Regionalism's

[bmccasland]

I remembered!
Camp - your vacation home on a lake, bayou, or beach. Can be something close to a shack that is a marvel it survives thunderstorms, to a very fancy home with gold plated fixtures. "go'in to your camp this weekend?"

[littlegrasshopp]

BBQ. Here it means to either slow cook (for several hours) with dry rub, or to use a BBQ sauce, and it MUST happen in a grill. In some other areas, BBQ covers anything cooked on the grill. We call that "grilling out." Imagine my surprise when I went to a BBQ that a newly relocated coworker from the North East held. I was expecting ribs, pulled pork, something from a big animal, cooked slowly and yummy. We had hot dogs.

My husband, from Oregon, says "is what it is, is...." He insists everyone says it in his home town.

[Ciao]

This is fun..

What to you get when you mash English with Irish, Polish, German, Greek, and the other large immigrant populations that came right after the war? Pittsburghese from da 'Burgh obviously!

nebby (nosey)
yinz (plural of 'you')
yinzer (a blue collar worker with a heavy Pittsburgher accent)
hoagie (submarine sandwich)
redd-up (clean up)
babushka (headscarf)
n'at (and all that)
... far too many to list.

Moved to Northern CA after school, but there's not really a noticeable local dialect in the bay area or Marin. Too many transients.

Now in Florence, I'm learning the different Italian dialects. The locals swap their 'c' with an exaggerated 'h'. So coka-cola becomes hhoka-hhola; cassa (house) becomes hhaza. But they make fun of the other regional accents - especially the more southern ones... and Sicilia?! They're not considered Italian...

[wackyjacky1]

Here in San Antonio, a convenience store (i.e., 7-11) is called an ice house. And if you're getting ready to do something, you say you're fixin' to do it.

"I'm fixin' to run up to the ice house to get some more beer."

[Eden]

This is fun..

What to you get when you mash English with Irish, Polish, German, Greek, and the other large immigrant populations that came right after the war? Pittsburghese from da 'Burgh obviously!

nebby (nosey)
yinz (plural of 'you')
yinzer (a blue collar worker with a heavy Pittsburgher accent)
hoagie (submarine sandwich)
redd-up (clean up)
babushka (headscarf)
n'at (and all that)
... far too many to list.

another Pittsburgher here - though I never had the "south side" accent....
a few more words that I remember as only in the Burgh
chipped ham (deli ham sliced so thin it tears aka chip chopped ham)
pop - instead of soda
and btw a hoagie is not only named differently, but *made* differently from a sub, grinder, po boy - what ever you call it in your area. Pittsburgh is probably the only place I've found one done properly. Forget Quizno's and Subway with all their "new" toasted subs.... a real hoagie is made in a pizza shop. The meat and cheese are put on the bun and both halves of it are put into a pizza oven until the cheese is melted and the bun is toasty. Then lettuce, tomato and italian dressing are put on it - the perperchinis are optional... definitely no mustard or mayo or other muck - only the stuff you'd find in a pizza shop. I was appalled, absolutely appalled the first time anyone gave me a Subway sub.... it was cold, pallid, had doughy soft bread and worst of all it had mayo on it...

[denda]

Wackjacky1- I have lived in Texas all my life and I have never heard a 7-11 called "icehouse"!