Weird phrases from where you live (or have lived) - AKA "colloquialisms!"

[Rakhel]

One...well, two just came up in a conversation I was having with my husband. The thing is they both mean the same thing but the sayings are from two different states.

Both mean "winding-*** road"
Mississippi calls them "Milk Runs," while Arkansas calls them "Pig Trails"

 

[Kathryn]

One...well, two just came up in a conversation I was having with my husband. The thing is they both mean the same thing but the sayings are from two different states.

Both mean "winding-*** road"
Mississippi calls them "Milk Runs," while Arkansas calls them "Pig Trails"

Along these same lines, a dogleg road is a road that turns sharply. Or it's descriptive, as in, "Ya go up 'is road here, an' then ya take that dog leg turn ta tha left and thar it is - likker store is across frum tha gas station."

I've heard the term "pig trails" before, in Arkansas, but the term "milk run" is a new one for me!

 

[Father Heathen]

So, I just realized yesterday, when conversing with a friend who's originally from up north, that to "fix" something to eat is a southern thing. This one I totally did not realize until now. Of course "fixin's" are southern, but I didnt know that to "fix" a meal was southern.

This came about because I mentioned that I was probably going to fix some mozzarella sticks to eat, and my friend asked me "whats wrong with them, did they break?", And I said "har har, funny", then she explained that she really meant it, and I had to explain that it meant to prepare, or make, something to eat.


So, there's one so deeply ingrained that I didnt even realize it was regional

Eh? It's used up in Indiana.

 

[Revoltingest]

"City chicken"....who else has had that before?

 

[DreadFish]

Eh? It's used up in Indiana.

So they use "fix" in Indiana? I knew it couldn't just be southern.

 

[Rakhel]

Along these same lines, a dogleg road is a road that turns sharply. Or it's descriptive, as in, "Ya go up 'is road here, an' then ya take that dog leg turn ta tha left and thar it is - likker store is across frum tha gas station."

I've heard the term "pig trails" before, in Arkansas, but the term "milk run" is a new one for me!

Interestingly enough, there is a stretch of highway in Arkansas that is call "Pig Trail" Arkansas Highway 23 Arkansas Highway 23 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, but it kinda stuck.

As for "Milk Run," I was riding a Greyhound from Memphis, TN, to Jackson, MS, and it hit every podunk town on just about the most back woods road you had ever seen. Told my mother about the route and she said it was the milk run route.
Back in the day, when milk was delivered, fresh, a lot of farmers lived too far away from the main road for the milk man to go. So there were spots on the main road that were designated pick-up and drop-off for full and empty bottles. Sometimes the routes to get to these spots would twist and turn around one farmer's land only to turn and twist around another's just to get to the stop.

 

[Kathryn]

"City chicken"....who else has had that before?

Don't know what this is, but I've had plenty of yard bird in my day.

Tonight we had fresh purple hull peas, sliced maters, baked sweet taters, and some sausage with cheese and jalepeno bits. It's not a LANGUAGE per se, but it was sure speaking coon *** to me from the plate!

 

[Wirey]

Northern Nova Scotia:

Slippy - Slippery
Ayuh - Yes
Faather - father
Me - My
The MacDonald or The MacKay - Two bridges spanning Halifax Harbour
The Basin - Bedford Basin, a body of water
Bedlunch - Midnight snack
Ceilidh - An excuse for Scottish decendants to wear a skirt and squeeze the life out of a tortured goose (I'm assuming)
Welfare grub - Blue potatoes and salted herring served cold
Cos - Of course
The causeway - The Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton to the Mainland
The city, or up town - Halifax, the provincial capitol
The Bay - Glace Bay, a town
The Pier - Sydney Pier, a town
Cape Bretoner - Unemployed alcoholic
Jigging - How to catch squid
CBLA - Cape Breton Liberation Army, a separatist group bent on making Cape Breton Island an independent nation (google them)
Newf - Person from Newfoundland
Bye - Boy, short form of friend or pal
Jayzus - Friendly profanity
How's she goin' - How are you?
Jeet - Did you eat?, usually meant to offer food.
Nojew - No, did you?, usually indicating a desire to go out for food.

So, 'How's she goin', bye, jeet?' is a dinner invitation.

 

[Kathryn]

Do other countries or regions say these:

"I'm laying down the law."

"Time to put my foot down."

 

[Kathryn]

Northern Nova Scotia:

Slippy - Slippery
Ayuh - Yes
Faather - father
Me - My
The MacDonald or The MacKay - Two bridges spanning Halifax Harbour
The Basin - Bedford Basin, a body of water
Bedlunch - Midnight snack
Ceilidh - An excuse for Scottish decendants to wear a skirt and squeeze the life out of a tortured goose (I'm assuming)
Welfare grub - Blue potatoes and salted herring served cold
Cos - Of course
The causeway - The Canso Causeway, linking Cape Breton to the Mainland
The city, or up town - Halifax, the provincial capitol
The Bay - Glace Bay, a town
The Pier - Sydney Pier, a town
Cape Bretoner - Unemployed alcoholic
Jigging - How to catch squid
CBLA - Cape Breton Liberation Army, a separatist group bent on making Cape Breton Island an independent nation (google them)
Newf - Person from Newfoundland
Bye - Boy, short form of friend or pal
Jayzus - Friendly profanity
How's she goin' - How are you?
Jeet - Did you eat?, usually meant to offer food.
Nojew - No, did you?, usually indicating a desire to go out for food.

So, 'How's she goin', bye, jeet?' is a dinner invitation.

Cool.

Here in the American south, we also say "Jeet?" for "Did you eat?" We say, "Jeet chet?" for "Did you eat yet?"

"Jeet chet?"
"No - jew?"
"Notchet, but Ah'm fidna."

 

[Revoltingest]

In MI, many people ask about whether the "Jew" has eaten yet.
Are they chronically hungry?

 

[Revoltingest]

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jew eat? - YouTube

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

One...well, two just came up in a conversation I was having with my husband. The thing is they both mean the same thing but the sayings are from two different states.

Both mean "winding-*** road"
Mississippi calls them "Milk Runs," while Arkansas calls them "Pig Trails"

I've only ever heard the term "milk run" in reference to a slow bus route with a lot of stops.

 

[Wirey]

I've only ever heard the term "milk run" in reference to a slow bus route with a lot of stops.

Milk run is what the camp workers in the oil sands call the flights to the east coast. They stop at Edmonton, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Hamilton, Montreal, Moncton, Halifax, and Sydney. Fun flight, that.

 

[GabrielWithoutWings]

Don't know what this is, but I've had plenty of yard bird in my day.

Tonight we had fresh purple hull peas, sliced maters, baked sweet taters, and some sausage with cheese and jalepeno bits. It's not a LANGUAGE per se, but it was sure speaking coon *** to me from the plate!

Do people in Texas eat foods that are fine like they do in Tennessee?

"I got my maters outta the garden and fried 'em up."
"Aw yeah? How was they?"
"Man, they was FINE."

Usually used by older people.

 

[Kathryn]

Do people in Texas eat foods that are fine like they do in Tennessee?

"I got my maters outta the garden and fried 'em up."
"Aw yeah? How was they?"
"Man, they was FINE."

Usually used by older people.

Whale, we wood say it sorta lak theeus:

"I grew me some maters in mah garden. Jew ever eat 'em frahed?"

"Whale, shore!"

"Whudya thank?"

"They were fahn as frogs hair!"

 

[Me Myself]

Well, one of the weird things in Ecuador are those words we say in english from time to time.

For example, no one says "lo siento" or "perdoname" or "disculpame" (all meaning the same which is : ) everyone says "sorry".

Also, another english word people regularly use is "niiiiice". Also, memes, even though they are in english and we tallk spanish we say them from time to time and talking the english.

Also we say "brother" as in meaning really good friend, ah! also we say "man" .

For example : "Ese man es mi broder!" (meaning that guy is my brother(really close friend probably bst friend) Also we say man to girls but then it is "Esa man" instead of "ese man"

What else? hum... well, we do say "blowjob" instead of the spanish version, but we also use the spanish version. We use the word

Spoiler: naugthy RF word

" B eetch"

also xD.

Those are the english words we use I can think for now xD. Oh yeah! less common, but saying "baby" happens xD.

 

[DreadFish]

As I have watched the show Breaking Bad it came to my attention that to "break bad" is an expression in the southwest USA.

I've read a few different definitions, but are you familiar with it, Kathryn?

 

[seeker69]

BTW from the Coke/Soda/Pop discussion a lot of the other is likely "Cold Drink"

 

[BSM1]

One thing I notice about Vuhginians (my grandmother is from Virginia, mom too, but she doesnt have the accent any more) is that they pronounce some things like Canadians. Mainly the "oo" like "aboot." And "out" is like Oh-oo-t.

[/QUOTE]

This is almost exclusively a Richmond area phenomenon; you don't find this other parts of Virginia.

In the hills of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky you hear people putting an "h" in front of "it" to produce the word "hit". Hit's over there, hit was green, hit's yourn (another good word). BTW both of these words drive me crazy.