to me, and we also say semi</p> <p>I work with a lot of Texans and they're always saying that they need to, or someone needs to "get with" someone. So if ask a question and they can't answer they will say to "get with IT". They also say "fixin to" a lot. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633543 Wed, 14 May 2014 11:25:20 +0000 Anagram 1633543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@PixieStix: I've never heard "tump" in my life. Does it mean to fill? Or to dump? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633540 Wed, 14 May 2014 11:23:40 +0000 PixieStix 1633540@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: I say "fixin' to" as well.. and also "tump." My parents are native Texans and I frequently heard the phrase that we needed to "tump the ice trays." I don't even know. &gt;D </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633530 Wed, 14 May 2014 11:19:35 +0000 Grace 1633530@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Lindsay05: You must be in Saskatchewan. We teased my husband (he moved from Sk when he was 23) soooooooo much for getting his bunnyhug. Teehee.</p> <p>@mrsdwing: 18-wheelers are transports and $5 are fins? In my part of Canada, 18-wheelers are semis and $5 are $5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633495 Wed, 14 May 2014 11:08:35 +0000 Anagram 1633495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@imbali: @imbali: I guess I call it an ice cream bar? Honestly, I never say that because I don't eat them. But my husband calles them Icy Chocs, which used to confuse me so much--and then I found out that in England, they call them "Choc Ices", which is probably where he got that from. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633487 Wed, 14 May 2014 11:06:32 +0000 imbali 1633487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: oh windshield and parking lot, right. I knew that!<br /> umm, that specific one? It's an eskimo pie! I call it an icecream though if you mean in general :happy: what do you call it? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633451 Wed, 14 May 2014 10:54:57 +0000 Anagram 1633451@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@imbali: americans say windshield instead of windscreen. And we say parking lot instead of car park. =) Question for you--what do you call THESE: </p> [attach=2976/14/n5kmvl.460x276.Norma-Bar-illustration-ch-008.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633407 Wed, 14 May 2014 10:38:46 +0000 LBee 1633407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.ThinMint: @Weagle: I have never heard of this either! We definitely say tobbogan. </p> <p>I do call most grocery stores Publix and I'm guilty of calling Piggly Wiggly "The Pig." That's definitely an Alabama thing (or possibly a Southern thing). My husband doesn't understand why I need to be on a nickname basis with the grocery store. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633390 Wed, 14 May 2014 10:31:38 +0000 Weagle 1633390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.ThinMint: walled you! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633376 Wed, 14 May 2014 10:26:33 +0000 Mrs.ThinMint 1633376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Weagle: I think it's just his hometown! It's a strange place. I'm assuming you're an Auburn fan hence the Weagle? We're Auburn fans and DH graduated from Auburn! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633362 Wed, 14 May 2014 10:20:10 +0000 Weagle 1633362@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs.ThinMint: Also from AL (very small town!), and I've never heard this! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633360 Wed, 14 May 2014 10:19:47 +0000 imbali 1633360@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Anagram: wait - you don't say windscreen? what do you say? bin is probably aus and uk, we say that in sa too. what's your word for car park?? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633351 Wed, 14 May 2014 10:17:56 +0000 imbali 1633351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@theknest: ah okay - I was imaging it in a Good Will Hunting accent :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-say-anything-funny/page/2#post-1633337 Wed, 14 May 2014 10:11:40 +0000 Anagram 1633337@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm totally guilty of the "fixin to"...since I grew up in Texas. I don't say ya'll though.</p> <p>My husband has a lot of interesting isms, and what's great about him is that it's all mixed up--he grew up in South Asia and learned english there, but spent a year in the UK as a teenager and then a year in Uni in Australia--and then moved to Oklahoma in the US. So sometimes he'll bust out with a crazy amalgamation of regional isms all in one sentence--</p> <p>Like "I'm fixing to go to the car park to empty the bin and clean the windscreen". </p> <p>fixing to = oklahoma<br /> car park = UK/AUS/SL<br /> bin (trash) = ?<br /> Trunk = US<br /> windscreen = UK?</p> <p>It's so, so funny </p>