Post a word or saying that is unique to your area/region of the US. People outside of your region won't know what the

[debm55]

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heck your talking about but those in your area will. Some for me--
Kennywood"s open---a guys zipper is down (Kennywood is an amusement park}
jumbo--bologni pallor==living room cellar ==basement
wursh=wash
yuntz-you all.
Please let us know what region or area you are from.
Edit--I have to go to the toilet==not bathroom and a Pittsburgh toilet-is a toilet, sink and shower in the cellar.
Double Edit gum bands for rubber bands

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Your barn door is wide open (a guy's pant zipper is open).

Want a soda pop? Ozarks region. I'm sure I got more but that's all I can come up with now.

[debm55]

4. Thank you. We use pop but not soda pop. A soda is pop with ice cream in it.

[SWBTATTReg]

9. And I know that I should use 'a diet coke' or 'coke' or something like that, but I grew up my grandma, who always

used the words 'soda pop', so I grew up w/ that. That's okay w/ me, it kind of bases me to the Earth and my family history, the memories...

Have fun w/ this, I'll check back later, to see the rest of the responses. I hope you get some good ones!

[debm55]

23. Thank you

By the way all carbonated drinks here are called pop. Unless you are eating out then you order a specific drink.

[chouchou]

2. Frap. Gulf of Mexico side of Florida

Frap. "He cut a gigantic stink-bomb after eatin' all those beans."

[debm55]

6. That's funny and different. Ty

[LakeArenal]

25. In Rhode Island a frap is a milkshake.

[chouchou]

68. That's why Rhode Island has always been better than Florida!

...and looks like it always will be..

[LakeArenal]

74. Haha.

[Jerry2144]

28. In Britain that's called a trump

Coincidence? I think not.

[chouchou]

67. Britain's always been one of my favorites.

Lot of their older detective shows are/were marvelous.
Watch them on Brit-Box.

[enid602]

3. Baltimore

Went to high school in Baltimore.

Paramour- you use it to cut your lawn.

Refrigidator- fridge

[debm55]

8. I have never heard of a paramour. That is new.

[Laurelin]

46. Paramour power mower?

Or so I believed.

[brush]

51. That's a very different usage for paramour. In the dictionary...

it's a lover/someone one is carrying on an affair with.

[debm55]

69. Yes, but these are words that people in various areas of the US have used for somewhat different reason. My grandfather

would use the work "poke" . I n our area a poke was a paper bag. I don;t know if that definition is in the dictionary. He rode and his fellow railroaders road the train for USSteel. So they would all pick up words and use them. Maybe they meant poke an item in them. I really don;t know, but it;s fun to discuss the words we use.

[nature-lover]

77. I'm from WV and my grandmother always called a bag a "poke."

You were always warned not to "buy a pig in a poke." You wouldn't know what you were getting!

[Lunabell]

5. Fixin' to.

It means you're about to do something. "I'm fixin' to make lunch."

[debm55]

16. I had some from the south that would say " I'm fixin to----" TY

[bamagal62]

78. I say "fixin too" all the time!

[Glorfindel]

7. I'm from the southern Appalachians, north Georgia.

The first word that sprang to my mind was, "dreckly," meaning "directly." One's mother might tell one to pick up his toys, and he might reply, "I'll do it dreckly." Meaning, "after while" or "when it's convenient for me." One might also get his bottom swatted for that response.

[debm55]

11. That's is so different. I love it.

[MyMission]

106. Do what?

I live in the southern Appalachians too, in western NC.

I've heard the natives say "do what?" Instead of "excuse me" or "please repeat yourself" or "I didn't understand or hear what you just said"

I've wondered where that came from, and imagine it started as an expression, a reaction against being told to do something.
A shortened version of "excuse me? do what?!?"

But in it's current use, it doesn't make sense to me.
Do what?
Have you heard that from anyone?
I've heard dreckly a few times, usually from a parent who means now!

[debm55]

111. I have never heard that before. It seems like a shortened version of excuse. I have heard the expression "say what'?

But at that point I knew to get away.or I would be cruisin for a bruisin as we say.

[Glorfindel]

118. Yes, "do what?" is used to mean "huh,?" or "what did you say?"

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[CincyDem]

10. I'll have a 3-way, inverted and wet.

Yeah…it’s thing.

[JT45242]

12. Yep...three ways in Cincinnati are different

The kids love saying Dad's making three ways for dinner to their friend now that we live in Iowa.

[CincyDem]

14. Haha. Yeah.

I was here ten years before I knew about inverted and another ten before I learned the secret of wet.

Lolol

[debm55]

13. Are you going to let us know what it means. I am curious.

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[CincyDem]

19. Cincinnati chili.

3-way. Spaghetti, spiced chili, cheddar cheese.

4-way, add onions OR beans.

5-way, add onions AND beans.

Inverted, cheese on the bottom, spaghetti on the top.

Wet…extra juicy. Vs dry, chili spooned out with a slotted spoon.

It’s not just an experience…it’s a way of life. Lol

[debm55]

26. Wow. amazing. Thank you so much

[lynintenn]

15. Are y'all going over yonder or are you fixing to go to town.

[debm55]

17. Texas? Good one!

[303squadron]

18. North Florida sayings

For directions: "You can't get there from here. You have to go somewhere else first."

For describing someone who you think is attractive: "That would make a bulldog join the church."

To describe someone of low character: " Why they are lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut."

[Lochloosa]

27. Useless as tits on a boar hog

Another southern one.

[debm55]

70. That is funny.

[debm55]

30. Great ones. Thank you so much. I would have never knew what they were, but I'm a Yinzer./Yunzer

[debm55]

119. Those are funny. Thank you.

[EarnestPutz]

20. Deb - We love your questions. Hamburger trimmings, sandwich fillings and now this. Keep it up.....

.....Here in the Pacific Northwest we speak perfect English, unadulterated by any colloquialisms.

[debm55]

31. Thank you for the compliment. And I just bet yuntz speak perfect Inglish.(As people around here say)

[MOMFUDSKI]

21. Bubbler.

In Milwaukee a water 💦 fountain is a bubbler! We like it that way. lol

[debm55]

33. MOM. I like that. That is really neat.

[LakeArenal]

22. We call a man's Speedo his marble bag. "Hey man, nice marble bag!"

[debm55]

34. OMG. I almost lost my tea. Way to go Lake

[Lochloosa]

24. Belly Washer and a Moon Pie. Kinda self explanatory

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[debm55]

37. I have heard of moon pies. but never Nehi. Let me guess--your from the South?

[Lochloosa]

44. Panhandle of Florida. Very South.

As we say here. The further north you go in Florida the further south you go.

[Lochloosa]

45. And the Nehi Strawberry is to die for.

[MOMFUDSKI]

29. Had a friend in Milwaukee that grew up in

Gloucester MA. She walked into a McD in Milwaukee and ordered a frappe. Kid did not know what the hell that was. She wanted a shake.

[debm55]

35. When I met my husband, (he is from Boston) he would wash the cah and have a frappe. Now he says wursh the car and have a

pop.

[DBoon]

56. They use fish to enter an office buiding in Boston

They have "Access Cods"

[debm55]

92. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH GOT ME

[Sanity Claws]

32. Stoop

Stoop = front steps
Super = building superintendent

I'm sure there are lots of others too.
Story: I lived in a different part of the country for a while and told my friend who lived in that other city that I had to call the super to fix something in the apartment. He stared at me blankly. So I added, building superintendent.
He said," I know what super means. I've heard it in the movies."
It felt so weird to have someone say that a term you used everyday was just a phrase in a movie to him.

[debm55]

71. I remember a stoop. My grandfather would warn us not to sit on cement stoop because we would get piles/philes

[Laurelin]

36. Born and bred

As in, I was born and bred in Maryland

Once upon a time it was a uniquely Maryland phrase, but it's spread.

[unc70]

39. And dead.

As in the UNC fight song, "I'm a Tar Heel born and a Tar Hell bred, and when I die I'm a Tar Heel dead. ..."

[Laurelin]

50. Lol

OK, that's an awesome school song.

[debm55]

72. Thank you Laurelin. Love it.

[nocoincidences]

38. I haven't heard any in Virginia,

but when I lived in Texas I had to learn a whole new vocabulary.

Bar ditch....what????? It's the ditch that runs next to the highway. I don't know why it requires its own special name, but it does in Texas.

Tank. When referring to a piece of land, a tank is what the rest of the country would call a pond.

[Laurelin]

52. Virginia has some good ones!

The only one I remember is pewter underwear, for old Virginia aristocrats. I was told it means they're stupid from lead poisoning, or inbreeding.

[debm55]

73. OMG that is funny

[riversedge]

121. It is called a bar ditch because folks who drink too much have to puke on the way home-into the ditch.

[debm55]

123. Thank you for the information for us.

[Dulcinea]

40. Here's one Deb will get...

Where I grew up: Nebby. It means nosy.

If you're exceptionally nebby, you're a nebshit. I dated a guy from GA a long time ago, & I called him a nebshit once. I had to explain what that meant.

[debm55]

43. Nebby Debbby, me gets it. But I am not a nebshit.

[nebby70]

101. now quit it...or I'll have to print this out and put it in a gum band

...I've never been ashamed of being nebby ----
... us 'burgh' folks are just overtly friendly.....
... It's nice to see so many folks here from home...
... I, sadly, left there a number of years ago to move to the other end of the state, but my heart stays @ the 3 rivers....
... I joke that I left claw marks all along the interstate -- although some folks think it's only the rock formations ...

[debm55]

108. OMG, I forgot gum bands---rubber bands. You live near Phillie? I taught in Phillie for a year. NW section, 29th and

Diamond. We could tell them about the Squirrel Hill Tunnels. Stillers. forever.

[debm55]

116. Be careful or I will flick a gum band at you.

[unc70]

41. Mammick spelled variously

To abuse or destroy inanimate objects such as equipment, tools, motors, and such. Usually with a strong implied criticism of the one doing the damage.

Primarily coastal NC. May be from northern England and Scotland.

[debm55]

91. Thanks unc70

[OldBaldy1701E]

115. It is Scottish.

Do you pronounce it 'toime'? (Outer Banks beach boy here!) I always wondered about the spelling vs the pronunciation when I was little. That Cockney is still there in the Bankers brogue. Oh, for those who don't know it, the word is 'time'. Just one of the many little differences in speech one finds on the Banks. (And a short ways on the mainland.)

[unc70]

130. Just on the fringe of the brogue

I was raised in the Bogue Sound area on the mainland some 70+ years ago. We did not normally use the brogue, but there were a fair number of people in the area who still did, so we sort of learned it. At that time, you would hear it among the old timers as far south as Swansboro or even Sneads Ferry.

My families have been in the areas since they were settled in the 1600s and early 1700s.

ETA when in high school, my school would play basketball games in Atlantic and Smyrna. It was very difficult for us to understand what the local fans were shouting. Probably just as well.

[OldBaldy1701E]

157. My family as well.

Freaking 1650, if you can imagine. Oh wait, you can!

[unc70]

161. Time to compare your people and my people

Make sure you know just who is family before you say or do something you regret. Like you some of my families started drifting south from the James River into NC in the mid 1600s, there to be joined by those with the Swiss colony in New Bern and with those coming north from the Huguenots near Charleston. Add in a few from Baltimore, the Eastern Shore, or wherever -- fairly typical of colonial eastern NC.

When I was doing online dating 10-15 years ago, I met two second cousins I had not previously known. Kin to half the people you want to be and nearly everyone else.

[OldBaldy1701E]

165. Yep.

Can't walk down the beach without running into a relative. (In the off-season. During the summer, you can't find them.) LOL.

[moniss]

42. How about

brat, bubbler, smelt fry, west beltline, tapper and a blackberry, blind robin, pickled eggs, pig's feet, crooked vos, byda, ain a hey, youse, curds, DNR (be careful on using this one because it also means do not resuscitate), frozen custard, Smash-up in the Valley (this is where you take several days of left over meats, potato's and vegetables etc. and throw them all into a casserole and smother it with cheese and/or marinara.

[debm55]

47. I have heard of some.pickled eggs, pigs.feet, Where are you from??

[moniss]

60. Upper Midwest

[debm55]

65. Thank you, moniss.

[MOMFUDSKI]

85. I know aina, smelt fry, youse, frozen custard.

Also brats are a sausage in Milwaukee. My grandmother said aina a lot.

[debm55]

90. Neat TY.

[Dulcinea]

48. And one from where I live now...

"Bless your heart." It's all in the context.

1. "I'm sad today. My dog died."
"Oh, bless your heart." A genuine expression of sympathy.

2. "I think Ron DeSantis is a total sex god."
"Bless your heart." An expression conveying that you think the speaker is an idiot, but you're too polite to say so directly.

I really enjoy this saying. It confuses the noninitiated.

[Bayard]

58. Yup

That's the one I was going with, as a KY kid.

[bluescribbler]

49. Wicked pissah

Means exceptionally good in Greater Boston, Massachusetts.

[debm55]

96. We are going up there next week if my tests turn out okay. I say it to my relatives.

TY

[TygrBright]

53. You want red or green with that? Or Christmas? (Heard in restaurants.)

In el Norte, anyway.

helpfully,
Bright

(El Norte is ABQ and points north.)

[debm55]

97. Great. TY

[Jilly_in_VA]

54. Up the holler

Might be where you live in East Tennessee--up in that hollow

I'll have an RC Co-cola and and a Moon Pie

Buggy--supermarket cart

Buggy bin--where you put buggies in the parking lot

cat, monkey, or chore girl--I heard that one used by various old ladies in my home health days. You guess!

[debm55]

64. Jilly, buggy and buggy bin are new to me. Did you ever hear the word for paper bad as a 'poke" Put the moon pie in a

poke.?

[bamagal62]

80. My mother still calls it a buggy.

I go back and forth from shopping cart to buggy.

[Shermann]

55. Is it any count?

I was confused when I first heard it, but some Southerners say it to ask, "Is it any good?"

[debm55]

62. That's a neat one. Thank you Shermann

[DBoon]

59. When driving in Los Angeles, you don't turn left

You "hang a left"

Probably from surfer-speak

Some other examples may be found in the video shown below:

[debm55]

61. That's cool. Thanks for letting us non Californians know.

[Alpeduez21]

63. Appreciate ya- expression of gratitude, thanks and goodbye.

As in, 'Thanks for scraping (the ice off) my car. We appreciate ya.'
Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.
Also, catty whompus. = Messed up. Why's your bumper all catty whompus?
Oh, I hit a deer.

[debm55]

66. HAHA I like catty whompus. and appreciate ya. Pure Southern charm.

[multigraincracker]

75. In Northern Michigan you are a Yupper

or a Troll.
North of the bridge is the Upper Peninsula. That makes you a Yupper and if you live below the Bridge you are a Troll.

That’s how we roll in the Mitten State.

[debm55]

76. I like that multigraincracker. TY

[Niagara]

79. Alright ... here we go.

Buffalo, NY

716: the area code used most frequently in Buffalo. Frequently numbers appear on windshields of vehicles or mentioned on the radio stations or television


Blue: Labatt Blue is a kind of beer that’s popular in Buffalo. Go to the bar and order a "blue" and the bartender will know what one is ordering.


Crick: If it’s a small body of water, like a stream, Buffalonians will likely call it a crick. That’s just their way of pronouncing the word “creek.” This is real and happens at home frequently


I'm dead: something so funny, you literally cry from laughing so hard


Buff City: Nickname for Buffalo, NY


Nickel City: Another Nickname for Buffalo, NY


Queen City: Another nickname for Buffalo, NY


The Ralph: Ralph Wilson Stadium. I have no clue what the born Buffalonians will refer to it once the new stadium is built


NE Indiana Because I didn't always live in Buffalo

Cornhole: an outdoor game played with bean bags

Hoosier: Indiana natives or Indiana itself

Knee-high by the Fourth of July: How tall the corn is in the fields by July 4

Puppy Chow: a delicious but rich dessert made from chex mix and other ingredients. Most likely called Muddy Buddies in other regions

The 400 or the 500: Brickyard 400 or Indianapolis 500

New Orleans

Makin' groceries: buying groceries

Tchoupitoulas Street (Chop a two' les): When one can say this right, people might think one is a local...very important to pronounce places correctly in New Orleans

[debm55]

93. WOW, wonderful list. Do the people of Buffalo just call their city Buffalo? LMAO We use crick for creek, too.

[Niagara]

99. Thank you, Debbie. I suppose the older generations call Buffalo it's regular name.

But Buffalo has 9 different nicknames so I'm guessing it depends on what each generation chooses to call it.



My SO calls it a "crick" and the first time that happened I said, "Do you mean a creek?" LOL!

[wnylib]

129. Crick for creek is also used in rural northwest PA.

Erie, PA is my hometown but the paternal side of my mother's family were all in Buffalo. I don't remember ever hearing crick from my Buffalo relatives, but my father's rural PA family always said crick.

In pronunciation of words, my Buffalo cousins had a western NY accent, which is pretty much gone today. They said "hat" for "hot" and "care" for "car."

[oregonjen]

81. In the PNW, we say "spendy" for an item that's expensive

I read that spendy isn’t used elsewhere. Is that true? Pricey, perhaps?

[debm55]

95. I never heard it used here. TY

[Shermann]

102. "Spendy" has crossed over into internet speak now nt

[Mme. Defarge]

154. I use both here in PDX!

It always grates when visitors and even audiobook readers pronounce Willamette - referring to Willamette Valley and river - with accent on the last syllable instead of Wil-LAM-et.

[GreenWave]

82. Why warsh your car when a starm is brewing?

Don't ask these mid-westerners what 39 + 1 is!

[debm55]

94. That is great and funny and true. TY

[Walleye]

107. Been warshing and arning all day and I'm tarred

[debm55]

112. OMG, where do you live????? It has to be close to me.

[GreenWave]

131. This dialect appears to have originated in Southern Illinois and spread outwardly into surrounding states.

Or so my linguistics profe said.

[Submariner]

83. "Ayup"

“Ayup”

[debm55]

89. Does it mean "yes"

[Submariner]

125. You win

Ayup is the Maine word for yes.

[debm55]

126. Oh, just took a guess. BIL just bought a farm in Maine. We will be doing Thanksgiving there.

[MadLinguist]

84. Louisiana expressions I grew up with

West Louisiana "get down" means to get out of your vehicle
New Orleans specific "make groceries" means to shop for food
New Orleans specific "dressed" with respect to sandwiches, and poboys in particular, means that it comes with things like lettuce, tomatoes, pickles etc
New Orleans specific "cold drink" is a sugary carbonated drink like coke, pepsi, root beer, Dr pepper, fanta, etc, but not booze, or ice tea
S.E Louisiana, maybe up into Arkansas "either way is the only way" means make up your mind
West Louisiana "trim" is a reference to a woman
Gulf Coast region, a "color" is a crayon

[debm55]

87. Thank you MadLinguist. Lots of good examples from Louisiana

[Chainfire]

86. I don't know if it is unique to my area but when I was a child and we would camp out in the back yard, the fathers

would terrify us with the story of the Wampus-kitty that at little children. I always kept an ear out for that mythical cat.

[debm55]

88. Chainfire, what was a Wampus kitty?

[Chainfire]

110. It was a mythical cat that would steal babies out of their kids, or little boys camping out.

In my memory it would have been panther like.

[JackSabbath]

98. Please don't come to Atlanta...

...we full.

[debm55]

100. My husband worked for the CDC in Atlanta. He said people didn't understand him and he didn't understand them.

[Jamesm9164]

103. "jockey box" and "wouldgya"

Glove compartment of a car. Wouldgya pass the gravy". I guess a combination of please and thank you. From southern Idaho.

[debm55]

120. We use wouldga and couldga around here-western PA. Ty.

[debm55]

104. Was anyone told that they would get piles/philes from sitting on a cement stoop(steeps) ? I went to Penn State and told

friends that I didn't want to get piles. Told my friends I had no idea what piles were. Finally, found out after they were
hemorrhoids. All the Pittsburgh students knew what they were and how you got them from sitting on cold cement
One las thing Here we go Stillers, here we go.

[Diamond_Dog]

114. My grandmother said that to me and my sis.

[NotHardly]

105. How longterm/native Oregonians spot vacationers/tourists

It is pronounced as though it is written as Oregun .... not Oregone

[debm55]

117. Very good. I wonder if they know. TY

[Walleye]

109. In Delaware water is wooder. In Philly they have Italian wooder ice

[debm55]

113. Love it. Great examples. TY

[riversedge]

122. up nort.

I always said it-but when moved to Madison WI--folks would look at me like where is that??

-it means--I am driving up north [going anywhere north from Madison WI.

[debm55]

124. Thank you riversedge for that info.

[EarnestPutz]

127. It's pretty understandable, but folks in Nashville saying "I might could come by.....

....your place on Thursday” always gave me pause.

[BWdem4life]

128. "What's that big yellow thing in the sky?"

Seattle, wintertime when we get a rare break from the clouds.

"The mountain is out today" = Mount Rainier is visible in the sky to the south

[justaprogressive]

132. Fugly

*not beautiful

NE

[debm55]

135. Yes, I don't know when that started

[wnylib]

133. I'm from Erie, PA and now live in western NY.

Not unique sayings so much as word and pronunciation differences.

In PA, the edge of a highway is called a berm. In NY, it is a shoulder. In PA, a township is a unit within a county. In NY, it is just called a town, which confused me at first because a town in PA is a large village or very small city.

We had neighbors in Erie who were from Somerset, farther south in western PA. They said "y'uns" and even city streets were "roads." The mother yelled at us once, when we were practicing tennis shots in the street (smooth surface), "Y'uns git outa the road!"

But the most colorful language came from my paternal grandfather. He had a farm in an isolated part of Erie County, PA, but his parents were from rural southern Missouri and rural southern Ohio. He said "haint" for ain't, "crick" for creek, "heered" for heard, "seed" for saw, and "bob wire" for barbed wire. The letter "e" often became "i" in words. He might say something like, "Well, I haint niver heered a sech a thing, but I seed that fella yestiday what sed it."

He spoke a dialect with its own grammatical and pronunciation patterns, even though it sounded like uneducated, substandard English. In reality, he read a lot, had a collection of books, and was well informed.

In my senior year, we visited my Navy brother stationed in Philly. I decided to look for a prom dress there because I didn't like the ones I saw in Erie. In 1967, the style for prom dresses was long, ankle or floor length, which we called a "formal." The Philly clerk could not understand what I was looking for until I said it was for my senior prom. She said, "Oh, you mean a gown."

[debm55]

134. wnylib, thank you for all the wonderful memories.

[Fla Dem]

136. "Wicked Pissa"

11,000 readers tested their knowledge of Boston slang. Here’s where they disagree.
Wicked, pissa, or wicked pissa?

Break~~~

“Pissa” is commonly used to say something is good or awesome, often times it can be paired with “wicked” to make “wicked pissa,” also meaning “awesome” or “really awesome.” Similarly, “wicked” is commonly used in place of “very,” but is up for interpretation depending on your preference. Merriam-Webster’s dictionary describes the term as having originated as an adjective, an early and notable use of the term can be found in William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth.” It wasn’t until the late 20th century that “wicked” was used as an adverb, and for us New Englanders became slang for “very” and “awesome.”

https://www.boston.com/community/community/11000-readers-split-boston-slang-wicked-pissa/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CPissa%E2%80%9D%20is%20commonly%20used%20to,interpretation%20depending%20on%20your%20preference.

[debm55]

141. Thanks Fla Dem---very interesting reading.

[Fla Dem]

155. Have to be careful who you use the phase around.

I'm in Fla, have been for 20+ years, and was talking to my next door neighbor who is a male, older than me and from the mid-west.

We were talking about something good that happened to him and his wife. Just automatically I said "Pissa"! He gave me a shocked look as if I had said a nasty word. I realized immediately he had no idea what I said. He said, what does that mean? So I explained to him it was a fairly common word used in the Boston area to say something was awesome. He still gave me kind of a sideways look.

Actually, I surprised myself, I hadn't used that expression in a long time.

[SKKY]

137. For some reason, people here in my part of the Ohio Valley use a mug...

...as a point of comparison.

"It's hot as a mug out there!"
"It's cold as a mug out there!"
"That Tesla Model S is fast as a mug!"

I grew up here, heard it my whole life, but never understood it.

[debm55]

139. That is interesting. TY

[SKKY]

149. No, it really isn't. It's silly and makes no sense...

...So, don't give us in the OV that much credit.

[Aristus]

138. "The mountain is out."

Meaning, the skies are clear today and Mount Rainier is clearly visible throughout most of Western Washington.

My supervising physician, who hails from New York State, moved to Washington a number of years ago, and I knew he was becoming acclimated to the PNW when he announced one day that "the mountain is out." He was starting to fit right in.

[debm55]

140. That is great. Thank you for the info, Aristus.

[Elessar Zappa]

142. Hijuela!

[debm55]

143. Elessar, what does it mean?

[Elessar Zappa]

144. It's hard to translate directly but it basically means "Damn!", or "Wow".

It’s commonly used here in southern New Mexico.

[debm55]

145. Thank you.

[VGNonly]

146. Yoopers

[debm55]

148. I am afraid to ask-but what are they? Ty

[VGNonly]

153. Yoopers are people from

the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Trolls are people from the Lower Peninsula that live below the Mackinac Bridge. People who sometimes visit the UP are called Fudgies.

[debm55]

156. Thanks.

[Rebl2]

159. My brother in-law

after he moved to VT called those of us in MO (where he used to be from) flat landers, which I always found silly. True we don’t have mountains, but it’s pretty hilly and winding in southern MO.

[debm55]

162. MO is kind of flat. But he was rude saying it to you folks. Now my folks would have waited until we left and then said

it. My late MIL told my husband that I sounded like a hillbilly.

[RSherman]

147. How fun! I can think of four:

1. My grandmother always called the couch the "davenport".

2. My dad had a friend who, when camping, said he took an "Adirondack shower":
He washed as high as possible, as low as possible, then he washed possible! ha ha

3. People on the north side of Sacandaga Lake say they're going "overtown" to get the mail (meaning they have to cross the bridge to get to town).

4. I grew up in a very small town. My grandfather used to call it "Stick and plum town". You stick your head out the window and you're plum out of town! (I love that one!)

[debm55]

150. Those are great. RSherman!!! I have heard of number one. No mater where you are around here, when you do to Pittsburgh,

you go downtown. I love all 4 of your posts . TY.

[northoftheborder]

151. Whompy-jawed

Texas/South.. crooked, out of alignment

[debm55]

152. You folks down in Texas have the most unique words. TY

[billh58]

158. From Hawaii:

"Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono" (The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness)

[debm55]

160. Thank you very much for that. It is beautiful.

[No Vested Interest]

163. Pony keg - Cincinnati area

Small convenience store that sells beer and bottled beverages, which we call soft drinks.

[debm55]

167. That is very unique. Thank you

[Phentex]

164. Pert near

That dishwasher's pert near full.

(my MIL says this and it makes my husband crazy so of course now I say it)

[debm55]

168. Are you from Texas? I heard this in westerns but one actually saying it. You are funny.

[BluesRunTheGame]

166. "butter my butt and call me a biscuit"

Not from my area but I heard it recently and thought it was hilarious.

From Wikipedia: An expression of astonishment upon learning something unbelievable (usually positive).

[debm55]

169. OMG that is funny. I have never heard of that before. Thank you.

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[mvd]

170. Yo deb! Yo is used a lot in Philly

Down the shore is another one.

Youse for you all/you guys, which I don’t like.

Wit or witout (for with or without)

[debm55]

171. Thanks Matt, I taught in Phillie. but that was such a long time ago. TY

[Stuart G]

172. "THE LOOP" is an are of downtown Chicago that is sorrounded by the Loop Elevated Trains. I guess you have realiz that

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......the trains make a LOOP around the ..."downtown area." ..............Another one I just thought of ..................
"Outer Drive" is an old name for...."Lake Shore Drive"..........(that is the road that borders the Lake Shore...(Lake Michigan)

The Outer Drive is clearly one of the most beautiful roads in the world...The entire road borders the Lake and some of the
views are truly breathtaking. Views of the Lake and the buildings, parks and beaches are truly breathtaking.
..........Of course you have to drive the entire road to see the views. ..........Of course you may not know this, but most of the
major museums are near Lake Michigan, or near the park that borders Lake Shore Drive...................(including Museum of
Science and Industry, Field Museum, The Planetarium, The Aquarium, and lots of parks are there too.)

....Some of the views of Lake Michigan are truly breathtaking....especially views that are from top of some buildings ..

[debm55]

173. Thanks Stuart G. I have never been to Chicago. That is very interesting.