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#4390926 - 11/22/17 07:12 PM Local idioms and vernacular  
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What are some local idioms and vernacular that you have been exposed to either while you were travelling or from moving to a totally new region of your country?


I've lived almost my entire life in South Florida but during the 1990's I did live in Texas for a while and I was exposed to quite a few words that I had no clue what they meant at first:


1. "Fixin" - So instead of saying "I'm about to do this" it's "I'm fixin to do this". It's my understanding though that this isn't just a Texas thing but a Southern thing. smile

2. "Switch" - A thin tree branch.

3. "Whomperjawed" - Askew, out of alignment, something not right.


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#4390929 - 11/22/17 07:37 PM Re: Local idioms and vernacular [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Hmmm. I don't get it. Those all make perfect sense to me. wink

"Tump" or "Tumpt" - To spill or knock over. "Dang it! I gave Panzermeyer one job; to move the dirt in the wheelbarra, and he done went an tumpt it over in the driveway. I am fixin' to get after him with a switch!"

"Tetched" - bastardization of 'Touched', as in 'Touched in the Head'; mentally deficient.

"Bless his (her) heart" - Something you say that makes your previously mentioned insult ok. You can say some of the meanest things, but when you follow it up with this (or start), it makes it ok to say. "Bless his heart, that Pazermeyer is dumber than a box of hammers! I swear that boy is tetched!!"


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#4390930 - 11/22/17 07:39 PM Re: Local idioms and vernacular [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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LOL!! Thanks for the Texanese lesson Bill.


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#4390942 - 11/22/17 08:52 PM Re: Local idioms and vernacular [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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New Hampsheer - what more than a few people in Maine call the state to our west.

Sireen - noisy thing on emergency vehicles, often said by the New Hampsheer crowd.

Dump - trash/garbage, not the place where it goes. Take out the dump = bring the trash out by the road for pickup. You guessed it as to who says this.

Bullsh*t - angry.


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#4390966 - 11/22/17 11:14 PM Re: Local idioms and vernacular [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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In Michigan having " a pop" means having a soda.

#4390969 - 11/22/17 11:46 PM Re: Local idioms and vernacular [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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In Australia, feeling "crook" means you feel ill.


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#4390970 - 11/22/17 11:55 PM Re: Local idioms and vernacular [Re: LB4LB]  
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Originally Posted by LB4LB
In Michigan having " a pop" means having a soda.



PA as well. My brother's wife once told my uncle that she wanted a soda and received a glass of club soda, which was definitely not what she wanted.


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#4390985 - 11/23/17 03:32 AM Re: Local idioms and vernacular [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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When my family moved to Colorado from Cape Cod as a teen there were all kinds of these strange western words.
Never then did I imagine that I would some day actually have a western drawl as I do today!

Worst was, "Choose you!"

It did not mean someone wanted to dance. It meant they "choose to fight you".

So don't show up at a dance and holler "Choose You!".. you will be unpleasantly surprised!

#4391089 - 11/23/17 10:11 PM Re: Local idioms and vernacular [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Probably typical all over the Midwest (US) but my favorite expression from my time at school in Kansas was the affirmative answer to a suggestion, like "Wanna go to the movies tonight?"

"<shrug> Can't Dance"

short for: "Why not, I can't dance and it's too wet to plow"


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