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

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Mon Nov 6, 2023, 05:16 PM

Nov 2023

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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 [View all] debm55 Nov 2023 OP

Your barn door is wide open (a guy's pant zipper is open). SWBTATTReg Nov 2023 #1

Thank you. We use pop but not soda pop. A soda is pop with ice cream in it. debm55 Nov 2023 #4

And I know that I should use 'a diet coke' or 'coke' or something like that, but I grew up my grandma, who always SWBTATTReg Nov 2023 #9

Thank you debm55 Nov 2023 #23

Frap. Gulf of Mexico side of Florida chouchou Nov 2023 #2

That's funny and different. Ty debm55 Nov 2023 #6

In Rhode Island a frap is a milkshake. LakeArenal Nov 2023 #25

That's why Rhode Island has always been better than Florida! chouchou Nov 2023 #68

Haha. LakeArenal Nov 2023 #74

In Britain that's called a trump Jerry2144 Nov 2023 #28

Britain's always been one of my favorites. chouchou Nov 2023 #67

Baltimore enid602 Nov 2023 #3

I have never heard of a paramour. That is new. debm55 Nov 2023 #8

Paramour power mower? Laurelin Nov 2023 #46

That's a very different usage for paramour. In the dictionary... brush Nov 2023 #51

Yes, but these are words that people in various areas of the US have used for somewhat different reason. My grandfather debm55 Nov 2023 #69

I'm from WV and my grandmother always called a bag a "poke." nature-lover Nov 2023 #77

Fixin' to. Lunabell Nov 2023 #5

I had some from the south that would say " I'm fixin to----" TY debm55 Nov 2023 #16

I say "fixin too" all the time! bamagal62 Nov 2023 #78

I'm from the southern Appalachians, north Georgia. Glorfindel Nov 2023 #7

That's is so different. I love it. debm55 Nov 2023 #11

Do what? MyMission Nov 2023 #106

I have never heard that before. It seems like a shortened version of excuse. I have heard the expression "say what'? debm55 Nov 2023 #111

Yes, "do what?" is used to mean "huh,?" or "what did you say?" Glorfindel Nov 2023 #118

I'll have a 3-way, inverted and wet. CincyDem Nov 2023 #10

Yep...three ways in Cincinnati are different JT45242 Nov 2023 #12

Haha. Yeah. CincyDem Nov 2023 #14

Are you going to let us know what it means. I am curious. debm55 Nov 2023 #13

Cincinnati chili. CincyDem Nov 2023 #19

Wow. amazing. Thank you so much debm55 Nov 2023 #26

Are y'all going over yonder or are you fixing to go to town. lynintenn Nov 2023 #15

Texas? Good one! debm55 Nov 2023 #17

North Florida sayings 303squadron Nov 2023 #18

Useless as tits on a boar hog Lochloosa Nov 2023 #27

That is funny. debm55 Nov 2023 #70

Great ones. Thank you so much. I would have never knew what they were, but I'm a Yinzer./Yunzer debm55 Nov 2023 #30

Those are funny. Thank you. debm55 Nov 2023 #119

Deb - We love your questions. Hamburger trimmings, sandwich fillings and now this. Keep it up..... EarnestPutz Nov 2023 #20

Thank you for the compliment. And I just bet yuntz speak perfect Inglish.(As people around here say) debm55 Nov 2023 #31

Bubbler. MOMFUDSKI Nov 2023 #21

MOM. I like that. That is really neat. debm55 Nov 2023 #33

We call a man's Speedo his marble bag. "Hey man, nice marble bag!" LakeArenal Nov 2023 #22

OMG. I almost lost my tea. Way to go Lake debm55 Nov 2023 #34

Belly Washer and a Moon Pie. Kinda self explanatory Lochloosa Nov 2023 #24

I have heard of moon pies. but never Nehi. Let me guess--your from the South? debm55 Nov 2023 #37

Panhandle of Florida. Very South. Lochloosa Nov 2023 #44

And the Nehi Strawberry is to die for. Lochloosa Nov 2023 #45

Had a friend in Milwaukee that grew up in MOMFUDSKI Nov 2023 #29

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 debm55 Nov 2023 #35

They use fish to enter an office buiding in Boston DBoon Nov 2023 #56

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH GOT ME debm55 Nov 2023 #92

Stoop Sanity Claws Nov 2023 #32

I remember a stoop. My grandfather would warn us not to sit on cement stoop because we would get piles/philes debm55 Nov 2023 #71

Born and bred Laurelin Nov 2023 #36

And dead. unc70 Nov 2023 #39

Lol Laurelin Nov 2023 #50

Thank you Laurelin. Love it. debm55 Nov 2023 #72

I haven't heard any in Virginia, nocoincidences Nov 2023 #38

Virginia has some good ones! Laurelin Nov 2023 #52

OMG that is funny debm55 Nov 2023 #73

It is called a bar ditch because folks who drink too much have to puke on the way home-into the ditch. riversedge Nov 2023 #121

Thank you for the information for us. debm55 Nov 2023 #123

Here's one Deb will get... Dulcinea Nov 2023 #40

Nebby Debbby, me gets it. But I am not a nebshit. debm55 Nov 2023 #43

now quit it...or I'll have to print this out and put it in a gum band nebby70 Nov 2023 #101

OMG, I forgot gum bands---rubber bands. You live near Phillie? I taught in Phillie for a year. NW section, 29th and debm55 Nov 2023 #108

Be careful or I will flick a gum band at you. debm55 Nov 2023 #116

Mammick spelled variously unc70 Nov 2023 #41

Thanks unc70 debm55 Nov 2023 #91

It is Scottish. OldBaldy1701E Nov 2023 #115

Just on the fringe of the brogue unc70 Nov 2023 #130

My family as well. OldBaldy1701E Nov 2023 #157

Time to compare your people and my people unc70 Nov 2023 #161

Yep. OldBaldy1701E Nov 2023 #165

How about moniss Nov 2023 #42

I have heard of some.pickled eggs, pigs.feet, Where are you from?? debm55 Nov 2023 #47

Upper Midwest moniss Nov 2023 #60

Thank you, moniss. debm55 Nov 2023 #65

I know aina, smelt fry, youse, frozen custard. MOMFUDSKI Nov 2023 #85

Neat TY. debm55 Nov 2023 #90

And one from where I live now... Dulcinea Nov 2023 #48

Yup Bayard Nov 2023 #58

Wicked pissah bluescribbler Nov 2023 #49

We are going up there next week if my tests turn out okay. I say it to my relatives. debm55 Nov 2023 #96

You want red or green with that? Or Christmas? (Heard in restaurants.) TygrBright Nov 2023 #53

Great. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #97

Up the holler Jilly_in_VA Nov 2023 #54

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 debm55 Nov 2023 #64

My mother still calls it a buggy. bamagal62 Nov 2023 #80

Is it any count? Shermann Nov 2023 #55

This message was self-deleted by its author DBoon Nov 2023 #57

That's a neat one. Thank you Shermann debm55 Nov 2023 #62

When driving in Los Angeles, you don't turn left DBoon Nov 2023 #59

That's cool. Thanks for letting us non Californians know. debm55 Nov 2023 #61

Appreciate ya- expression of gratitude, thanks and goodbye. Alpeduez21 Nov 2023 #63

HAHA I like catty whompus. and appreciate ya. Pure Southern charm. debm55 Nov 2023 #66

In Northern Michigan you are a Yupper multigraincracker Nov 2023 #75

I like that multigraincracker. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #76

Alright ... here we go. Niagara Nov 2023 #79

WOW, wonderful list. Do the people of Buffalo just call their city Buffalo? LMAO We use crick for creek, too. debm55 Nov 2023 #93

Thank you, Debbie. I suppose the older generations call Buffalo it's regular name. Niagara Nov 2023 #99

Crick for creek is also used in rural northwest PA. wnylib Nov 2023 #129

In the PNW, we say "spendy" for an item that's expensive oregonjen Nov 2023 #81

I never heard it used here. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #95

"Spendy" has crossed over into internet speak now nt Shermann Nov 2023 #102

I use both here in PDX! Mme. Defarge Nov 2023 #154

Why warsh your car when a starm is brewing? GreenWave Nov 2023 #82

That is great and funny and true. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #94

Been warshing and arning all day and I'm tarred Walleye Nov 2023 #107

OMG, where do you live????? It has to be close to me. debm55 Nov 2023 #112

This dialect appears to have originated in Southern Illinois and spread outwardly into surrounding states. GreenWave Nov 2023 #131

"Ayup" Submariner Nov 2023 #83

Does it mean "yes" debm55 Nov 2023 #89

You win Submariner Nov 2023 #125

Oh, just took a guess. BIL just bought a farm in Maine. We will be doing Thanksgiving there. debm55 Nov 2023 #126

Louisiana expressions I grew up with MadLinguist Nov 2023 #84

Thank you MadLinguist. Lots of good examples from Louisiana debm55 Nov 2023 #87

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 Chainfire Nov 2023 #86

Chainfire, what was a Wampus kitty? debm55 Nov 2023 #88

It was a mythical cat that would steal babies out of their kids, or little boys camping out. Chainfire Nov 2023 #110

Please don't come to Atlanta... JackSabbath Nov 2023 #98

My husband worked for the CDC in Atlanta. He said people didn't understand him and he didn't understand them. debm55 Nov 2023 #100

"jockey box" and "wouldgya" Jamesm9164 Nov 2023 #103

We use wouldga and couldga around here-western PA. Ty. debm55 Nov 2023 #120

Was anyone told that they would get piles/philes from sitting on a cement stoop(steeps) ? I went to Penn State and told debm55 Nov 2023 #104

My grandmother said that to me and my sis. Diamond_Dog Nov 2023 #114

How longterm/native Oregonians spot vacationers/tourists NotHardly Nov 2023 #105

Very good. I wonder if they know. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #117

In Delaware water is wooder. In Philly they have Italian wooder ice Walleye Nov 2023 #109

Love it. Great examples. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #113

up nort. riversedge Nov 2023 #122

Thank you riversedge for that info. debm55 Nov 2023 #124

It's pretty understandable, but folks in Nashville saying "I might could come by..... EarnestPutz Nov 2023 #127

"What's that big yellow thing in the sky?" BWdem4life Nov 2023 #128

Fugly justaprogressive Nov 2023 #132

Yes, I don't know when that started debm55 Nov 2023 #135

I'm from Erie, PA and now live in western NY. wnylib Nov 2023 #133

wnylib, thank you for all the wonderful memories. debm55 Nov 2023 #134

"Wicked Pissa" Fla Dem Nov 2023 #136

Thanks Fla Dem---very interesting reading. debm55 Nov 2023 #141

Have to be careful who you use the phase around. Fla Dem Nov 2023 #155

For some reason, people here in my part of the Ohio Valley use a mug... SKKY Nov 2023 #137

That is interesting. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #139

No, it really isn't. It's silly and makes no sense... SKKY Nov 2023 #149

"The mountain is out." Aristus Nov 2023 #138

That is great. Thank you for the info, Aristus. debm55 Nov 2023 #140

Hijuela! Elessar Zappa Nov 2023 #142

Elessar, what does it mean? debm55 Nov 2023 #143

It's hard to translate directly but it basically means "Damn!", or "Wow". Elessar Zappa Nov 2023 #144

Thank you. debm55 Nov 2023 #145

Yoopers VGNonly Nov 2023 #146

I am afraid to ask-but what are they? Ty debm55 Nov 2023 #148

Yoopers are people from VGNonly Nov 2023 #153

Thanks. debm55 Nov 2023 #156

My brother in-law Rebl2 Nov 2023 #159

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 debm55 Nov 2023 #162

How fun! I can think of four: RSherman Nov 2023 #147

Those are great. RSherman!!! I have heard of number one. No mater where you are around here, when you do to Pittsburgh, debm55 Nov 2023 #150

Whompy-jawed northoftheborder Nov 2023 #151

You folks down in Texas have the most unique words. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #152

From Hawaii: billh58 Nov 2023 #158

Thank you very much for that. It is beautiful. debm55 Nov 2023 #160

Pony keg - Cincinnati area No Vested Interest Nov 2023 #163

That is very unique. Thank you debm55 Nov 2023 #167

Pert near Phentex Nov 2023 #164

Are you from Texas? I heard this in westerns but one actually saying it. You are funny. debm55 Nov 2023 #168

"butter my butt and call me a biscuit" BluesRunTheGame Nov 2023 #166

OMG that is funny. I have never heard of that before. Thank you. debm55 Nov 2023 #169

Yo deb! Yo is used a lot in Philly mvd Nov 2023 #170

Thanks Matt, I taught in Phillie. but that was such a long time ago. TY debm55 Nov 2023 #171

"THE LOOP" is an are of downtown Chicago that is sorrounded by the Loop Elevated Trains. I guess you have realiz that Stuart G Nov 2023 #172

Thanks Stuart G. I have never been to Chicago. That is very interesting. debm55 Nov 2023 #173