Silly ? of the day 6/1/02 Inspired by Dad2jbj's "y'all"
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RobbiD · 06-01-2002, 09:22 PM

Janet44 & 2Princesses, I'm with you. Jersey Girl, through and through. Yes, we called it Goosey Night. And I've never given anything for a wedding present except a card and check. I don't know if I have any additional sayings (except 'How ya doing?') but I've been told by many non-NJ people that I talk extremely fast! And I shorten everyone's name.

Janet 46 · 06-01-2002, 10:09 PM

2Princesses and RobbiD and anyone else from NJ: Is Goosey Night just a Bergen/Passaic County thing? What part of NJ are you from and what do you call it?

Most of my wedding gifts were in the form of $$. I opened all the envelopes on my wedding night in the hotel room! We did receive a few "gifts" but I didn't bother opening them until we came back from our honeymoon!

I carry a purse, I wear sneakers and I sit on a couch!

GoofyMom · 06-01-2002, 10:44 PM

After all this talk about pop, soda, soft drinks, carbonated beverages, and cokes, I was wondering if anyone has heard of a "wobbly pop"? Self explanatory once you hear what it is. Remember, we call sweet carbonated beverages "pop".

It's a wine, vodka or rum cooler. My fave is Smirnoff Ice [img]graemlins/yuma.gif[/img] (which Winnipeg actually ran out of last summer for 3 or 4 weeks. You had to put your name on a waiting list at the liquor store [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] )

[ 06-02-2002, 11:09 PM: Message edited by: GoofyMom ]

DisneyDuo · 06-02-2002, 12:11 AM

DW and I are from the south...south side of Chicago that is. When we were down in New Mexico I was asked what part of Texas we were from. When I was asked what made them think that, they said we talked like we were from there. We used the same expressions that they used, and we said yes sir, no sir, etc. etc. They were quite surprised when I said that we were from Illi-noise. [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img] To be completely honest "wit youse guys" we grew up with alot of these different sayings. WE had family from all over the Good-ole USA. [img]graemlins/usa.gif[/img]
See "y'all" later.

Janet 46 · 06-02-2002, 12:23 AM

I've never called soda "pop", and Coke, Pepsi, 7-up, whatever is all soda to me. We call the amusement park "Great Adventure" not Six-Flags. When we are taking a trip to the beach, we say that we're going "down the shore".

What does everyone call the night before Halloween?? When I was growing up, it was called "Goosey Night" but since I've moved to Morris County it's called "Mischief Night".

We also have "jug handles" here which (I think) are only found around here. If you are driving down the high-way and you need to make a left turn, what you have to do is get into the right lane, turn right onto the jug handle and go straight across the highway. I was shocked when I visited my friend from Richmond, VA and they just made U-turns or left turns anywhere.

I've also never pumped my own gas - there are gas station attendants that do that!

Teresa · 06-02-2002, 12:25 AM

Grew up in the inner city with a lot of black kids (4 white kids in our entire school, me, my sister and the brother and sister from the street over), and then I married a country boy and we are raising our kids half way inbetween in a big Moslem community

Crick- creek
Warsh- wash
Ideal- idea
Idear- ideal
ant- aunt
auntie- aunt
we have a couch, my parents have sofas, and my grandparents have davenports

car is anything that has a motor and is enclosed ( we have a truck, a van, an SUV, and a car, and we call them all the car, just by the color

glass is something you drink out of, whther it is plastic, glass, etc

the red-neck side of the family (DH's) calls racoons - coons

skunk is a polecat

and I could not begin to tell you all the other stuff

DisneyNutMary · 06-02-2002, 12:36 AM

I grew up in Brooklyn, where a fire hydrant is a Johnny Pump, orange is pronounced are-ange and South Brooklyn is actually kind of on the Northwest side. When talking to 2 or more poeple you would address them as yous, as in "what are yous doing tonight?"
Give me some time to think and I will come up with some more Brooklynisms [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

JoanneC · 06-02-2002, 12:38 AM

LOL! Great topic! Disknut's warsher reminded me of some differences I found with in-laws when I married a "boy" from southern Missouri. "I throwed that out" was his family's form of "threw". I told one of the kids once to stop being ornery...everyone just looked at me...ON-REE, apparently is how they say it. And of course the nearby town of Nevada, Missouri, threw me for a long time. Pronounced Ne-vay-da, I thought my hubby didn't know how to pronounce Nevada, as in the state.

Tara O'Hara · 06-02-2002, 12:45 AM

I am from NYC, so I am just plain loud. Of course, I also say chalkolate and traaaaash!

Tara
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Kruggie · 06-02-2002, 01:09 AM

Disneyknut!
Ya forgot to mention that us Pittsburgians often use gumbands and eat chipped ham sammiches with our arn city n'at means yunz dont know nuttin a'ner all a bunch a jagg offs.
I'm go'an dahn tahn ta see Donnie Aris....At jagg off don't know nuttin baht the stillers.

Translation:
gumbands=rubberbands
chipped ham...sliced ham chopped up finely.
sammich....sandwich
n'at....and that
nuttin...nothing
an'er.....and your
jagg offs....ahem a form of cursing
go'an....going
dahn tahn...downtown
ta...to
donnie Aris...donnie iris (a local muscician)
baht...about.

it's definatly a burgh thing.

Wondcat · 06-02-2002, 01:59 AM

Omigosh, this is so funny.I don't even know if I can type the way some of the 'Balmorons' from Balmer (Baltimore) speak. Now, I do say Bal-ti-more, Mary-land, but a lot say Balmer, Murrilan

Coke is soda(what youse guys drink)
sink is zinc(where youse warsh your hans wit warter)
going to Ocean City is goin downy ochin
inner city is downtown
you all is youse guys
are not is ain't
hon is hun,as in ain't it hot, hun? The huumidditee is high today
I carry a purse
my MIL carries a pockybook
Halloween eve is Movin' night
we wear tennis shoes
you warsh your clothes in a warshing machine
I have even heard in some communities, Puncil for pencil, as in can I hold your puncil
Doag for Dog
and quarter piece for a .25 cent coin, which is usually just a quarter

I fortunately, do not speak this way, but hear it every day.

2Princesses · 06-02-2002, 10:29 AM

For Janet44 - RE: Goosey Night!

I did live in Passaic county until I was two, but then moved down "the shore" to Ocean County where the night before Halloween has always been "Mischief Night". I have to ask my Mom and cousins about "Goosey Night".

Janet 46 · 06-02-2002, 11:46 AM

2 Princesses: I lived in Clifton until I was 8 and I think that's where I got it from! We moved to Elmwood Park (okay, it was East Paterson when I got there but it changed later) and I'm not sure what everyone there called it. I'll have to ask my sisters.

Las17 · 06-02-2002, 06:00 PM

I couldn't think of a single thing to add to this topic, at first. I just thought the way I spoke was pretty normal! Then I started to read your posts...

I grew up in Kentucky and have lived in Ga. for pretty much the past 15 years now. I always call the drink I'm having whatever the name is. For example, if I want a Sprite,I say Sprite,if I want Pepsi, I say Pepsi. I've never understood what the deal is with calling it anything other than what it is.

I wear tennis shoes, drink sweet tea(it really bugs me to order tea in other places and have to add sugar!), sit on a couch,and carry a purse.
I eat dressing at Thanksgiving, not stuffing. To me, stuffing is made inside the bird and I can't imagine eating that. It has to be cornbread dressing too!

My DH is an army brat, so I can't pinpoint his accent or sayings. His Mom is from Maine and Dad is from N.C. so I guess he gets things from both of them. His Dad speaks about like I do, but my MIL cracks me up with some of hers! She says idear, warsh, quata,etc. She also says "ont" for the relative I've always called "ant". My kids get so confused. I tell them to call my sister "ant" and Daddy's sisters "ont".

I'm sure there are lots more, but I just can't think of them right now.

BTW-I've never heard the word "you'uns" used here in Ga.
Also, someone here said they use bunnyhug instead of hoodies. What is a hoodie?

It's funny too how people see someone from a different state in a preconceived way just because of where they're from. One time when I was visiting my cousins in Iowa, we told people there we were from Ky. and they said they didn't know we had paved roads or wore shoes in Ky.! I'm sure they were just having fun with us(I hope!)

Laura

**disneyknut** · 06-02-2002, 06:26 PM

Thanks Kruggie I knew I would forget a few Puttsburgese sayings... I should have listened to Jimmy Kren on my 'DVE CD .. he's the best with Pittsburgh slang...