What are some of your slang terms

[Lewella]

Some people think we Minnesotan's talk wierd because we pronounce all of our vowels. LOL We don't really abbriviate words. Most people don't say soda or pop - you order a Coke, or a Mountain Dew, or a Pepsi, etc. We order beer by the brand name too.

Some of the people of Norwiegian descent use slang terms like "uff da" which is an exclaimation as in "Uff da, that was heavy!". I live in an area that was settled by Germans and they never go visit anyone - the go "over by" so and so's. I always want to aks "So did you stop in or did you just drive past?"

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[yankee_minis]

From Maine too...

Don't forget that words that DON'T end with an R get one added--

soder (soda)

idear (idea)

We say Yup for yes. (may be where they get the "ayuh" you see written some places)

The beach is on a lake and the ocean is the coast.

A highway is anything that's 2 lanes each way.

puckerbrush-- woods with lots of undergrowth

rock walls are all over the place and are sometimes used for animal fencing

electric bill is the light bill

a flea market is a bunch of tables with junk for sale from a bunch of different people along the side of the road

snowmobile is a ski-doo

winter is November through April

spring is mud-season and blackfly season

tourists are people "from away"

if you weren't born here you're still "new" no matter if you've been here 15 or 20 years

you're still a Mainer even if you've moved and have been gone for 15 or 20 years

watcha doin? is what are you doing?

we nuke our food in the microwave

Bean boots are common and come from LLBean, which is local for us-- just a quick drive down the "pike" or "95"

we all wore "gum boots" when we were little-- they were green and made of rubber

sometimes we wore plastic bread bags over our hand made wool socks in our boots when we went out to play in the snow all day

And it was fancy talk to call the middle meal "lunch" because when I was little we called it dinner and the evening meal was called supper. Now dinner and supper are interchangeable as the evening meal and the middle meal is lunch.

Whoopie pies are two moist chocolate cookies with white frosting in the middle. The original filling is made of crisco, sugar and vanilla. Some now use marshmallow, but it's just wrong.... so wrong...

that's all i can think of right now...

oh ya!! of course, Fred!!! jeezum crow!! How can I forget that one! lol

 

[Sunny]

I love stuff like this! What a fun thread!

Here in Canada, we don't have $1 or $2 bills anymore. Now they're coins, and we call them Loonies and Tooneys. The Looney has an image of a loon on it, and the Tooney just rhymes.

Most of us refer to electricity as Hydro, but I notice more and more people are calling it Power (which, to me, is a much more "American" term).

I've also noticed a few differences in different parts of our country. For example, the thing that goes over the back of your truck is called a canopy out west, but here's it's a cap. Out west, they "pack" things around, here we "carry" them. In PEI they say the roads are "slippy", but ours are "slippery".

We'll buy a "bag" of milk, which is literally a plastic bag containing three smaller bags that total 4 litres, suitable to put in a pitcher. Someone just told me recently that you can't buy milk that way in the States.

Of course, we say "eh?" at the end of many sentences, which is always a dead giveaway of our nationality.

We eat Caesar salads, but we also drink Caesars. That's a drink of vodka mixed with Clamato juice. Clamato juice is a combination of clam and tomato juices. Sounds disgusting but it's veeeeery good!

I'm sure there are many others, but these are the ones that came to mind immediately.

 

[RedWagon]

We live in a rural south Georgia town. I am from the metro Atlanta area, though, and my husband is from the Pittsburg area. Sonya, you would love my mother in law...she says yins all the time! I did "train" my husband to say y'all now, though. People around here say:

ride out---come over to our house "Y'all ride out next week."

a monago---a month ago "I saw him about amonago."

a piece---between 1 mile & 20 miles "She lives down the road a piece."

reckon---think or guess "I reckon I'll have some cake."

I'm sure there are lots more, but I can't think of any now. I love this thread, though. Very interesting!

 

[Sonya]

Of course, we say "eh?" at the end of many sentences, which is always a dead giveaway of our nationality.

Many people from Michigan say this too...especially those from the upper penninsula or northern lower penninsula...it really freaked me out when I first moved here....after they'd say it, I'd want to say "B".. :lol:

 

[Leeana]

We here in O-H-I-O refer to Kentucky or (Tucky') as 'Down South'.

"Hey are you all going down south?"

We all know that means KY lol.

I come from a very southern background. Dads whole family is very southern and from KY. Mom came from New York and all her family is very NY w/ how they talk. So im somewhere between a KY and NY accident, kind of odd.

They say the best place to come if you want to get rid of your accent fast in North West ohio (where i live) bc we have the plainest accent around. Well ..mom still talks like a new yorker and dad talks like a hillbilly ...i'm somewhere in the middle.

Jamie, i did kind of notice your accent on that show video you sent lol. Could deffently tell your not from around 'here' lol.

 

[whiskeyranch]

I'm "fixin'" to go .....Means, I'm gettin' ready to go

git r done,,,,means shut up and do it!

We're having a cook-out, means let's all drink beer and eat meat!

 

[yankee_minis]

A couple more

all het up -- all upset -- can also refer to the temperature in your car engine

all wound up -- all upset

in a tizzy -- same thing

a snow storm is anything over 6 inches. Anything less and it's just annoying. Nothing to get all het up over! (lol)

 

[minimule]

One of the ones that I remember from Africa is

I'll see you just now = I'll see you shortly, like later for dinner

I'll see you now now = I'll see you right now.

Here in New Mexico (yuck!)

you ask for a coke, no matter what kind you really want

Un Mos Cerveza Por Favour = one more beer please

 

[mininik]

Not much comes to mind, except... one night at the bar we caught someone asking someone else, "Yeatyet?" (Translation: Have you eaten yet?")

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Also, being from the SW, I call those little three-horned weeds stickers "bull heads," but apparantly those are catfish in the NW and "goat heads" are the stickers. The first time I told my boyfriend I stepped on a "bullhead" getting out of the truck in our driveway he didn't know what to think...

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[maranatha minis]

I am diffenitely a hill billy being form Arkansas. I am not a hilly billly in AR terms tho. Everyone form the north seems to think we are. Around here if u r to country u r a redneck. We have a lot of the same words as other parts of the county I am seeing on here. We ask if u want a coke, watcha doin', we use "gotta' alot. the watcha-ma- thingy is anything u can't remember the name of. Dog is da-owg. we say yonder. If jeff foxworthy uses it u can probobly find it said around here. I think of my self as educated tho. I try to use "real" words. :lol: our accent is has a lot of drawl to it, and we talk r-e-a-l s-l-o-w. We don't know that tho. the northern's tell us that. I will have to notice the different accents next year at the shows. I think they are neat.

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