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Author:  LadyKate [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Regional Colloquialisms
Got any?

Here's one: Yonderway. Meaning: over there.

I don't use it, but my husband says it all the time and so do a few mississippi old timers.
Author:  Rodahn [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:25 pm ]
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The following are colloquialisms that I have actually heard uttered in my presence:


Good gravy, sex alive! (explicative)

Chicken fire (alternatively, Chicken feathers!) (explicative)

Useless as tits on a wild boar hog (to show resentment)

D'jeet'yet? (trans: Did you eat yet?)

Billy Blue Blazes (As in: It's hotter than Billy Blue Blazes today)
Author:  LadyKate [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:29 pm ]
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What region are these from, Rodahn?
Heh, I like "chicken fire" as an expletive...my son says "tartar sauce."
Author:  Rodahn [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:35 pm ]
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West Virginia (western region, near the Ohio boarder)
Author:  Rafael [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:49 pm ]
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People in the NE say "Quarter of", "Five of" which I find to be annoying and stupid.

Delewarian idiots say "Get up with me" meaning the same as "Get at me".

In my area, the use of "sick" and "mad" as adjectives to describe things that are extreme in nature. Also stupid. "Beat" is **** party or bar.
Author:  Taamar [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:51 pm ]
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Rodahn wrote:
The following are colloquialisms that I have actually heard uttered in my presence:


Good gravy, sex alive! (explicative)


Someone (possible your source) has misinterpreted "Sake's Alive".
Author:  Sam [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:06 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Regional Colloquialisms
Well LK, seein' as I am a southern neighbor of yourn (yours) I'll give'r a go :D

Us southern folks say "fixin" a lot......."I'm fixin' to go to the store" for example.

"Cold beer" = as in any beer that is iced down. Can't just say "beer"....

I once heard someone say "He's so poor....he couldn't buy the stink off a fart" :lol:
Author:  Adrak [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:20 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Regional Colloquialisms
"Yinz"
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Yinz is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in southwest Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh, but it is also found throughout the Appalachians...

...In other parts of the U.S., Irish or Scots-Irish speakers encountered the same gap in the second-person plural. For this reason, these speakers are also responsible for coining the yous found mainly in New Jersey and the ubiquitous y'all of the South.


I've spent much of my adult life in the south and still catch myself saying y'all. Can't stand the sound of yinz though, enough to make anyone sound retarded IMO.
Author:  LadyKate [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:42 pm ]
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Sam those are awesome! Specially that last one, haha!
My biggest thing I noticed from the south is that "Coke" refers to every soda. You'll be asked if you would like a coke and when you say yes they'll say ok sprite or dr pepper? Hahaha!

Adrak, you-uns or yinz I don't really say either. I say ya'll all the time, however. And I've been known to occasionally say young-uns when referring to the children.

I won't say chester-drawers though. I don't like that one.
Author:  Rafael [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:28 pm ]
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[youtube]SL4HdaZXuOw[/youtube]

1:10
Author:  LadyKate [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 8:30 pm ]
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Ever been to Wood Badge for scouting? That term is used regularly, Raf.
Author:  Noggel [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 9:55 pm ]
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A fairly rare but not unheard of thing to hear around these parts is "henna" tacked onto the end of a sentence. I am not sure why. It functions in place of the rhetorical 'huh' in sentences like "man that was a bad storm, huh?" My best guess is that it's a mutated "ain't it", but I don't really know.

http://www.coalregion.com/Speak/speakA.htm is purported to contain all sorts of regional speaking stuff, but the vast majority of it doesn't seem particularly regional to me. A lot of it also isn't very common. It can be an amusing read, though, so I figure I'd link it anyway. :p

Oh, and I have a turkey hoagie in the refrigerator now... *nodnod* Rare to hear that one outside Pennsylvania, and perhaps NJ.

Is 'crick' in place of 'creek' found elsewhere?
Author:  Rafael [ Sun Mar 07, 2010 10:06 pm ]
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Noggel:

Rural Iowa, for sure.
Author:  Jeryn [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Regional Colloquialisms
Things I've actually heard uttered by real people:

"(h)it don't make no nevermind" - It doesn't matter.
chimbley - chimney
kin'te - related to
done - (duhn) 1. already (as: I done finished it); 2. have [gone and] (as: "y'all... done shot me on a Sunday")

(edit: I didn't actually hear "y'all done shot me on a Sunday" in person, but I mean, doesn't that sentence just deliver? It has everything. Man I love living here.)
Author:  Ranelagh [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:45 pm ]
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Bollocks! - exclamation of dismay.
Author:  LadyKate [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:48 pm ]
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Jeryn wrote:
Things I've actually heard uttered by real people:

"(h)it don't make no nevermind" - It doesn't matter.
chimbley - chimney
kin'te - related to
done - (duhn) 1. already (as: I done finished it); 2. have [gone and] (as: "y'all... done shot me on a Sunday")

(edit: I didn't actually hear "y'all done shot me on a Sunday" in person, but I mean, doesn't that sentence just deliver? It has everything. Man I love living here.)


That is definitely the coolest quote I've heard all year.
Author:  Lenas [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:13 pm ]
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Shaka - hang loose, chill out, cool, etc
Author:  Lalaas [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:18 pm ]
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When I lived in Bainbridge, GA I was asked: "Might could I carry yer vacuum cleaner? Mine's tore up."

From my hometown in Fla, there're 3 versions of "you."
You (singular)
Y'all (2-3 of you)
All 'yall (sweeping inclusive plural)
I'd also ask (/nods to LK) "what kinds of Coke you got?"

Saying that bugs me here in metro Detroit: "Can I help who's next?"
My reply (under my breath) is usually "no, you can't. We arrive in a random distribution, sometimes Poissanic."
Sometimes it's just a flat out "no." :)
Other colloq. up here: "Geez'o'Pete". "Pahp" (as in Coke but with a very nasally sound - see LK's post).
Author:  Lydiaa [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:25 pm ]
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Bloody - about the same as ****.
fags - ciggies

Think thats the only two which I've had to explain to people before... the whole g'day thing is too well known hehe.
Author:  Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:07 pm ]
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Lalaas wrote:
Saying that bugs me here in metro Detroit: "Can I help who's next?"
My reply (under my breath) is usually "no, you can't. We arrive in a random distribution, sometimes Poissanic."
Sometimes it's just a flat out "no." :)

This is a curse prevalent in the Midwest as a whole. I rate it along with "who belongs to this coat?" as one of the grosser perversions of grammar inflicted upon me in my life. Only mildly more tolerable is dropping infinitives when paired with needs -- "The trash needs taken out."
Author:  Jeryn [ Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Regional Colloquialisms
Might could! I forgot all about that one. I hear "might could oughtta" fairly regularly too, like "you might could oughtta get some oil to break that head bolt". Oughtta is just for color, I guess, because might could really works just as well when you omit the oughtta. Actually, also notable is that "oil" as spoken in that sentence is unpronounceable to anyone not from 'round here. Seriously, I'm completely stumped as to how to spell it phonetically. "UL" might be close, sort of.

One of my big favorites is "a man", used interchangeably with "you" or "one". My next door neighbor (same one who said chimbley) used to say this all the time, like "a man could git some Kentucky 31 to come up in that bare patch". "A man" is a profound idiom, really, and speaks volumes about southern gentility. It'd be presumptuous to overtly suggest that you, personally, ought to try this particular thing, whatever it is, but here's what a man would do. Maybe I'm attributing too much to this here, but I really don't think so. I suppose it bears mentioning too that I've never heard "a man" used outside of that rhetorical context - it's always "a man could ___".
Author:  Lalaas [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 3:54 pm ]
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I reckon yer right 'bout dat, Jeryn. Oil in SW GA/Tallahassee area's pronounced Oahl, iff'n I'm not fergettin' sumpin'.

What's funny for me is that I've been in metro Detroit for 15 years, and haven't picked up the nasal accents (thank the Maker), but I start jawin' wit sumone from back home an my accent done come rite back. Even if it's one of the guys I know from Oklahoma (who's originally from Loosianer).
Author:  Squirrel Girl [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Regional Colloquialisms
"You guys" referring to a group of people, not just males (northern New York state and eastern Canada).

Wil ponder some more.
Author:  TheRiov [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:28 pm ]
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Kentucky/WV have some strange ways of pronoucncing city names

Hurricane=hurk-en or hur-ek-en
Versailles=ver-sAls
Louisville=lul-vul

"Going to get me some <insert noun or verb>" drives me batty
"Will you make me a glass of water?" also is aggravating. (Sure....>POOF< you're a glass of water.)
Author:  Rodahn [ Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:08 pm ]
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Taamar wrote:
Rodahn wrote:
The following are colloquialisms that I have actually heard uttered in my presence:


Good gravy, sex alive! (explicative)


Someone (possible your source) has misinterpreted "Sake's Alive".


Mayhap, but sex > sake's :)

TheRiov wrote:
Kentucky/WV have some strange ways of pronoucncing city names


As a WVian, I can personally attest to this one. I actually got into an argument with a friend of mine over pronouncing the town of Hurricane as it is supposed to, over how the locals say it (the aforementioned "hurr-i-kin").

Another one is Ronceverte. I would say "Ron-ce-ver-tay" going with the French), but others have said "Ron-ce-vert."

Ugh, just don't get me started on Southern pronunciation.
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