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@swurlygurl: my dad (born & raised in MA) says baah-gle (like shopping BAG-gle). We tease him for it
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@Danizaur: my mom says the "like" 'thing too and I always assumed she meant it as "lack" but her southern accent makes it sound funny haha
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@littlebug: yikes! We don't drop the "with"!
I didn't realize how differently I spoke until I went to college (locally!) and made friends with people all over the country!!
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@TemperanceBrennan: I've read that before! The split is completely true. My husband went to penn state & we were up there for homecoming one year. Waiting in line for a bar, and someone started chanting for the eagles, then the steelers, and then it was just a big fight.
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@lilteacherbee: That might be what it's supposed to be and our southern accents made it sound like "like". Now that's just what it is. Lol
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I also use highway, freeway, and expressway, but it's what our road signs. IE: Highway 213 runs through my city, but Interstate 5 (I5 or The 5 depending on where you're from
) runs through the major cities and that is considered a freeway. Then through a smaller city an expressway connects the highway and freeway, confused yet!I say pop for all soda, and plastic bags are Safeway bags!
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@theknest: I say "crowns"!! My husband won't let me say that word in front of LO. I'm also not allowed to say pillow because I pronounce is pellow.
I'm California born and raised and my husband was raised by midwesterners. I don't think that explains it though.
Just don't get me started on Eye-talians.
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Bunnyhug is a hoodie.
"In the bush" rather than "in the woods". -
DH accuses me of talking "normally" most of the time, except when I'm around my family. I swore he was wrong until he kept pointing it out. I think I subconsciously sound more southern when I'm around them.
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I'm from Canada and other than the obvious words we use that are different from those Americans use (like toque vs. winter hat), I've noticed that we call "18-wheelers" transports and ask where the washroom is. We call a $5 bill a fin, and have pencil crayons (which I'm told are "coloured pencils"). And we seem to have a whole different language for alcohol... our alcohol comes in mickey's, twenty-sixer's, forty's, and sixty's, and a case of beer is a two-four, and we drink caesars ("bloody mary"). We also call USA "the States"
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I probably say like, hecka and dude far too much for a nearly 30 year old educator...I blame it on California.
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My DH grew up in western PA
He says
"crick" for creek
"supper" for dinner
"scott towel" for paper towel -
Hmmm I'm from kind of all over (grew up in Midwest, have lived on the east coast for 12 years, parents/extended family is from Texas) so I don't think I say anything regionally funny. I do have a subtle Midwestern accent that comes out with some words more than others-- if I order a caramel macchiato at sbucks sometimes they look at me funny! Also dh and I disagree about tour-- he rhymes it with four, I say too-er. I use some random Yiddish words though-- dh laughed at me the other day for saying something was shmutzik (dirty)
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DH often puts the emphasis on the wrong syllables and it drives me NUTS. The one word that gets me the most though is Italian. His family pronounces it 'eye-talian'. I always say 'oh then let's hop on a plane and go to 'EYE-taly!'
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I say "I have to go shi-shi" when I have to pee. It's a phrase I learned growing up in Hawaii. I now live on the East Coast. I've been asked about it before.
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@Danizaur: Here they're either Wal-Mart bags or Food-Lion bags!
@mrs. 64: I've noticed a LOT of people do that, something about talking to people with a southern accent makes everyone add a little twang to their voice!
@babyjmama: eye-talian! Have you ever seen Inglourious Basterds? Go to .49 seconds!
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@mrsdwing: where in Canada are you? I have never heard of some of the Canadian things you just mentioned.
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I'm from Alabama, but I live in the biggest city in the state, so it's a little more "normal" than most of this state. DH is from a really small country town. He says soogin instead of a toboggan. My best friend's boyfriend is from the same town as my DH and they both say this. We've never heard of it. Is that a thing?
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@theknest: My sisters and I all used to call crayons 'crowns" and my mom never knew where we got it from! I've forced myself to now call them cray-ons...
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@mrsdwing: Caesars and way more delicious than Bloody Marys though, thanks to the Clamato!
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I'm totally guilty of the "fixin to"...since I grew up in Texas. I don't say ya'll though.
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--
Like "I'm fixing to go to the car park to empty the bin and clean the windscreen".
fixing to = oklahoma
car park = UK/AUS/SL
bin (trash) = ?
Trunk = US
windscreen = UK?It's so, so funny
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@theknest: ah okay - I was imaging it in a Good Will Hunting accent
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@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??
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@Mrs.ThinMint: Also from AL (very small town!), and I've never heard this!
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@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!
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@Mrs.ThinMint: walled you!
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@Mrs.ThinMint: @Weagle: I have never heard of this either! We definitely say tobbogan.
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.
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@imbali: americans say windshield instead of windscreen. And we say parking lot instead of car park. =) Question for you--what do you call THESE:
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@Anagram: oh windshield and parking lot, right. I knew that!
umm, that specific one? It's an eskimo pie! I call it an icecream though if you mean in general what do you call it?
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@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.
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@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.
@mrsdwing: 18-wheelers are transports and $5 are fins? In my part of Canada, 18-wheelers are semis and $5 are $5.
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@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. >D
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@PixieStix: I've never heard "tump" in my life. Does it mean to fill? Or to dump?
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@Grace: I've never heard of $5 being a fin either! It's just a $5 bill to me, and we also say semi
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.
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@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?"
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@Anagram: To dump. I dunno if other Texans say it or if my parents just had bad English.
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@heartonastring: true!
@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?"
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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:
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
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@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!
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@MrsTiz: Walmart/Food Lion bags here too!
@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!
I think the only other "funny" things I say is "nekkid." My husband thinks I'm a hick.
) runs through the major cities and that is considered a freeway. Then through a smaller city an expressway connects the highway and freeway, confused yet!
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