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Any area specific phrases that you know of?

Originally posted by: illusion88
Oh my heck!

This is a Utah phrase. The Mormons use it, but on occasion a person from outside of the religion will utter it.
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Religion or region illusion88? 😕
 
"git r' dunn"

Used primarily in the Southern States. Implies the notion of accomplishing any task.


Billy Bob: Hey Jake, you goin out with that Rebecca tonite?
Jake: Yessirree. I'm gonna git r' dunn.
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Originally posted by: illusion88
Oh my heck!

This is a Utah phrase. The Mormons use it, but on occasion a person from outside of the religion will utter it.
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Or "Oh my Hell" if they're really mad...

I used to laugh at the Mormons I knew when we lived there...they didn't grasp that it's not necessarily the words you use when you cuss...but the meaning behind them...the cockroaches. :roll:
 
Yeah, no. Northwest, Seattle particularly. Used as a conversational transition:
Person 1: Did you know that Obama is president now?
Person 2: Yeah, no, I voted for him.
 
Originally posted by: illusion88
Originally posted by: haffey
hella.
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It's hella better than hecka.

I used to live in Northern California (Santa Rosa).
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hecka is weaksauce, hella is the most awesome word ever. I try to use it at least one a day. Even people who have never heard it know what it means. I was looking at a guys server the other my official diagnose was "your CPU fan died and your PC is running hella hot" he knew exactly what I meant 🙂

God bless whoever in the Bay area invented that word
 
My area:

redd up = to clean up. "It's your turn to redd up the table after supper."
"up street" or "down street" = going into town, where up or down depends on which direction it is from where you are.
drip droppin' = light rain
food shopping = buying groceries
how's come = why. "How's come you didn't go to class yesterday?"
up Mike's and down Jake's = What you say when someone asks where you are going, and you don't want to tell them. Nice way of saying "none of your business".
Kennywood's open = your zipper is down
laid out = refers to a funeral home. "Bob's brother died, and he's going to be laid out at Anderson's."
 
Why come? = How did it come to pass that...
Monday week = A week from monday (insert any day of the week)
got a bait of... = had enough of
 
'fixin to'

when i lived in texas, this was used more than "I am about to do that." sometimes you hear, "I'm fixin' to git r done."

oh and 'm r 2 ducks.'
 
Esti de calise de tabarnac!

French swear 😛 If you translate that to English it's just not as cool:

Bread of life of chalis of tabernacle!

You have to hear someone super french say it for it to be really funny. Sometimes they'll through the F word in there somewhere and they say it with a huge accent.

Not sure how widespread it is, probably most French Canadians have used it at least once.
 
The term Boce (boh-cee) is a NYC suburbs regional thing. It means retard and comes from the BOCES program which is occupational training lousy students are sent to from the public schools.
 
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