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[Post New]10/13/2009 21:58
Anonymous
In Baltimore, we would say we're going "downy ocean" (down to the ocean) with a really strong "O."


NYer transplanted to Bawlmer for high school. I always heard that as "downy ay-shun." When you go downy ayshun, don't forget to put some awl in your car.

Also have never heard of pizza as "cheese pie," nor has my Jersey-born husband.

We both went to school in New England and can vouch for bubbla, tonic, and frap. I would also add "outtastata." which is the Rhode Island term for someone whose parents were not born in state.

[Post New]10/13/2009 22:03
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:I'm from New England and I've never heard anyone use bubbler for water fountain? I've also never heard creeme or frappe.


Oh come on! I'm from DC and have heard of a frappe (pronounced frap)! You MUST have heard that before. Maybe it's a Boston thing.


I'm the PP from NE. I've heard frappe only at Starbucks - never in reference to a milkshake while growing up in NE. It could certainly be a Boston thing but I lived in Boston in addition to other parts of NE and never heard it there either.


When I moved to the Boston area as a kid, my dad asked for a milk shake, and that was exactly what he got. Shaken milk. We learned to call it a frappe pretty quickly. Bubbler was also a term I learned there, and used again when I lived in Wisconsin.

In Upstate NY extra letters and syllables are the trend. You don't go to Wal-Mart, you go to Walmarts There is a small town called Galway, but in NY it's Gal-a-way. You go up to see people, even if the people you are seeing live in Florida.
[Post New]10/13/2009 22:04
Anonymous
A friend from college born and raised in Alabama used to always say "I'm fixin' to _________"

[Post New]10/13/2009 22:08
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
In Baltimore, we would say we're going "downy ocean" (down to the ocean) with a really strong "O."


NYer transplanted to Bawlmer for high school. I always heard that as "downy ay-shun." When you go downy ayshun, don't forget to put some awl in your car.

Also have never heard of pizza as "cheese pie," nor has my Jersey-born husband.

We both went to school in New England and can vouch for bubbla, tonic, and frap. I would also add "outtastata." which is the Rhode Island term for someone whose parents were not born in state.

The point is that people refer to "pizzas" as "pies" -- as in, "I'd like to order two large pies, one cheese and one with mushrooms" -- cheese is just the topping.
[Post New]10/13/2009 22:11
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Anonymous wrote:I'm from New England and I've never heard anyone use bubbler for water fountain? I've also never heard creeme or frappe.


Oh come on! I'm from DC and have heard of a frappe (pronounced frap)! You MUST have heard that before. Maybe it's a Boston thing.


I'm the PP from NE. I've heard frappe only at Starbucks - never in reference to a milkshake while growing up in NE. It could certainly be a Boston thing but I lived in Boston in addition to other parts of NE and never heard it there either.


When I moved to the Boston area as a kid, my dad asked for a milk shake, and that was exactly what he got. Shaken milk. We learned to call it a frappe pretty quickly. Bubbler was also a term I learned there, and used again when I lived in Wisconsin.

In Upstate NY extra letters and syllables are the trend. You don't go to Wal-Mart, you go to Walmarts There is a small town called Galway, but in NY it's Gal-a-way. You go up to see people, even if the people you are seeing live in Florida.


Now that I read this post recall that when I lived on Long Island, N.Y., we would always say we were "going up" to see people and would say people were "coming up" for a visit, regardless of where they lived.
[Post New]10/13/2009 22:16
Anonymous
Is "hot mess" a regional thing? I never heard the phrase until I moved to Maryland. A co-worker used it to describe the behavior of one of her students -- "he was a hot mess today."
[Post New]10/13/2009 22:17
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:All of mine are Southern, I think. Definitely heard them in North Carolina.

Tote = carry, "Is that too big for you to tote?"
Carry = take somewhere, "Can you carry me to the store?"

Also, "Bless (his/her/their) heart!" I know it usually follows some kind of insult, but I think it's hilarious!



Hadn't thought of this in ages, but had a friend (I think from Ohio somewhere? could be totally wrong there) who used "Ride" in the take somewhere sense. Always cracked me up to hear "Can you ride me home?" I can't help it - that just sounds dirty to my NE ears!
[Post New]10/13/2009 22:41
Anonymous
from the maine relatives: ay-yuh (for yup)
from the long island relatives: bott-ul for bottle or met-ul for metal (strong emphasis on the first syllable and swallowing the L)
from the kentucky relatives: those oh so genteel swear words, like oh, fiddlesticks or sugar, honey, iced tea (for sh*t)
[Post New]10/13/2009 23:24
Anonymous
from south: "over ya under"-over there, "hang right"-make a right...
[Post New]10/13/2009 23:26
Anonymous
over yonder?
[Post New]10/14/2009 00:03
Anonymous
I grew up in south jersey but my grandmother was very southern. I never realized how that impacted my speech until someone asked me what the heck a *LIEberry* was. (the place you borrow books from btw).

We got hoagies from the deli, we couldnt stand all the shoobies who came down the shore every summer, We drove up to visit (even tho our relatives lived down south).

And yes, I heard you must be so proud and hush alot.
[Post New]10/14/2009 00:23
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I'm from New England and I've never heard anyone use bubbler for water fountain? I've also never heard creeme or frappe.


We totally have creamees in Vermont. But I thought bubbler was more mid-western.
[Post New]10/14/2009 00:25
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I have a friend from outside Boston who says "so didn't I" and "so don't I" and all that. Hilarious, cracked me up every time.

Not an American one, but I was really thrown the first time I ordered a lemonade in Australia and got a Sprite.


I am from VT and I also used to say "so don't I" as a child. It often makes a lot of sense.
[Post New]10/14/2009 07:03
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:... we couldnt stand all the shoobies who came down the shore every summer


Ahhh, shoobies... A southern Jersey expression... The origin of the expression (as I was told by numerous relatives born/raised in South Jersey shore) was that the day visitors to the beach back in the 1930s-40s would pack their lunches in shoe boxes, hence "shoobies"
[Post New]10/14/2009 07:38
Anonymous


If you are from Baltimore,

WaRshington, DC
Brawl (for bra)
Acrosst (for across)
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