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Trafficway -- this word is used in no other place that I have found.
"Anymore" used in the affirmative. For example, "In Brookside, I prefer to shop at Cosentino's over Price Chopper anymore."
Cape Cod:
Washashore -- someone whose family is less than three generations native.
Pittsburgh:
Yinz for the second person plural. Analagous to All-Y'all in Dixie (the plural of Y'all)
Yes! I love it when my Iron Range friend says "Hotdish". I find it hilarious.
People in the U.P. say youse (you's? sp?) as in youse guys. I don't know how you spell this butchered piece of the English language. It makes me cringe when I hear it.
I had a teacher from Boston who would say "youse guys". He'd also say "slick" like "how ya doin', slick?" and things like "exact-o-mundo!" He sounded like an old school mobstah. Was so awesome!
Cleveland - "Tree lawn" for the grassy area between the sidewalk and the street
In California it's a "parking strip".
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