Here in Cincinnati we say, "please?" (instead of huh? or what did you say?).  We sat on the couch or davenport, drank pop, carried a purse but Oma (grandmother) carried her pocketbook.  My 1st husband says, "you-uns".  My sister's husband (from Alabama) says, "might could" (response to can you do something for me?) and everything is a Coke.  I noticed friends in MO call everything a soda.  I went to WV on vacation as a teenager and came back saying, "Winceday" instead of Wednesday.  My cousin used to say warsh and my daddy would always ask her how to spell it…she became a speach therapist (LOL).  I always got a kick out of the African-American kids saying, "hecky-no-shoot".  If I remember correctly, it meant they didn't like something when the question was asked.

I love the backwards speak.  It will be great to use when speaking to my teenagers in front of their friends!  It beats throwing my back out trying to imitate their dancing.

Maybe someone out there has heard this saying (I believe it is a southern phrase), "Good Gordon John!".

By the way, what is this new slang saying, "I know, right"?  They should just say, eh, like in Canada.

I am one of those who has lived in or had influence from all corners of the states.  Mama grew up in Minnesota and then in Washington; Daddy grew up in California where he entered the navy.  My first language influences were from Georgia, where the majority of my childhood memories are from, but have spent 15 years in Oregon and the past 2 years in Kansas.  

We always had a couch; didn't even hear someone call it a divan until I met my MIL.  Her and her husband are from Iowa, and have lived in the Midwest the majority of their 70 years.  You want to add a little frustration to the whole thing, go from the speed of Portland, Oregon to a family in Kansas who starts every sentence of their conversation with a very slow, "weeeeell…..," and then wait another minute for them to throw any other words in. Life slows down in the "Four States".  

I grew up eating breakfast lunch and dinner. My MIL eats breakfast, dinner and supper. Can't tell you how many times that has messed us up.  

Growing up in GA, we called it all coke, and people would ask us, what kind?  When we moved to Washington (or Warshington, as my mother's family calls it), everybody called it pop.  If I order a coke here, I get a Coca Cola. I also learned my y'all from GA. It may not seem proper, but at least it's a contraction, unlike my in-law's youse. "Wutter youse goin' ta have fer dinner?" "We are going to have tunafish sandwiches for lunch."

I didn't even know people called a purse by any other name. Something they say in the midwest is, billfold.  A man's wallet is not a wallet…it's a billfold. He ain't got no bills in there, though, so why?

Oh, I haven't seen this one mentioned. Totally threw me off when I moved here. My FIL said that he needed to get a new stool.  I asked my husband later, why his dad needed a stool.  He's tall and 70 yrs old, why would he need a stool?  My husband looked at me strangely, then I saw it click in his head, and he responded, "Haven't you ever heard a toilet called a stool?"  I told him what from a toilet I had heard called stool, but never the toilet itself.  I still find that very strange.  

Also from the midwest as far as I can tell, you do not go to Wal*Mart. You go to the Wal*Mart.  Or Wal*Mark as a lot of them call it around here. 

couch and dinner

Mom had her purse and as much as she tried to say "wash" she often reverted back to "warsh" and she was born/raised/lived in western Washington.  Only thing I can figure is that "her" mother was from Missouri. Don't they pronounce more like "Missoura"?

We drank pop when we were lucky enough to have it, which was usually when we knew we were having company or relatives were staying over.

drainboard instead of countertop

breadboard instead of cuttingboard

cupboards "pronounced more like cubboards" instead of kitchen cabinets

Grandpa Lof (originally from Sweden) called the car a "puddle-jumper" and the trunk lid a "turtleback"

Grandpa Lof would sometimes have some "pie" after dinner…a slice of buttered white bread with hot creamed corn overtop. 

Oh, and I miss the availability of different cheeses and good sushi!  Can't beat that in Portland, Oregon!  Fresh fish and Tillamook cheese!!