chicago slang?? (Brooklyn, Detroit: home, college, adult)

[PhotogGal]

Originally Posted by cobolt

Yep frunchroom. How funny. My ma used to say that all the time! In fact, it was off limits to us kids. You know...it had all the plastic on the furniture...
the "good furniture" for "company" dontcha know? LOL

This brought back memories of my next door neighbors -- and older couple who had plastic covers on all the furniture in their living room and on the dining room seat covers. They had no kids and hardly any company. I always thought it was weird.

Until reading this thread and having grown up in the Chicago area, I never realized how many of the things I said (and still say to this day) were Chicagoese and not proper English or words that everyone used all over the country. It wasn't until I spent a summer studying in Spain with 500 kids from all over the US that I found out I had an accent either.

[chicagocubs]

PhotogGal,once again, we are on the same page. I also never knew I had an accent until moving south and nobody could understand me...

I have garbage, not trash, a garbage can, not a "rollout" (PC for garbage can since garbage is "offensive")

A purse, not a pocketbook

I drive on the highways (not interstates) and never remember the numbers, because I learned to drive with names. I confuse people here because I say, I get off on the Harris Blvd. exit and they say what number is that...and, I don't know.

Tennis shoes or gym shoes, not sneakers

front room, not living room

barbeque is something that you do or an activity, not a food

Flip flops, not sandals

I do use the "s" thing and "you guys", but, unfortunately, "y'all" has snuck into my vocabulary.

Can't think of anything else at the moment....

[Anthera]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

I'm originally from Wisconsin, and I can tell that you're more of a "hick" than me just by the way you're posting! The insults of surrounding states are really juvenile and ridiculous.

Anyway, here's a good one... Anyone ever hear a sofa called a "Davenport"? Where does THAT come from?!?

My grandfather always called sofa "davenports". I know its an old fashioned name for a sofa, maybe a brandname? Maybe lots of sofas came form Iowa?

[redglassofwine]

no one really says yous guys, its more like you guys.

[aragx6]

I've totally heard long-time Chicagoans say yous guys

You guys isn't very regional as far as I can tell, as I've heard that from people from pretty much anywhere that doesn't say "ya'll"

[MrChicago]

Originally Posted by mromero84

ok...i can figure out "bogus" and "pop"...which by the way is so cool for an outsider to notice the regional dialect/slang in comparison to southern dialect/slang

but does anyone know what a "softball" is??

"so how much I owe ya??..."

"its a softball g, just pay me tomorrow?"

??????

I'm from Chicago and I don't even know what that means

[amanda8404]

"Yous guys" is fairly prevalent in Buffalo,NY, also, which I have always thought was a result of huge numbers of Polish immigrants influencing the language - does anyone know if this is true? And I do mean YouS guys, not just you guys.

[hula]

Originally Posted by via chicago

i cant count how many fingers ive jammed...by some stroke of god never broken one

How 'bout it?!! God, I miss playin' 16 inch softball! It's dee only way to play da game, IMO!

Really enjoyed readin' dis 'tred' It's brought baaack alota memrees fur me. I miss da 'ol neighborhood too! We had a prairie near de 'en of my block too. It was filt wit lielaack treess and smelt bee-u-tee-ful in da Springk!

[katmoney]

Flip flops is Chicago Slang?

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by katmoney

Flip flops is Chicago Slang?

No, it's definitely not.