Favorite NC slang (Washington: living in, delivery, Wal-mart)

[ddlove01]

Are you serious? Is this everywhere in NC or just certain parts?

Originally Posted by Amberette

they are "kin" or "kinfolk" (but pronounced "kinfoke")

[the Parkies]

LOL... I was born and raised 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, PA, and with these expressions you call "North Carolina" slang, you make me feel right at home!! In Pennsylvania, sometimes we use the same terms tongue-in-cheek and with heartfelt humor, as in... "I HAVE to invite you--you're my KIN (or KINFOLK)!"

And... "Youns comin'?--well, slap mah face--I meant YOUNSES (giggle)!" In that region of the USA, "youns" is an acceptable alternate plural for "you"--but only in a social (especially family) context, never in a business setting!

Half the fun of language differences is in the pronunciation, of course. Now that my PA tongue has been altered forever by D.C. and San Diego, my grocery store aisle is an "EYE-yal." The bird that goes "hoo" is an "OW-al." And when someone rips off my bandaid, I say "OW!"

In my PA hometown, however, these are still all the same sound!! "OW! that hurts. Did you hear that OW? Look for cheese down that OW."

I majored in English language and literature and find our differences in language and speech as fascinating as any of the rest of our differences!

It's time for me to "hit the feathertick".... "Night, youns....."

Jan

[NCN]

Originally Posted by MariGirl

If you hear "pop" around NC for soda, that person is probably not a native NC'er. (Midwesterner maybe, where pop is used a lot?)

Now if you hear someone ask for a "Cokecola", they are probably a native....and they aren't really asking specifically for a Coke...any kind of soft drink would fit the bill.

Y Shucks in August! We called it "pop" in the mountains.

You have to remember this is a three region state.

If you misbehave you get a little "hickory tea."

We used to grow our own popcorn. We call it popcorn until we popped it then it turned into "white caps." My sister went to the store at Glendale Springs with her dime and asked for "white caps" and the store manager brought the white caps over for her. She decided she didn't want any of those.

Remembered another one: "Throwing off" on someone, means that you are saying degrading things about them. We really don't want to be around people who "throw off" on others.

[Bobb]

Oh man, Shake 'n' Bake...Shake 'n' Bake
all I can say here.

[ddlove01]

Does that mean the brand or just how stuff is made there? Soon to be "newbie"...yeah I know...I'll get it one day...

[Bobb]

just picked that up from a movie.

[wsncfay]

daggum it and daggun or daggon which ever way you say it has always seemed to me the replacement for a the cuss word g.d.

[groove1]

A shopping cart is a "buggy", but I call it a cart.

[NorthmeetsSouth]

Originally Posted by eabanddjb

I live in Rutherfordton, NC. I have lived in 3 states and NC is my favorite and hopefully I will never leave. BUT~~~ The one word that tickles me and confuses me all at the same time is "chimley." I realize when people say that they are referring to a chimney, but yet most say chimley. I do not understand why some put an L in place of the N but I have come to the conclusion that every state has it's own way of saying certain things. Being from Ky, I can relate. To each his own

My husband is from a small town in NC and he is always inserting "L"s into words that don't have them... "I'v got an ideal..." instead of idea.
A few more of his gems...
"he couldn't hem a hog in a ditch" means he is bow-legged
" I wouldn't pay that much to see a gnat eat a bale of hay!" means its too expensive.
If someone steps on his foot he says "That's okay... I'll walk on the bottoms and you walk on the tops"
When I do a rolling stop at a stop sign he tells me " Its okay as long as you stop twice at the next one"
Someone who is really cute is "Cuter than a speckled puppy's butt"
There are more, but I cant think of them at the moment.

[mm_mary73]

One I heard the other day - "likker-sickle" (liquor bicycle) y'all know what I mean - those guys wearing boots, jeans and shirts, trying to pedal a bike obviously too small or complicated for them, because they've lost their DL due to DWI