Regional Slang & a little poll (plus some John Green)

jackiback · September 2013

I think spicket is for outside water (the hose spicket) and faucet is inside. I may have just made this up in my head and it probably has nothin to do with where I live

jackiback · September 2013

SnShne322 said:

jackiback said:

Um, is that a trick question? Because yes.

Yes. I was kidding.

Good because I love them

AshleyT121 · September 2013

Skeezon said:

Okay, here's the dirty south version: (sidenote: I did not know that some of these were not "normal" until I lived in San Diego and people would give me the side eye)

Washateria - the place where you go to wash your clothes & use quarters in the machines
Hosepipe - garden hose
Save - put away (example: save the dishes, save the laundry, save the groceries)
Get down - get out of the car and go inside (example: You pull up at the store with a friend. "Are you gonna get down or you want me to get you something?")
Coonass - a Cajun person
Dressed - sandwiches (esp in New Orleans) either come dressed (lettuce, tomato & mayo) or undressed (plain)

Most of our other words are just Cajun French for what they represent.

If someone was to say either of these things to me in conversation, I would have been totally lost. I've never heard either.

RevJen · September 2013

SnShne322 said:

Does anyone like rainbow sprinkles after they become a teenager?

I do. Rainbow sprinkles are my favorite.

RevJen · September 2013

AshleyT121 said:

Burners. WTF eyes? I've never heard that!

I love learning all the different slangs/sayings/pronunciations that vary by region.

My favourite difference in my area.... Zed (rather than zee). As in W X Y and Zed, though that isn't just a Canadian thing. I'm constantly yelling ZED over any of Adelaide's toys that were manufactured in the US and sing the alphabet.

And apparently.... washroom!

Zed is totally a Canadian thing. lol

RevJen · September 2013

julie37619 said:

I say "spicket" and "buggy". Also, I've never known anyone (before this weekend) who didn't say "eye" for "burner".

The spigot is where the hose attaches to the house. I knew that one.

jlq2005 · September 2013

jackiback said:

I think spicket is for outside water (the hose spicket) and faucet is inside. I may have just made this up in my head and it probably has nothin to do with where I live

I use this. The faucet is inside at a sink, and the spicket is outside with the hose.

SusieBW · September 2013

SnShne322 said:

MrsJenE said:

I've heard "eyes" before, but only once or twice. Speaking of coffee ice cream, RI has coffee milk which is just about one of the yuckiest things I've ever had in my mouth. #thatswhatshesaid

I love coffee milk!

YUP. Coffee milk is amazing. But there are two different brands of coffee syrup (It comes just like Hershey's syrup that you use to make chocolate syrup) and only one is really good. The other is useless.

Young_Love · September 2013

OMG I have never said or heard any of these things.

julie37619 · September 2013

jlq2005 said:

jackiback said:

I think spicket is for outside water (the hose spicket) and faucet is inside. I may have just made this up in my head and it probably has nothin to do with where I live

I use this. The faucet is inside at a sink, and the spicket is outside with the hose.

Ditto. The faucet is inside, the spicket is outside.

AshleyT121 · September 2013

RevJen said:

AshleyT121 said:

Burners. WTF eyes? I've never heard that!

I love learning all the different slangs/sayings/pronunciations that vary by region.

My favourite difference in my area.... Zed (rather than zee). As in W X Y and Zed, though that isn't just a Canadian thing. I'm constantly yelling ZED over any of Adelaide's toys that were manufactured in the US and sing the alphabet.

And apparently.... washroom!

Zed is totally a Canadian thing. lol

It's actually a British thing, among others. Zee is American.

"In most dialects of English, the letter's name is 'zed' /ˈzɛd/, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta, but in American English, its name is 'zee' /ˈziː/, deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal form.^"

RevJen · September 2013

AshleyT121 said:

RevJen said:

AshleyT121 said:

Burners. WTF eyes? I've never heard that!

I love learning all the different slangs/sayings/pronunciations that vary by region.

My favourite difference in my area.... Zed (rather than zee). As in W X Y and Zed, though that isn't just a Canadian thing. I'm constantly yelling ZED over any of Adelaide's toys that were manufactured in the US and sing the alphabet.

And apparently.... washroom!

Zed is totally a Canadian thing. lol

It's actually a British thing, among others. Zee is American.

"In most dialects of English, the letter's name is 'zed' /ˈzɛd/, reflecting its derivation from the Greek zeta, but in American English, its name is 'zee' /ˈziː/, deriving from a late 17th century English dialectal form.^"

lol ...

We need to do our own thing, you know.

pinkybooklover09 · September 2013

AshleyT121 said:

Burners. WTF eyes? I've never heard that!

I love learning all the different slangs/sayings/pronunciations that vary by region.

My favourite difference in my area.... Zed (rather than zee). As in W X Y and Zed, though that isn't just a Canadian thing. I'm constantly yelling ZED over any of Adelaide's toys that were manufactured in the US and sing the alphabet.

And apparently.... washroom!

Washroom is my favorite!! I was watching Four Weddings Canada on TLC and they said washroom and I was like, "Ashley!" #goodtimes

EliStar · September 2013

Young_Love said:

OMG I have never said or heard any of these things.

Me neither.

GilliC · September 2013

I only know "spigot" rather than "spicket." I'd never heard the word "spicket" before this thread. At least not that I realized was distinct from "spigot."

I say "zed" now because most non-English languages also call that letter "zed." I confuse fewer people that way.

(Oh, and we always called the circles on our electrical stove "burners." Unless one was broken, in which case we had a broken "heating element.")

Young_Love · September 2013

GilliC said:

I only know "spigot" rather than "spicket." I'd never heard the word "spicket" before this thread. At least not that I realized was distinct from "spigot."

I say "zed" now because most non-English languages also call that letter "zed." I confuse fewer people that way.

(Oh, and we always called the circles on our electrical stove "burners." Unless one was broken, in which case we had a broken "heating element.")

Spigot I have heard before. Spicket I haven't.

Jen748 · September 2013

I'm so glad we aren't the only one who WTF at eyes!

funkypineapple · September 2013

I think it's funny how some of these things are completely normal to me regardless or area.

I primarily use eye over burner

Soda over pop

I've never heard spicket but use spigot for the outside and faucet for the inside

It's a hose or garden hose NOT a hosepipe. No lie, when we moved to Alabama SO MANY people got the WTF look from me when I heard this and I had no idea what a hosepipe was until someone was talking about it and motioned to it.

It's a cart/shopping cart and NOT a buggy. This one drives me up the wall as well. Buggy reminds me more of like a baby carriage or something.

@skeezon WTF. I live in Alabama and would look at you like you had three heads if you said Save or get down. I have NEVER heard those before.

jenndawnp · September 2013

SusieBW said:

NorthernLghts said:

Also-jimmies are chocolate, sprinkles are rainbow

I call them all jimmies. There are jimmies and rainbow jimmies. But I don't like the rainbow ones.

My husband and I argue about this all the time, he says only chocolate are jimmies and I say the both are, it's about the shape and size that makes them jimmies.

PhoenixRising11 · September 2013

I have heard eyes before but call them burners.

I say sprinkles. Garden hose. Spigot outside and faucet inside.

I went to college in Western PA, so I learned a lot of weird things. I started to say pop but have switched back to soda. Rubber bands are gumbands out there as well.

A sandwich on a long roll with meat and cheese on it...hoagie? sub? grinder? We say hoagie here.

sassypants527 · September 2013

Mine are from all over the place because my mom is from Texas, I grew up with her and my native Ohioan dad in NE Ohio (never heard of Devil's strip, though), then moved to SC, Georgia, and now Virginia. To sum it all up, I'm fixing to go places, I don't drink much soda anymore, I cook on burners, call a collective group of people "you guys," have a spigot outside but faucets inside, use cart and buggy interchangeably, eat subs, and I would love to go to the beach right now.

RevJen · September 2013

The one thing that is uniquely NJ: It's the shore. When you want to go to the beach, you go "down the shore." If you call it the beach or say "down to the shore," you're not from here.

SnShne322 · September 2013

@RevJen It's like that in MA too. You never go to Cape Cod. You go down the Cape.

RevJen · September 2013

My husband and I play argue about this all the time. I'll say something about going down the shore and he'll try to correct me. I frequently have to remind him that he lives in NJ now so he needs to speak the local lingo.

MrsC7 · September 2013

SusieBW said:

We call milkshakes "cabinets" and water fountains "bubblers." Except this is RI, so we really say "bubb-lah"

Where does this even come from?! I get why water fountains are called "bubblers" because they make bubbles, but I don't see the connection between milkshakes and cabinets AT ALL. :P

SnShne322 · September 2013

MrsC7 said:

SusieBW said:

We call milkshakes "cabinets" and water fountains "bubblers." Except this is RI, so we really say "bubb-lah"

Where does this even come from?! I get why water fountains are called "bubblers" because they make bubbles, but I don't see the connection between milkshakes and cabinets AT ALL. :P

Agreed. Apples and oranges. Really, apples and furniture.

SusieBW · September 2013

SnShne322 said:

MrsC7 said:

SusieBW said:

We call milkshakes "cabinets" and water fountains "bubblers." Except this is RI, so we really say "bubb-lah"

Where does this even come from?! I get why water fountains are called "bubblers" because they make bubbles, but I don't see the connection between milkshakes and cabinets AT ALL. :P

Agreed. Apples and oranges. Really, apples and furniture.

I agree too. I have no clue where it comes from. But now I'm going to make it my mission to find out. Stay tuned.

SusieBW · September 2013

Got it. Because you make it in a blender, which is stored in the kitchen cabinet.

I found this: How to Talk Like a New Englander

SnShne322 · September 2013

Only a New Englander would think that logic makes it OK.

I'm loving that link.

ETA: Have people outside of NE never heard of steamers?

jackiback · September 2013

SusieBW said:

Got it. Because you make it in a blender, which is stored in the kitchen cabinet.

I found this: How to Talk Like a New Englander

Lol, but this would make almost everything a cabinet, right?

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