What regional words in only your area?

[debm55]

In this tread, some posters bought up some words we use here in Western PA
Yinze/Yunze---you all.
Jumbo---bologna
samitch-sandwich
poke--bag (mostly used by the oldtimers
A Sugardale--it' s a regional ham
Giant-Iggle---store by the name of Giant Eagle
pop--soda
So, are you able to understand That are yinze going down to the Giant Iggle to buy some jumbo to make fried jumbo samitches. Tell them to put in in a poke and don't forget the pop.

How could I forget .
cookie table- a huge table at a wedding, separate from the food, where every darn cookie is served.

[Ocelot II]

1. Pop is also midwestern for soda.

In Minnesota the game Duck, Duck, Goose is called Duck, Duck, Gray Duck.

[debm55]

2. Why?

[Ocelot II]

3. This is the theory, at least:

There are two versions of the game that came from Sweden. One called "Anka Anka Gås," which translates into "Duck, Duck, Goose." Another is "Anka Anka Grå Anka," which translates into "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck." The Swedes who played that version likely ended up in Minnesota.

[debm55]

5. interesting,Thank you for the info

[PaxtonSahara]

4. Drinking fountains are "bubblers" in Milwaukee

[debm55]

7. Thank you.

interesting to learn about other states

[NJCher]

6. NJ:

you have to know there are plenty of them around here.

One is pasta fazhool. This disgusts the RG, who spent 20+ years in Italy and owned a chain of language schools while he lived there. Of course he speaks fluent Italian.

He is also a culinary expert and would never pronounce pasta fagioli "pasta fazhool." I can see the look of disgust on his face whenever he hears it.

Another one he can't stand is "mozzarell." Without the "a."

Sometimes non-native NJ people adopt these pronunciations. This really gets under his skin.

[SouthernLiberal]

12. It's been almost 23 years

Since I left NJ for the deep south, and I still tend to pronounce those words that way.

[wnylib]

16. Dean Martin pronounced it as

"pasta fazhool" when he sang "That's Amore."

[crud]

8. Shout out from Sacramento

"Hella" ...widely used in many situations...as in hella cool, hella dope or just hella. Can be heard in the movie "Lady bird" which takes place there.

Also of note in California...Southern Californians refer to their freeways as "the 5" or "the 99". In Northern Cal and most other cities folks don't add the word "the"... they just say 5 or 99.

[crud]

9. Also regarding the Pittsburg accent...

I went to College in North Western PA and when we met someone from Pittsburg we would call them "Mup Ears" because they would always say We're Mup Ear from Pittsburg. LOL

[NJCher]

14. That's s funny

I also like “bubblers,” upthread. It has so much more character than “drinking fountain.”

With Mup Ears, I get a connotation of muppets , though. 😊

[wnylib]

17. I'm from northwestern PA.

What college did you go to there?

[crud]

23. Edinboro

earned a BFA in 1979

[wnylib]

25. Thought it might be Edinboro. That or one of

the colleges in Erie, or Allegheny in Meadville.

[electric_blue68]

10. Fugedabotit! (Brooklynese) I think I spelled it right 😄

[wryter2000]

11. Only thing I can think of

Oaktown for Oakland.

[Laffy Kat]

13. I've always worked around medicine....

When the providers want to leave an IV in place but aren't ready to discharge a patient they will order the IV be TKO, (to keep open). The IV drip is reduced to just enough to keep the cite open. In Colorado it is known as a Buff cap. I always thought that was what it was called everywhere, but it's only around here. It comes from the University of Colorado School of Medicine due to the CU football team mascot, a buffalo! I don't know who started it or when, but everyone around here calls it a Buff cap from training on.

[3catwoman3]

15. Bismark for jelly-filled...

...donut in Chicago.

[Cairycat]

18. Padidlle

a car with one headlight out

[Walleye]

19. Philly -Wooder ice

[mnhtnbb]

20. In NJ you go to the shore

but everywhere else I've lived from CA to MO to NE and NC, you go to the beach.

[lpbk2713]

21. Momma nem.

We're going to go visit Momma nem.

[Marthe48]

22. Kype

I've only heard it once or twice here in Marietta, Ohio.

Means to steal, swipe, pilfer.

I saw the wallet laying there, so I kyped it.

[Ocelot II]

26. Haven't heard that in years, but it was common usage in MN when I was a kid.

[Coventina]

24. Growing up in Seattle: a potluck was called a potlatch

I believe it's a loan word from a First Nation.