Local phrases that drive you nuts?

[Disney Princess 6]

Here's one...

My entire family resides south of Pittsburgh. They ALL say "yuns." For example, "I'm glad yuns came by!" So, "yuns" is the same as "y'all." It's so weird! Does anyone else say this?

They also all say things like, "we're going up the store." What??? Not, we're going TO the store, but UP the store instead.

"We're going up the store. Yuns want to come?"

ACKKK!

 

[epcotfan]

"I seen..."
AHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!
That phrase drives me nuts!

 

[Parkerpooh]

As a canadian, I hate when the newscasters say "She was taken to hospital" . Where's THE?? She was taken to THE hospital. Drives me crazy! Also, people who pronounce library, LIEBERRY, Yuck!!

 

[GlennandAnn]

DH and I were born and raised on the south side of Chicago, and there are a million mispronunciations in our neck of the woods. Everyone knows about "da Bears" and "da Bulls". It is common here to hear someone pronounce the word three as "tree", and there is a street here called Throop Street, which every good South Sider knows is pronounced "Troop Street". There is also a Southwest Highway AKA "Sout-west Highway". A Chicago grocery store called Jewel is commonly referred to as "Jewels" which really seems to drive some people (like my mom) nuts. I like to say Jewels just to see her cringe!



Ann

 

[goofygirl]

I can't stand "youse" either, or when people say "acrossed the street". Its ACROSS, not acrossed.


I'm guilty of saying "wooder" though!


I also noticed a recent trend to say "they went missing", instead of just "they were missing" or "they are missing". What's up with "WENT missing"? "Missing" isn't an activity , like "went fishing" or something!

 

[goofygirl]

It doesn't bother me when people from Philly said they're going "Downa shore"

Well if we don't go "downa shore", we go "upda mountains!" My friend always says she's going "upda mountains" with her dad.

 

[blowinbubbles]

This thread is hilarious! And it shows that bad grammar and funny colloquialisms and mispronounciations are *everywhere*!

I second what another poster said:

"Where you at?" and "Where's it at?" drives me bananas! My h says it all the time!

Oh, and when people (my mil in particular) say "death" instead of "deaf" and "valentimes" instead of "valentines."

I used to work at a bank, and my famale boss, an officer of the bank, said "valentimes day". . LMAO I wondered to myself how in the world she got that position when she couldn't even speak correctly! <snicker>

 

[BostonTigger]

Originally posted by SeeDisney
IThose two words would just irritate me.


Another is when teenagers say. Like, like, like, like, like, like

This irritates me as well. But I'll add, like, um... like, um. There's a saying I have that sometimes gets some strange looks, "He's a couple of tacos short of a combination plate." Sometimes people will look strange at me when I say that.

 

[tinatark]

When I was in school, my friend asked (not axed!) me for a case quarter. I was SO confused! A case quarter? He had 2 dimes and a nickel and wanted a quarter for the change!

Where I live now, I hear "I appreciate Ya" - it's used like Thank You, or "I appreciate it".

Also Anniversary. There's no "sh" in that word! Our local radio station lets people be day sponsors - a lot of them are in honor of their annivershury! Drives me a little batty!

Oh, and the people who take common spelling of names, and make them into a complicated pronunciation! But I won't *go there*

 

[BostonTigger]

I thought of another one. When I was growing up I use to hear, and still do on a rare occasion, sanghawhich (don't even know if that is the was it's spelled) instead of sandwich. It's supposed to be pronounced san-G-a-which. I know, I'm confusing even myself.

 

[Pig Pen]

My mother says LAB TOP instead of laptop, Woolsworth instead of Woolworths (since they are out of business not such an issue anymore, but still bugs me) and supposably instead of supposedly. And the infamous "Jeezum Crow."

My DH says CATCHUP instead of ketchup.

We call carbonated soft drinks soda, and those big sandwiches GRINDERS (I try to remember to say subs - this seems to be a more universal term).

 

[Papa Deuce]

OK, I hope I get this right. I am not from Pittsburgh but I was told that this is said there.

Instead of saying that the car needs to be fixed, they say "The car needs fixed".....

My buddy from Pittsburgh told me about that one. That is just plain wrong!

 

[Papa Deuce]

Originally posted by Pig Pen


My DH says CATCHUP instead of ketchup.

We call carbonated soft drinks soda, and those big sandwiches GRINDERS (I try to remember to say subs - this seems to be a more universal term).

Sounds like DH wants to slpit the difference between catsup and ketchup!

Also, a "grinder" where we live, is a hoagie that goes under the broiler for a few minutes....... or maybe it's a prostitute... I forget!

No, it's a broiled sandwich!

 

[Anne34]

I moved to the Chicago area from WI and still laugh when people say "I'm going to THE Jewel" instead of "I'm going to Jewel. It's a grocery store for goodness sakes. How come you need the word The in the sentence?

 

[Papa Deuce]

From Louisianna.... you don't go to the grocery store; you "make groceries".

From California... if something is exceptionally good, it is "Hella Good"


From Wisconsin, a water fountain is called a "bubbler"...... go to the bubbler and get a drink!


I want to know exactly how to make groceries!

 

[orvilleair]

Is it a coke, pop or soda?

Used to work in a small rural Ohio town and they called lunch dinner. The evening meal is called supper.

 

[eeyore kelly]

I want to know exactly how to make groceries!

Me too, and I am from Louisiana, but you do hear the older generation say that a lot. As for me, I go to the grocery store. The kids at school and DS say You've been told, when an adult corrects them. That phase tap dances on my nerves.

 

[sammy66]

Ohh this is too funny

I'm from Revere, MA , when I tell someone from another city, they say oh you mean Revea. Duh, no I mean Revere!

The remote control will never be the MOPING TROLL!!!

when you give someone something, you can say here, but please do not say HAM !

You can ask me something but please don't AX me !

TH are letters of the alphabet, you can't turn them into FF.

Why? Because..., not CUZZ.

I have a bathroom but I don't have a BAFFROOM!

It's spaghetti, not PASGETTI !

Olives, not OLPIS!

I hate it when someone says "You People"

When you answer the phone, you should say Hello, not ELLOP or ELLO ! And say who's calling please, not HOOS THIS!

TREE is a thing, not a number, never has been, never will be!

I'm on the internet, not the INTANET!

I know where Boston is, but where in the world is BEANTOWN?

There is hardly any parking in Cambridge, let alone Harvard, so how can I park my car in HARVARD YARD?

There, now I can take a deep breath, but I will never take a deep BREAF!


Like um like I gut more but I gotta go.

 

[Microcell]

Originally posted by blowinbubbles
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Oh, and when people (my mil in particular) say "death" instead of "deaf"

I know!! My sisters are Death, I mean deaf and I would tell someone that they were for whatever reason, and that person would say, "Oh yeah, I had a neighbor who's daughter was death..." I wanted sooo badly to say, "Oh no, they are not dead, they are deaf." I never had the guts.

I don't know if this is common or not, but two people I have met do it. They say "I meant" differently. An example- "I looked at her and I meant she just had the ugliest shoes I ever saw..."
or " I went to the store, and I meant the line was around the block.." I think it is an exclamation, but I can't be sure.

 

[txSleepingBeauty]

Originally posted by Papa Deuce
OK, I hope I get this right. I am not from Pittsburgh but I was told that this is said there.

Instead of saying that the car needs to be fixed, they say "The car needs fixed".....

My buddy from Pittsburgh told me about that one. That is just plain wrong!

it's funny you bring that one up, my parents are both from the Burgh but we've lived in Texas pretty much my whole life and wouldn't you know it, that's snuck into my vocabulary, I do it without even noticing, but usually it's "something needs washed" or "the dogs need walked" it took me a long time to realize you need a to be in there, but I can't stop myself from saying it like that!