Regionalism's

[7rider]

We say "go to town" when we want to go to the biggest city nearby, even though we live in a town.

Gloucester, Massachusetts (northeast of Boston) is on a little spit of a cape that sticks out into the Atlantic. There is a highway, Route 128, that connects it with nearby towns and the main interstate (I-95). Locals refer to going "up the line" when they plan to make the trek off-Cape (gasp! ) and visit nearby Peabody, Danvers, Salem or where ever.

I grew up in Connecticut, and when I was in Massachusetts, decided to have a "tag sale" to unload some household stuff. I plastered signs all over the place - even on my car's windshield - pointing the way to my tag sale. I actually had folks show up and ask me what a "tag sale" was. In Gloucester (and MA in general), they are "yard sales."

[Tuckervill]

I've been to Gloucester! Whoopie Goldberg was tending bar in a little restaurant at the pier where we went whale watching. No lie!

Karen

[malkin]

When I lived in North Carolina, people would always say "might could," as in "Would you fix the sink?" "I might could do that."

Yes! Utah folk do that "might could" (double modal construction, if you want to sound like a linguist) too!

But instead of asking "Would you fix the sink" they'd be more likely to say:
"That sink needs fixed."

[Mr. Bloom]

[I]When I lived in North Carolina, people would always say "might could,"

I "might could" get used to that IF I DIDN'T HATE IT SO MUCH

Silver used to be able to "might could" do anything.

I got her past that...she trained me to put the toilet seat down

[colby]

When I lived in North Carolina, people would always say "might could," as in "Would you fix the sink?" "I might could do that."

Yes! Utah folk do that "might could" (double modal construction, if you want to sound like a linguist) too!

Idahoans (we call them 'hoans) do that, too. They also say "beg" instead of "bag" and "mey-sure" instead of "me-sure". (I don't exclusively work with people from Idaho, but they do seem to stand out more, since I am a Seattle girl myself)

We don't get the "oh my heck" up here in Northern Idaho, but we do have some Utah and Northern Utah (Southern Idaho) transplants that are trying their darndest to spread it

I have learned that my frequent use of "totally" is apparently a Seattle thing. I didn't realize it until someone else from Seattle came to our office and we were (apparently) speaking a language entirely different from the people I work with (who are mostly from Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington), which involved a lot of "totally" and "sweet" and "awesome" among other things that I can't really remember. I felt right at home, but a coworker commented that we were in another zone entirely. It's amazing what a difference 300 miles across the state makes, especially when you start mixing in the 'hoans.