Ok let me try in a sentence. Daryl, Tad, and them left the organization so they could get double salary. James, PJ and them left the organization to contend for a title. Am i doing this right?
I've noticed fixing to and y'all becoming more popular terms nation wide recently -- I think I'm hearing them more often at least.
A huge credit to Coca Cola Marketing for that. Kind of like saying Band Aid instead of adhesive bandage.
Black Houstonians say "Fidna" I'm fidna go to tha sto. In college, this Canadian chick I knew told me this story. Hysterical. She was talking to her boyfriend, whose from Houston, Houston dude: "I'm fidna go to the store. You want anything?". Canadian girl: huh? Houston dude: "I'm fidna go to the store?". Canadian girl: What about the store? Houston dude: "I'm fidna go. You want anything?" Canadian girl: I don't understand what you are saying? Houston dude: "I ...AM... FIXING... TO... GO... TO... THE... STORE!? Canadian girl: Huh? Houston dude: Aw damn, girl. I'm going to the store! You want anything? Canadian girl: Why didn't you just say that. Houston dude: I did. Now what the F do you want?!
Yep. Some companies are so popular their name takes over their industry Kleenex = Tissue Xerox = Copy Pamper = Diaper Clorox = Bleach Tylenol = Asprin Lysol = Disinfectant Spray There's more but that's all I remember right now
Speaking of vocabulary ... “Euphemism” is not the word you’re looking for ... maybe you wanted to type “expression” but then you overthought it. For a more linguistic word, maybe regional “colloquialisms” ... but “regional expressions” is still probably best, imo
Californians say "the" in front of their freeway numbers. The 405 (Interstate 405) The 10 (Interstate 10) The entire West Coast (plus Arizona) does this.
When i was young and big hair was all the rage, "wikkid" was New England modifier of choice. As in, "Tommy, that Ratt concert you brought us to in your mom's station wagon was wikkid cool, too bad that girl you brought got widdid drunk on Boone's Farm and threw up all over drummer." Havent lived in New England since the late 80s so not sure its still a thing, or if ut went out of fashon with copeous amounts of hairspray.
Good catch. Law of the internet that when you're discussing speech or grammar, you get something wrong
I don't really consider trendy buzzwords part of localized dialects. They come and go and rarely stick. That said, I think they do still say 'wicked' in NE on a regular basis, so it stuck.
One of my best friends is from Arkansas, so I knew about "tump"... and I'll throw in "tater wagons" as referring to rolling thunder. The ones that always crack me up from the South are the variations on what you call your grandparents... meemaw, peepaw, etc. Another one I recently read : After somebody ate too much at the dinner table : "If I were an inch taller, I'd be round".
I’ve heard people in MN add a “t” to the end of “across”. So they’ll thinks like, “the boat is acrosst the lake” In Singapore they speak “Singlish” which is a patois of mostly English with Mandarin, Hokkien and Malay words. They’ll add “lah” at the end of sentences almost as punctuation especially for questions. And a common Singlish phrase is “can lah?” When asking someone if they can do something.
