Regional slang, region-to-region or city-to-city (to buy, school, floor)

[sandwalk]

Never heard of the "Toboggan" thing; that may be because I'm from northern Ohio.

* My grandmother from Indiana will call a green bell pepper a "mango"
* I personally do not "pluralize" distance measurements. If something is 3 feet by 4 feet, I say "3 foot by 4 foot" (it sounds best to me that way, for whatever reason)
* I say "you guys" but every rare once in a while I might say "you'all"
* After living in northern Illinois for a few years, I've noticed numerous people say "I'm going BY John's house" where I would say "I'm going OVER TO John's house"

[DaninEGF]

Originally Posted by skinem

Middle Tennessee. I'd never heard it used anywhere else except to mean a type of sled until I came to Nashville for college. I now live in southern Middle Tennessee bordering Alabama.

I'll have to tell my native born and raised southern Middle Tennessee wife that she's talking like an Ohioan...that'll make her stop saying tobaggan when she means a "watch cap"...

I grew up in western Kentucky....and we all used tobaggan to mean something you put on your head in cold weather. I used that word when I went to college in Iowa and they looked at me something odd. Where I live now in northwest Minnesota we just say hat or knit hat. My wife from Minot North Dakota uses the more Canadian saying of "tuque" for a knit hat used in cold weather.

Dan

[missymomof3]

Originally Posted by jluke65780

Texas:

Goosin: Sex

"Like a mug" - Lots of Texans use it when comparing something for example: That girl is ugly than a mug. It's not used as much now though. It really has no defined definition; sort of like "mad".

We used to say that here too lol

[J'aimeDesVilles]

I moved to Michigan (Detroit) from Ohio (Cleveland) twenty years ago and two terms I have never grown accustumed to are;

Party store = a convenience store like 7Eleven. When I heard people talking about going to the party store I thought they were shopping for things like balloons, streamers, gag gifts, themed paper plates and cups, etc.

Buggy = shopping cart. This one grinds on me. I don't know why. I guess coming from N.E. Ohio and having Amish communities not too far off whenever I hear "buggy" I expect to see a horse pulling a black non-motorized vehicle with an orange triangle on the back. LOL!

[WeSoHood]

Cleveland slang


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[john_starks]

calling someone "boss" - i think every knucklehead who's worked at a best buy in the northeast has called me that!

[blkgiraffe]

I think this might just apply for the Central TX area:

Cuddy: We also use it as a substitute for words like "Bro" or "N****". I know my friend used it once in Houston and they looked at him like "WTF?" lol

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by Azure Ray

Around Akron, Ohio, they call the lawn between the road and the sidewalk "The Devil's Strip." Towards Cleveland, OH, however, that part of the lawn is simply called the "tree lawn." I have read that calling something "The Devil's Strip" originated in Akron and really isn't recorded elsewhere.

Here in the Twin Cities we call that "the boulevard".

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by Ark90

In Arkansas, every carbonated beverage is a "Coke."
"What kinda Coke do y'all want?"
Also, I've heard "sodie waters" used for Coke.
"Over yonder" is another one.
"I'm goin' over yonder to look for my dog."
Then there's "directly" as in "after a while."
"I'll be there directly."
Then there's "a-walla go." For "a while ago."
Let's see....I've heard "Snake Oil" used generically for liquor.
Also, a lot of young people call the liquor store the "beer store." I don't know if that's a regional or age thing.

Had a roommate in college from VA. He used the word "reckon" a lot--Reckon I'll go to class now, etc.

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by Infamous92

Y'all is common in NYC/Long Island (at least where I live), I use it every single day. "I'm fixin' to" would probably bother me, "funna/finna" means the same thing as "fixin' to", I occasionally use it.

I've heard blacks from NYC use y'all and other Southern slang, but never heard anyone else from there use it. In the part of Upstate where I was raised, blacks said "y'all", ethnic whites (e.g., my relatives) often said "yuhz" (plural of you: you = yuh, yous = yuhs)