I always find it interesting what people commonly say in other parts of the country.
List any that you know of.

A few examples - Making Groceries (New Orleans) - Going to the grocery store.
Jack and Dark (Wisconsin) - Jack and Coke or whatever dark soda they have available.

Not a saying, but I had to learn how to drive again when I moved to Michigan- The Michigan Left thing kills me.

Doorwall-Sliding Glass Door

Secretary of State-Equivalent to our DMV... Only thing is not every town has one AND it takes 2 weeks for you to get your license, and it comes in the mail. When I first got mine, I stood there waiting for it, and the guy was says "Um, it will be mailed to you within 2 weeks. Until then, use your old one and this piece of paper stuck to it."

Party Store-Liquor Store. They don't sell ANY alcohol in gas stations because (quoting gas station attendant here) "We don't want to promote drinking and driving." My hometown had 3 carry outs where you could buy beer and not get out of your car LOL.

It's actually crazy how different Ohio and Michigan are. I expected a few differences, but it's literally a foreign world. They all have an accent to, like their from Cleveland/Canada. However, people have the audacity to tell me I have a southern accent.

I don't think it is a regional thing, but my ex wife uses the word "dethaw". For example, "I took some chicken out of the freezer so it can dethaw for dinner." I always argued that dethawing would mean you had put the chicken in the freezer to freeze. At any rate, I never really thought much about it, until i was talking to one of my friend's wife who went to the same high school as my ex wife and she used the term dethaw. I wonder if the home ec teacher there used that word and they picked up on it? But I never cared to look into it any further.

Not a saying, but Ohioans adding an S to the end of a store name Wal Marts, Meijers, Krogers.

Warsh

Terlit

The entirety of my dads side of the family says "warsh" As in warsh the dishes, clothes etc. Or even in describing our nations capitol "warshington DC". I think it's a NW Ohio thing.

My parents use the term "warsh" as well in all aspects like you described, and they are from North Central Ohia.

We also have bad grammar here in Ohio "Where's my coat AT?

Mississippi: urenj = Orange

Louisiana:

Dey got. As in, "don't go down to dat couley, dey got snakes down dere."

Git down. As in, "git down outta dat car and come on in."

Wyoming:

oh yeah. it's hard to type this so that you can appreciated it, but it's not like the kool aid man's oh yeah, but more of a sighing "oh yeah" and they say it after every question and at the beginning of about 1/3 of their sentences.

I didn't get no answer.

I don't get the dethaw thing.

You come home and but a package of meet in the freezer. You decide you want to eat it, so you take it out and thaw it. Is that what is it dethaw vs. thaw.

I think this is a NW Ohio/Michigan thing and it kills me-Look it. Drives me insane, it's either look or look at it. I'm from Midwest Ohio and didn't hear it until I moved to BG for school and now MI.

LJ;706059 wrote:Not a saying, but Ohioans adding an S to the end of a store name Wal Marts, Meijers, Krogers.

Warsh

Terlit

Pittsburgh people are notorious for adding S's at the end of store names! It drives me crazy, and when I call them on it, they don't even realize they are doing it.

"I'm going to Giant Eagles" kills me.

Yes they use the term dethaw in place of defrost.

Here's some that I grew up with in Midwest OH that not everyone knew about (not necessarily my wife and her family from MI)

Throw Away (Insert pop name)-20 oz plastic bottle of pop

Carry Out-My guess is a lot of people in Ohio know what this is, but I'm shocked at how many don't

(Just my hometown)-Pooch- A car that looks really nice, has a lot of bells and whistles and is tricked out but is a big old POS performance wise
I.e. Me: "Man you've got a sweet ass car!."
Owner: "Na, it's a pooch, I hate it."

Here in Texas I usually make fun of a few things...

First and foremost... fixin.

"I am fixin to head out to the WalMart."

and one of my favorite exchanges....

Me: Give me a Coke
Waitress: What kinda Coke?
Me: What kinds do you have?
Waitress: We got Dr. Pepper coke, Sprite coke......

But the educated people in Houston catch me on my Ohio grammar....ending my sentences with a preposition.

bigkahuna;706070 wrote:I don't get the dethaw thing.

You come home and but a package of meet in the freezer. You decide you want to eat it, so you take it out and thaw it. ....

I don't get it either.

Thawing it would be going from frozen to room temp.

De-thawing it would be going opposite of thawing it...or freezing it.

I think they are just combining "defrost" and "thaw" to make "dethaw"

Must be. It just comes across as silly sometimes when the slang almost means the exact opposite of what they are intending to say.

ManO'War;706071 wrote:Pittsburgh people are notorious for adding S's at the end of store names! It drives me crazy, and when I call them on it, they don't even realize they are doing it.

"I'm going to Giant Eagles" kills me.

I hear this also. In Ohio folks like to add an S to school names such as St Edward(s). I have en heard people say St. John(s) arena!!!!

Con_Alma;706092 wrote:I hear this also. In Ohio folks like to add an S to school names such as St Edward(s). I have en heard people say St. John(s) arena!!!!

I think adding the "s" is probably pretty common all over the US. I talk to dispatchers all over the country and a lot of them pronounce the "s" in Illinois and it drives me crazy every time.

Oh and I HATE when people say states...as in "My son made it to states".

I'm guilty of saying Krogers. They are a big client of ours and I can't tell you how many times I've had to make sure I dropped the S.

My mom says "yinz" on a daily basis. I lost that when I moved away for school. Its funny when you explain it to someone that has never heard it before. "Yinz? wtf is that?!" lol

georgemc80;706080 wrote:Here in Texas I usually make fun of a few things...


Me: Give me a Coke
Waitress: What kinda Coke?
Me: What kinds do you have?
Waitress: We got Dr. Pepper coke, Sprite coke......

I had a similar exchange in OKC.

My cousin's husband is from south jerz and calls spaghetti sauce and pizza sauce "gravy"

The one that gets me is when my girlfriends parents (from the U.P.) pronounce pasta "paa-sta" (not pah-sta)

Fab4Runner;706096 wrote:I think adding the "s" is probably pretty common all over the US. I talk to dispatchers all over the country and a lot of them pronounce the "s" in Illinois and it drives me crazy every time....

At least there's actually an S in the spelling of Illinois. Those other examples people simply add one at their own discretion. Why??

Another example is Labatt(s).

Fab4Runner;706096 wrote:...Oh and I HATE when people say states...as in "My son made it to states".

Don't even get me started with this one. If you do I might have to "of" referred you to some other threads.

you're all being hweird