Slang that didn't trickle down to your generation and/or area
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I've never heard of it, so I think it qualifies for this thread.
This is regional rather than from a different period, but my yankee friend at Carolina always used to say people from up North say "I don't fuxx with that."
I never say "wicked" but that's obviously a big one around here.
Bubbler is a regional term that I use though (I didn't realize it was regional until I got to UNC and no one had any idea what I was talking about).
Bubbler is a regional term that I use though (I didn't realize it was regional until I got to UNC and no one had any idea what I was talking about).
Like for a water fountain?! I thought that was only a Wisconsin thing.
That blows my mind lol. It's really like we live in different countries.
I'm sure there's much more I could contribute to this thread - but I probably don't even know some things that I say that aren't common elsewhere.
Pronunciation of certain words is definitely different. One that was glaring to me when I first went down there was umbrella. People around here say um-BRELL-a whereas down there I always heard UM-brella. Same with in-SURE-ance vs. IN-surance.
Both of those words are tweeners. You can be Southern and pronounce either of them either way you described. I definitely say UM-brell-a, but for insurance, I kinda stray from one pronunciation to the other, depending on how slow or fast (or lazy) I'm talking. Would mostly say I'm an in-SURE-ance guy though, so I'm half and half lol. Yet my girlfriend, who's from Texas but has zero Southern accent, says IN-sure-ance.
It's a small little word, but one of the biggest ways to tell where someone is from is how they pronounce the word "on." When Midwesterners pronounce that word, I want to shoot myself. "ahhhhn."
I'm a big fan of colloquialisms and cultural sayings/slang. I try to use as many as I can that are geographically/culturally appropriate. Big fan of many of the ones listed in this thread.
So in short, they always translate with me. Even if I don't use 'em, I appreciate 'em.
So in short, they always translate with me. Even if I don't use 'em, I appreciate 'em.
In NC I always got ripped on for how I say "also" apparently I pronounce it more like "oolso"
My family always called our living room a "parlor" (obviously pronounced pahlah), dinner was "supper", and the basement was a "cellar".
Say you called up Domino's and plan to place an order for a large group. Say the quantity of food item will be six. I bet you would say you're ordering six "pies," correct?
Wtf is "oolso" ? lol. I had no idea people in the North called dinner "supper." That's an expression lots of folks down here use but I've never used it. My mom even uses it a lot, but to me, it's always "dinner."
Parlor can be used down here, but I feel like it can only be used if you're in a very elegant older home that has lots of rooms. Otherwise, it's probably a no. I do refer to ice cream shops as "ice cream parlors" though.
And yeah here, it's always "basement." When I hear "cellar" I think of wine cellar, or an underground room that's not the bottom floor of your house, but is instead a separate building with an opening that goes into the ground (like on Twister or on Doomsday Preppers).
ETA: I don't know wtf I'm putting everything in quotes lol.
That's not so much a north/south thing. I worked in a pizza joint on IOP and people "in the biz" often refer to them as "pies".
Ghey. But it's definitely a Northern thing too (outside of the industry).
"How many pies you wanna order?" Uh.... like apple? Or pecan?
And that reminds me, for pecan I'm not down with this PEE-can pronounciation. To me, it's "puh-KAHN."
Ya, I'm definitely a PEE-can guy. I do think puh-KAHN sounds fancier though.
Some people around here pronounce bathroom "baaaaathroom" which actually pisses me off (my mom does it).
The universe is practically begging you to move South lol.
I bought a townhouse this past summer and have it on a 5/1 ARM... the fiance is on board with moving to NC before the rate resets, so I'd assume I'll be living down there within 5 years.
Adjustable rate mortgage. After the first five years the rate readjusts each year and the payment can potentially skyrocket if interest rates rise.
Correct, and rates are rising and will probably only rise more within the next 5 years, so I'm guessing the 3.125% that I have now will balloon when it resets.
Although, whatever house I buy afterwards will be at the updated rates anyways, so I guess it doesn't really matter. Although house prices are much cheaper in NC, so hopefully I wouldn't need to take out much of a mortgage to buy there by then anyways.
I've got a friend that is amazed by how many Southern practices are common across all of the states of the region, from the foods we eat and the things we say to the games we played as kids.He says that up north language, customs and traditions can change from neighborhood to neighborhood, let alone from state to state. He claims the south is nothing but one large community and that "you f***ers seem to have all read the same damn book."
Well that's cuz neighborhood to neighborhood up North you go (or used to go) from Irish to Polish to Jewish to Italian neighborhood.
Everyone who settled in the South, historically was WASP.
If someone is in the car with me and I want to stop and get a bottle of pop , I tell them I gotta go see a man bout a boat .
You act as if saying White Anglo-Saxon Protestant is troublesome.
