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emmasmommy

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what're some words you use that aren't 'normal?' i guess a better question would be, what do you say that is location specific?

the first time i hear someone call a cart a buggy or a water fountain a bubbler, i was just flabberghasted. LOL

i've lived in IL forever so i KNOW i say weird things
 
I grew up in Windsor, Ontario which is a part of Canada that is a bit Americanized. So, it is funny because my very Canadian friends say I have a bit of an American accent, but my American friends say I sound very Canadian. I also have a habit of doing strange voices and have a very "Adam Sandler" like voices/humour so...ya I am a weirdo.
 
I'm thinkin' with my accent anything I say would sound strange to you guys. We call flip flops "jandals", swim suits "togs", and french fries "chips". I think it's a case of you don't know you say things different until someone brings your attention to it, too.
 
I love how every region has a way of saying soda/pop/coke.....I say coke. Seriously.....this convo can happen in Oklahoma:
"Can I get a you a coke?"
"Sure!"
"what kind do you want?"
"Sprite please"

Honest to God. Coke doesn't mean coke, it just means soda. lol
 
taracotta7 said:
I love how every region has a way of saying soda/pop/coke.....I say coke. Seriously.....this convo can happen in Oklahoma:
"Can I get a you a coke?"
"Sure!"
"what kind do you want?"
"Sprite please"

Honest to God. Coke doesn't mean coke, it just means soda. lol
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Grew up with it like this. :)
 
Anything carbonated is called a fizzy drink here. I don't think our kids even know what soda or pop is.
 
It's pop here too. Coke is Coke! :)

Something region specific here is bunnyhug. Its a hooded sweatshirt/hoody. Even in Ontario people look at me funny when I said that!
 
I've never heard of a bunnyhug. A hoodie is a sweatshirt with a hood, otherwise its just a sweatshirt.

Oh and in my house if you ask for tea its always super super sweet tea.
 
Dude, I don't get the coke thing.

"What would you like to drink?"

"Sprite please"


^^^^ SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT
 
Traci Reed said:
Dude, I don't get the coke thing.

"What would you like to drink?"

"Sprite please"


^^^^ SO MUCH MORE EFFICIENT
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Yes, I totally agree!

I can't think of anything unique I say, but I work with a lot of people throughout the country and it always cracks me up when they pronounce Oregon ... or-a-gon or Washington ... warshington.
 
"What would you like to drink?"

"H2o, no fruit."

I said this last time I was in a restaurant and the lady looked at me like I had 3 heads. When did people not learn that H2o was water and I don't like the lemon/lime in it.
But they understand the coke thing. :(
 
Hey! We have bubblers up here. :) A fountain is a decorative thing in a park or fancy hotel. :)
It's soda.

I say "melk" not milk.

And one that gets my husband - "I have to unthaw the meat from the freezer". I've always said unthaw. Totally not right...

I am SURE I sound very much like the people in Fargo to a lot of you.
 
I'm sure I have things but I don't know what they are. My hubby says crayowns for crayons. It kinda bugs me and now my kids are starting to say it that way. Lol.
 
jacinda said:
Anything carbonated is called a fizzy drink here. I don't think our kids even know what soda or pop is.
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You have a SEXY accent. lol.

Over Thanksgiving, I told my husband we couldn't move overseas because the men's accents are too sexy. He thought I was crazy, but my mom agreed. lol.
 
ltarbox said:
I'm sure I have things but I don't know what they are. My hubby says crayowns for crayons. It kinda bugs me and now my kids are starting to say it that way. Lol.
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LOL My oldest daughter, age 14, to this day says "crowns" for crayons. I have NO idea where she gets it.
 
Milmomma said:
"What would you like to drink?"

"H2o, no fruit."

I said this last time I was in a restaurant and the lady looked at me like I had 3 heads. When did people not learn that H2o was water and I don't like the lemon/lime in it.
But they understand the coke thing. :(
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HA!!! I hate lemon in my water, too, but they always bring it anyway. Maybe I should start asking your way to see if it makes an impact. LOL
 
Oh, and I say soda. I'm honestly not sure what other people here call it. My family always called it pop, but that word was always so weird to me. So, it's been soda as long as I can remember.

Jeff & I just had a big debate about this... is it paJAMas ("jam" as in toast & jam) or pa-JAH-mas (rhymes with drama)? He makes fun of me for saying pa-jah-mas and says I sound hoity toity. LOL
 
I'm from AZ, and now live in NH. There are a lot of fun differences.

Water fountain/bubbler (bubbluh)
Shopping cart and stroller/carriage
dresser/chest of draws or bureau
draw with a pencil/drawer with a pencil
pink (i pronounced like you say the letter e)/pink (i pronounced like pig)
 
oh, and my son totally calls them "crowns". My mom says "crans" and I think I say "crayons", but I got accused of saying "crowns" yesterday.
 
If it's carbonated it's Coke, you just specify the flavor ;)

I swear I don't have an accent, nor am I a cowgirl or southern peach, but I do say ya'll ( I say dude a lot too)

My mom has the weirdest pronunciations though. She says material ma-TUR-ial and cereal SURial o_O ?! I also ask if she wants to go to EYEtaly because she says EYEtalian food :P
 
sczos911 said:
Hey! We have bubblers up here. :) A fountain is a decorative thing in a park or fancy hotel. :)
It's soda.

I say "melk" not milk.

And one that gets my husband - "I have to unthaw the meat from the freezer". I've always said unthaw. Totally not right...

I am SURE I sound very much like the people in Fargo to a lot of you.
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bwahahaha - I've been sitting here for a few minutes thinking, "what is wrong with unthaw? what else would you say?..." hahahah!! But them - I'm a Wisconsinite, too!

I say bubbler - totally got laughed at from a guy from Atlanta when I began working - and he made fun of me saying "Stop and Go" lights instead of stop lights.

I say soda pop... and then it's "PepsiorCoke" or my son will say "white" for spirit - that is just "his" 5 year old thing...

I say "yeah" a lot... the "yeah" is very nasal...
 
Way too many to list I'm sure...

yeah all carbonated drinks are Coke...you just have to specify what kind of coke you want..and no Pepsi doesn't count at all.

I'm very good at making most one syllable words sound like they have two..."hey-ey" "wh-at" "no-ah"

2 people in room is "y'all" 2 or more people is "all y'all"

In the South most adults I know still call their parents Mama and Daddy...my parents wouldn't know who I was talking about if I said Mom and Dad.

And I'm always "fixin to get up and go fix some supper"

If it's not in the room with me then it's "in yunder" no matter what other room "yunder" may be.

We use the word "reckon" a lot..."I reckon I better get up and go in yunder and fix some supper" :)

I could go on and on lol
 
When I moved to AZ and heard people say "do you want to go with?'" or "are you going with?" And I'm like "with WHOoooo???" Drove me bonkers. Of course, now I say it. :huh:

And yeah, growing up in Missouri all soda-pop was Coke and at college in Kansas, we went on Coke dates.

When I met my husband he said "clow-set" for "closet" because his mom did. I made enough fun of him that he stopped. He still says "tore" for "tour" which I think is silly too.

I never even heard a dust storm called a "haboob" until 2 summers ago when we had that huge one. And I've been here almost 30 years. I still call them dust storms.
 
Native Texan here.

When I was in 4th grade my mother made fun of me...my high-pitched, heavy Texan drawl...even though she was born and raised in East Texas (hickville).

So, I changed.

I used to say Coke, Mama/Daddy, fixin' to, y'all and more. But I was sooooo upset at being made fun of, that I changed the tone of my voice and switched to soda, mom/dad, about to, and you guys. While I understand native Texan, I haven't spoken that way in well over 2 decades. When I went to BYU (Utah), my sister came to visit and everybody gushed over her sweet southern drawl and asked why I didn't have one. Go figure.
 
sczos911 said:
Hey! We have bubblers up here. :) A fountain is a decorative thing in a park or fancy hotel. :)
It's soda.

I say "melk" not milk.

And one that gets my husband - "I have to unthaw the meat from the freezer". I've always said unthaw. Totally not right...

I am SURE I sound very much like the people in Fargo to a lot of you.
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I live in fargo. We don't sound like that either.
 
Up here we use reckon a lot too.

A word that is specific to our state (at least in my experience) is wicked. Everything is wicked good, wicked bad, wicked awesome, wicked sad, he was wicked mad, etc.
 
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