Whats Some Local Slang from Your Neck of the Woods?
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I've already explained the way Alabamians will say "buggy" instead of "cart."
Also, all sodas are "cokes" (lowercase). So, if anyone offers you a coke, and you say "yes," expect them to ask you "what kind?" Cokes can be Mt Dew, Dr Pepper, or Sprite, and there is no difference between a Coke and Pepsi, whichever is cheapest or available is still a coke.
"Fixin' to"... "I'm fixing to go to the store." "I'm fixing dinner." "stop asking me to repair the sink, I'm fixing to." Fixing is the same as "preparing," down here.
And, all vacuum cleaners, brooms, or any floor cleaning devices are "sweepers."
"Mash" means "press." "Mash the button that says 'fire alarm.'" "Just mash the doorbell."
"Get out of" means a variety of things. "Get out of the floor" means to get up and get into a chair. "Get out of my yard" means you better run.
"Ham" is another way we refer to Birmingham. "I'm fixing to go to the Ham and get that car part. What kind of coke do you want me to get for you whilst I'm out?"
I also notice that In Western North Carolina, people word some things differently. It drives me crazy when my wife says "It's pouring the rain." In Alabama, we just say "It's pouring down rain." We've had a few "discussions" about it. And, it drives me even more nuts when someone in NC will say it to us when my wife is with me. "Better hurry, it's about to pour the rain." Then my wife just gives me one of them shit eating grins. It just sounds ignorant to me.
"Yankee"... Now, I don't use this one very often, because when I was born, my granddad was transferred to Oklahoma, and I went with them for a few years, and I returned to OK for summer vacations when I was in school, up until he moved back to Alabama when I was 10. So, I was the Yankee, and I didn't like being called that. But, anyone not from here, and speaks English is a yank or yankee. This includes people from out West to Canada, but if someone has a New England accent, they become a "damned Yankee."
See, as a kid, all of my Alabama friends called me a yankee for enunciating words and using correct grammar, whilst my Oklahoma friends called me a cracker. I was very confused, Was I a cracker or a yankee. Thank god, I was never a damned yankee.
If passing through, no one is going to call you a yankee to your face. An Alabamian has to know you well enough to bust your balls like that. You may stop and ask for direction's, and the Alabamian will politely help you if they can. Then, after you've driven on, and a friend asks them who that was, they will respond, "just a lost yankee."
Walmart is WallyWorld
Piggly Wiggly is the Hog
Chik-Fil-A is God's Holy chicken
Belks is perpetually called "The Belks." Women mostly say this. "Get out of the floor, we're going to the Belks. I'm fixing to drain the bank accounts. So, mash the door locks, so that we can load into the truck."
Also, all sodas are "cokes" (lowercase). So, if anyone offers you a coke, and you say "yes," expect them to ask you "what kind?" Cokes can be Mt Dew, Dr Pepper, or Sprite, and there is no difference between a Coke and Pepsi, whichever is cheapest or available is still a coke.
"Fixin' to"... "I'm fixing to go to the store." "I'm fixing dinner." "stop asking me to repair the sink, I'm fixing to." Fixing is the same as "preparing," down here.
And, all vacuum cleaners, brooms, or any floor cleaning devices are "sweepers."
"Mash" means "press." "Mash the button that says 'fire alarm.'" "Just mash the doorbell."
"Get out of" means a variety of things. "Get out of the floor" means to get up and get into a chair. "Get out of my yard" means you better run.
"Ham" is another way we refer to Birmingham. "I'm fixing to go to the Ham and get that car part. What kind of coke do you want me to get for you whilst I'm out?"
I also notice that In Western North Carolina, people word some things differently. It drives me crazy when my wife says "It's pouring the rain." In Alabama, we just say "It's pouring down rain." We've had a few "discussions" about it. And, it drives me even more nuts when someone in NC will say it to us when my wife is with me. "Better hurry, it's about to pour the rain." Then my wife just gives me one of them shit eating grins. It just sounds ignorant to me.
"Yankee"... Now, I don't use this one very often, because when I was born, my granddad was transferred to Oklahoma, and I went with them for a few years, and I returned to OK for summer vacations when I was in school, up until he moved back to Alabama when I was 10. So, I was the Yankee, and I didn't like being called that. But, anyone not from here, and speaks English is a yank or yankee. This includes people from out West to Canada, but if someone has a New England accent, they become a "damned Yankee."
See, as a kid, all of my Alabama friends called me a yankee for enunciating words and using correct grammar, whilst my Oklahoma friends called me a cracker. I was very confused, Was I a cracker or a yankee. Thank god, I was never a damned yankee.
If passing through, no one is going to call you a yankee to your face. An Alabamian has to know you well enough to bust your balls like that. You may stop and ask for direction's, and the Alabamian will politely help you if they can. Then, after you've driven on, and a friend asks them who that was, they will respond, "just a lost yankee."
Walmart is WallyWorld
Piggly Wiggly is the Hog
Chik-Fil-A is God's Holy chicken
Belks is perpetually called "The Belks." Women mostly say this. "Get out of the floor, we're going to the Belks. I'm fixing to drain the bank accounts. So, mash the door locks, so that we can load into the truck."
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I don’t use it, either. Seems like “squanch” from Rick and Morty. Totally confusing for a transplant like me.
On a road trip out west we stopped in Salina, KS and my friend was talking to someone in our group and said we were in Suh-Lean-uh KS. Well, the clerk glared at him and she said "it's Suh-LINE-uh. Without missing a beat my friend replied to her - oh like Vagina...
That was the running joke of the whole trip
That was the running joke of the whole trip
We get out-of-towners that pronounce our city, Hel-in-a, like the Montana city, and we have to constantly have to correct them. The city is called Hell-EEN-A, like the woman's name.
Holler: a place between to hills; also to yell at someone
Fixin to: about to
Jerryrig: fix something in an unusual way.
Fixin to: about to
Jerryrig: fix something in an unusual way.
Er, yeah, but that's Southern CA. So, your local stuff. Agree it's annoying.
Unfortunately, some corporate bastards have co-opted the word "schmear" here in N. California, to mean application of anything smear-able onto anything else.
I am not sure it isn't understood widely across the US. Pretty sure most know what a "louse" is.
My wife’s notion of swearing is “poop on a stick!” — no clue as to its origins.
Here, we just don't cuss when children are even within site. And, if strangers are in around, those who do cuss, usually say things like "Bless your heart" or "Foot" in place of the other f-word.
I never cuss... except on here... and, only when it adds something humorous to the post. I went years on here, without cussing, until the audacity "moved me."
She's being a lady.... "Shit on a stick" is a phrase that's common.
I am having a hard time working that phrase into a sentence, except where getting dog poop off of my shoes is concerned. And then, I'm not sure that it is cussing at that point.
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Haha, never heard it - but where I grew up and have lived the “on a stick” would just get in the way of getting right into other obscenities!
It's usually only served that way when they run out of shingles.
Cricks are bodies of water, and creeks are associated with towns, villages, etc. Think of fishing Spruce Crick then running over to Spruce Creek to the Spruce Crick (Creek) Tavern for a tray of fries and pints of Lager.
Confusing idn't it....
