[Serenoa]

Originally Posted by zonerboy

According to my wife, if some one is not wearing any clothes, they are nekkid.

no, no, no....

If you just don't have any clothes on....you are NAKED.

But if you don't have any clothes on & you're up to sometin....then you're
NEKKID!!

[Patty55]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan

The Kennedys have their own dialect. Nobody in Massachusetts talks anything like them

Maybe because they're from the Bronx.

[stuckinparadise]

I am originally from Wisconsin but when I joined the Army, my first duty station was in Alabama. Needless to say, their choices for words were very different from what I was used to, ie. toboggan is used to describe a hat worn by robbers (in Wisconsin, we called them stocking caps or beanies). According to Wikipedia: A toboggan is a simple sled which is a traditional form of transport used by the Innu and Cree of northern Canada. In modern times, it is used on snow to carry one or more people (often children) down a hill or other slope for recreation. They also used the term "mash the button" for pushing the button when using an elevator or any other device where a button needs to be pushed.

[Patty55]

I once had a mechanic in the south tell me to "Mash my incinerator pedal" instead of my gas pedal.

[perrjojo]

Do you push a grocery cart, buggy or basket?

[Serenoa]

What do you wash the car with; a water hose or a hose pipe?

[lovsthosebigdogs]

I don't know where she was from, but my sister brought her college room mate home who said my mother's home cooked dinner "tasted like seconds". She meant that it tasted good enough to eat two helpings. My mother said, "Oh no, I cooked it fresh tonight."

[Bill-n-Brillo]

Originally Posted by Serenoa

What do you wash the car with; a water hose or a hose pipe?

That's not the way I do it, Serenoa.

I "worsch" our cars..............(with a water hose)!!



Bill

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

I heard a sweet southern lady say recently, "Oh, when ah fell out and hit mah hay-ed, ah needed a lot of stitches."

"Fell out".....I heard this for the first time years ago in Indiana and it took awhile to learn that meant "passed out" or "fainted"!

And how about how friends in Pittsburgh and area say "torenament"...."have to take the kids to a soccer torenament".

.....And then we'll have THANKSgiving dinner (not Thanksgiving)....

It's all fun! We live in a great country!

Tounament. Ahem... How do you pronounce the word "four"? I believe we Pittsburghers are on to something there.

[mgjim]

I grew up telling time by using the terms "until" and "after", such as 10 until 5 or 20 after 6. I was in Washington DC once and asked a police officer for the time and he said it was 10 of 10. I wasn't sure if that was 10 minutes until or 10 minutes after 10. I've since adopted the digital method, 10:15, 4:45, etc. It seems to be more universal.

[ssmith]

nothing wrong with warsh....My sister in Boston isn't using her rrr's so we are ;-)

[Quixote]

Originally Posted by rubicon

I was born and raised in central New York. Folks from that part of the country have flat A's For instance aunt is pronounced ant. They also have there own version of a sandwich. Its called a sangwich. They all like to add drama when they speak as in All I know which is really suppose to be All's I know. Locally in my hometown is the word jabeep. What is a jabeep think Joey Buttafuoco.

I never heard "jabeep," but you have the only "speidies" in the country, I believe. On the other hand, if you lived just a little further west in NYS, you'd have a "beef on weck"—a real Buffaloism!

Originally Posted by Patty55

Here in TV they call living on a retention pond "waterfront". On LI we call retention ponds SUMPS, nobody wants to live on the SUMP, so they put a big high fence and shrubs to hide it-LOL

Well, in truth, as explained to me by a Villages construction employee, what are called "water views" here are indeed "retention ponds" or "sumps." As he said, to dig a necessary hole in the ground to allow for rain water catchment and call it a premium lot with a "water view" is a bit of a stretch!

Originally Posted by zonerboy

According to my wife, if some one is not wearing any clothes, they are nekkid.

Is your wife from Iowa? That's what Radar O'Reilly (M*A*S*H) used to say ("nekkid"), and he was from Ottumwa, Iowa. At a workshop I once met a woman from there, who told me when people heard she was from there, they would invariably ask her if she knew Radar....

Originally Posted by Patty55

Maybe because they're from the Bronx.

Actually that's pretty close; the Kennedys did live for a period of time in Bronxville!


I've been told that nothing ever completely disappears from any dialect; it always turns up somewhere. For example, the R's missing in Massachusetts and Rhode Island ("pahk the kah") turn up in Texas and parts of the Midwest (when one does "the warsh"). There is no escape.

A young fellow in Casablanca, Morocco who was studying English once asked me if there are dialects in the U.S. I told him there are. He then asked if people from one region can understand the dialects of people from other regions. I replied as honestly as I could that sometimes it's yes, while at other times one is left completely clueless....

If anyone is particularly fascinated by this subject, I suggest reading the Bill Bryson book The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got that Way. At the same time it's both hilarious and very well researched. You'll find out how "colonel" came to be pronounced the same as a corn "kernel," what the only word in the English language is that is derived from Tagalog (the native language of the Philippines), and that in writing his plays, William Shakespeare created so many new expressions, of which some 1,800 still commonly exist in our everyday language—all created by one man!!!

[Patty55]

[QUOTE=Quixote;697

Actually that's pretty close; the Kennedys did live for a period of time in Bronxville!

[/QUOTE]

They also lived on Independence Ave in Riverdale.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by perrjojo

Do you push a grocery cart, buggy or basket?

I push a grocery cart. And I put pop in my grocery cart. Not soda.

Long ago I almost married someone from Texas. While we were first dating the first time I heard him say "I am fixing to go to the store" I asked him what was broken that needed fixing.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by Serenoa

What do you wash the car with; a water hose or a hose pipe?

I wash my car with a water hose.