more regional dialect discussion

Contacts.

Jet Ski because we have no snow.

South Carolina.

Ask him which is better, Pizza Hut or Dominos. If he does anything besides lecture you on how none of that garbage is actually pizza he's not from New York.

java230 wrote: In reply to Keith Tanner: it becomes one word!skiddoo And in Alaska they are snow machines not snow mobiles.

By that rational, this is a "Dirt Machine."

Contacts in nc, mountain citu Tennessee, and harlan Kentucky.

Wall-e wrote: Ask him which is better, Pizza Hut or Dominos. If he does anything besides lecture you on how none of that garbage is actually pizza he's not from New York.

He's actually in NY until the 17th, which is good, it's been a lot quieter in the shop

There is one I hear occasionally around central Texas that I have not heard anywhere else.

Just barely.

We just barely got here.

He just barely painted his car.

Wall-e wrote: Ask him which is better, Pizza Hut or Dominos. If he does anything besides lecture you on how none of that garbage is actually pizza he's not from New York.

I'm not from NY, but that E36 M3 is a sorry excuse for pizza, and I do berate everyone that swoons about it to or near me.

Contacts outside PGH, I think lenses is just the douchey hipster way of saying it. I mean, there are books written on Pittsburghese, so I think the region has some dialect credential

Contax, Milwaukee, WI.

Here's some Milwaukee-ese, for yous guys:

Bubbler

Former New Yorker, I say contacts. Also, Pizza Hut and Dominos ain't real pizza. Real pizza comes from an establishment named after the proprietor.

Around here we are always "fixing to do something".

How come?=why?

Doc Brown wrote: Former New Yorker, I say contacts. Also, Pizza Hut and Dominos ain't real pizza. Real pizza comes from an establishment named after the proprietor.

You mean like Papa Johns?

Nick (LUCAS) Comstock wrote:

Doc Brown wrote: Former New Yorker, I say contacts. Also, Pizza Hut and Dominos ain't real pizza. Real pizza comes from an establishment named after the proprietor.

You mean like Papa Johns?

No, like Panucci's.

Contax here too, from MI.

Lots of sleds rode around here in the winter.

Many names of businesses end with "s". Meijers, Krogers, etc.

In reply to paranoid_android74:

Ha, funny.

On this one I always think of Taylor, MI where people say Fords and Walmarts.

In reply to JohnRW1621:

Yup! That's it!

On this side of the state too it seems people say "I got no ideal" instead of idea.

Oh, and we drive on roads made of ashphalt- while sipping our Vernors

Living in Pennsylvania is fun because we can't agree on things from one side of the state to the other.

East: Shopping Cart West: Buggy

East: Soda West: Pop

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2014/04/pennsylvania_dialects_from_pittsburghese_to_philadelphia_speak_the_keystone.html

http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/pennsylvania/pa-words/

aircooled wrote:

Brian wrote: Contacts, upstate ny Oh dialect and accents. I will never grow tired of Bostonian profanity. It's an art.

The masters of profanity and insults may be Mexicans, they seem to have a wide variety and constant stream of them. They seem not to want to talk about it to "outsiders" though. One I read recently, is the use of "cabrone" (sp). Pretty common, but its basis appears to mean someone who's wife is F'ing another guy! Kind of like how Englanders us the "C" word apparently.

Oh, I know Mexican profanity. I think most of my Spanish is dirty words. My old assistant manager was from Zihua. Although I'm pretty sure "Brian" in Spanish is "you berker". That was how he always addressed me.

"Contax" = camera brand

"Contacts" = corrective lenses applied directly to the eyeball

and I've lived in NY, MI, IL, and NV.

Northern Kentucky. Usually "Contacts". Some times "contact lens", but never just "lenses". That just sounds weird.

paranoid_android74 wrote: In reply to JohnRW1621: Yup! That's it! On this side of the state too it seems people say "I got no ideal" instead of idea. Oh, and we drive on roads made of ashphalt- while sipping our Vernors

"Idear" is the rural Illiana(hick) version. Usually in the full context of "I ain't got no idear 'bout that there..."

In reply to Nitroracer:

When I first moved to TX from IL sodas were all refered to as "coke" except for Dr. Pepper.

travellering wrote: Not like the Southeast US is an unknown accent, but everyday at lunchtime I hear: "Djeetyet?" "Naw, fittnt'gothough."

You should youtube search for some hardcore Glaswegian talk (as in Glasgow, Scotland). Observe the following lesson:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln7y049n5M8&feature=iv&src_vid=_FSWlfcg6oA&annotation_id=annotation_281684

Contacts

Snow-mobile

Y'all (a great way to address a number of people in a gender neutral manner)

Ideal (in place of a thought "idea")

And I've mentioned it before but I will again: hanging "at" off the end of sentences. "Where did y'all eat lunch...at?"

contacts here in southern tip of NJ...

however we have lots of wooder (water)

Contacts. Live near Atlanta now, but born and raised in Philly.

Been quite a transition moving down here. Took me a while to realize "Bless your heart" is actually an insult. I flat refuse to say ya'll. I also don't understand why people here say "I went to the doctor on yesterday." There's no on...it's just yesterday. Drives me nuts!

In the South they like to use the negative. Example:

Is the boss not in?

My response is always: Yes! (meaning the boss is NOT in) They always go away confused.