S/O: Weird phrases/expressions your ILs use
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Anonymous
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My mom, age 81, takes great pains to mention every professional's race and sex, but only if SHE considers such noteworthy. So, "this lovely, young, black female doctor" or,
"The new nurse is an Oriental man." (cringe) "Did the Indian pharmacist help you? I like her." Never just the doctor/nurse/Dr. Smith DD years ago attempted to correct my mom and advise her that African - American is preferred over Black or Negro. My mom has gone retro and now says Afro-American. |
Anonymous
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"Do what?" And they say it all drawn out like, "Doo whuuut?" It's apparently how they ask for clarification, if they mishear something or don't understand something they've been told.
I love my ILs dearly, but that phrase just makes me cringe. Sounds like something off of King of the Hill. |
Anonymous
Omg. About 20 years ago, my dad was at the airport with my grandmother, who was probably in her 80s. While there, they walked through a group of Asian-American businessmen and women. She said, "Wow! Look at all these Orientals! And they're all in suits!!!" 
My father wanted to die and still remembers it to this day. The group definitely heard my grandmother, loud and clear, because a few of them spun around quickly and glared at her. |
Anonymous
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bakerds = backward
gubmint = government corn-bray-ed = cornbread spicket = faucet Lawwdhammercey! = Lord Have Mercy! Light bread = Wonder bread rekollect = remember skert the livin' daylights outta me = scare or surprised |
Anonymous
| A lot of these posts just reveal how provincial the poster is never to have heard of these expressions before. Have you never left your own state? Are you culturally illiterate? |
Anonymous
Since we are passing out unsolicited advice, stop telling us how we should think and feel. |
Anonymous
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Sissy for pee.
And like others have mentioned, a nationality assigned as an adjective for everyone, and mispronouncing "foreign" words - tor-TEAL-ya, for "tortilla". |
Anonymous
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Mixes up -a, -o, -i endings. San Deiga, El Pasa, Panero Bread
Next door neighbor of decades with beautiful Italian surname that ends in an I has self-devised "new" surname. DiBorelli is said as Dobrella |
Anonymous
| My MIL says vagina as vaGEENA. Like Geena Davis. |
Anonymous
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Snicky snack is a thing.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Snicky+Snack&defid=4452138 A meal that comes prior to dinner, but after lunch. Preferably made with crackers and prepared by your mother. Origins of decent come from a small town in Berkshire County. Most of the rest are regionalisms (e.g., wooder for water) or just mispronunciations. |
Anonymous
Why is she even saying this word to you? |
Anonymous
Are they from Pennsylvania? |
Anonymous
Bigly? 
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Anonymous
| My MIL says "chi-POLE-TAY" for chipotle. Also "pico da-GALE-o" for pico. I cringe. She thinks she is so sophisticated but she sounds like an idiot when she can't pronounce these common words. |
Anonymous
Yes, everyone knows the correct wording is "we love you BIGLY". Really! |