Lizard Queen
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Post by Lizard Queen on Jul 14, 2013 3:24:12 GMT -5
Thanks, spartan. I never heard of any of those, except saying uncle. I never heard it actually used, but heard of it.
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GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jul 14, 2013 20:41:29 GMT -5
A couple:
Rubber band versus elastic.
Route verses "rowt".
Roof versus ruff.
Jimmies versus sprinkles.
LMAO at poor Rirrian working in desolate, Lilly white, northern New York/southern Canada.
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Post by Peace77 on Jul 14, 2013 22:28:19 GMT -5
Another one is loan vs. borrow.
I've heard people in the Midwest say Can you borrow me some money? or, I borrowed him $20.00.
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Post by skubikky on Jul 15, 2013 7:30:35 GMT -5
I learned euchre in Michigan. No one in the south had ever heard of it. Bunco is huge there. Bunco is popular in Syracuse.
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Post by 973beachbum on Jul 15, 2013 8:34:39 GMT -5
DH's family still calls green peppers mangos. They also say "filling" for what you stuff your Thanksgiving turkey with, and oleo for margarine. For years I wanted an English to Pennsylvania dictionary. Do they correctly called stuff cabbage "pigs in the blanket"? I don't know because as far as I know they never ate it. DH's family firmly believes that to be a meal it must have a big slab of red meat, potatoes and bread. The only time I have ever heard of anyone in his family coming near rice was in a Chinese restaurant. I' pretty sure none of them ate it there either though.
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zibazinski
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 15, 2013 9:12:02 GMT -5
I thought pigs in a blanket was a sausage wrapped in a pancake. Yum...
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swamp
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Post by swamp on Jul 15, 2013 9:12:28 GMT -5
I learned euchre in Michigan. No one in the south had ever heard of it. Bunco is huge there. Bunco is popular in Syracuse.
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 15, 2013 9:16:20 GMT -5
But the person hiding under your bed ready to grab you if you get out at night or if you dangle an arm over is universal.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 15, 2013 9:21:02 GMT -5
I thought pigs in a blanket was a sausage wrapped in a pancake. Yum... Yup (and yum too). On IHOP's menu for years and years.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 15, 2013 9:22:09 GMT -5
Laundromat versus washateria.
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 15, 2013 9:24:05 GMT -5
Ooh, where's washeteria?
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 15, 2013 9:24:46 GMT -5
What's an automat? Is it where you wash clothes or is it where you put money in and get food out?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 9:28:15 GMT -5
Did anyone mention iced tea? In the south (at least where I live), sweet tea is a must. It's usually unsweetened most other places I've been. Eeewww!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 9:29:39 GMT -5
And spaghetti. It's a side item to most people that are from here. It seems to be a meal to people from other places. lol
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 15, 2013 9:29:55 GMT -5
I first heard the term from someone who lived in Knoxville, TN , though she pronounced it 'worsh-a-teria' as wash here is pronounced 'worsh'. Washaterias are found at least throughout the middle south.
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Post by zibazinski on Jul 15, 2013 9:30:59 GMT -5
Ah, too far south and its too filled with northerner s anyway! Except for my SALTINE daughter!
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 15, 2013 9:31:05 GMT -5
And spaghetti. It's a side item to most people that are from here. It seems to be a meal to people from other places. lol Spaghetti sauce versus spaghetti gravy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 9:31:47 GMT -5
Did anyone mention iced tea? In the south (at least where I live), sweet tea is a must. It's usually unsweetened most other places I've been. Eeewww! Oh, there's sugar in it. Just not as much as you're used to.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 9:36:20 GMT -5
Spaghetti gravy? What's that?
Lol beer. You might be right! I just order a soda when I travel. Other places, even the water is nasty sometimes lol. We have the best water ever! Chicago's water tastes tastes like something ought to be swimming in it. The worst I ever tasted. Sorry Chicagoans......
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Post by swamp on Jul 15, 2013 9:41:01 GMT -5
Marinara.
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Post by alabamagal on Jul 15, 2013 9:51:06 GMT -5
Did anyone mention iced tea? In the south (at least where I live), sweet tea is a must. It's usually unsweetened most other places I've been. Eeewww! Oh, there's sugar in it. Just not as much as you're used to. To make "sweet tea" (which is what Southerners call sweetened ice tea), you have to add the sugar when the tea is hot in order to dissolve all the sugar. The tea is "supersaturated" in sugar for all the chemists out there. If you put the sugar in when the tea is room temperature or cold, not enough of it will dissolve. So you can't serve a southerner a cold glass of iced tea with a few sugar packets - that won't work.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 10:03:13 GMT -5
My in-laws are originally from the south. When we traveled to Tennessee we stopped for dinner and I was asked if I wanted sweet tea. I normally add sugar to my iced tea so I thought why not? It came and I took one sip and about died. It was TOO sweet! OMG my mother in-law laughed at me. ETA: My mother in-law recently commented on how people still ask where she is from. She has been living in MN for fifty years. I told her that I can detect a bit of accent when she speaks. She said "Really? When I visit Tennessee everyone says I've lost my accent." Her accent is not very pronounced but she uses phrases like "make a picture" instead of "take a picture" which make her stand out.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 10:15:35 GMT -5
Oh, there's sugar in it. Just not as much as you're used to. To make "sweet tea" (which is what Southerners call sweetened ice tea), you have to add the sugar when the tea is hot in order to dissolve all the sugar. The tea is "supersaturated" in sugar for all the chemists out there. If you put the sugar in when the tea is room temperature or cold, not enough of it will dissolve. So you can't serve a southerner a cold glass of iced tea with a few sugar packets - that won't work. No, it absolutely does NOT work!!! It takes gobs and gobs of sugar to make cold unsweetened tea taste decent.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 10:27:47 GMT -5
My cousin married a man from New Orleans. I use to love listening to his mother talk when she'd come to visit.
She'd ask a question and answer it at the end of it. "You're going to the store today, yes?"
She didn't go to the grocery store, she'd "make groceries"
She told us you don't make gumbo in the summer, because it will "spuuurl"
The people she cared about, when she said their name, she added a drawled "bebbee" (baby) on the end. "Sheila-bebbee..."
The New Orleans accent is very distinct. Listening to the people that live there talk is one of the things I like about that city.
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Post by WholeLottaNothin on Jul 15, 2013 10:35:47 GMT -5
I learned euchre in Michigan. No one in the south had ever heard of it. Bunco is huge there. Bunco is popular in Syracuse. I was born in Syracuse and still live about a 30 minute drive from there and everyone around here calls it soda, not pop. Pigs in a blanket are the hot dogs not cabbage and rice. Chicken pot pie come is a small pie crust. Creek not crick (though that one varies more from person to person). My FIL who grew up about 2 hrs from here calls people from any city a "flatlander". Had never heard of that from anyone but him. When I went down to Charlotte, I found "fixin to" funny. Had never heard that before. They had me try grits and laughed at me when I couldn't gag them down. Never heard of 'War of Northern Agression" until this thread.
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Post by Tennesseer on Jul 15, 2013 10:37:47 GMT -5
I learned euchre in Michigan. No one in the south had ever heard of it. Bunco is huge there. Bunco is popular in Syracuse. I was born in Syracuse and still live about a 30 minute drive from there and everyone around here calls it soda, not pop. Pigs in a blanket are the hot dogs not cabbage and rice. Chicken pot pie come is a small pie crust. Creek not crick (though that one varies more from person to person). My FIL who grew up about 2 hrs from here calls people from any city a "flatlander". Had never heard of that from anyone but him. When I went down to Charlotte, I found "fixin to" funny. Had never heard that before. They had me try grits and laughed at me when I couldn't gag them down. Never heard of 'War of Northern Agression" until this thread. Boiled okra is another gag food. Hot and slimey. As for grits-good substitute for cat litter and on icy sidewalks.
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Post by shanendoah on Jul 15, 2013 10:41:48 GMT -5
Yard sale, rummage sale, or garage sale?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 10:43:14 GMT -5
Hey, now! I am a Yankee who LOVES grits. So there are some of us out there.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 10:58:29 GMT -5
Never heard of euchre or bunco until this thread.
My Mom makes cabbage rolls, meat and rice wrapped in cabbage.
Even worse than "fixin' to", is "finna". My Mom HATED that and broke me out of that habit after I'd picked it up from my friends. My Mom is a Southerner but she will nag you to death about saying words properly and using proper grammar! If I ask her today "Where's my glass at?" just to see what she says, I guarantee the only answer I'll get is "Behind the preposition at".
Grits have no taste unless you load 'em up with butter and sugar. I don't eat them.
Okra is disgusting.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 10:59:18 GMT -5
Yard sale, rummage sale, or garage sale? Yard sale.
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