Serviettes (obviously a French word) is used all over the European continent as a dinner napkin.

Napkin is a female sanitary product ................... I found out the hard way when living there! Diaper is also known as a nappy.

And, on that note, I am out of here for the rest of the day.:icon_wink:

Growing up in CT, we called roundabouts "rotaries".
You can tell a person is from California if you ask them how far it is to a particular destination and the reply is "about 20 minutes".

Thanks - very interesting.

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.

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

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

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

Also Western Pennsylvania and MI talk for what others erroneously refer to as soda.:evil6:

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.

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

I thought that a crawfish was....
 

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...

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!)

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...

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!!

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

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!

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.

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

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.

Lake Ontario - sleigh behind snowmobile is called a cutter

Also Pittsburgh. "J'eat yet?? "No, J'you"?

Plural of you is "yous" in Green Bay WI. "Yous going to the fish fry on Friday with us?" Or some people will say "yous guys". "Yous guys going with us for a brewski?" A brewski is a beer, BTW...

Because you believe it's pop doesn't make it right. Because I believe it's soda doesn't mean that I'm correct either. We're both right.

Which is why the icon was added. All was in jest.:p

I knew

On Long Island, those that live in eastern LI and plan on traveling west of the town Riverhead say they are going "up island".

Philadelphia.....soda, hoagie, Ac-a-me (Acme supermarket)

Words that tell everyone your hometown!
 

Boston. Words ending in "ER" are pronounced "AH". Tuna fish is pronounced "Tuner"and if you wish to change the channel on a television, you turn the "tuna" not the "tuner".