hugglynn

Here in SW Pennsylvania, you'll hear:

*youins (pronounced yunz), used such as, "Are "youins" going?", as opposed to are "you" or "you all". I guess it's this area's payback for y'all--this was a more acceptable term years ago, but not as politically correct these days just because of the way it sounds
*Pop used for soda
*Yepper (obvious) used for an affirmative answer
*Picksburgh for Pittsburgh, I guess some just can't pronounce the "T"

Happy Thanksgiving

cigalechanta

BBelle, your list is the same as Boston, here!!!!

rb_travelerxATyahoo

In the Adirondacks, we have "cricks"; two kinds:

1- a stream "caught a trout from the crick yesterday"

2- a pain, usually back or neck: "I got this crick in my neck"

and of course I remember being laughed at by the first "city girl" (nyc) when I was young who ridiculed me for saying what I saw at the "the - eight - ter"

jor

sunnydelite, good question. i have never been able to understand the r at the end of words either. how does law end up lawr?

wow

and, water warter??
and, lieutenant leftenant?
and, the weirdest thing I have ever heard PhiladelTHEA!! (heard that in Montreal)

MzPossum

hugglynn, I've heard youins from my Dad all my life! (He's the one with the mother from Maryland--maybe that's like SW Pennsylvania)
And indytravel, our neighborhood garden club still has a progressive dinner every year, and a friend of mine lives in a culdesac that has one every Christmas. Maybe walking is the good idea!

Priscilla

In New Hampshire, I saw a sign at a combination gas station/diner that read
"Eat here and get gas"
I always loved that one.
Priscilla

dfrostnh

It always bothered me to hear my MIL say "it's time to put him down" when it was time for my son to take a nap. She loved her wood cookstove so if she needed a hot fire she would use "biscuit wood". A ramshackle building "leans toward Sawyers" and has holes "big enough to throw a cat thru".I grew up with bubblers, tonic, and frappes. When I lived in the city we lived in a three decker.

arjay

Funny - Milwaukee area folk seem to think the "bubbler" is unique to their area. Guess we won't tell 'em....

My SIL from north central Pennsylvania says "catty-wampus" for kitty-corner...

And hey - no more chiding for that Boston and environs accent that takes the "r" off lots of words and tacks it on others...I LOVE the regional differences and accents in America...Hope they never fade.

sunnydelite

so true arjay! this is what makes the our country a melting pot!!
lol Jor.....I will never understand the "R" thing!!!!!

jor

Priscilla, i don't think i can beat that one. but when we went to the lakes area in minnesota we saw a sign on a gas station which said "restaurant/live bait".

i also agree with above posts that regional quarks and individualism makes us great.

plummie

Upper-Midwest/Minnesota specialties:
Casseroles are "Hot Dishes", as in tuna noodle hot dish, hamburger-onion hot dish, etc. Brownies and other baked desserts cut in squares are "bars". Agreement is signaled by "sure, you betcha". Asking someone to accompany you somewhere is "Do you want to come with?" By the way, I've heard flight attendants refer to the W.C. on the plane as the "bubbler"

zootsi

Here in New Hampshire :
Going to the mall - going upstreet
A untrustworthy person is 'So crooked he can't lay down in bed'
Pour hot maple syrup on snow and roll it up to get 'sugar on snow'
People from Massachussets are from 'downstate' or are 'flatlanders'.
If a non local has a child in New Hampshire is it considered a local? 'Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that don't make 'em muffins!'

PamSF

being from New Jersey, home of Tony and Carmella..hows about:
1)fugetaboutit
2)whacked
3)badda bing
4)sleeps with the fishes
5)holymarymotherofgod

jersey

Being native from Michigan, my Grandmother always said something was "... slower then molasses in January.". And does anyone know what a wooly bear is ( small black and orange caterpillar seen in the fall)?

MzPossum

Dear Jersey--I've heard the "molasses in January" My aunt also used to say "slower than an herd of turtles". Isn't the wooly caterpillar the one that develops extra wooliness when it's going to be a cold winter? How are they doing this year? (my yankee doodle tumbler room is really a mess--I need to start wrapping some of them and mailing them out! how's everyone else doing with Christmas planning?)

ChristieP

My Mom, the Pennsylvanian, used to use the word "yins" to refer to a group of people. Eventually, the Texans got to her, and she now uses "y'all" properly.

schmerl

In the Allentown,PA area they not only say "outen the lights", but they "red up the house" (clean up the house).

jersey

Mzpossum,

The woolies are very wooly this year. Right now the wind is howling and its colder then sin (another Grandma saying). My relatives in Michigan are already seeing snow.

Best Holiday Wishes

ARKANSASNURSE

As a displaced New Yorker living in the South, I grew up with many of the above sayings. I must add, Dutch Rub, a loving hand scrub with a fist. Also monkey....don't go and monkey around with that. In the South I hate hearing 'ie' added to words...borrowie, thingie makes me nuts.