Slang in your area...

[BabyPiglet]

That just summed up South Jersey vocabulary perfectly.

"i want a coke", meaning any soda in general. I don't notice if people say soda or not.

Same!

 

[AngienLuLu]

Worsh
wash

That's how I say it. Like they are opening a new high school around here, Washington High. But my friends make fun of me cause I say "Worshington."

They use ballin' like there's no tomorrow

Every thing is "ballin" according to a lot of guys around here.

I call it remote.
My friends call it clicker but the word clicker annoys me...

REMOTE!

And ain't.

Yeppers. I said ain't a lot too.

"like in Rocket Power!"

That's what I thought too! I miss that show... Otto and Twister were so cute!

 

[ktbutterfly2011]

Well people around here like to think they're ghetto. So they use the "ghetto words". i.e.
;dawg
;sup
;g
;peace
;yo
;gangsta

Also instead of saying "burn" I know alot of people that'll say
"school" or "schoolsta"
but there are still people who say "burn" or just "ohhhhhhhh"

We ask for pop. To drink. As in "What do you want to drink. We've got pop, juice or water." And then they'll respond "What kind of pop."

Alot of people I know also spell "dude" "dood" and use it that way too.

I'll post more when I think of them.

 

[Axel]

Well, a bunch of the New England/New Hampshire Slang has been posted, but here's the "Unofficial" New England Temperature Conversion Chart:

New England Temperature Conversion Chart

60 degrees F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in New England sunbathe.

50 F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. People in New England plant gardens.

40 F: Italian & English cars won't start. People in New England drive with the windows down.

32 F: Distilled water freezes. The water at Moosehead Lake in Maine starts getting cooler.

20 F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats. People in New England throw on a flannel shirt, buttons open.

15 F: New York City landlords finally turn up the heat. People in New England have the last cookout before it gets cold.

0 F: All the people in Miami die. New Englanders close the windows.

10 below zero: Californians escape en masse to Mexico. Girl Scouts in New England sell cookies door to door.

25 below zero: Las Vegas disintegrates. People in New England rummage around the attic to find some winter coats.

40 below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in New England let the dogs sleep indoors.

100 below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Some New Englanders are frustrated when they can't start their "kahs".

460 below zero (absolute zero on the Kelvin Scale): All atomic motion stops. People in New England start saying . . . "Cold 'nuff for ya?"

500 below zero: Hell freezes over. Red Sox win World Series.

 

[dancergirlsasha]

Thank you, Wikipedia!

Some words used in the Boston area but not in many other American English dialects (or with different meanings) are:

* barrel or rubbish barrel — 'wastebasket'
* bubbler or water bubbler — 'drinking fountain'
* camp — can refer to 'a summer cottage' or 'lake house'
* cape — used to refer to Cape Cod "we're going down the cape"
* carriage — 'shopping cart'
* cleansers — 'cleaners (mostly on signage)'
* clicker — pronounced "Clickah", 'television remote control'
* coffee; regular — 'coffee with milk (or cream) and usually two spoonsful of sugar'
* dooryard - the front yard or driveway area (very uncommon)
* donkey mix- 'phrase to denote confusion' (very uncommon)
* donut: chocolate frosted — 'a raised donut with chocolate frosting'
* donut: chocolate glazed — 'a chocolate cake donut with chocolate frosting'
* double decker — 'a two-story, two-family home with one unit built on top of the other'
* down cellar — pronounced "down cellah" 'in the basement'
* Dunkies - 'Dunkin' Donuts'
* elastic — 'rubber band'
* frappe — 'milkshake made with ice cream'
* fudgicle — as opposed to 'fudgesicle' with an s
* grinder — 'submarine sandwich'
* into town — 'into Boston' (contrast to New Yorkers' use of "the City")
* The Hub — 'another name for Boston, as in the Hub of the Universe'
* Jimmies - 'chocolate sprinkles'
* johnny — a medical gown worn by patients for examinations
* packie — liquor store
* pocketbook — 'purse'
* puffer — hand-held asthma inhaler
* rotary — 'traffic circle or roundabout'
* spa — 'convenience store' (originally, it meant a store with a soda fountain). A "Town Spa" is often a pizza restaurant.
* spuckey — 'submarine sandwich,' still commonly heard in East Boston. A "spuckey roll" is a short sub roll. (very uncommon)
* Staties - Nickname for the Massachusetts State Police, as opposed to local police.
* The T - Public transportation in the Metro Boston area. Refers to the subway, the streetcar, the ferry, and the bus. The ferry is highly recommended because it bypasses traffic, and they serve beer.
* time — 'a party', e.g., "My buddy's having a time over at his place."
* tonic — 'carbonated soda,' older speakers.
* town club / sports club - When Boston surburbia was woods and farms, men would gather here for deer hunting expeditions. When the land was subdivided into Levitt houses and McMansions, these "clubs" became places where the aging, ex-hunters would gather to escape their wives and get sloshed.
* townies — A native of any town in Massachusetts. A person has to be born in the town and spend their life there to be a townie. "Townies" hold clout in their town, and are allowed certain privileges. "Townies" are allowed drunken rants in town meetings. Furthermore, police usually ignore a townie's extreme drunk driving.[citation needed] "Townies" will often drive home after having a "time" at the "town club".
* triple decker or three decker — 'a three-story, three-family home with three identical units built on top of the other'
* wicked — 'very'; alternatively, 'wicked' may also indicate approval or become a universal descriptor, e.g., "That chowdah was wicked good." Connected with this is also the word "pissah," which can be used either as an adverb or a noun meaning "great". The two words are also used in conjunction with each to denote something of very high quality, i.e. "That game was wicked pissah." "Pissah", while legendary Boston slang, is in reality considered vulgar (being derived from the word "piss") -- and not something true Bostonians would say in polite company. "Pissah" was a slang common to children and teenagers in the 70's. It is no longer used.

Note: Some of these words are only spoken in perhaps one small section of Boston, and unknown in most of the area. For example, almost no one will know what "dunkies" or "donkey mix" means, although an elderly grandmother may offer you a "tonic". Most of these words are remembered only by older and middle aged people. The younger generation of Boston is more influenced by Hollywood and "gangsta" language; however, there will always be a "T".

 

[BabyPiglet]

Well, a bunch of the New England/New Hampshire Slang has been posted, but here's the "Unofficial" New England Temperature Conversion Chart:

New England Temperature Conversion Chart

60 degrees F: Southern Californians shiver uncontrollably. People in New England sunbathe.

50 F: New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. People in New England plant gardens.

40 F: Italian & English cars won't start. People in New England drive with the windows down.

32 F: Distilled water freezes. The water at Moosehead Lake in Maine starts getting cooler.

20 F: Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats. People in New England throw on a flannel shirt, buttons open.

15 F: New York City landlords finally turn up the heat. People in New England have the last cookout before it gets cold.

0 F: All the people in Miami die. New Englanders close the windows.

10 below zero: Californians escape en masse to Mexico. Girl Scouts in New England sell cookies door to door.

25 below zero: Las Vegas disintegrates. People in New England rummage around the attic to find some winter coats.

40 below zero: Washington DC runs out of hot air. People in New England let the dogs sleep indoors.

100 below zero: Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Some New Englanders are frustrated when they can't start their "kahs".

460 below zero (absolute zero on the Kelvin Scale): All atomic motion stops. People in New England start saying . . . "Cold 'nuff for ya?"

500 below zero: Hell freezes over. Red Sox win World Series.

 

[Axel]

I've thrown on flannel shirts when it's about 2 degrees out and just strolled outside. I've also sold cookies door-to-door with five feet of snow on the ground.

 

[Jasmine45]

I don't know if its Slang but in Buffalo insted of Soda or soft Drink we Call it "pop''. And most people in the US call Wings 'Buffalo Wings' We call them Wings or Chicken wings. And we talk Nassel and say our A's long.

Car

Caaaaaahhhhhhhhr

Class

Claaaaaaaass

 

[BmxAsh]

In england alot of things we say are different to what you say. Every part of the country says different things like in Doncaster we sometimes say Gaffa meaning cool or really good.

People who live at the East end of London usually use cockney rhyming slang where like they would use apples and pairs instead of stairs because it rhymes.
Where i live we do have slang but it is just like missing letters out of words when we say them.

 

[DramaQueen]

In england alot of things we say are different to what you say. Every part of the country says different things like in Doncaster we sometimes say Gaffa meaning cool or really good.

People who live at the East end of London usually use cockney rhyming slang where like they would use apples and pairs instead of stairs because it rhymes.
Where i live we do have slang but it is just like missing letters out of words when we say them.

cockney rhyming slang is so funny! i love it.

my friend from england is here right now and he keeps using strange english slang and we are all like "whaaaat???"



and nobody here really says "ain't" if they do it's mostly "gangstuh" people hehe/

 

[HSMndLKfan92]

Well I'm from south jersey.

Down the shore- no we don't say were going to the shore. we say were going down the shore.

Shoobie- everyone says it. its personally my favorite. we call everyone shoobies. becuase around this time of the year everyone is.

shoob- varient of shoobie.

we do not pronounce jersey, joisey.

We never say New Jersey we just was jersey

we call subs hoggies.

and we say yo alot

We also call people BENNYs XD.
Except I call subs, heros...

 

[marypops!]

We have too much slang

http://effingpot.com/

that has all the slang words plus some others

 

[Lil Mizz Tink]

Im from Derbyshire, In the East Midlands,UK.
I found this on the dialect:

"Ey up mi duck" is a popular greeting in the East Midlands. But talking to native East Midlanders in their distinctive dialect can be a mesmerising experience for outsiders.
It's often hard to pick up the twang in the voice or that strange turn of phrase. But the East Midlands takes great pride in its distinctive dialect.
The East Midlands is renowned for its distinctive dialects from the Derbyshire drawl to Nottingham's no-nonsense style of talking.
Despite the fading of old traditions and huge shifts in how we communicate globally, it appears that dialect and accents are still going strong in the East Midlands.
Much of the dialect developed in rural communities and in the industrial heartlands of the region.
Mining communities in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire were renowned for their use of dialect.
The farmers of Derbyshire are proud of retaining their heritage, and are keen to preserve their local dialect.

Some Examples:
;Ay up/ey up/ aup mi/me duck - hello there!
;Aya gorra weeya? - is the wife with you?
;It's black uvver Bill's mother's - it looks like rain
;Coggie - swimming costume
;Croaker - doctor
;Duck's necks - bottle of lemonade
;Gorra bag on - in a bad mood
;Laropped - drunk
;Nesh - cold
;Old **** - friend or mate
;Page owl - single woman out alone at night
;Skants - pants
;The rally - the railway line
;Thiz summat up wee im - I think he may be ill
;Who's mashing? - who's making the cups of tea
;Tha 'H's at the beginning of words are generally dropped also: 'ave = have,, 'ome=home... "alrate, am goin 'ome to 'ave me tea."

im glad to say, i DONT talk like that... because i moved down here from Glasgow, Scotland. compared to the locals, I sound Posh!!

 

[STOPxmickeytime]

I have a Philly/South Jersey accent. I don't noticed it much, but I do know that we say wooder instead of water. A lot of us pronounce our O's more like "ew" and "ow" than "oh". We say chocolate like chak-lit. That's all I can think of

As for slang...I don't know because it's not weird to me.

Totally :]

And people throw "like" into every sentence.
And here's some words I used around my cousins from Long Island and they had no idea what I was talking about (definitions from UrbanDictionary):

guido: an Italian American man usually residing in New York or New Jersey. He wears shirts that are too tight and unbuttoned 5 buttons too low to show off the chest that he spent hours and hours at the gym obtaining, he spends more time on his hair than his girlfriend, and continues to "hit the clubs" long into his mid to late 30's. Often attracted to the female version of himself, the guidette.

indie: The term: Short for independent rock. In terms of music it would be independent of major labels/mainstream stuff. The scene: if you really think all indie kids do is try to be cooler than other people then... well.. you're mostly right. The main point is, don't take the scene and the whole hipster attitude seriously. No one does. And if you do, well, then I'm cooler than you.


scene: typical "scene" girl:

-choppy hair
-septum ring
-has a myspace with pictures of her from crazy angles with a TUFF face on because shes so hardxcore
-goes to local shows all the time
-often says things like "KTHXBAI" or "I HATE YOU KDIE" or "IM COOLER THAN YOU K" or "SUP IM RAD" on their myspace profile
-loves dinosaurs and robots and little girl bows and headbands because its just the way things are in the scene. dont ask them why all of them happen to find all of these things suddenly attractive, because they dont know themselves, its just what TOTALLY SCENExCORE people do.

usually theyre just obnoxious kids who put on this "scener than thou" attitude and hate everyone else, kthxbai lol

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Yeah, I had to edit those definitions a lot. :]

But really no one in my school uses "ghetto slang"- like "Sup, G?" or anything like that.

And in my area of Jersey, we call subs "subs" :]
But we do say "down the shore"

 

[DollfieDreams]

so i went down to the mk and decided to pick up some emhs because i wanted to get on sm and btmrr. but the cds said i had to work behind sse because of the ecvs. but i ate dinner at the eu and then decided to vist the ws and it was crowded by the igw. at night i watched iroe.

...lol we call it "disney-ese"

 

[rutgersdeb]

Totally :]

And people throw "like" into every sentence.
And here's some words I used around my cousins from Long Island and they had no idea what I was talking about (definitions from UrbanDictionary):

guido: an Italian American man usually residing in New York or New Jersey. He wears shirts that are too tight and unbuttoned 5 buttons too low to show off the chest that he spent hours and hours at the gym obtaining, he spends more time on his hair than his girlfriend, and continues to "hit the clubs" long into his mid to late 30's. Often attracted to the female version of himself, the guidette.

indie: The term: Short for independent rock. In terms of music it would be independent of major labels/mainstream stuff. The scene: if you really think all indie kids do is try to be cooler than other people then... well.. you're mostly right. The main point is, don't take the scene and the whole hipster attitude seriously. No one does. And if you do, well, then I'm cooler than you.


scene: typical "scene" girl:

-choppy hair
-septum ring
-has a myspace with pictures of her from crazy angles with a TUFF face on because shes so hardxcore
-goes to local shows all the time
-often says things like "KTHXBAI" or "I HATE YOU KDIE" or "IM COOLER THAN YOU K" or "SUP IM RAD" on their myspace profile
-loves dinosaurs and robots and little girl bows and headbands because its just the way things are in the scene. dont ask them why all of them happen to find all of these things suddenly attractive, because they dont know themselves, its just what TOTALLY SCENExCORE people do.

usually theyre just obnoxious kids who put on this "scener than thou" attitude and hate everyone else, kthxbai lol

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Yeah, I had to edit those definitions a lot. :]

But really no one in my school uses "ghetto slang"- like "Sup, G?" or anything like that.

And in my area of Jersey, we call subs "subs" :]
But we do say "down the shore"

We call subs hoagies here in this part :]

And I like those definitions. haha

 

[AngelInDisguise]

I like to say changer while everyone else says remote.
I call an ATV or 4wheeler a quad.
Instead of saying water I say worter. It isn't slang its just a gene(if you will call it one) Thats all I can think of

 

[ktbutterfly2011]

We say "like" alot.

And I live in Northeast Ohio. Ohioans are known for adding unneeded prepositions to the ends of their sentences. Such as "at". For example
"Where is my phone at?"

 

[Miss.Sk8~alot]

lets see in NY we say
yo
eyyy
whats popin ?
whats krackalackin ?
pccc
and we say like eva
neva
being - bein
acting - actin
like no ing
oh my qawd
geezz
what up in F town ( idk y lol )
and sometimes we use like internet slang like we just say lol
omg
ttyl
I l.o.v.e u
and lotsta other stuff

 

[DramaQueen]

Totally :]

indie: The term: Short for independent rock. In terms of music it would be independent of major labels/mainstream stuff. The scene: if you really think all indie kids do is try to be cooler than other people then... well.. you're mostly right. The main point is, don't take the scene and the whole hipster attitude seriously. No one does. And if you do, well, then I'm cooler than you.


scene: typical "scene" girl:

-choppy hair
-septum ring
-has a myspace with pictures of her from crazy angles with a TUFF face on because shes so hardxcore
-goes to local shows all the time
-often says things like "KTHXBAI" or "I HATE YOU KDIE" or "IM COOLER THAN YOU K" or "SUP IM RAD" on their myspace profile
-loves dinosaurs and robots and little girl bows and headbands because its just the way things are in the scene. dont ask them why all of them happen to find all of these things suddenly attractive, because they dont know themselves, its just what TOTALLY SCENExCORE people do.

usually theyre just obnoxious kids who put on this "scener than thou" attitude and hate everyone else, kthxbai lol

we def. have the whole "scene thing" here. blech.
and indie=indie rock. or indie movies, depends on the context.

so i went down to the mk and decided to pick up some emhs because i wanted to get on sm and btmrr. but the cds said i had to work behind sse because of the ecvs. but i ate dinner at the eu and then decided to vist the ws and it was crowded by the igw. at night i watched iroe.

...lol we call it "disney-ese"