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Local Sayings? What are yours?


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The "food only available..." thread got me thinking about other things that are different based on location.

So I ask you this: what are some local sayings or pronunciations or language quirks from where you are from?

I'll start with two from Montreal:

-Instead of saying terrace people say "tare-ass" (tare pronounced like care")

-Any combo at a fast-food restaurant is called a trio, not combo. For some reason this bugs me!

Ummm...how else do you say Terrace? Is there another way to pronounce ithuh.gif

The biggest ones, being Canadian, are "eh?" and of course the way we say "OUT" and "ABOUT" and "HOUSE" (more like owt, abowt, and howse)
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The pop vs soda debacle I hear a lot. Oregonians say pop more often than soda- at least I think.

 

My grandma says Bat-tree for battery. The first time I heard her say that it took me forever to figure out what the hell she was talking about. She kept saying "go get me a bat-tree" umm...ok??

 

My mom says warsh- she's lived here her whole life so she has no excuse. Yet she still says Warshington.

 

And Abbie- in my linguistics class they talked about the PNW having our own dialect as well. Most regions do. But anyways, she talked about words we say differently and I was like "we do? No one else says it like that?" I can't remember her examples now, but there were some!

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