pinchvalve wrote: Funny story, when I was dating my (now) wife, she referred to windshield washer fluid as "monkey pee". She swore it was a local thing from growing up in Edinboro, PA but I have yet to meet ANYONE who called it that. And now, that's what we call it. LOL
Pisser fluid!! I have to agree with you there, all the time I've spent in Erie I've never heard "monkey pee", but pisser fluid seems pretty common
pinchvalve wrote:revrico wrote: In Pittsburgh, we worsh (wore sh) our clothes, hunt crawdads in the crick, eat jumbo and chipped ham sammiches. Gradiate with good edumacations, swill our pop, and make casseroles instead of hotdish. Dahntahn used to be a big arhn district, now it's all tekkie. Ok, I need to stop before i just copy in a Pittsburghese-English dictionary.What you are trying to say is that we say everything correctly, everywhere else mangles our language. Now if yinz will excuse me, I have to go dahn to gian iggle n get some gumbands.
Be careful if its snowing, might be slippy out, but then we could go sled riding when you get back. Also, could you pick up some bags for the sweeper?
My girlfriend is from out that way, so I've become rather fluent in Pittsburghese.
David S. Wallens wrote: A long sandwich is called a hero.
po boy in Louisiana.
I used to rail against my old man about creek being pronounced "crRIk." How can you get that out of reek?
Appleseed wrote: I used to rail against my old man about creek being pronounced "crRIk." How can you get that out of reek?
For where I was raised, a crick was shallower and slower than a creek, which was still shallower and slower thn a stream. We have a crick on our property, but down the road it turns into a creek. That might be really localized though. Think inuits and snow, 20 some words for the various types
oldtin wrote: Hollar - KY version = valley between a couple of hills
"Holler" is "hollow" tinted by a quart of mason jar moonshine.
pinchvalve wrote: Now if yinz will excuse me, I have to go dahn to gian iggle n get some gumbands.
Gonna put them gumbands in a poke?
Stretching the definition of regional here, but as a 6 year old kid,just having moved to tennessee from Birmingham, England, I went to the counter at McDonald's and asked for serviettes, since I had made a mess. I was asking for napkins. What I got was about 20 packets of ketchup...
Also British vs 'Murrcan, a rubber is the thing on the end of your pencil you use to fix mistakes or over here they can help you avoid making the mistake on paper.
Rusted_Busted_Spit wrote:revrico wrote: In Pittsburgh, we worsh (wore sh) our clothes, hunt crawdads in the crick, eat jumbo and chipped ham sammiches. Gradiate with good edumacations, swill our pop, and make casseroles instead of hotdish. Dahntahn used to be a big arhn district, now it's all tekkie. Ok, I need to stop before i just copy in a Pittsburghese-English dictionary.Having spent a few years around Steubenville Ohio I completely understood everything you wrote. Though to be fair my Grandparents, who grew up in eastern Ohio, used a lot of those. Cool Beans is one of the more odd ones that I have heard here in Ohio.
Its also unlikely that you swill your pop. You SWIHW it. Most western PA folk don't say "L"s at the end of words.
Tile becomes Tahw.
For Real becomes Fer Rihw.
Will becomes Wihw.
A few years ago I was a professional conference. One of the attendees had an ear for accents. She would listen to people for a few minutes be able to figure out pretty accurately where they grew up. She could not figure out my accent and was surprised when I said Michigan.
My dad is from Minneapolis and my mother is from DC. I spent half my childhood in semi-rural area with a lot of white Appalachian transplants. The other half in a neighborhood that was roughly 50% black and a fair amount of Ebonics was in use. I also spent summers in Northern Minnesota and North Carolina. I guess I absorbed bit and pieces of everything.
I live on the "South Shore", aka the area between Boston, MA and Cape Cod. We have a few regional sayings:
Pissah: good or awesome. Add "wicked" to the front of that and it's really awesome.
"Yeah, Sully's makes some wicked pissah hot dogs!"
Ponys: Little beers. Not sure if it's regional or not.
"Yahh dood, get some ponies, khed."
"Khed": A pronunciation of the word "Kid", used as a descriptor for person. Synonymous with dude, man, guy, etc. South Boston and Quincy MA people use this A LOT, sometimes multiple times per sentence.
"Khed, this pizza's wicked good, khed."
Packie: A beer/liquor store. Short for Package Store. (Bonus: 30 Rack = 30 pack of beer)
"Dood, go to the packie and get a 30 rack of Bud Light, khed."
Sub: Submarine sandwich. "Everything on it" usually means lettuce, tomatoes, onions, and pickles.
"Dood, get me an Italian sub with everything on it, khed."
It's like a whole other language up here. I'll have to think of some more.
"dreckly" another southern one - heard it a lot in Texas and some in Kentucky. Means I'll do it now (directly).
What else is it if it's not a "crick" ? Stream, brook, river ?
Type Q wrote: A few years ago I was a professional conference. One of the attendees had an ear for accents. She would listen to people for a few minutes be able to figure out pretty accurately where they grew up. She could not figure out my accent and was surprised when I said Michigan.
I never had someone need more than three words to guess where my accent is from. I have a tendency to turn every "er" into an "a".
Years ago I spent some time down in North Carolina and had someone in a grocery store ask if I killed anyone and was hiding out down there.
Type Q wrote: A few years ago I was a professional conference. One of the attendees had an ear for accents. She would listen to people for a few minutes be able to figure out pretty accurately where they grew up. She could not figure out my accent and was surprised when I said Michigan. My dad is from Minneapolis and my mother is from DC. I spent half my childhood in semi-rural area with a lot of white Appalachian transplants. The other half in a neighborhood that was roughly 50% black and a fair amount of Ebonics was in use. I also spent summers in Northern Minnesota and North Carolina. I guess I absorbed bit and pieces of everything.
My mom is from southern Indiana. My dad is from Chicago (although in my opinion not much of a Chicago accent). I spent significant time da UP, along with central Illinois, which seems to combine a southern accent with a Chicago accent. And, I've played hockey my whole life.
In Chicago, I have a southern accent (this is getting less and less since I've moved from central Illinois). In southern Indiana/Kentucky, I have a strong Chicago accent. And for whatever reason, certain words come out sounding like a Yooper or Canadian.
As a person that's lived his whole life in Wisconsin, somewhere between Chicago and Indianapolis a southern accent pops up.
David S. Wallens wrote: A long sandwich is called a hero.
Don't get me started. 
SilverFleet wrote: I live on the "South Shore", aka the area between Boston, MA and Cape Cod. We have a few regional sayings: Pissah: good or awesome. Add "wicked" to the front of that and it's really awesome. "Yeah, Sully's makes some wicked pissah hot dogs!" Ponys: Little beers. Not sure if it's regional or not.
I was born in South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. We lived in Abington, skated on Island Grove and spent our Summers at Paragon Park in Nantasket Beach. You are dead-on when you say it's a different language!
Something I've noticed folks in Mass do---- is the double negative:
"I'm going to Papa Ginos, and so isn't Judy"
This for some reason indicates that Judy IS in fact going to Papa Ginos........
In reply to Joe Gearin:
Ha, I'm typing this about 2 miles from South Shore Hospital. 
I wish Paragon Park was still around. It closed back in 1985.
Another one like that that's not necessarily from around here that I've been hearing more:
"Let's see if we can't fix that."
Can't = CAN though. I don't get it.
My wife's family says "sweeper" for vacuum. I say the sweeper is the person doing the action while the vacuum is the appliance... She says the sweeper is one thing-person and appliance. NWohio for them and upstate NY for me. It's a vacuum!
In Michigan, we often use the letter "d" in place of "t" or clip them off all together.....
I've lived up here all my life and use the term "y'all" constantly. Its not local, I just find it effecient when speaking to a group. Most folks say "everybody".
The takeaway from this thread is: Alla y'all talk funny.
It took years for folks to teach me the difference between rrrurnt (said like a grunt), and shah-dowt (best spelling I can come up with)
Knurled wrote: The takeaway from this thread is: Alla y'all talk funny.
Round here, that would be "all y'all". It's plural for "y'all".
Knurled wrote: The takeaway from this thread is: Alla y'all talk funny.
So do yous.
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