Regional Sayings

• Fred Flintstone

  I always find it interesting what people commonly say in other parts of the country.
  List any that you know of.
  
  A few examples - Making Groceries (New Orleans) - Going to the grocery store.
  Jack and Dark (Wisconsin) - Jack and Coke or whatever dark soda they have available.
• bigkahuna

  Not a saying, but I had to learn how to drive again when I moved to Michigan- The Michigan Left thing kills me.
  
  Doorwall-Sliding Glass Door
  
  Secretary of State-Equivalent to our DMV... Only thing is not every town has one AND it takes 2 weeks for you to get your license, and it comes in the mail. When I first got mine, I stood there waiting for it, and the guy was says "Um, it will be mailed to you within 2 weeks. Until then, use your old one and this piece of paper stuck to it."
  
  Party Store-Liquor Store. They don't sell ANY alcohol in gas stations because (quoting gas station attendant here) "We don't want to promote drinking and driving." My hometown had 3 carry outs where you could buy beer and not get out of your car LOL.
  
  It's actually crazy how different Ohio and Michigan are. I expected a few differences, but it's literally a foreign world. They all have an accent to, like their from Cleveland/Canada. However, people have the audacity to tell me I have a southern accent.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  I don't think it is a regional thing, but my ex wife uses the word "dethaw". For example, "I took some chicken out of the freezer so it can dethaw for dinner." I always argued that dethawing would mean you had put the chicken in the freezer to freeze. At any rate, I never really thought much about it, until i was talking to one of my friend's wife who went to the same high school as my ex wife and she used the term dethaw. I wonder if the home ec teacher there used that word and they picked up on it? But I never cared to look into it any further.
• LJ

  

  Not a saying, but Ohioans adding an S to the end of a store name Wal Marts, Meijers, Krogers.
  
  Warsh
  
  Terlit
• rocketalum

  The entirety of my dads side of the family says "warsh" As in warsh the dishes, clothes etc. Or even in describing our nations capitol "warshington DC". I think it's a NW Ohio thing.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  My parents use the term "warsh" as well in all aspects like you described, and they are from North Central Ohia.
• bigkahuna

  We also have bad grammar here in Ohio "Where's my coat AT?
• j_crazy

  

  Mississippi: urenj = Orange
  
  Louisiana:
  
  Dey got. As in, "don't go down to dat couley, dey got snakes down dere."
  
  Git down. As in, "git down outta dat car and come on in."
  
  Wyoming:
  
  oh yeah. it's hard to type this so that you can appreciated it, but it's not like the kool aid man's oh yeah, but more of a sighing "oh yeah" and they say it after every question and at the beginning of about 1/3 of their sentences.
• Skyhook79

  

  I didn't get no answer.
• bigkahuna

  I don't get the dethaw thing.
  
  You come home and but a package of meet in the freezer. You decide you want to eat it, so you take it out and thaw it. Is that what is it dethaw vs. thaw.
  
  I think this is a NW Ohio/Michigan thing and it kills me-Look it. Drives me insane, it's either look or look at it. I'm from Midwest Ohio and didn't hear it until I moved to BG for school and now MI.
• ManO'War

  

  LJ;706059 wrote:Not a saying, but Ohioans adding an S to the end of a store name Wal Marts, Meijers, Krogers.
  
  Warsh
  
  Terlit

  Pittsburgh people are notorious for adding S's at the end of store names! It drives me crazy, and when I call them on it, they don't even realize they are doing it.
  
  "I'm going to Giant Eagles" kills me.
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Yes they use the term dethaw in place of defrost.
• bigkahuna

  Here's some that I grew up with in Midwest OH that not everyone knew about (not necessarily my wife and her family from MI)
  
  Throw Away (Insert pop name)-20 oz plastic bottle of pop
  
  Carry Out-My guess is a lot of people in Ohio know what this is, but I'm shocked at how many don't
  
  (Just my hometown)-Pooch- A car that looks really nice, has a lot of bells and whistles and is tricked out but is a big old POS performance wise
  I.e. Me: "Man you've got a sweet ass car!."
  Owner: "Na, it's a pooch, I hate it."
• georgemc80

  Here in Texas I usually make fun of a few things...
  
  First and foremost... fixin.
  
  "I am fixin to head out to the WalMart."
  
  and one of my favorite exchanges....
  
  Me: Give me a Coke
  Waitress: What kinda Coke?
  Me: What kinds do you have?
  Waitress: We got Dr. Pepper coke, Sprite coke......
  
  But the educated people in Houston catch me on my Ohio grammar....ending my sentences with a preposition.
• Con_Alma

  bigkahuna;706070 wrote:I don't get the dethaw thing.
  
  You come home and but a package of meet in the freezer. You decide you want to eat it, so you take it out and thaw it. ....

  I don't get it either.
  
  Thawing it would be going from frozen to room temp.
  
  De-thawing it would be going opposite of thawing it...or freezing it.
• LJ

  

  I think they are just combining "defrost" and "thaw" to make "dethaw"
• Con_Alma

  Must be. It just comes across as silly sometimes when the slang almost means the exact opposite of what they are intending to say.
• Con_Alma

  ManO'War;706071 wrote:Pittsburgh people are notorious for adding S's at the end of store names! It drives me crazy, and when I call them on it, they don't even realize they are doing it.
  
  "I'm going to Giant Eagles" kills me.

  
  I hear this also. In Ohio folks like to add an S to school names such as St Edward(s). I have en heard people say St. John(s) arena!!!!
• Fab4Runner

  

  Con_Alma;706092 wrote:I hear this also. In Ohio folks like to add an S to school names such as St Edward(s). I have en heard people say St. John(s) arena!!!!

  I think adding the "s" is probably pretty common all over the US. I talk to dispatchers all over the country and a lot of them pronounce the "s" in Illinois and it drives me crazy every time.
  
  Oh and I HATE when people say states...as in "My son made it to states".
• Automatik

  

  I'm guilty of saying Krogers. They are a big client of ours and I can't tell you how many times I've had to make sure I dropped the S.
  
  My mom says "yinz" on a daily basis. I lost that when I moved away for school. Its funny when you explain it to someone that has never heard it before. "Yinz? wtf is that?!" lol
• j_crazy

  

  georgemc80;706080 wrote:Here in Texas I usually make fun of a few things...
  
  
  Me: Give me a Coke
  Waitress: What kinda Coke?
  Me: What kinds do you have?
  Waitress: We got Dr. Pepper coke, Sprite coke......

  
  I had a similar exchange in OKC.
• LJ

  

  My cousin's husband is from south jerz and calls spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce "gravy"
• gorocks99

  

  The one that gets me is when my girlfriends parents (from the U.P.) pronounce pasta "paa-sta" (not pah-sta)
• Con_Alma

  Fab4Runner;706096 wrote:I think adding the "s" is probably pretty common all over the US. I talk to dispatchers all over the country and a lot of them pronounce the "s" in Illinois and it drives me crazy every time....

  At least there's actually an S in the spelling of Illinois. Those other examples people simply add one at their own discretion. Why??
  
  Another example is Labatt(s).
  

  Fab4Runner;706096 wrote:...Oh and I HATE when people say states...as in "My son made it to states".

  Don't even get me started with this one. If you do I might have to "of" referred you to some other threads.
• LJ

  

  you're all being hweird