Inspired by MsDisney23...what is a local word that you use...

[monarchsfan16]

It cracks me up the way some in the Northeast call soda: "pop"!!

Actually I think that's a midwestern thing. I've never heard someone from the northeast say pop. Heck, I didn't know that pop meant anything besides grampa until I was about 17
We also say sneakers here. In true New England form (add an r where it doesn't belong), my mom say's arnt instead of ahnt. I can say ahnt though. Goes right along with pahk the cah.
My mom also says door yard. It means the area around the front door (like a stoop)

 

[princess pooh]

A convenience store here is called a dep (short for the French word depanneur). Also we use the word super instead of really. Like "it's super hot outside" or "that's a super cute shirt".

 

[mbw12]

jimmies
hoagie

I'm sure I will think of more...that is what I came up with off the top of my head. We also say 'soda'.....hearing people say "pop" cracks me up!!!!

 

[korzmom]

pop
down town
younz guys
crick (instead of creek)
of course i dont say any of those

 

[beckmrk04]

Actually I think that's a midwestern thing. I've never heard someone from the northeast say pop.

It's definitely NOT a midwest thing!!!

It depends on the area. Here around St. Louis, it's soda. travel about 3 hours north, it's pop. When I when to the University of IL at Urbana Champaign, there were a lot of students from the Chicago area who all made fun of me saying "soda." I don't know how far north this goes though..?

I've been trying to think of things we say around here, but I guess it doesn't seem that unnatural until you go somewhere else and have someone point it out to you.

 

[MUFFYCAT]

The spelling is tricky:

stow (store)
doow (door)
cowfee (Coffee)
"the city" meaning just Manhattan

 

[Jpgirl]

Been here in TX 4 years (second time around for me though. When we moved to Ohio people laughed at me for saying Y'all, and fixin' to. Now dh was a native Ohioan, Cincinnati to be specific. When Cincinnatians can't here what's being said or want the speaker to repeat what they just said, they'll say "Please?" I never got used to that one and dh had a hard time not saying it when we moved down here. You should've seen people's faces when he'd say Please. They usually say Please what?? Now he can y'all and fixin to with the best of them. But you should've heard him say bayou when he got here-he pronounced it Bay-OO. Everyone roared. I had to coach him in the Texas twang which came back to me as soon as we crossed the border.

 

[stm61]

in SC people say they're going to "carry the kids to school" instead of take them to school. We also have buggies to put groceries in instead of carts.

 

[mbw12]

I just thought of something else......we were visiting my husbands relatives in the south.....they were planning what to make for dinner, so they asked "do you like barbeque?".....so I was like "Barbecued what???" They just looked at me like I was crazy......apparently they were talking about a barbecue sandwich....but where I live, "barbecue" means to cook outside on the grill.

 

[Mkaz]

jimmies
hoagie

I'm sure I will think of more...that is what I came up with off the top of my head. We also say 'soda'.....hearing people say "pop" cracks me up!!!!

The first time we heard about jimmies was a couple of years ago when our goddaughter asked for them. We felt silly because we had to ask her what she meant. Then she tells us oh, just sprinkles on my ice cream.

We say hoagie too. Our friends from Long Island think it's pretty weird. They call them heros.

My mother in law calls a toilet a hopper.

We say soda, not pop. To us, a pop is a lollipop.

Sometimes I call a shopping cart a wagon.

A buggy is a stroller.

We say we are going to town.

Instead of saying what, we say... Say Again?

My husband has a couple that I just find hysterical. He doesn't say chimney, he calls it a chimley! Instead of saying pot holders, he calls them hot pads. I crack up every time he says that. You would think after 18 years I wouldn't, but it still gets me every time.

 

[barkley]

seemed like when i was younger i never heard the words 'sofa' or 'couch'-it was always 'divan'.

with foods you may hear the word 'real' as in "i'm going for some 'real mexican' tonight" (the 'real' implies you are going to an actual mexican restaurant vs a chain version such as chevy's). all large sandwiches on a roll are 'subs' no matter what they have on them.

if you live anywhere in the san francisco bay area and say 'i'm going to the city' it means you are going into san francisco proper. in my neck of the woods we will either say we are going to 'cow town' or 'lamb town' (the town adjacent to us has a name that literaly translates to cow town, and the town i live in has the official title of 'lamb town u.s.a.').

i encountered an odd VERY localized saying when i worked in a county separate from my home. i mentioned to a client that i was transfering jobs and was "going to martinez" (the name of the town i was transfering to). the client's little girl got a shocked look on her face and asked "what did you do wrong? when will you get out?". the mom explained that because the main jail for that county was located in martinez, saying that you were "going to martinez" meant you were going to do time at the county jail

 

[gate_pourri]

I moved to the midwest (from Nor. Cal) about 6 months ago, and a couple of the things I got laughed were:

- Freeway (No one here uses the word freeway). I guess there are only interstates and tollways, etc. Similerly, I got laughed at for saying "I am taking THE 90 to the airport" instead of just 90 or THE Kennedy, as I would say back in Cali "I am taking THE 101 to the airport".

- I never heard of 'pop' before and got very confused the first time the checker at the lunch cafateria asked me if I had 'water or pop' in my cup. Took me a minute to figure out she meant did I have 'water or coke'.

- Also, and this one I am very curious about. I went to an event down in the 'burbs and as I needed to eventually drive back to the city, decided to order a 'Roy Roger'. The bartender looked at me as if I had just appeared from Mars. Is a Roy Roger only a California drink?

 

[SC Minnie]

DH says 'pop'-- he is from OH. I call it whatever it is I want, Diet Coke, Pepsi, Dr Pepper whatever.

And in the south barbeque is a type of food not how you prepare it. I have finally broken DH of calling a grill a barbeque.

Growing up we called the evening meal dinner expect on Sunday and the noon time meal was dinner because we usually had a large meal after church. DH calls the evening meal supper and used to get all confused when I would invite him over for dinner he thought I meant lunch.

 

[gate_pourri]

in my neck of the woods we will either say we are going to 'cow town' or 'lamb town' (the town adjacent to us has a name that literaly translates to cow town, and the town i live in has the official title of 'lamb town u.s.a.').

You are making me homesick.

My Best friend and I went to the Lamb cookoff last summer. Dang, that was some good eatin'.

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

Bostonians (actually from the neighborhoods in they city) usually use "tonic" for the coke/pepsi/soda word. Also, real Bostonians use "three-decka" instead of triple decker for a 3 story house with 3 levels of apartments.

Of course, frappe...and if you're at Brigham's you can get a "black & white frappe" which is a frappe made with vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup.

 

[robinb]

A
Combos

Dan! you're making me hungry. I'd love a combo dipped with both sweet and hot right now.

 

[Aidensmom]

Tampa is pretty much a melting pot of people, but you do hear a lot of southern things like y'all and coke (for all sodas).

 

[makinorlando]

jimmies
hoagie

I'm sure I will think of more...that is what I came up with off the top of my head. We also say 'soda'.....hearing people say "pop" cracks me up!!!!

I live in FL now but grew up near Philly -

how about "goin' down the shore" - instead of going to the beach... no one goes to the beach at the Jersey shore!!!

 

[buddy&wooz]

I live in FL now but grew up near Philly -

how about "goin' down the shore" - instead of going to the beach... no one goes to the beach at the Jersey shore!!!

Ha, I read this thread surprised no Jersey people came through with this one yet, you just beat me to it!

I had to train my friend from Delaware (who would say she was going "to the shore") to say it properly ("down the shore") when she moved up here.

 

[rigs32]

I though western NY was the only place where someone would gove directions by saying "take THE 33 to THE 90 to THE 290"....

People in Minneapolis always laughed at me for that.

And in Buffalo, they're just wings.