Whats Some Local Slang from Your Neck of the Woods?

[The Amish Tyrant]

wouldn't that be (Shane-hare) properly ?

Doubtful. See link below.

Michigan is known for odd pronunciations.

25 Michigan roads, destinations you're probably saying wrong

How do you pronounce Mackinac? Dowagiac? Kitch-iti-kipi? We're here to help you get it right

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[captainsousie]

"Damn Greenie": This is a person from Colorado. Most often used when driving a car.

"Cheyraq" (pronounced shy-rack) or "Cheytucky" (pronounced shy-tuck-ee): Referring to the state Capitol, Cheyenne.

Optional: Drop the ending of any word ending in "ing" such as the state name "Wyomin".

 

[Dave760]

Our minister used the word lousy today, and he's from the Chicago area where I grew up and that was a common expression, whereas in other regions people don't know what you mean. It means deficient in quality.

Lousy is also in common use in Pittsburgh. I never knew that wasn't a common word everywhere. You learn something every day.

 

[mikethompson]

wouldn't that be (Shane-hare) properly ?

Shh-un-hair is as close as I can type out its proper pronunciation

 

[Hillcrest]

Doubtful. See link below.

Michigan is known for odd pronunciations.

25 Michigan roads, destinations you're probably saying wrong

How do you pronounce Mackinac? Dowagiac? Kitch-iti-kipi? We're here to help you get it right

www.freep.com

your right ... thats what I meant --- Shane-err but wrote hare. The H in herr is silent, Some of those seem to be intentional mispronunciation though ... but only a couple.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

your right ... thats what I meant --- Shane-err but wrote hare. The H in herr is silent, Some of those seem to be intentional mispronunciation though ... but only a couple.

Agreed. And if you mess the local pronunciation up, people look at you sideways.

I still can't say Ypsilanti or know the proper short form (Ip-see versus Yip-see). Then again, I'm horrible at names in general.

 

[Hillcrest]

about a sitch".

I hate that too ! I know one guy who always says "Gimme the sitch rep" like he's some special forces hero in a bad 1970's movie come to save the day ! It sounds pretentious and cacophonous. Cringe factor on high !

The other one I privately can't stand but have learned the hard way to remain silent is Covid pronounced Co-vid. The proper name by the CDC and WHO is Chinese Obstructive Viral Infectious Disease # 19. You don't say Obe - structive. We say Ahb -structive so it should properly be pronounced Cah-vid. But ... try telling that to anyone and surviving ! I explained it to my nurse in the hospital and she said I didn't know that ! (the real name) Then why does everyone pronounce it wrong ? to which I said "No Comment" (while in a hospital bed after surgery!).

 

[Hillcrest]

Lousy is also in common use in Pittsburgh. I never knew that wasn't a common word everywhere. You learn something every day.

lousy | Etymology, origin and meaning of lousy by etymonline - https://www.etymonline.com/word/lousy - infested with lice --- from 14th century ...

 

[HRPufnstuf]

Rocky Mountain Oysters. 'Nuff said.

Do these have any connection to "Prairie Oysters"?

 

[Streeper541]

Rocky Mountain Oysters. 'Nuff said.

That sounds like a mouthful for being a slang term.

 

[Hillcrest]

Agreed. And if you mess the local pronunciation up, people look at you sideways.

I still can't say Ypsilanti or know the proper short form (Ip-see versus Yip-see). Then again, I'm horrible at names in general.

I was in deep east Texas once and asked for directions and was told go down the road 'apiece' and turn left at the (some small business shack)..... 2 hrs and 10 mins later I made the left so apparently "apiece" means a piece of the entire state ! Everything is bigger in Texas !

 

[proteus]

Mainly from Mass but pervasive in northern CT

We are Nutmeggers and no one really knows why
Regulah is caffeinated coffee and could be with cream and sugar but then we add three and three or two and two for the number of creams and sugar. could be NY thing CT is a blending of New York and Mass with some New Hampshire Maine thrown in.
Bang a u-ie. Make a u turn
Breakdown lane is the shoulder
Mass-hole. Bad driver from Mass
Dunks - Dunkin donuts
Charred apizza ahBEETZ is not burnt pizza
Mootz is mozzarella
Gawkahblockah is a person looking at an accident in the other lane and slowing down traffic
The city is not NYC but Boston
Nor'easter is a big blizzard
Wicked as in seriously good or bad depending on context.
When one says "let's see if we can't get this fixed" when a person is trying to fix something for someone else.
Basements are cellars or cellahs
It's not a couch it's a sofa
Friggin is the f word
Rotary is a roundabout
Packie is a liqour package store
Really though? Means Seriously?
Dinner is Supper
What you step on to get into the house is a stoop
Clicker or Clickah is the remote control

There's more I'm sure that I'm not even aware of that we say.

 

[Hillcrest]

We are Nutmeggers and no one really knows why

I always thought it was a derogatory slur (implying slick business practices) ... from Wikipedia :

Nutmegger is a nickname for people from the US state of Connecticut. The official nickname for Connecticut is "The Constitution State", as voted in 1958 by the Connecticut state legislature; however, "The Nutmeg State" is an unofficial nickname for the state, hence the nickname "Nutmegger".

The origin of the appellation is unknown. One theory is that it comes from Yankee peddlers selling nutmegs in colonial times. These nutmegs may have been the real thing, i.e., the hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), an East Indian evergreen tree, or counterfeit wooden nutmegs; or, as has been suggested,[1] they were the real thing but customers unfamiliar with the native form of the spice might have decided they had been sold a counterfeit after futilely trying to grind the unusually hard[2] seed.

A popular newspaper column in the 1830s was "The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville", which has often been cited as the source of this legend. The original story was:[3]

... that eternal scoundrel, that Captain John Allspice of Nahant, he used to trade to Charleston, and he carried a cargo once there of fifty barrels of nutmegs: well, he put half a bushel of good ones into each end of the barrel, and the rest he filled up with wooden ones, so like the real thing, no soul could tell the difference until HE BIT ONE WITH HIS TEETH, and that he never thought of doing, until he was first BIT HIMSELF. Well, it's been a standing joke with them southerners agin us ever since.

 

[anotherbob]

I thought there were cricks and creeks growing up. Didn't realize the hill folk just say crick instead of creek.

 

[proteus]

I always thought it was a derogatory slur (implying slick business practices) ... from Wikipedia :

Nutmegger is a nickname for people from the US state of Connecticut. The official nickname for Connecticut is "The Constitution State", as voted in 1958 by the Connecticut state legislature; however, "The Nutmeg State" is an unofficial nickname for the state, hence the nickname "Nutmegger".

The origin of the appellation is unknown. One theory is that it comes from Yankee peddlers selling nutmegs in colonial times. These nutmegs may have been the real thing, i.e., the hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), an East Indian evergreen tree, or counterfeit wooden nutmegs; or, as has been suggested,[1] they were the real thing but customers unfamiliar with the native form of the spice might have decided they had been sold a counterfeit after futilely trying to grind the unusually hard[2] seed.

A popular newspaper column in the 1830s was "The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville", which has often been cited as the source of this legend. The original story was:[3]




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This might explain it a bit better

What is a Nutmegger?

One of Connecticut’s many nicknames is the “Nutmeg State,” making those who live here “Nutmeggers,” but the origin of the name is something of a…

www.ctpublic.org

 

[solideogloria86]

Hell/heck far
They Law
Lawdy B
Fixin to

And a whole mess a utherns.

If there's someone driving like a fool they are most definitely a "Hoosier".

Flar-idiots where I grew up.

Oh yeah, Florida is pronounced Flar-da.

P.S. No offense intended to anyone from Florida. Some of my ugliest cousins moved down there.

 

[Hillcrest]

This might explain it a bit better

What is a Nutmegger?

One of Connecticut’s many nicknames is the “Nutmeg State,” making those who live here “Nutmeggers,” but the origin of the name is something of a…

www.ctpublic.org

same info.

 

[captainsousie]

Do these have any connection to "Prairie Oysters"?

Nah. Prairie oyster is a cocktail with a raw egg, hot sauce, salt and sometimes vodka. Rocky mountain oyster is fried bull testicles.

Unless you're Canadian....

 

[Servant King]

Being Jewish and surrounded by rednecks, the immediate slang in my area mostly consists of derogatory idiomatic Yiddish hurled in their general direction from the safety of my own indoor area. I mean, seriously...those fecucktah shmucks should really stop hakken me a tchainek, or I'll give 'em a zets...

 

[Winnipeger]

Having "a Social", like a "Wedding Social", which is a fund-raising event where you sell alcohol, have a silent auction, a DJ, and serve cold cuts around 11pm.