Regional sayings

[rhino 2]

I was just thinking what do people call stuff where they live that goes by a different name in other parts of the country...Like Frank in upstate NY, just mentioned in the wind chill tread' A fire hydrant. When i was a kid in Brooklyn we called it a Johnny Pump..Soda in the New York area is called POP In some parts of the country...
Any more out there.....:Shrug:

 

[Peter A.]

Names

Steps vice stoop

 

[1dn5up]

Grocery store- Markett

 

[Sully]

In Atlanta, when you ask for a Soda or Pop, you ask for a Coke.

 

[tnbillybob]

Toilet - commode

 

[ol' school]

Hoagie - Hero - Sub - Grinder

 

[BillR]

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

VS

Breakfast, Dinner, Supper

 

[Kristie]

California vs North Dakota

casserole - hotdish
soda - pop
freeway - interstate
oops - uff da
dirt road - gravel road
best foods mayo - hellman's mayo
7/11, stop n go, etc - C store
liquor store - offsale

 

[MarkFL]

KY. vs. FL.

sigogglin' - cattywompus
poke - bag
airish - breezy
reckon - figure
rurnt - ruined
peckerwood - ne'erdowell

 

[Ozarkryder]

I grew up in Minnesota (correctly pronounced "Minnasoda":

Rubber band is a "Rubber Binder"

Lend is Borrow. as in "Borrow me a dollar"

Casserole is the (usually glass) vessel in which you cook "Hotdish"
Q.E.D. - casserole (the food) is "Hotdish"

A snack or dessert (usually) baked in a flat pan, about 1.5" thick or less cut into bite size pieces are "Bars."

"Could be worse." is the response to How are you? instead of good, fine or well. If you are in exceptionally good spirits, it is proper to say "Not too bad."

The song ends with "If one of those bottles should happen to fall, I'll be there to drink it all" instead of Take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall.

The game is "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck" not Duck, Duck, Goose

 

[BillR]

NORTH - You'se Guys


South - All Y'all

 

[Gone2Three]

Here's some Texan speak for y'a

Y’all – used in place of you all or you guys ALWAYS
Howdy – common greeting among Texans meaning “how do you do?”
Ain’t – are not
Uh huh – Yes
Over yonder – used in place of over there
Tuckered out – used instead of exhausted
Right quick – used in place of quickly
Conniption fit – to get upset and and raise a ruckus. Example – “My momma is fixin’ tuh have a conniption fit if you don’t do them dishes right quick.”
Supper – dinner
Looker – an attractive woman
Yankee – Anyone who lives North of the Mason-Dixon line
Tank – pond
Sure’nuff (one word) – sure enough – usually used to express agreement. Example – “Dang that girl’s a looker.” “Yep, she sure’nuff is.”
Coke – any type of soda

 

[Kristie]

Forgot one - Cal - catty corner, ND - kitty corner

 

[rhino 2]

The world....
For get about it........

New York Metro Area....
Forgetaboutit......

 

[consitter]

Everybody else--The roads are icy.

Kentucky--It's slicker than snot on a doorknob out there!

 

[rhino 2]

Everyone Else ' Have indoor plumbing....
Kentucky ' Whats that!........:laugh:

 

[consitter]

Famous last words in Kentucky...

Hold my beer and watch this!

 

[1dn5up]

You Bet = thank you or your welcome

 

[Sidecarbill]

Pennsylvania take this down to the hard road and make a right. Never heard a paved road called a hard road. Course most roads here are paved. Taylor ham pork roll same thing but you won't find it anywhere but New Jersey.

 

[rhino 2]

A bridge by another name......
Manhattan.... The 59th Street Bridge...
Queens... The Queensborough Bridge...

 

[consitter]

In West Virginia...

Singles meeting--family reunion

 

[Ozarkryder]

Note: This is not from a Yankee. A Yankee is someone from the North. I am a DamnYankee - someone from the North that came down and stayed.

A comment on Y'all -

When I moved to the Northwest Arkansas area from Minnesota, I was introduced to "Y'all" in normal everyday speech. I have noticed while traveling around, and meeting folks from around South here for the Wallyworld headquarters, "Y'all" has slightly different meanings around the area.
In this area (NW Arkansas, SW Missouri) Y'all is always plural. If you say "Y'all come over." to a single person they will be slightly confused as to who you mean.
In some other places it seems that it is both singular and plural. In some other places it is plural, but if you are talking to a single person and say "Y'all come over." you have just invited that person and His wife, children, in-laws, cousins and a close friend or two.
And there are places that are too far north to be the South, but too far south to be the North that "Y'all" becomes "You'uns"

 

[Jack Klarich]

Tighter than Dicks hat band To darn tight

 

[BillR]

You Bet = thank you or your welcome

"No Problem" I hate that one :nonono:

 

[rhino 2]

"No Problem" I hate that one :nonono:

WHAT EVER!.......:laugh::gah:

 

[David357]

North- "cooking dinner"

South- " afixin supper"

 

[paws]

Mosey
As in, one will walk along at a leisurely pace.
...I'm going to mosey over to this other store.

Good deal!
...in agreement.

 

[paws]

Fix'n to.
As in, one is about to take some form of action.
...I'm fix'n to to wash the trike.

 

[FleshWound]

Hoagie - Hero - Sub - Grinder

In Louisiana, they're called "Po-Boys". Story is during a transportation strike in New Orleans, a store owner saw the men standing around with nothing to eat. He split some loaves of French bread, piled some cold cuts and cheese on it and said ," Give it to those po' boys."

 

[56Elwood]

"No Problem" I hate that one :nonono:

I hate that one too!

Boston: Rest of world:

Bubblah Water Fountain

Pissah Very nice

Bodshotz Board Shorts

Suppah Supper

Jimmies Chocolate Sprinkles

Tuneup Physical beatdown

Projex Housing projects

Rotary Roundabout

Glostah Gloucester

Hummah Oral gratification