Regional sayings

Hesterlicious

Inspired by the pet peeves thread.

It's pop not soda
We eat lunch or dinner at noon. It's supper in the evening.
We measure distance in time. It's an hour to the city.

Tigger & pooh

Water fountain vs bubbler

quidditchcapn1120

I'm the opposite of you- I lived in southern Missouri most of my life and we say soda, dinner is at night, and now that I live in Chicago I can't use time to measure distance because it changes by the hour.

 

bumpuser260585

Where I grew up, if we didn't hear something someone said, we say "please?"
It is pop.
At the grocery store we use a cart.

RockyTopVols

It is Coke

Dinner is always preceded by breakfast and lunch

Y'all is an acceptable and preferred contraction for you all.

RockyTopVols

SpitsNGiggles:

Where I grew up, if we didn't hear something someone said, we say "please?"
It is pop.
At the grocery store we use a cart.

Nope it is a buggy.

mben1119

MD here. Soda, not pop. Dinner is in the evening--we don't eat supper. Here, people say "This is Mary, down to Baltimore" instead of "This is Mary, from Baltimore." I can't stand it.

bumpuser260585

I Heart, I grew up in Ohio too. I didn't see your post until after I posted. Lol.

bumpuser260585

RockyTopVols:

Nope it is a buggy.

I went to school in eastern ky, they say buggy there too. But like you, they are wrong.

Oddish12

Pop

Cart

Couch or sofa, not chesterfield

Bag, not sack

Hoodie, not bunnyhug. That's for you, Hester

And toque not knitted hat

And toboggan is something you ride.

Tigger & pooh

My friend from england says Hoovering for vacuuming and calls the countertop a bench.

LadyXaverian

I'm from Nova Scotia but live in Tennessee.

I've gone from saying pop to soda.

From supper to dinner.

From you guys (or youse guys) to y'all.

::Hangs head in shame::

Oh, water fountain (not bubbler!) and shopping cart (or sometimes buggy).

cg0112358

We also say coke for every type of carbonated drink.

Everyone is addressed as sir or ma'am. I even say yes sir to my son trying to teach him manners and am working on him saying yes ma'am.

As I stated in the pet peeves thread, some people down here say "making groceries" when referring to going grocery shopping.

I'm sure I'll think of some more later...

ETA: oh, and as a PP said, we say y'all all.of.the.time

NotSharknado

From Chicago. We grew up saying Pop, but now I say soda. I say Dinner but my mother would say Supper. I say Garbage not Trash. My mom would say Frontroom but now I say Livingroom. My grandmother says Warsher instead of Washer.

LadyXaverian

Oddish12:

And toque not knitted hat And toboggan is something you ride.

::slow clap::

My husband and I have this "fight" every year.

Hesterlicious

Tea is always hot and you add your own sugar and milk.
Iced tea is made from powder and is always sweet and cold.

Hesterlicious

Oddish12:

Pop

Cart

Couch or sofa, not chesterfield

Bag, not sack

Hoodie, not bunnyhug. That's for you, Hester

And toque not knitted hat

And toboggan is something you ride.

Lol I forgot about bunny hug. I only hear it once a year or so now but everyone knows what you are talking about when someone says it. It's a cute name. It should come back.

I agree with the rest.

Oddish12

Hesterlicious:

Tea is always hot and you add your own sugar and milk.
Iced tea is made from powder and is always sweet and cold.

I can't 'thumbs up' from my phone, but double thumbs up to this.

cg0112358

Hesterlicious:

Tea is always hot and you add your own sugar and milk. Iced tea is made from powder and is always sweet and cold.

*gasps* All tea down here is iced and delicious. You can order sweet or unsweet and it generally comes with a lemon. Some restaurants even sell it by the gallon b/c it is so popular. It is NEVER made from powder.

cg0112358

Another thing we say is "fixing to" when we are about to do something. It drives me crazy but I often can't think of something else that sounds better when I say it.

We also refer to anything extra as lagniappe.

SoDoMojo

When we first moved to WA my bro and I swore we'd never call it "pop". We grew up calling it "soda" in OK. 20 yrs later... I call it pop.

"No worries" seems to be something said by Seattleites a lot. 

Hesterlicious

The only paper invitations I've received were for my sisters weddings. Everything else has been facebook and before that word of mouth. Those are the only occasions where I have received thank you cards.
People put a thank you note in the small town paper instead.
Cards are set out in the drugstores cash donations and open invites to showers.

SoDoMojo

It's cart. I always thought buggy was just a Canadian thing. 

Arnegard

I grew up in OR, lived in KS for a while and am now in ND.

I don't really flinch at soda/pop/coke stuff. Or dinner/supper...  It's always been a shopping cart and drinking fountain, never heard IRL anything else.

Here in ND every casserole is called a hot dish and people exclaim "For cute" or "For neat"  instead of simply saying cute or neat.  One that urks me is when people say they are going to "cut the grass" instead of mow the lawn.

Hesterlicious

SoDoMojo:

It's cart. I always thought buggy was just a Canadian thing.nbsp;

I have never heard buggy.

Hesterlicious

mbenit4:

cg0112358:

Hesterlicious:

Tea is always hot and you add your own sugar and milk. Iced tea is made from powder and is always sweet and cold.

*gasps* All tea down here is iced and delicious. You can order sweet or unsweet and it generally comes with a lemon. Some restaurants even sell it by the gallon b/c it is so popular. It is NEVER made from powder.

Bless your heart Hester. As cg has said Everybody knows respectable tea does not come from powder. 

I never called it respectable. Nestea makes a good brew with real tea in bottles. That and Arizona are all I drink.I am a fan of hot leaf teas too.

LadyXaverian

SoDoMojo:

It's cart. I always thought buggy was just a Canadian thing. 

I'm from Canada and never said buggy until I moved to the southern U.S. It was only ever a shopping cart to me.

Also, when something is expensive, it is pricey NOT spendy.

mammersoh

Delaware here. We say "wooder" instead of water. Yous guys. Soda. Dinner. Distances are by time instead of miles.

mejane123

South Jersey here. Definitely soda, cart, hoodie, and a hoagie and a sub are NOT the same thing.

My Grandmom was from down south, and she called lunch dinner and dinner supper. She'd also say 'hollerin' instead of 'yelling.'

We say No worries here, too.

What else would a toboggan be if it wasn't something you ride on?

ETA: WTH is a chesterfield? I've never heard of that.

We also measure distance by time.

LadyXaverian

mbenit4:

SarahL77:

SoDoMojo:

It's cart. I always thought buggy was just a Canadian thing. 

I'm from Canada and never said buggy until I moved to the southern U.S. It was only ever a shopping cart to me.

Also, when something is expensive, it is pricey NOT spendy.

I had never heard of spendy until thebump last year. 

Besides in that thread last year, I heard it one time. A friend from Minnesota used to say it allll the time. It made me twitch every time she did.

cg0112358

mbenit4:

cg0112358:

Hesterlicious:

Tea is always hot and you add your own sugar and milk. Iced tea is made from powder and is always sweet and cold.

*gasps* All tea down here is iced and delicious. You can order sweet or unsweet and it generally comes with a lemon. Some restaurants even sell it by the gallon b/c it is so popular. It is NEVER made from powder.

Bless your heart Hester. As cg has said Everybody knows respectable tea does not come from powder. 

lol!

SoDoMojo

SarahL77:

SoDoMojo:

It's cart. I always thought buggy was just a Canadian thing. 

I'm from Canada and never said buggy until I moved to the southern U.S. It was only ever a shopping cart to me.

Also, when something is expensive, it is pricey NOT spendy.

Some of my ILs live in Vancouver and they all say buggy. Even the cashiers at the store when we are up there. But... I guess Canada's a big place and has different regional says to, eh?

  

LadyXaverian

SoDoMojo:

SarahL77:

SoDoMojo:

It's cart. I always thought buggy was just a Canadian thing. 

I'm from Canada and never said buggy until I moved to the southern U.S. It was only ever a shopping cart to me.

Also, when something is expensive, it is pricey NOT spendy.

Some of my ILs live in Vancouver and they all say buggy. Even the cashiers at the store when we are up there. But... I guess Canada's a big place and has different regional says to, eh?

  

Yep. I'm from the opposite coast.

LovesMM

mbenit4:

cg0112358:

mbenit4:

cg0112358:

Hesterlicious:

Tea is always hot and you add your own sugar and milk. Iced tea is made from powder and is always sweet and cold.

*gasps* All tea down here is iced and delicious. You can order sweet or unsweet and it generally comes with a lemon. Some restaurants even sell it by the gallon b/c it is so popular. It is NEVER made from powder.

Bless your heart Hester. As cg has said Everybody knows respectable tea does not come from powder. 

lol!

I see you caught that.

I also love how Phaedra from The Real Housewives says, "everybody knows..." 

I agree with my LA girls. Tea is always iced. Buggy, Y'all, Coke, Lunch, Dinner, 

 

Oddish12

mejane123:

ETA: WTH is a chesterfield? I've never heard of that.

It's a couch or sofa. I think it may be a holdover from English english.

To quote my grandmother "you kids stop climbing all over that chesterfield"

And buggy must be a regional Cdn thing because it's a cart around here.

schnappycat

The sliding glass door to the deck/patio is called a "doorwall." 

I've done some "research" and have determined that only people in SE Michigan (I'm originally from Metro Detroit) call it that. People here have no idea what I'm talking about when I say it.

 

Smootchy

schnappycat:

The sliding glass door to the deck/patio is called a "doorwall."nbsp;I've done some "research" and have determined that only people in SE Michigan I'm originally from Metro Detroit call it that. People here have no idea what I'm talking about when I say it. nbsp;

Lol. I live in Michigan and I only heard what you're referring to as sliding door or door wall. What do others call it?

IrishEyes0530

RockyTopVols:

SpitsNGiggles:

Where I grew up, if we didn't hear something someone said, we say "please?" It is pop. At the grocery store we use a cart.

Nope it is a buggy.

Unless you're a 90 year old woman, its a cart.

schnappycat

chapski:

schnappycat:

The sliding glass door to the deck/patio is called a "doorwall."nbsp;I've done some "research" and have determined that only people in SE Michigan I'm originally from Metro Detroit call it that. People here have no idea what I'm talking about when I say it. nbsp;

Lol. I live in Michigan and I only heard what you're referring to as sliding door or door wall. What do others call it?

I guess just sliding glass door? I do have a friend (originally from Western MI) who calls it a slider. But to me it will always be doorwall.  

SoDoMojo

And speaking of "bunny hugs" it just came up on Anderson Live in his "Stump Anderson" segment. 

Smootchy

schnappycat:

chapski:

schnappycat:

The sliding glass door to the deck/patio is called a "doorwall."nbsp;I've done some "research" and have determined that only people in SE Michigan I'm originally from Metro Detroit call it that. People here have no idea what I'm talking about when I say it. nbsp;

Lol. I live in Michigan and I only heard what you're referring to as sliding door or door wall. What do others call it?

I guess just sliding glass door? I do have a friend (originally from Western MI) who calls it a slider. But to me it will always be doorwall.  

A slider is what you get from White Castle. Totally a doorwall.