you talk funny

Libby Pritchett said:
LOL My oldest daughter, age 14, to this day says "crowns" for crayons. I have NO idea where she gets it.
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Libby, I do the exact same thing. I have done it since I was little. To this day, I have to say crayons like Forrest Gump to get it right.

I say Coke for everything when asking someone if they want a drink but if in a restaurant you Coke is the brown colored soda.

I grew up in TX, live in AZ and spent 3 years in Boston, MA, I swear I have heard it all!
 
I grew up with lots of sayings that no one but the peeps on the navajo reservation get lol

We point with our lips. Seriously, I even catch myself doing that. We'll be talking and then pointing with our lips to show the other person someone or something over there. I try really hard not to let that slip since I don't live on the reservation now.

Oh, and my DH pointed out to me that my family and I (and basically all navajos) always say "I feel somehow" when we don't feel good lol
 
So I'm at work and shouldn't be on - but when I lived in CA I noticed the term "hella" and "hecka" being used quite a bit. And when I first met my husband we would tease him about the way he said ten - the way he said it sounded like tin. :)
 
Pe-CAN... not pe-CAH-n
Shut the light
Soda (not coke, not pop... everything is soda)
Swim trunks or Bathing Suit (instead of swimsuit)

DH says "crown" instead of crayon and PIN instead of Pen. :p Those always make me scratch my head. ;)
 
Jenn Barrette said:
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.
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Next time you are in Windsor, let me know! We're only about an hour and a half from there.
 
Lots of things being southern, lol. Awallgo,instead of a while a go. Afterwhile, i say that a lot, like instead of after a little while. Y'all, yonder, youngins, britches, i use to say buggy, dh makes fun of me, i'm sure there are tons of other things.

Phrases too, for example, when the kids are being bad, i say they are showing there butts, i've had friends say they actually thought the kids were mooning people, lol.
 
Libby Pritchett said:
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
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pa Jam as.

I say soda, but picked that up while in the service. Its pop in Michigan, but i refuse to call it pop. At home it was a Drank, not coke, soda, drink, pop. Lol.
 
I say 'totally' a lot. But I grew up talking 'valley girl'... hopefully, that is all that is left of THAT period!

My parents are from Hawaii and my mom says "closet" pronounced, "clowzet" and says "daughter" as "dorter".

Along these same lines, when I was traveling for work a long time ago(from CA to CT) for training and in the cafeteria, I ordered a sandwich. She asked me what kind of bread and I replied, "sourdough"... to which she informed me that they didn't have any... and then asked me what kind of cheese and I told her,"Monterey Jack". She laughed so hard at my order and asked me if I was from CA.... I was like.... um.. yes... does it show?!?!?!?! :D
 
I can't think of something I say funny but I'm sure I do. Jeff says warsh instead of wash which makes me insane.
 
I have picked up a slight southern accent and when i get excited or talk fast I have a slight lisp soooo sometimes things sound quite hilarious
 
k... after actually reading through all these, I still say I don't talk funny, but then come on, I sound fine to me. lol
HOWEVER.
pen/pin are/our/hour any word sets like those - they sound the same. I drop most of my g's. my "th" says "duh." A lot of words are run-ons. Such as "whatcha" "fix'in" "lemme" "how'ya" and so on. Actually I mumble and my words all run together often. The more excited or nervous or angry or well anything I get the more it happens. People love to make fun of how I talk. :p Thus my continual denial of my funny talking.
 
CA Dreamer said:
I say 'totally' a lot. But I grew up talking 'valley girl'... hopefully, that is all that is left of THAT period!

My parents are from Hawaii and my mom says "closet" pronounced, "clowzet" and says "daughter" as "dorter".

Along these same lines, when I was traveling for work a long time ago(from CA to CT) for training and in the cafeteria, I ordered a sandwich. She asked me what kind of bread and I replied, "sourdough"... to which she informed me that they didn't have any... and then asked me what kind of cheese and I told her,"Monterey Jack". She laughed so hard at my order and asked me if I was from CA.... I was like.... um.. yes... does it show?!?!?!?! :D
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Must not have been a very good sandwich line up!
 
My parents are both from Illinois, but I was raised in California, so I have some mid-west and some Cali jargon still in my everyday speech.

I have for the most part killed off my Valley Girl talk.... but I will once in a while still say "like I'm so sure" in disbelief of something and still say "like" more than I should. But "gag me with a spoon" is forever banished from my speech. :P

I do call soft drinks pop. My husband who is from North Dakota says soda.

My husband is from North Dakota/Minnesota area, so he has lots of charming sayings. I can only think of a couple right now though.
uff da!
Stick a fork in me
Oh for cute
everything is a "hot dish" not a casserole
 
I'm pretty weird in that I make up words to avoid cussing, so I will say things like "son of a duck and pig" or "what the hooey," or my favorite, "suck wad woobie head." What I find even more interesting is that after a while, the people around me use my weird phrases too. I guess insanity is contagious.

Oh and I say britches for pants and it makes my son so mad that I say it every chance I get. 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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LOL that's pretty much Texas too, although we never included the Sprite/7-Ups with Coke. DH calls it pop and I find that annoying...soda I don't mind. :D
 
Julie Billingsley said:
I do call soft drinks pop. My husband who is from North Dakota says soda.

My husband is from North Dakota/Minnesota area, so he has lots of charming sayings. I can only think of a couple right now though.
uff da!
Stick a fork in me
Oh for cute
everything is a "hot dish" not a casserole
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That's funny that he says soda cause I get teased for saying. Everyone says pop. I don't say any of his phrases but I have heard them in small towns around here.
 
jacinda said:
I think it's a case of you don't know you say things different until someone brings your attention to it, too.
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I agree - many years ago I was camping in Oregon I think it was and I said oh where is the rubbish bin and got a strange look, only then did I realize I need to say trash can.
 
We say "britches" for pants, and "buggies" for shopping carts. We have 3 meals a day - breakfast, dinner and supper. Lunch if it's just like a sandwich.

We "tote" things instead of carrying them.

We "mash" buttons instead of pushing them.

"sugar" can mean that sweet white stuff or it can be sweet kisses

When we get angry we get "riled up"

When we have some good gossip to share it's usually started with "I hear tell"
 
Working at Zion National Park and driving a shuttle bus, I listen to people all day long. One thing I find funny is how people say Zion. It is pronounced Zi-n - forget about the o. People from up north (Salt Lake/Wasatch Front) call it Zi-ns with an "s". Zions is a bank here in Utah not a National Park. People from every where else call it Zi-On really pronouncing the "on".
 
LOL I love the differences in British English and American English.

Rachel has watched Peppa Pig for so long that she asks for ice lollies...the first time she did that I was like 'whaaaat?' before it dawned on me that she wanted a popsicle.
And then there was the time I was on my HS graduation trip with a few girlfriends and this guy from Yorkshire kept flirting with me at the hotel pool. I enjoyed the attention but nearly choked when he asked if he could come knock me up later. Imagine his mortification when it was explained to him what that means here in the US. LOL
 
I live in TX but I'm from Michigan. I say "pop" and they LAUGH at me here. :) But I laugh (in my head, not out loud, of course!) when someone says "Would you like a Coke?" No, it's pop: COKE is a type of pop. ;) So if I want a coke, do I say "Coke Coke"??? lol

My MIL says "somethint" (With a very noticeable "INT" sound instead of an "ING" sound). It drives. Me. NUTS! DH used to say it but I've gotten him to stop, thank goodness; I didn't want our kids to say it. IDK why she says it that way. She's from the east side of MI. I'm from the West side and we do NOT say it that way lol.
 
I grew up in central Florida....in a rural area so while *I* think I lack an accent when Ive talked to friends in the northeast like Jersey and Massachusetts they swear I do.

When someone asks how far away something is I answer in minutes not miles and something is always just down the road...even when it is miles a way.

I say yall and fixin' to and apparently cannot say oil or tire according to my husband who is from Jersey. But all of thta is normal around here and unless you talk to someone else who does not live in the same area you dont notice the slight differences in speech.
 
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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That's a southern thing too. I was so confused the 1st time I ordered a "soda" in Louisiana. lol
 
I'm bad to add 'a's to everything. Window is a winda, yellow is yella. My BF's name is Jolene, I call her Jolena. I've lost a lot of my accent, but to people in MI they hear it.
 
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