[DianeM]

Originally Posted by Average Guy

The use of the word "pop" does not distinguish someone from being from Ohio. It is used throughout the Midwestern states.

First time someone offered me a pop, I thought they were weird to be offering me an ice cream or ice on a stick

[SALYBOW]

Please? Said after someone has spoken to you means please repeat what you said to a Cincinnatian.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by gomoho

pop - Ohio talk for soda.

Also Western Pennsylvania and MI talk for what others erroneously refer to as soda.

[joldnol]

Growing up in Key West led to some unique terms. Rust is Conch Cancer, your butt is a boongie and a young lady sitting with knees parted while wearing a dress/skirt was shooting Rollie's. Lobster is crawfish.

[CFrance]

Pittsburghese: n'at. He was drunk n'at. (and that)

[jebartle]

very small without claws....... lobsters, yummy with claws.

side note, we would scuba for tropical fish for our salt water aquarium and brought home two crawfish, 2 weeks later we had 4 crawfish, actually 2 crawfish that had sluffed their shell...

Originally Posted by joldnol

Growing up in Key West led to some unique terms. Rust is Conch Cancer, your butt is a boongie and a young lady sitting with knees parted while wearing a dress/skirt was shooting Rollie's. Lobster is crawfish.

[applesoffh]

Originally Posted by Yung Dum

Stay off the Van Wyck and the BQE-they're backed up as always.

Love it! And they're probably STILL back-up from the airport! (Notice, in NYC none of the main roads are known by their numbers. Everything is referred to by its name!)

[Justus]

Originally Posted by redwitch

Never really thought about it, but oh so true. Anything that takes less than an hour is close by. One to three hours is possible. Over three is a distance. I think it comes from the fact that five miles can take an hour on the right ? freeway. We Californians have no problem with distances, just value our time.

And not sure where I learned it (definitely not California) but I used to call roundabouts circles or traffic circles.

And I'll bet you call lollipops "suckers"...and if a person wants to know your location at a given time, he asks where you're "AT"! Just guessing...

[dotti105]

When we first moved to Utah from florida I was stumped by a few words and phrases.
1. does you daughter "tend"?
I'm thinking "sheep"???, but "Tend" means babysit, as in to tend to the children.

2. When I called the school about attendance policies I was told they were real strick about "sloughing". I was really confused until later in the conversation I realize "sloughing" meant "skipping school", it had nothing to do with snakes. ( my only point of reference)

3. Working in the NICU I "bathed" the babies. The locals "Bath-ed" the babies. They would say " I am going to "bath" the baby, Not "bathe" the baby. Still confused on that one.

But you know what, the more time we spent there the more those local expressions made me smile. Wonderful people in Utah!!

[mac9]

Substitute teaching in Alabama is "supplying."
"Jeat" in Philadelphia is asking if one has eaten.

[CarolSells]

In the suburb of Cincinnati that I grew up in all of the commercial establishments were up on "The Avenue". Most people walked there and shopkeepers knew customers by name.

When I moved to Georgia, I cringed when I first heard the expression "fixin' to" as in, "I'm fixin' to go to Winn-Dixie". After being there 35 years I found that it actually covered many situations very nicely!

[2BNTV]

There is a street in my hometown that everyone pronounces Mac Clan. It is really McLean but if you said it that way, no one would know what you were talking about.

The Big Apple......... nuff said.

[Bay Kid]

"The Bay". This is the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. The best!

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by gomoho

pop - Ohio talk for soda.

Exactly.

AND...we say "please" instead of "huh" when we didn't hear you.

You know that having a three way and playing corn hole are family activities.

If you live on the west side of Cincinnati, most people will ask "Which parish?"

If you wear something a little too much your Columbus mother will tell you not to wear THAT at Broad and High.

Some of us call Cleveland " the mistake on the lake".

Going to hide under the bed now.

[HimandMe]

Lake Ontario - sleigh behind snowmobile is called a cutter