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Pittsburgh/SW PA words. What are words used that are unique to your area.
jumbo----bologna
pop-----soda
yhinz---a person/people
gumbands---rubber bands
jagoff--a jerk
Buggy-shopping cart
Red up-clean up
Keller-color
debm55
(39,985 posts)Traildogbob
(10,306 posts)You all. Yuns come over after dark.
GPV
(73,101 posts)GPV
(73,101 posts)that's the most cunnin'est ki'en I evah seen." (Cutest baby cat.)
GPV
(73,101 posts)GPV
(73,101 posts)GPV
(73,101 posts)debm55
(39,985 posts)GPV
(73,101 posts)yorkster
(2,586 posts)in my yoot in Boston.
debm55
(39,985 posts)LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)Someone who comes to the beach and has a surfboard, but never surfs, or that surfs poorly and annoys the local seasoned surfers
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hodad
Not sure if is still in use, but it filtered down to the elementary school level in the 1960s
debm55
(39,985 posts)SWBTATTReg
(24,518 posts)More crunch crunch, please!
In other words, I need more ice for my drink!!
The first time I used this saying, my bartender looked at me kind of 'what?!', he had never heard the saying, this was the first time I realized that not many people had heard this saying.
debm55
(39,985 posts)SWBTATTReg
(24,518 posts)debm55
(39,985 posts)AbnerBunny
(1,463 posts)It means I dont mind at all to help.
debm55
(39,985 posts)debm55
(39,985 posts)10 Turtle Day
(553 posts)Was baffled that their words implied no but were eager to help. Seems so contradictory.
catbyte
(36,125 posts)Yooper (a person from Michigan's Upper Peninsula)
Hoser/Hosehead (usually a Canadian)
debm55
(39,985 posts)ProfessorGAC
(71,051 posts)When I first started going east ir south, and people said soda I thought they were talking about club soda.
Pop is all anybody called it around here, too.
debm55
(39,985 posts)LeftInTX
(31,292 posts)That's a weird one and I've lived in a lot of places/states. Bubbler is totally unique to WI and I have never heard used for drinking fountain anywhere else! "Go to the bubbler and get a drink"
JenniferJuniper
(4,551 posts)debm55
(39,985 posts)Lunabell
(7,119 posts)About to do something.
debm55
(39,985 posts)Lunabell
(7,119 posts)That's another southernism. Pronounced: yes-sir-ee-bob. Lol.
debm55
(39,985 posts)Dale in Laurel MD
(763 posts)nt
debm55
(39,985 posts)Dale in Laurel MD
(763 posts)But that was usually called an ice cream soda rather than just a soda.
ProfessorGAC
(71,051 posts)I never heard the word "soda" for that drink until I was in Florida at 16.
Later on the east coast in college.
Everybody called it pop around here.
debm55
(39,985 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,694 posts)a buritto with red and green chile sauce.
Oh yeah, New Mexico
debm55
(39,985 posts)coprolite
(324 posts)Olympia Beer, learned it from interior Alaska.
debm55
(39,985 posts)3catwoman3
(25,868 posts)When I first started working at my final job in a pediatric practice in one of the Chicago suburbs, it took me a while to figure out what the hell mothers were talking about when they would say, "He had a fever for 3 days, and then he got sick."
I'm thinking, if the kid had a fever for 3 days, weren't they already sick? Made no sense until I finally worked it out that no one around here says vomiting, puking, barfing, or throwing up. No idea why.
debm55
(39,985 posts)KitFox
(132 posts)Borrow pit which came out as bar pit for ditch alongside a road
Pert near meaning almost
Weeze meaning you and I
Going to the show meaning going to the movies
Drag Main meaning cruising
Pop soft drinks
From my upbringing in Eastern Oregon
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