Why will take for focussing to a time machine get you sent to an ATM in Wisconsin , a asking for a sarsaparilla spider get you a root beer plasterer’s float in Australia , and someone wondering if you ’ve seen their bunnyhug in Saskatchewan is really explore for their favorite hoodie ? Read on to find out .
In reply tothis call for the most classifiable regionalism in your areawe got reception from all over the English - speaking man . Here ’s a field guide to just some of our favorites :
The United States
pierreriviere
Georgia . Here thing can be “ as ugly as homemade sand . ” ( Alternately , “ as ugly as homemade sin ” )
Wittyname
As a native Midwestern moving to the Northeast , I still call up its funny that everyone here say “ on seam ” when cite to waiting in billet .
SteveMarsh
Bostonian here :
restorative = = any sort of soda
frappe = = “ milk milkshake ” in the rest of the humankind , milk tremble in NE is Milk River , shaken with the syrup , no methamphetamine hydrochloride cream include .
But these in result when I first moved to NE in ’ 70 ’s , maybe it ’s different now , do n’t get out much .
ThorC1138
“ Gum band ” for caoutchouc band , never learn it anywhere else outside of the 3 old age I lived in Penn Hills , PA . ( just outside Pittsburgh )
meatwadf
A town located right next to mine here in middle TN has “ yert ! ” I put the ecphonesis full point there because , well , it ’s always shouted . No matter what or the position . It ’s kind of a local “ woo ! ” and other exchangeable shouts .
BrewCrew82
Having grow up & lived in Wisconsin most of my life , here are my favourite :
1 ) rent me stop at this bubbler . ( drinking fountain )
2 ) I got to hit up a time machine . ( ATM – TYME was a local / regional brand name of ATM )
3 ) I ’m channelise upnort for the weekend . ( “ up north ” ) – no matter of which charge you want to travel , if you have a plot of land of hunting ground / bungalow / cabin / lake house , you go “ upnort ”
Otto Lipschitz
Kinda surprised not to see New Orleans correspond yet , so
neutral ground = median
toilet cans / gutter pipes = trough
poboy = sub sandwich
go cup = a plastic cup to take your drink with you when you leave the ginmill
inkpen = playpen
lagniappe = little extra affair chuck out in with your order
jpathomas
Having hold out in the Minneapolis for a bit less than two years there are a number of local expressions that take in one ’s attending . My favorite so far is “ spendy ” as in , “ Those are some good wiper blades , but they’er a trivial spendy . ”
David Gustafson
Minnesota . Not certain how confined it is to the orbit , but : “ Can I go with ? ”
Been here since ’ 74 , and it still scrape .
LammiePi
I am a Canadian by birth , currently living in North Carolina . When we moved here , I found the following , said by high school teachers , to be foreign to my Canadian ears :
– “ Put up your calculators . ” ( I maintain look up , to see where they were going to put them , but it just meant to put them away . )
– “ Take that toboggan off your school principal . ” ( I looked for the tyke wearing a expectant wooden object on his head , designed to go down snow-white hills , but instead found someone wearing a knit cap . )
iamthemob
I ’ve ground wherever I live , a lot of the regional manifestation are free-base on two thing : solid food and location / direction .
When I live in New Orleans , I found a plethora of these :
( 1 ) make groceries = shopping for intellectual nourishment
( 2 ) would you like it dressed = would you care your sandwich ( po - boy ) with condiment and veg ? ( lettuce , tomato , hole , mayo )
Canada
escherichia
Bunnyhug .
It ’s the Saskatchewan condition for a hoodie .
Agent451
Alberta - philosophy :
Change of clothes you wear at the gymnasium : gym strip
Coloured markers : felts
Lunch bag ( basically any non - paper bag lunch container , particularly kiddy themed ones ): luncheon kits
Australia
Alex Cass
Australian , here . It took me a while to work out that if I went into an American restaurant and require for a sarsparilla wanderer , they ’d have what I want , but they ’d have no mind what the fuck I was asking for .
Ireland
Killian
I ’m from the west of Ireland and the local language have strange enough to warrant subtitles on home TV . Although true when written down without the accent they expect a lot less weird . How it is tell can also switch the meaning .
Bertie / Berty = Very full . Wiery = Bad . Sound = Good / OK / Yes . Just to name a few .
Scotland
numberthirteen
In the same way the Inuit “ famously ” have several Son for Snow , the mass of Glasgow , Scotland have a option of Good Book for ( a ) bleak weather and ( b ) lunatics .
( a ) Bleak Weather :
Dreich , minging , drookit , haar , sump , perishin , smirry , etc .
SalsaShark
I ’m from Ayr , a small township on the west coast of Scotland , and we have a word I ’ve never quite get wind a decent equivalent for anywhere else . If a friend or enemy has something unpleasant happen to them- stubbs a toe , slop a deglutition , gets get cheating- and you need a phone to fully express you relishing in their bad luck , you let sluttish a gracious loud ‘ Haneck ! ’ . Take a second to maunder that word to yourself , and think the absolute devastation of hearing that after tripping in public or whatever , and the power you ’ll have when its your good turn to utilize . Your buttock of an ex - boss got caught circumvent tax ? Haneck to them ! Ha - neck !
Regionalisms : Multilingual Edition
And , to wrap it up a last regionalism not just from English but also Swedish , this little not quite spoken affirmation :
Blinde Killen
The unknown way of say yes in Sweden through blowing air in your lip ( rather than out ) is most unremarkably used in the north , but it can be hear all over Sweden to some extent . I opine I ’ve regain myself using it sometimes .
Tom_Has_Doubts
We have a more abbreviated version of that in Northern Ireland , where inhaling and making a small ‘ hah ’ stochasticity , as if gasp for zephyr , means “ Yes ” or “ I ’m listening . ”
impart that some vikings settled in Ireland centuries ago there may be a connexion with the swedish customs duty .
figure : Masson / Shutterstock
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