What words/sayings are unique to where you live?

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I was just thinking about the word toofer (meaing two-four as in a case of 24 beers), and apparently nobody outside of Ontario gets it. Who the hell buys a flat of beer?

I live in Vancouver now, and one of the funny sayings is "boot". Back when I needed someone else to buy my alcohol, you'd say that you needed someone to boot for you. First time I heard it, I was with some friends and they said that we needed to find a boot. I was like WTF do we need a boot for? Lets go get wasted.
 
Um, I'm not completely sure but I think Ohio is the only place where we say "pop" instead of "soda" or whathaveyou.
 
Nah, I believe pop is a midwestern thing. I hear it all over the place in Kansas, and I'm assuming other states nearby say the same thing.

One thing I hate about this area is "warsh" instead of "wash".
 
instead of "hurricane" people say "hairican"
and "pillow" is "piller",
"same with E.C. with "warsh",
"sink" is "sank" etc, etc, etc
 
"Oy with the poodles already!"

Okay, not really but there's no saying really unique in the mount views of Denver, Co.
 
so hard

New Jersey slang for doing something well. Similar to "the best."

Dude I just nailed that test so hard.

I just napped so hard.
 
i just ****ed so hard

...
...
sorry i couldn't resist :E
 
"Fabulous?"

Actually, I suppose that's been said by just about everyone here, so nevermind.
 
Kamikazie said:
i just ****ed so hard

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sorry i couldn't resist :E
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i ****ed ur mom so hard, oooooo
and i think this is the only place people still do mom jokes, but by people i mean me and a few of my friends, and we do them because it pisses people off. I also told a freshman i was going to molest him in spanish class, and then i did.
 
The people I know tend to "-ism" or "-ify" or "-able" words.

For instance, today I asked a friend if the girl he was interested in was "Rapable".

For the record, she apparently is.
 
I don't know for sure but apparently outside of southern Ontario (not even norther Ontario has this) there is no such thing as the word "eavestrough". Everyone else only knows them as "gutters".
 
joule said:
so hard

New Jersey slang for doing something well. Similar to "the best."

Dude I just nailed that test so hard.

I just napped so hard.
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Indeed.

We also got "yeah yo" and "nah yo."
 
Eavestroughs are the part of the roof that overhang the house. Gutters are the aluminum things at the end of the eavestrough that catches the water
 
Muffin Man said:
i ****ed ur mom so hard, oooooo
and i think this is the only place people still do mom jokes, but by people i mean me and a few of my friends, and we do them because it pisses people off. I also told a freshman i was going to molest him in spanish class, and then i did.
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dude, my mom is dead :|
 
California: "Hella," "hecka" as in "Hell of"

That test was hella difficult
 
ahh, just messin with you Muffin ;)

but seriously...some people down here still do the "your mom" jokes
 
i did them for 2 and a half hours strait once, no lie. and one of the cleanest ones i can think of was near the middle while we were playing halo (i hate halo, but we we're all pretty high on life) and discussed the glitch where u can drive the tank b4 u get in it. i believe it went like
"man, it weird you can ride the tank before you get in it"
"I like to ride your mom before i get in her"
and don't even get me started on "you just got splattered by aids"
lol
 
Pop, instead of soda-pop.

That's... about it. Although, I'm trying to get everyone to say EXTREME or TO THE MAX a lot. Seems like I'm the only one. I find adding either of those to a boring sentance is mildly hilarious.

Oh, and the "your mom" jokes are still rampant in my school, and I'm one of the contributers. Like, take a Wednesday for example:

(In Spanish...)

Some kid: "Man, this worksheet is hard."
Another kid: "If this worksheet was easy, the world would end."
Me: "If this worksheet was easy, it'd be like Ben's mom."
Ben (slowly): "... ... What?"

*laughter*
 
in the south, soft drinks are just 'coke'. Pop is an outdated term, back when they first came out the bottles were glass, and the liquid didn't just pour straight out of the bottom, it had to flow through this little S shape type thing. Think of a stomach where the 'exit' for your body is where the liquid is on the bottom, and the liquid flows up into the stomach, a little basin in the bottle, then out the top. Well there was a steel ball held in place at the top of the bottle but the pressure, and when you wanted to open a bottle you would smack the ball and pop it down in the bottle. Thus making the 'pop' sound.
 
I pawcked the cah in havahd yahd.

Gawd I love New England, such a beatiful language.
 
SMIB - Southern Maryland In-bred

there's a reason i avoid certain areas of my state
 
Coke or pop it is called here...like, wtf is soda?!! :p

Same with candy?!!?! It is chocolate or sweets!

Love the mom jokes, they may be old and shit but they are frickin funny in the right moment
 
Our word here would be 'Schraal'... Which would translate into 'meager'. But we use it in a 'dude, that's simply to weird'-way.

It's quite unique, but highly infectious :p
 
My favourite here is ken.

Ken = know

I.E. - I know what you mean. = "Ah ken whit ye mean".
 
quare...instead of queer(as in strange:upstare: )

it's quare cold. she's a quare auld one

i hate it, but find myself saying it more than i'd like:frown:
 
TheSomeone said:
California: "Hella," "hecka" as in "Hell of"

That test was hella difficult
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QFT
and, though not exactly unique to here, "dude".
 
Qonfused said:
Pop, instead of soda-pop.

That's... about it. Although, I'm trying to get everyone to say EXTREME or TO THE MAX a lot. Seems like I'm the only one. I find adding either of those to a boring sentance is mildly hilarious.

Oh, and the "your mom" jokes are still rampant in my school, and I'm one of the contributers. Like, take a Wednesday for example:

(In Spanish...)

Some kid: "Man, this worksheet is hard."
Another kid: "If this worksheet was easy, the world would end."
Me: "If this worksheet was easy, it'd be like Ben's mom."
Ben (slowly): "... ... What?"

*laughter*
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teacher: "So who was Zedillo's secretary in 1994?"
some dude: "Your mom."

:D
 
vegeta897 said:
Um, I'm not completely sure but I think Ohio is the only place where we say "pop" instead of "soda" or whathaveyou.
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in buffalo new york they say "sodapop" ..but it's pronounced "sodapap" ..first time a waiter asked me if I wanted a sodapap I had to think twice before saying "do you have beer on tap?" "we have bud, cores (coors) and milwakee so and so" ...I say "can I have a glass of water?"


oh and it's a two-fer of beer not beers ..get your coloquialism right ;)

I have friends from the east coast, Cape Breton Nova scotia to be exact ..they just have the funniest words for common things like "rimwrench" ..took me forever to realise that was a tire iron. Or "bye, me gets real tirstee on tursdays cuz that's payin day"

translation: "I like to go out drinking on thursdays cuz it's pay day"
 
In boston we drop the r's in most words.. And we use "wicked" as an extreme form of "very".

"I play wicked hahd when I go to the pahk"
 
DreadLord1337 said:
In boston we drop the r's in most words.. And we use "wicked" as an extreme form of "very".

"I play wicked hahd when I go to the pahk"
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cliff claven!! ..or is more like the kennedy's?
 
I once went to new jersey and asked for a 6" sub at subway... and the guy recognized that I was from connecticut. I asked how he knew, and he said guys from CT call them subs, from jersery call them grinders, and he gave me a whole list of different names from different states. Was kinda funny.
 
CptStern said:
cliff claven!! ..or is more like the kennedy's?
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I'm not sure who Cliff Claven is.. But I suppose it would be quite similar to the Kennedy's as they are from Massachusetts..
 
DreadLord1337 said:
I'm not sure who Cliff Claven is.. But I suppose it would be quite similar to the Kennedy's as they are from Massachusetts..
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dear god can it be true? ..he's only the most famous Bostonian after the kennedy's

cliff claven from Cheers
 
Krynn72 said:
I once went to new jersey and asked for a 6" sub at subway... and the guy recognized that I was from connecticut. I asked how he knew, and he said guys from CT call them subs, from jersery call them grinders, and he gave me a whole list of different names from different states. Was kinda funny.
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canadians call it subs too
 
CptStern said:
dear god can it be true? ..he's only the most famous Bostonian after the kennedy's

cliff claven from Cheers
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Oh right sorry, didn't know his name.. Cheers was before my time.. But yes, like his.
 
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