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ShannonG
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 Posted: 04/24/03 - 13:56 Post subject: phrases unique to your area
Here in the land of hockey, if someone steals your bike and you catch them and beat them with the seatpost, that would be called 'laying the boards to him'. Doesn't matter that a board was not involved.
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airehead
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 13:58 Post subject:
"Sleeping wit' da fishes" and "You talkin' to me?" are very common around here.
"Yo! Vinnie" (or somesuch name) is often heard in convenience stores.
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spongebob
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 14:00 Post subject:
"Why in the hell am I shoveling snow on April 24th?"
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keltic63
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 14:02 Post subject:
we very often "red up" the house.
that means "clean"
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kristin31
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 14:07 Post subject:
All that I have noticed here is that people fail to conjugate verbs properly. It's become a pet peeve and I have to stop myself from correcting people's gramatical errors on a regular basis. If I hear one more person say "He gone to the store" I swear someone will lose an eye.
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purple hayes
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 14:18 Post subject:
Fixing to (pronounced fixin'ta')
When I lived in Nashville, there's a road called Lebanon Pike but all of the locals pronounced it Lebnun and the tourists could never figure out where Lebnun Pike was.
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Running Brewer
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 14:21 Post subject:
The bubbler = drinking fountain
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purple hayes
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 14:34 Post subject:
We use Hey instead of Hello too. My inlaws from MI thought that was the rudest thing when them moved to TN but now they do it too.
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Sandy Cheeks
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 14:42 Post subject:
I'm stoked!
I'm also having a hard time thinking of phrases unique to the area. I have a feeling most unusual things I say are phrases unique to me. 
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pokychick
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 14:48 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | | We use Hey instead of Hello too. My inlaws from MI thought that was the rudest thing when them moved to TN but now they do it too. |
That is what I was going to say. It took me forever to get use to when
I moved to the south.
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jrjo
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 15:01 Post subject:
Sauna Rules:
1) Sit on top pench at yuu own rdisk
2) Memper tis: Tuu muts teem kets yuu reel tissy. Yuu dumbel town ant prake yuu pones at own rdisk
3) If svet kets in yuu eyes, chust plink a coppla dimes
4) If yuu ket sliffer in yuu packsite from ta pench, ton't holler tuu lowt. Naypers vil tink vee putsering a pic, ant pe looken for pork sops nex tay ant ritavay pe asken "Vhen ta hed chese pe ton?"
5) Vhen yuu all ton (or if yuu lip on ta sope) pudit pack inta sope tis. Ton't leef it melden onta pench
6) If yuu ket tuu hot "Ko chump in ta lake!"
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ShannonG
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 15:05 Post subject:
| jrjo wrote: | Sauna Rules:
1) Sit on top pench at yuu own rdisk
2) Memper tis: Tuu muts teem kets yuu reel tissy. Yuu dumbel town ant prake yuu pones at own rdisk
3) If svet kets in yuu eyes, chust plink a coppla dimes
4) If yuu ket sliffer in yuu packsite from ta pench, ton't holler tuu lowt. Naypers vil tink vee putsering a pic, ant pe looken for pork sops nex tay ant ritavay pe asken "Vhen ta hed chese pe ton?"
5) Vhen yuu all ton (or if yuu lip on ta sope) pudit pack inta sope tis. Ton't leef it melden onta pench
6) If yuu ket tuu hot "Ko chump in ta lake!" |
Lot of Scandahoovians in Minnesota, there, dude?
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Sahara
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 15:28 Post subject:
Infinitives are not used here...
So instead of saying: The car needs to be washed.
They say: The car needs washed.
Have lived here so long that the second almost sounds right to me.
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cherylpf
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 16:14 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | Fixing to (pronounced fixin'ta')
When I lived in Nashville, there's a road called Lebanon Pike but all of the locals pronounced it Lebnun and the tourists could never figure out where Lebnun Pike was. |
I must be so southern, I never would have thought of those...there was a town called Lebnun in Kentucky. south of Loo-uh-vull where I grew up... 
I was actually thinking of my specific area now....the ones that come into mind lately would be "do you have your bug spray on?" and "be careful of the West Nile Virus" yes folks, while some of you shovel snow, we battle mosquitoes already in april....
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akern
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Posted: 04/24/03 - 16:17 Post subject:
Yaint. A combination of you and ain't. I've been told many times "yaint right."
Or Pertinear pronounced pert-in-ear. That means pretty near.
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