GTKY: words

Katie6202 · August 2013

The sprinkles convo in UO got me thinking. Where I am from we call sprinkles jimmies, water coolers bubblahs, soda is soda, and to describe anything REALLY good- we use the word wicked (ie, that ice cream was wicked good!)

What are some different words that you guys use across the US? (and beyond!)

NiksMama · August 2013

Lol. Are you from Milwaukee?

I grew up with a lot of the same words... But had them teased out of me in college

henderson1026 · August 2013

Katie6202 said:

The sprinkles convo in UO got me thinking. Where I am from we call sprinkles jimmies, water coolers bubblahs, soda is soda, and to describe anything REALLY good- we use the word wicked (ie, that ice cream was wicked good!) What are some different words that you guys use across the US? (and beyond!)

You must live in Boston

Snowbird7 · August 2013

I grew up in western New York, lived in Vermont, and now live in Louisville. I call a soft-serve ice cream cone a "creemee," and use a "weed whacker" to do landscaping. I will order a "soda" to accompany the "sub" I get at Subway.

caramia582 · August 2013

henderson1026 said:

Katie6202 said:

The sprinkles convo in UO got me thinking. Where I am from we call sprinkles jimmies, water coolers bubblahs, soda is soda, and to describe anything REALLY good- we use the word wicked (ie, that ice cream was wicked good!) What are some different words that you guys use across the US? (and beyond!)

You must live in Boston

That's my guess... I think we're neighbors! It's the "jimmies" that give it away, you must at least be in New England!

ELauren88 · August 2013

No, we speak normally where I'm from.

BlondieBia21 · August 2013

I'm in Midwest-

I say buggy instead of shopping cart.

Pop instead of soda.

Bathroom whether it be a "bath"room or just a restroom.

Couch instead of sofa.

TrueBeliever925 · August 2013

ayanahazel1 said:

I grew up in western New York, lived in Vermont, and now live in Louisville. I call a soft-serve ice cream cone a "creemee," and use a "weed whacker" to do landscaping. I will order a "soda" to accompany the "sub" I get at Subway.

I grew up north of Boston and live in Vermont now; it FREAKS ME OUT (get the emphasis

) calling soft-serve creemees. That and it's not a yard sale.. it's a tag sale. What's up with that?

henderson1026 · August 2013

Soda, couch, sprinkles, shopping cart.

I don't have a dialect.

MrsBlindLove · August 2013

It's has actually been pretty interesting moving from Michigan to the island on the west coast. Not only that from but from the US to Canada. There are tons of difference but I can't think of anything specific at this exact moment.

ELauren88 · August 2013

BlondieBia21 said:

I'm in Midwest-

I say buggy instead of shopping cart.
Pop instead of soda.
Bathroom whether it be a "bath"room or just a restroom.
Couch instead of sofa.

I have to disagree with all of this.

We are from the same place, and I say shopping cart, soda or soda pop, restroom, and I don't call them "couches", our family calls them divans (duh-vans) or davenports.

mommabmb · August 2013

I'm in the south. All drinks are coke (or tea). Shopping carts are buggies. Diapers are Pampers.

TrueBeliever925 · August 2013

NiksMama said:

Lol. Are you from Milwaukee? I grew up with a lot of the same words... But had them teased out of me in college

We did a school exchange with a small town outside of Milwaukee my senior year and by the end of the week we had everyone in the club using the word "wicked" as "very". The other students couldn't understand what the hell we were saying.

tanabeans · August 2013

In New Mexico we call anything fizzy a coke. You hardly ever hear people say soda or pop unless they are a transplant.

WildRumpus · August 2013

I think it's more the WAY things are said here; milk is "melk" and wash tends to come out "warsh". It's funny, there's a "South City" dialect for STL, they tend to throw random letters in so quarter becomes "qwata" and 44, 40, and 64 (three of the major roadways) becomes farty-far, farty, and sixty-far. It's odd.

ELauren88 · August 2013

Jill9288 said:

I think it's more the WAY things are said here; milk is "melk" and wash tends to come out "warsh". It's funny, there's a "South City" dialect for STL, they tend to throw random letters in so quarter becomes "qwata" and 44, 40, and 64 (three of the major roadways) becomes farty-far, farty, and sixty-far. It's odd.

My FIL says this and it cracks me up. He's not even from that area, and is the only one who says it this way! For no reason! Such a silly goose...

WildRumpus · August 2013

Ugh. My mom says it and it drives me nuts for some reason. She'll say Warshington DC as well. No. There's no R in there!

henderson1026 · August 2013

I hate wicked and how west coast people tend to call the highways THE 15 or THE "farty-far". Just say the number, enough "thes".

Creedon778 · August 2013

OP I assume you're in Massachusetts as I am, however I grew up in NY. I say sprinkles and sneakers (not tennis shoes!).

Some other New England words I've come across since being in Massachusetts....bulkie rolls (aka kaiser rolls) and rollups (for wraps).

ktballz · August 2013

ELauren88 said:

BlondieBia21 said:

I'm in Midwest-

I say buggy instead of shopping cart.
Pop instead of soda.
Bathroom whether it be a "bath"room or just a restroom.
Couch instead of sofa.

I have to disagree with all of this.
We are from the same place, and I say shopping cart, soda or soda pop, restroom, and I don't call them "couches", our family calls them divans (duh-vans) or davenports.

old school

ELauren88 · August 2013

ktballz said:

ELauren88 said:

BlondieBia21 said:

I'm in Midwest-

I say buggy instead of shopping cart.
Pop instead of soda.
Bathroom whether it be a "bath"room or just a restroom.
Couch instead of sofa.

I have to disagree with all of this.
We are from the same place, and I say shopping cart, soda or soda pop, restroom, and I don't call them "couches", our family calls them divans (duh-vans) or davenports.

old school

For reals. If you knew my family though you'd understand why the word "Couch" has a whole different meaning. Haha!

Katie6202 · August 2013

Lol I love the shopping cart as a "buggy"!! I've never heard of that!!

And yes, I am from New England!

ktballz · August 2013

henderson1026 said:

I hate wicked and how west coast people tend to call the highways THE 15 or THE "farty-far". Just say the number, enough "thes".

I only hear that from people who drive in Southern California. I guess in Northern California we don't have enough highways to warrant a "the".

henderson1026 · August 2013

ktballz said:

henderson1026 said:

I hate wicked and how west coast people tend to call the highways THE 15 or THE "farty-far". Just say the number, enough "thes".

I only hear that from people who drive in Southern California. I guess in Northern California we don't have enough highways to warrant a "the".

Oh, I guess I only know people in SoCal then, lol

MommyAmes2 · August 2013

H would say "hand me the clicker." Wtf is a clicker? In southern IN that's called a tv remote!

We say Soda, ya'll, and we run our words together. It's a different world here.

lorow0715 · August 2013

I come from a small town in Colorado. I call a donut - as in pulling the e-break in the car and the back end spins around - a cookie. It doesn't seem to be a Colo thing, I have only heard it used from folks who grew up in the same small town. Not a wording thing but a food thing - the majority of people from this small town will not eat chili without a cinnamon roll to dip in it.

Also, I can tell if you are from Colo or a transplant most of the time by the way you say it. Naitives usually say ColoRADo where non natives say ColoRODo.

And to finish up, I have only heard the term Trust Fund Hippie from fellow Colo natives. Maybe because we have so many thanks to Boulder......

henderson1026 · August 2013

MommyAmes2 said:

H would say "hand me the clicker." Wtf is a clicker? In southern IN that's called a tv remote! We say Soda, ya'll, and we run our words together. It's a different world here.

my brother called the remote a marote when he was little - I still say it that way sometimes. Also DH's little brother called helicopters "hocker-cockers", I always say that now, too.

BlondieBia21 · August 2013

ELauren88 said:

ktballz said:

ELauren88 said:

BlondieBia21 said:

I'm in Midwest-

I say buggy instead of shopping cart.
Pop instead of soda.
Bathroom whether it be a "bath"room or just a restroom.
Couch instead of sofa.

I have to disagree with all of this.
We are from the same place, and I say shopping cart, soda or soda pop, restroom, and I don't call them "couches", our family calls them divans (duh-vans) or davenports.

old school

For reals. If you knew my family though you'd understand why the word "Couch" has a whole different meaning. Haha!

LOL didn't think about it that way with the whole couch word, I get it!

I wasn't meaning that that's how everyone does it, I was just kinda saying where I was, I should've clarified!

ELauren88 · August 2013

BlondieBia21 said:
LOL didn't think about it that way with the whole couch word, I get it! I wasn't meaning that that's how everyone does it, I was just kinda saying where I was, I should've clarified!

Oh I know! I think it's funny, though. We lived so close to each other, but talk so differently! Our mutual friend calls a remote a clicker and it drives my brother and I bonkers! Haha!

lefender · August 2013

Being from NC , particularly appalachian southern, there is the typical y'all and coke (for any soft drink) also folks (particularly when referring to parents but can be used for anyone) and "give us a holler" (as in give us a call).

lindsayanne14 · August 2013

I'm from Pittsburgh and people in this area use the words "yinz" to describe a group of people rather than you all. I personally don't use yinz though. Other common ones are hoagies for submarine sandwiches, pop for soda, gum bands for rubber bands and the one I use most often...slippy instead of slippery.

JHarris8166 · August 2013

I said sprinkles in that thread because I thought if I said jimmies I wasn't sure who would know what I was talking about! LOL. I am from Boston. I barely pronounce my R's and use the word wicked, a wicked lot. On our honeymoon, by the end of the week all the other couples at the resort just knew us as "Boston" from the way we talked.

One word that started when my siblings and I were younger was 'blammer', instead of clicker/tv remote. I have no idea where it came from but people look at me sideways when I call it a blammer.

Snowbird7 · August 2013

Usualmischief -- Hi there!

Jill -- I'm fascinated by different pronunciations. My husband sent me this article about a linguistic project they did at N.C. State University; it's a neat read.

https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/heat-maps-linguistic-trends-nation-article-1.1366388

henderson1026 · August 2013

She'sGotAWay said:

Virginia doesn't quite know what it's identity is... I've heard all of these words used around here.

I like to think of VA as the newscaster accent.

ktbear9512 · August 2013

henderson1026 said:

I hate wicked and how west coast people tend to call the highways THE 15 or THE "farty-far". Just say the number, enough "thes".

Ha! I'm from Buffalo and we always use "the" with thruways (yes thruways, not highways) as in the 90, the 190, the 33.

Also, it's pop, not soda, and chicken wings, not buffalo wings or hot wings.

MommyKristin88 · August 2013

LOL, you all have some "creative" ways of talking. I don't think I use a certain dialect.

piperjayne · August 2013

I'm also in the Midwest. I call it pop almost exclusively. Cart, not buggy. My grandparents say a ton of things differently than I do, even though we both grew up in the same town. I've never heard my Grandma say couch, only Davenport or love seat depending in the size. My grandpa puts an r in wash. I went to " Warshington" high school, according to him. My husband says kleenAx and it drives me nuts.

JessNeptune · August 2013

I'm a born and raised NYer.. I have my morning "cawfee", not coffee, and we say "slice" for a piece of pizza... I think that's a NY thing.

henderson1026 · August 2013

Theusualmischief said:

I got in a fight with a college roommate who called the vacuum a sweeper and the act of vacuuming sweeping. I was all, you sweep with a broom...

I would have beaten her over the head with a broom. She would've learned real quick.

WildRumpus · August 2013

@MommyKristin88, do you get the high school question? I was SO confused when we moved here, that's the first thing that people seem to ask "Where did you go to high school???" and also, what's your opinion on provel cheese?

Oh, another: a concrete is basically a Blizzard made w/ frozen custard instead of ice cream

MommyKristin88 · August 2013

Jill9288 said:

@MommyKristin88, do you get the high school question? I was SO confused when we moved here, that's the first thing that people seem to ask "Where did you go to high school???" and also, what's your opinion on provel cheese?

Oh, another: a concrete is basically a Blizzard made w/ frozen custard instead of ice cream

Ahh the high school question. I'm from here, so I'm used to it. I forget that this is not a normal
question outside our area.

Provel cheese is its own food group. LOVE it!!!!!!!!!

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