Give me your local words.

[Audley Strange]

In the pub tonight after the movie my friend and I were discussing dialect variants and having quite a laugh about how even those a small distance apart can have different words for the same thing.

For example he was telling me that he and his friends called fizzy pop "Scud" whereas we in Glasgow often refer to it as "skoosh" or "ginger"

Here are another couple that came to mind.

"Swedger" Sweets or candy

"Skegs" Underpants

"Bowfin" Stinks.

Hit us up with some of your own let's see if we can ruin any idea of a mean (as in average) lexicon.

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

"Yay." - Plural of "you".

[tattuchu]

I don't know if any words are specific to my area. How would I know? I've always talked the way I do, so it's normal to me. As far as I'm concerned, I speak plain unadulterated English. It's the rest of you that talk funny

[Audley Strange]

I don't know if any words are specific to my area. How would I know? I've always talked the way I do, so it's normal to me. As far as I'm concerned, I speak plain unadulterated English. It's the rest of you that talk funny

Ya dobber.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The people in Indiana have a strange word, "idn't"

"The car is broken, idn't it?"

[Exi5tentialist]

If I tell you my local words you'll be able to triangulate to my exact location. Or maybe that's just me mithering.

[tattuchu]

If I tell you my local words you'll be able to triangulate to my exact location. Or maybe that's just me mithering.

I say "it's a bit parky" and "Gordon Bennett!" and "ayup."

[Bella Fortuna]

I can't think of anything. I wonder if this is a more pronounced phenomenon in the UK vs. the US, for reasons of... something....

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I can't think of anything. I wonder if this is a more pronounced phenomenon in the UK vs. the US, for reasons of... something....

Because we have... history, perhaps?

Some from round our way...

Beeroff = Off license - liquor store (Ah'm off down't beeroff fuh sum bockles)
Tabs = Ears (Bloody coad art t'night. Me tabs uh singin!)
Mester = Man (You leave that alone, yung'un. That's mester's ale!)
Yoof = A young man (Ayup yoof. Yuh gooin daan match Sat'dy?)
Tuffies = Sweets - candy (Giz a tuffie, yoof.)
Nesh = Overly sensitive to the cold (Turn the bloody eat daan. Ne'er mind im, e's nesh!)
Mardy = Overly emotional - prone to crying/moaning/whining (Shurrup, yuh mardy get!)
Having a bag on = Being in a bad (or mardy) mood (Bloody ell, yer missus as gorra right bag on! En't yuh gi'in er any?)

[drl2]

Delaware's an interesting linguistic mix because we've got inner-city urban, northeastern-leaning suburbia, and deep-south redneck all crammed into a very small state. So you occasionally get to hear statements like "I'ma get da fuck outta Wimmitin(1) an' go down the beach(2) to do some feeshin'(3) in the crick(4) or some swimmin'(5) if the wooter(6)'s warm enough."

Footnotes:
1. "Wilmington", the only area in the state that anyone would recognize as an actual city. Pronounced in this case with approximately 2.5 syllables, or, optionally, "Wimmintin", which fleshes out that middle syllable a bit more.
2. While "down to the beach" sounds perfectly reasonable to me, it stands in sharp contrast to our Jersey neighbors' "down the shore". We almost never use "shore" when we're referring to it as a destination.
3. Fishing
4. Creek
5. Something I wouldn't recommend doing in the wooters of the Brandywine Crick in Wimmitin.
6. Water

[Svartalf]

I'd give mine, but it's a whole different language out here, like these omadhauns canna speak proper béarla

[apophenia]

hot dish — casserole
an dan — and then
choppers — mittens
sorels — winter boots (brand name)
sled — snowmobile
crick — creek

[FBM]

Where I grew up, every soft drink was a "Coke."

"You want a Coke?"
"Yeah, sure."
"A'ite. What kind?"
"Dr. Pepper."

[Kristie]

Where I grew up, every soft drink was a "Coke."

"You want a Coke?"
"Yeah, sure."
"A'ite. What kind?"
"Dr. Pepper."

I hate that one! One of my pet peeves.

[FBM]

Where I grew up, every soft drink was a "Coke."

"You want a Coke?"
"Yeah, sure."
"A'ite. What kind?"
"Dr. Pepper."

I hate that one! One of my pet peeves.

Ooops! If it's any consolation, I don't drink Coke...eh...soft drinks anymore. They're just sugar water.

I recall a "stoop" as being a low step-up to a porch or maybe some sort of low place where you can sit. Not sure, really.

And I still have a cow-lick if I don't comb my hair carefully.