Regionalism's

[sundial]

R-U-N-N-O-F-T

That has to be my favorite movie ever.

Well it seems I'm the only one who remains unaffiliated.

OK, here goes with our regionalisms:

you'ns
Coke--used for any soft drink
whichadidja
'muda gra--bermuda grass
paw biscuits
carnies--carnival workers

[Tuckervill]

"How's yo mama n'them?"

My daddy use to call his mother's biscuits "cathead biscuits", because they were as big as a cat's head.

One difference I noticed between Chicago and Arkansas was the way we referred to our parents. In Arkansas, kids always said, "Mama said I can't go." I was so confused by that. In Chicago we always said, "My mom said I can't go." We only left out the possessive pronoun when we were talking to our actual siblings!

Karen

[sundial]

momnem--my mother and her peers

Karen, I noticed how so many say mama around here. Another southern thing wouldn't you say?

[Tuckervill]

Mama is definitely a southern thang, but you'll hear it all over.

eta: I just remembered something. My daddy (that's a Southern thing, too--in Chicago I would have said dad) called his mother Maw (we all did), but whenever he referred to her in the 3rd person, he'd say mama, as if it were a title. "We're going down to see Mama."

Karen

[coyote]

I'm not sure which is the regionalism:
in AZ its an arroyo - CO its a wash - from wikipedia, dry creek bed.

[sundial]

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in AZ its an arroyo - CO its a wash - from wikipedia, dry creek bed.

In Texas, it's known as a "crick".

[Crankin]

We called it a wash in AZ, too, but I know what arroyo means. My parents got their car "stuck in a wash," when they tried to cross it after a flash flood...

Red Rhodie, your list made me laugh. I think about three fourths of those apply to eastern MA also, with a few that are very specific to RI. I think that most of those expressions you find in blue collar towns in eastern MA, especially where people don't move away and there's generations of families living in close proximity. When I was a kid, everyone used those expressions, but I doubt I'd hear one in Concord, today! Even my students in Hudson don't have any accents or use a lot of regional words (except maybe bubbler), but quite a few of their parents do. Again, this is a community where people stay put and often live down the street from their parents, aunts, uncles.

[SlowButSteady]

In South Carolina, it's a gulley

[Aggie_Ama]

In Texas, it's known as a "crick".

Not in my area, it is a creek.

[crazycanuck]

Some of this is going wayyy over my head..

What's a shell?

The meal at every wedding you've ever attended was chicken, shells and frenchfries

paw biscuits?
bermuda grass?

[Mr. Bloom]

Some of this is going wayyy over my head..

What's a shell?
paw biscuits?
bermuda grass?

I's jus' a hunchin' that :
shell = pasta?
bermuda grass is a type of grass that grows on runners rather than blades - popular in the south, but goes dormant in the winter
paw biscuit = ????

You Might Be From Vodilun (say it aloud) if........

I'd say Vodilum and 'bama have a lot in common!

"How's yo mama n'them?"

In the rural south, family isn't family...they're "your people" as in "what parts is yur people from?"

[sundial]

paw biscuit = ????
In the rural south, family isn't family...they're "your people" as in "what parts is yur people from?"

paw biscuit= biscuit that fits in your hand

I thought the saying was,"Where are ya'll from? Yur not from around here, are ya? Yur from off."

[divingbiker]

In the small rural midwestern town where I grew up, we ate breakfast, dinner, and supper. When I went to college (same state, population was 40,000 vs. 3,000) we ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I was made to feel like a bumpkin many times when I'd talk about having dinner at lunchtime.

[sundial]

OK, that reminds me......is supper the evening meal or is dinner the evening meal? We have breakfast, dinner, and supper here.

When I used to live a little more north, we had breakfast, lunch and supper.