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

[BabyTigger99]

That someone visiting or moving to your area would have no idea what you are talking about?

The big one up here is "bubbler". It is what you drink from (other places refer to it as a water fountain). It is called a bubbler, because water bubbles up from it.

So c'mon people, add yours to the list!

 

[BabyTigger99]

No one???

 

[agotta]

Maybe not local, but a couple years ago I discovered my family said a word quite differently than the rest of the world. The first time I said it to my DH's he just about fell on the floor laughing.

Ok, ya know Reeces Pieces? Well we call them reeecees piecees ( I can't seem to type it the way it sounds.) Dh said I was wrong, and you don't have piecees of cake do you? I still say it that way though!

I know Dh and I differ in whether it is a grinder (him) or a sub (me).

 

[Sleeping~Beauty]

We're not afraid of things, we're ascared of things. It's a Jersey City thing.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I do not normally use the word bubbler, but that is the first one that popped into my head. I heard a story years ago from someone in the midwest I think who went on vacation and was in a store and ask the clerk were the bubbler was. The clerk had no idea what the girl was asking for and the girl did not know another word for it. Poor girl! Because if that, I do sometimes call a water fountain a bubbler and my kids would know what it is.

I can't think of any example right now, though. But I'm sick and can't even think of my own name right now...

 

[luvflorida]

Many people in Maine use the word "wicked" a lot, and not meaning something bad. Ex.- "That was a wicked good movie." There is a comedian from Maine, Bob Marley, who does a whole routine on how people in Maine talk and how people "from away" can't understand a thing we say. It's really funny!

 

[SC Minnie]

We say 'fixin' instead of 'going to/getting ready to' do something. We call anything with water coming out a speeket (not spigot or faucet)

My mother refuses to stop saying 'yonder' when referring to something over there- its over yonder. She calls a creek and branch pronounced 'brainch'. She grew up not far from Albemarle, NC so the way Kelly Pickler talks on AI is pretty standard for that area.

 

[luvflorida]

I do not normally use the word bubbler, but that is the first one that popped into my head. I heard a story years ago from someone in the midwest I think who went on vacation and was in a store and ask the clerk were the bubbler was. The clerk had no idea what the girl was asking for and the girl did not know another word for it. Poor girl! Because if that, I do sometimes call a water fountain a bubbler and my kids would know what it is.

I can't think of any example right now, though. But I'm sick and can't even think of my own name right now...

Haha! There we go again with the hypnotizing kitties. We've must have been posting at the same time.

 

[AmazingGrace]

We say Fixing to, or might could. As in We might could go to Disney this year. It seems to be a Texas thing.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Haha! There we go again with the hypnotizing kitties. We've must have been posting at the same time.

We're trying to take over the DIS boards and convince these people to share their lottery winnings...

 

[Saphire]

Can you tell I am from "The Hub?"

suppa
rotary
down cella
curse of the bambino
townie
jimmies
scrod
the pike

 

[robinb]

The big one up here is "bubbler". It is what you drink from (other places refer to it as a water fountain). It is called a bubbler, because water bubbles up from it.

We're from Madison and we use "bubbler" too. I didn't grow up here, but I just love the word so I use it whenever I can . I also like to use the Hawaiian word "slippers" for "flip-flops".

 

[monarchsfan16]

We say bubbler here for water fountains. We also say wicked instead of really. And to complicate matters when we say wicked we run the syllables together. There are still two syllables, but it's not like the way people say it in other parts of the country. Wicked virtually never means evil here, it's only added to other adjectives (see my tag). We also have nor' eastahs here, because of the way the storms wrap back around. Although I think we refer to most storms as nor'easters whether they really are or not

 

[Crankyshank]

-bubbler (actually pronounced "bubblah" here)
- wicked
- quahog (hard shelled clam)
- cabinet or frappe (milk shake)
- black cow (rootbeer float)
- jimmies (chocolate sprinkles)
- grinder (sub sandwich)
- packy (liquor store)

 

[monarchsfan16]

-bubbler (actually pronounced "bubblah" here)
- wicked
- quahog (hard shelled clam)
- cabinet or frappe (milk shake)
- black cow (rootbeer float)
- jimmies (chocolate sprinkles)
- grinder (sub sandwich)
- packy (liquor store)

How could I forget frappe and jimmies? I don't know where I was but I ordered an ice cream with jimmies when I was younger and the person looked at me like I had ten heads.
We also have traffic circles or rotaries. At the retirement community my grandparents rent at each spring in Florida there are signs that call them roundabouts. Yeah, we were confused

 

[minniecarousel]

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

 

[Dan Murphy]

A few quick ones.....

The Loop
The Lake
Combos
Pop
The Kennedy, Ryan, Stevie, Reagan, Edens
Da anything.....da Bears, da Bulls, da Mayor
or, da Loop or da Lake for that matter

I am sure there are more.

 

[Am_I_There_Yet]

We call country music fans, "kikkers". I actually thought it was a nationwide thing, until I moved to Florida.

I then found out that it was a Houston-wide thing only. We have (or had) a C+W radio station, with the call letters "KIKK".

 

[DisneyRoys]

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

We don't say soda or pop, we call them all Cokes. So you might say "Let's stop and get a Coke. What does everyone want?" You'll get various answers: Sprite, Dr. Pepper, Coke or even Pepsi.

We also say "Do what now?" Which really means "Say it again because I didn't hear you or I could not understand what you said."

We also say:

fixin
yonder
might could
yesterday night (instead of last night)

I know there are others that I can't think of right now.

 

[lemondog]

Ahhhh, grinders and frappes. How very New England.

I am Tennessee born and bred, and one thing I say that drives my DH CRAZY (he is from Boston, hence my familiarity with NE lexicon) is that I am going to "put it up" instead of "put it away." Don't know why this bugs him so.

I also say "fixin' to." And I call my mother's sister my "ant," he calls her his "ahnt" and my mom pronounces it "aint." Which drives ME crazy, lol!

I call them "tennis shoes," and DH calls them "sneakers."

Luckily there is one thing we do agree on...it's SODA. Not Coke, not pop, but soda.