s/o What other funny to you words do the men in your life use?

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• Mortomo

  February 2012

  Donny...I call all forms of mac and cheese, mac and cheese.  They all contain macaroni and cheese.  Good enough for me!

  Oh...I know...he calls an extension cord a drop cord.  I'd never heard it called that before and was confused when he asked me if I had seen the 'drop cord'.  I don't know if that's a central Illinois thing or just his thing.

  

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• DorothyofOz

  February 2012

  Mortomo:

  Donny...I call all forms of mac and cheese, mac and cheese.  They all contain macaroni and cheese.  Good enough for me!

  Oh...I know...he calls an extension cord a drop cord.  I'd never heard it called that before and was confused when he asked me if I had seen the 'drop cord'.  I don't know if that's a central Illinois thing or just his thing.

  DH calls it a "lead cord" sometimes, which I've heard before but never used. I always knew it as "extension cord" but then when I grew up I heard people saying "lead cord" and I had to ask what it was....and I was like, "oh, you mean an extension cord?" I felt kinda dumb. Never heard of a "drop cord" before!

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• oodakay

  February 2012

  doglove:

  Mortomo:

  Also, I call it a bubbler and he had no clue what I meant until I explained it.  He said "oh, you mean a drinking fountain?".  Um, no...here in SE Wisconsin it's a bubbler!

  It's a bubblah in Boston speak.

  THIS! (I'm from central MA)

  We were out last weekend and DH called the bartender a "barkeep". Everyone in our group got on his case for that one.

  

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• oodakay

  February 2012

  starburst604:

  BowiesInSpace:

  Fizzy drinks are to be referred to as "Coke".  None of this soda or pop nonsense.

  BF also refers to any eye makeup as mascara.

  Fizzy drinks in Boston are all "tonic" although I started using soda as I outgrew some of my Bostonian-isms, along with getting a drink from the "bubblah" (water fountain, not bong) and going to the "packie" (liquor store).

   As for what men say that one that pops to mind is "on your period". I don't know why they all seem to say it, but I'm not ON it. I HAVE it.

  Really? I've lived in MA my whole life and have never heard anyone use the term "tonic". Except for "gin and tonic". It's always soda.

  

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