dontfeartheringo wrote:Anyone else ever hear of a skittish horse called a cattymount? I think that's a north carolina thing. They also call wildcats cattymounts where I am from.

I haven't head the horse thing, but the cougar/lynx thing is true in the mountains. The Catamount is the mascot of Western Carolina University in beautiful Cullowhee, NC.

The car needs washed.
The laundry needs done.

Drove me up the fucking wall when I moved to Ohio. Of course, I lost all the bullshit Chicago stuff, so it's an even trade-off.

Liverpool has so many that i really can't keep up, but some have been around for many a year and still get used. Here are a handful.

Jaag: (pronounced Jarg as opposed to Jarj). Fake, or of poor quality. See also - Minty.
Binno: A person who likes to retrieve items from the bin, or looks like they might. Also applied to items that are generally 'past their best' quality or second hand/rejects etc.
Pyay: Very, extremely. From the word 'pure'.
Meff: A stupid person, an idiot.
Bizzies, the: Employees of the police department.
Webbed: Hit, punched, kicked. For example: "I pyay webbed 'im la. Twatted 'im the face like". Can also be applied when someone is hassling/being hassled. For example: "Me boss was proper webbin' me so i got out of work late and missed the start of the footy!"

fancyjamtime wrote:The car needs washed.
The laundry needs done.

On a related note - my early-teenage, American self was thrown for a bit the first time I hung out with a friend over at his house, and his (very British) mother was criticising how he was putting the dishes away:

"Oh, David. No. I don't think it wants to go there..."

etc.

Arson Smith wrote:"Oh, David. No. I don't think it wants to go there..."

"Here goes your catfish
here goes your green beans
here goes your mashed potatoes
here goes your Coke"

african-american waitress, Cracker Barrel, 2008

ERawk wrote:It still amuses me to hear midwesterners in general refer to soda as "pop".

I believe tansplanted midwesterners get the "pop" knocked out of them when moving to NYC the first time they order "pop", since the server or convenience store worker would probably give them "What the hell ya sayin' pop for? It's soda." Of all the transplanted midwesterners I knew back in the day, not one of them ever said "pop", referring to soda.

I can't bring myself to use the term "pop".

A friend of mine had moved from New Jersey to Ohio, and he kept yelling at everybody that "it's not pop! It's fucking soda!" He would actually get pretty upset about this, not once maybe taking a stab at, y'know, adapting, or even just letting it slide since he wasn't in Jersey anymore.

Not mine, but I noticed in central PA, you hear "you's guys" a lot.

I like that one.

MrFood wrote:To 'smash the granny out of...' = to make furious sex with someone.

We have a similar version:

To 'smash the pasty out of...'

moreover:

'smash her pasty'

Tom wrote:Not mine, but I noticed in central PA, you hear "you's guys" a lot.

I like that one.

haha. my grandparents on my mom's side were from latrobe. they said "youns". they also said "hicky" for thing. i'm sure i'll remember a bunch of others.

People have told me that the unneccessary "at" at the end of sentences is an Ohio thing.

To wit: "Where will you be at?"
"Where are you at?"

Also, it's pop and always will be pop.