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6:21 pm
March 2, 2011
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Etymology is a funny thing! We've got some that definitely haven't passed into general useage, though!
1:30 pm
May 3, 2012
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I live in Manitoba (Canada) and we are told that we speak "funny" and have some words that are a bit different from others I guess.
I also sit on a couch and carry a purse, however my parents sit on a chesterfield.
We eat breakfast,dinner, and supper.
When it's cold in the winter we wear toque's (hats), and also wear hoodies (and in Saskatchewan they call them Bunny Hugs (weird!).
I have an Aunt (pronouced "ant", not Ont) and I wish I lived by a creek (not crick). We have shingles on our roof (not ruff), and the last letter of our alphabet is "zed" not "zee".
That's all I can think of for now 
10:09 pm
December 14, 2010
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I have lived where there were creeks, brooks, runs, and branches and they all eventually ran into rivers.
10:41 pm
October 15, 2011
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My boyfriend is a Brit, I'm an American, and we've had our confusions about language. Like when he described someone as "pissed," and I asked why the person was angry; he LOOKED at me like I had two heads (pissed in the UK means drunk, not angry). Or the time one of our cats came into the room and my boyfriend said, "wacha cock" (I have no idea how to spell that, so I'm doing it phonetically) to the cat. I said, "WHAT did you just say?" It apparently means something like, "how are you?"
He has a terrible time in stores and restaurants here; his accent is a South London one, so more Michael Caine than Alec Guinness, and lots of Americans have a hard time with it. I frequently have to "translate" what he says from Brit to American. And they often think he's Australian because of the twang in his accent.
12:44 pm
December 26, 2009
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What fun!
I put stuff in the fridge, sit on a couch, and carry a purse with a wallet in it. I try to stay away from sodas, mostly drink ice tea. I live in Texas now, but I have lived in Louisiana, Michigan, and New York. We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, except on holidays when we have dinner in the middle of the day.
My grandmother, from Mississippi, bathed her hands before meals. She rinched the dishes to get the soap off after she washed them.
10:06 pm
October 28, 2011
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Love this thread! I read through all the pages eagerly looking for someone who knew that mangoes are another name for green peppers. Thanks Joell! I'm originally from da region in northern Indiana, and my mom called them mangoes but I'm fairly certain she got that from dad, who was from West Va.
Gramma called the refrigerator the frigidaire. Mom called it the ice box. Go figure. We closed the lights. We ate breakfast, lunch and supper but now I call supper dinner. Down here in S. Indiana people say "of a morning" instead of "every morning", mom and gramma carried a pocketbook, I carried a purse and drank pop. When he was tired, dad was "tuckered out". We sat on the couch, but at gramma's it was a davenport. When we went shopping in the city, we went uptown. Cucumbers were always pickles, right off the vine or actually pickled.
I love local idioms.
Oh!
Those nasty little candy things people like to put on ice cream are sprinkles.
10:13 pm
December 14, 2010
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My first wife would "cut on the lights" or "cut off the lights". And I think it was just her but she would ask me to put the baby on his shoes .
10:38 pm
October 15, 2011
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Do they say "spendy" (to mean expensive) where you folks are? I've lived in several different states, and the only place I've heard it is here in eastern WA. People generally say "pop" here, but I was instructed to say "coke" when I lived in Florida, and then later told to say "soda" when I moved to Boston. Soda was the one that stuck, for some reason.
Murphala, when I took French in high school, they taught us "le refrigerateur" (I hope I've spelled that right) as the correct word for fridge, but then the teacher told us that everybody just calls it "le frigidaire"!
Putting the baby on his shoes is a really cute expression, Ross!
11:22 am
June 26, 2011
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Spendy, coke (or occasionally cola), couch, purse are all words in my vocabulary. "Creek" vs crick. Definitely NO letter "R" in the word Washington or the word wash.
Eastern Wa here too.
11:44 am
October 28, 2011
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STH said
Murphala, when I took French in high school, they taught us "le refrigerateur" (I hope I've spelled that right) as the correct word for fridge, but then the teacher told us that everybody just calls it "le frigidaire"!
Putting the baby on his shoes is a really cute expression, Ross!
Wow! When I took French I my teacher told us that they loathed incorporating brands/Americanisms into the language (le parking for example). We used to call them the language police! French is so beautiful, I don't blame them though. Unless of course Frigidaire refrigerators originated in France…I wonder.
Back to redding up the garden so I can plant my mangos…
1:26 pm
October 15, 2011
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I think there's some official agency somewhere that tells everybody what the correct word in French is supposed to be (I understand there's one for Arabic, as well), then everybody ignores it. When I went to Provence a couple of years ago, all the menus had "le sandwich" and "le pizza"; language is one of those things that people try to control and it never works.
11:44 am
June 9, 2011
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I love this! I did a project on regional dialects when I was in school and it was so fascinating that we all live in the same country and speak the same language and still sometimes can't understand each other! I am a hard case because I was born out west (AZ) where my parents grew up, spent several years in Minnesota and on the south side of Chicago and now have been in central Indiana for 25 years. My kids will make fun of me sometimes if I say "Get in the back of the car", I guess it sounds like "beeack", I don't hear it. I grew up on pop, sat on the couch, carried a purse, and had breakfast, lunch and dinner. My husbands family(which has always lived in central Indiana), drinks cokes, has breakfast, dinner and supper, eats mangoes (bell peppers), and says ain't. My mother in law once invited us over for dinner and I thought she meant the evening meal, but she meant lunch! We have been very careful since and use times instead of meal names, it's funny. I was taught to NEVER say ain't. I remember when I moved here from Chicago, all the kids teased me because of how I talked, but I could never tell the difference between us. I still call people hosers.
11:18 am
September 2, 2008
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Regional accents?, down south most of us talk alike! Everybody else is a Yankee!
7:45 am
August 25, 2009
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JeannieB said
Regional accents?, down south most of us talk alike! Everybody else is a Yankee!
That is true here in south Georgia!
We sit on a couch, I carry a pocketbook, we eat breakfast, dinner and supper. If you are offered a drink or a drank, that means a non alcholic carbonated beverage, or a coke, now matter what brand. If we are about to do something, we may say we will do it "directly", meaning it will be done in a few minutes. When I was a kid, I thought they were saying "I will do it in a reckley" Always tried to figure out how long a reckley was. I have a dorder, or daughter and I keep food in the refrigerator. But one county over, they use a frigidaire. If you are outside and are sent inside, then you are "going up to the house" no matter where the house is located. Get is git -git down from there or Git outta heh, meaning get out of here. Daddy called a moccasin a mox-a-con, and if he saw one he kilt it, or killed it, they are vicious and poisonous snakes and fight to the death. Daddy also planted cah-ton, or cotton.
Fun post!!!
8:04 am
February 22, 2010
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Until I started working with school children I thought that "pin" and "pen" were pronounced the same. Here in Missouri almost all first grade students spell and pronounce get…. "git". I fit in just fine.
9:17 am
September 2, 2008
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I do have a funny-- my BIL was born and always lived in the low country. In SC that means within 50 miles of the ocean. He was telling a story about one weekend he and his friends were on a barrier island camping and fishing. He said that they had a cooler of 'bear', but he didn't want any. Now, down here when he was in high school there were no black bears in the southern part of the state, and I was schocked that they had somehow had bear meat to cook on the campfire. Well, it turns out that the 'bear' was Bud, Coors etc.
They also cook 'butts' meat, which is the same thing as 'streak of lean' pork. It turns out that way back the barrells that the pork was stored on were called 'butts'.
4:31 pm
June 1, 2010
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A geography test: Ask a person to way "John intends to marry his girl Mary and is planning a merry wedding. " Seems like it's usually easterners who have a distinction between merry, Mary, and merry…
12:22 am
October 15, 2011
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I was reading something about regional accents the other day and read that people from central California (like me) pronounce "both" as if it were spelled "bolth." Which really struck me--I didn't know there was any other way to pronounce it!
"Merry," "Mary," and "marry" are all the same sound to me. As are "dawn" and "Don."
8:27 am
February 15, 2011
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Here in the midsouth, all of those are different sounds! Pin and pen are the same, which can cause spelling problems. But marry sounds like it has a horse in it, mare; Mary might almost be a long A, but usually not quite, actually seems to depend on the age of the speaker; merry is the eh sound. Don is the ah sound; Dawn rhymes with on, usually! Think of the song, "Delta Dawn, what's that flower you got on?" Dawn and on rhyme.
Until I was in first grade, the only way I had heard 'chair' pronounced was 'cheer'!! I don't know how we all manage to talk at all. 
11:09 am
June 7, 2011
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Murphala said
Love this thread! I read through all the pages eagerly looking for someone who knew that mangoes are another name for green peppers. Thanks Joell! I'm originally from da region in northern Indiana, and my mom called them mangoes but I'm fairly certain she got that from dad, who was from West Va.
I remember green peppers being called mangoes. It wasn't until I was in college that I encountered a real mango, which added to my confusion because they aren't remotely similar.
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