Do you refer to this area as the DMV?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Of course not. I'm from here; literally no one I know who actually grew up here calls it the DMV. That's not a thing to us.

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Yep, I've lived here for 50 years, and no one calls it that. I've only see this on DCUM.
DMV is the Division of Motor Vehicles!

Real question: do you have any age 40s or younger black friends or acquaintances IRL? Because not all of us use that term, but enough do that I heard it for years before even moving here.

Originally quoted PP and yes, some from HS. None of them used it that I heard. I'm 42.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it seems like a recent thing. I've lived in this area all my life (36 years old).

It’s been going on since I arrived here in 2004...

[Anonymous]

No. 49 years old. Born and raised here. I first heard it referred to this about 10-years ago and didn’t know why people were talking about the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).

NoVA was used though for Northern VA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, it seems like a recent thing. I've lived in this area all my life (36 years old).

It’s been going on since I arrived here in 2004...

Sorry. Your opinion doesn't count unless your family has lived in the area for three generations.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:its a black white thing

black people have been using it for years

another DCUM bubble issue

Interesting. How many years? Are we talking more like 5, 10 or 25?

I’m 39 and remember hearing it more often in the late 90s/early 2000s. Born in DC and lived my whole life in Montgomery and PG Counties. Now it’s trendy and hip, and news anchors use it, and DCUM complains and thinks nobody native to the area (that’s “the DC urea”) would use that term. But we do.

DMV =/= “department of motor vehicles.” We have the MVA, Motor Vehicle Administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it seems like a recent thing. I've lived in this area all my life (36 years old).

It’s been going on since I arrived here in 2004...

Sorry. Your opinion doesn't count unless your family has lived in the area for three generations.

Ha. NP here. Third generation! Wouldn’t think of saying DMV. Totally cringeworthy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, it seems like a recent thing. I've lived in this area all my life (36 years old).

It’s been going on since I arrived here in 2004...

I arrived in 2003 and I don't think I heard it until about 2014. And no, I don't use it. I also have only ever lived in DC proper so not invested in trying to make the burbs cool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it seems like a recent thing. I've lived in this area all my life (36 years old).

It’s been going on since I arrived here in 2004...

Sorry. Your opinion doesn't count unless your family has lived in the area for three generations.

Ha. NP here. Third generation! Wouldn’t think of saying DMV. Totally cringeworthy.

Do you say "Hov" or "H O V"? Only one way is right. The rest is just hipsters trying to subvert my reality.

[Anonymous]

I've been in DC for 30+ years. Came for college and stayed (in the city the whole time). I don't use DMV, but my kids do sometimes. I'll never understand why people get up in arms about it...it's a term to identify the area - BFD.

Also, those on DCUM who claim that only newcomers and corporations use the term have simply outed themselves as being out of the loop in terms of the different cultures in and around the city - do you even acknowledge that DC was a majority black city for more years than you've probably lived here, even if you're a "Native Washingtonian" - which you cannot claim if you were raised in Arlington or Bethesda...now THAT is a pet peeve. Don't claim to be from Washington, DC if your address has a MD or VA in it!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If so, are you from here?

hell no. the DMV is the department of motor vehicles

and yes, I am born and raised in Silver Spring and Bethesda. Went to HS in DC, and went to UMD College Park. So I'm about as local as they come.

Are you Dave Chappelle? Actually, Dave Chappelle has probably long been familiar with the term.

Nope, just a white chick. DMV was always used to mean the DelMarVa peninsula.

[Anonymous]

Not from here but lived here almost 40 years. An emphatic no. It's the "DC Metro area." You sound like a newbie (who won't stay long) if you say DMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not from here but lived here almost 40 years. An emphatic no. It's the "DC Metro area." You sound like a newbie (who won't stay long) if you say DMV.

But nobody says DC metro either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Not from here but lived here almost 40 years. An emphatic no. It's the "DC Metro area." You sound like a newbie (who won't stay long) if you say DMV.

But nobody says DC metro either.

Agreed. DC = DC. Metro = WMATA. DC area = DC, MD, VA. "DC Metro" is also a weird-ism that locals and very longtime residents just do not use.

[Anonymous]

Apparently some of you don't say <insert phrase here>, so NO ONE says it.

[Anonymous]

I hate this area so I use DMV as a passive aggressive way of expressing that. The worst radio stations use the term DMV which is where I first heard it.