I'm from Pittsburgh and we have a very interesting lingo, but they all annoy me and I've lived here all my life.
Pop for soda
tennies or tennis shoes for sneakers
dahntahn for downtown
yuinz for you all
gint iggle for giant eagle
warsh for wash
poosh for push
tar for tire
and the biggest thing: my name is Naomi pronounced Nay-O-Me
but people have a tendency to spell and pronounce it wrong. I get extra vowels in it all the time and many people pronounce it Nigh-o-me.
Several years ago, a Pittsburgh station did a story on Pittsburgh-ese! Questions that they tried to answer for other people, but only answers that only Pittsburghers knew.
-what redd up meant
-why the parkway ALWAYS backs up at the tunnel, then once you are through it...there isn't a car in sight!
-what the point is
-how to spell AND pronounce Monongahela (a river at the point)
-that they are the Stillers (Steelers)
The older people in western PA also call a bag a "poke".
What a telly pole is...(a telephone pole). That was a big thing for us growing up. We was allowed to go from that telly pole down there to the telly pole near the hydrant.
Ohh!! People are also shocked when I tell them we used to play in the hydrant! (yes, the city actually had sprinkler covers to place over the hydrant, and turn them on in the summer)
Oh....anyone know what peepers are? (the frogs in spring/summer time chirping). Peepers....DUHHHH!!!!
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Along the lines of "Bal'more", I had an article that was about (Indiana) Hoosier-isms (for those who don't know, Indiana is known as the Hoosier State).
The great French explorer, Lafayette, pronounced his name in 3 syllables, Lah-Fay-Et, but a true Hoosier only uses 2 to pronouce the name of the city ... "La-fyet". In California, they may call their city car-MEL, but here in Hoosierville, it's plain 'ole "CAR-mull".
I didn't realize until my daughter came home from Korea (army) that "big 'ole" was a Hoosier word. I told her I had a "big 'ole" pot of chicken-n-dumplin's for dinner (yes, there is no "g" at the end of "dumplin's" or you're not making 'em right!) and she said, "Big 'Ole! I can tell I'm home now!"
And a standing joke in Indiana: "South Bend is up north, North Vernon is down south, and French Lick ain't nuthin' like you think it is!"
OMG Deb I am rolling here, you are so right about all of it ROFL.
yep, I'm a "crick" person, too. Grew up in the country and always got in trouble for playing in the "crick".
My hubby introduced me to "rid up" (instead of redd up), such as "rid up the dirty dishes". He said it came from the idea of you have to "get rid of" the dirty dishes by washing them. "rid of" got commonized to "rid up" and then just shortened to "rid 'em up!"
Ok, since I already burned the biscuits...here is a link to websters
**edited to actually INSERT said link...
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/depot
There are two little volume looking things beside the word. The first one is what my DH says (and where the trains are)...the second one is what the commercials and the REST of the free world says when talking about the big orange box in the sky.
Now I see a limitation to the internet...
My friend from Jersey City had no idea what I was talking about when i offered here sweet tea. She said it is Tea with Sugar.
And then I had no idea what she meant when she said she was goign to the shore. She meant THE Shore...as Jersey Shore...
And sis we mention Worsh....my MIL worshes the car.
OMG! You are cracking me up (mostly because I'm the same way!!!) Way to stand your ground!!! I hate it when I'm trying to make a point and nobody gets it!!!.... I also thought you meant you pronounce the T, but I get it, now!
Here's another one: I hate "irregardless"!!!!!! ugghhh! It's REGARDLESS! irregardless is NOT A WORD!!! I hated it in school when my TEACHERS would say this!!! 
whew! Got that one off my chest too!!!
OMG how could I forget my biggest one!! Irregardless made me think of it..
CONVERSATE!!! The word is converse. Please stop the madness! 
And speaking of "irregardless", our CEO used that term once during a speech to the company, I wanted to bop him on the head. 
LadyofCake said,
Also a really good one is a private joke between us mostly - you know that commercial for Kay Jewelers that says "every kiss begins with Kay" ?
Well, we crack up every single time we hear it since kay in his language means sex, specifically the F-word, so we laugh and say no, every kay begins with kiss!
I've got to know, now. What language is it?
VAcakelady said,
Some of these posts remind me of the old Sniglets books, does anyone remember these? It was a funny dictionary of sorts, made up words for things that didn't have a name or something like that. I'll have to look some up.
I remember Sniglets... They were sooo funny. We still say "unpupular".
They'd show someone trying to play with a puppy and the pup did not want to play with. You were "unpupular". When I get home and there aren't any messages on the answering machine - "I guess I'm unpupular today!" 
yeah we do the pop thingee here too and the Doohicky whatchamajigger n thingamabob. Worsh is common and we have a town here that is definitely mis-pronounced. In CA it would be Bwoyna vista but here the town is actually pronounced byoona vista (Buena Vista) That's how it's officially pronounced here. LOL. Any decent spanish speakin person is slappin their head and goin, "ai carumba!!"
ROTFLMAO!
I have no idea what a turn signal is...it is blinker for me!
I can't stand these Utah natives who say fur instead of for...especially when you hear it over and over again you catch yourself saying it!
Also, my dad and his mother finish almost every sentance with "and that." I mean, what is the point, and that? lol!
Gee, I hope I can fight my genes!
having grown up in an extremely carniverous family, i hate when people say "worster-shire" for that liquid you put on your steaks...they're leaving out the entire middle of the word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep. That's really how you say it, silly as it may seem. I think it's actually a county in England, and that's how it's pronounced.
I just thought of another one my dh's family uses. They pronounce "picture" like "pitcher." "Look at that cute pitcher of the baby!"
Chaptlps, that is so funny! That goes for almost any city in CA, FL and the actual state names NV and CO. i Ay Caramba!
Once I worked in telemarketing (I wasn't a "him-butt-er"; I'd only take orders from incoming calls ). We would have to repeat and spell the names and addresses. The city, state names would automatically pop up on the computer screen from caller ID and we'd have to verify that information. One lady got so upset because I pronounced the city "Manteca" as MOhN-TEH-KAh. She practically screamed into the phone, "That's MAN-TEE-CA". Okay okay 
Is it my fault the Spanish translation for manteca is Lard?
I am from Pittsburgh and my MIL says "turlet" for toilet and I also have a teenage cousin who says "panny-cakes" for pancakes.
By the way, is it "gumband" or "rubberband". I asked someone for a gumband a few weeks ago when I was in Myrtle Beach, and she looked at me like I was crazy!
My 4 year old pronounces remote "marote"--cute!!
"Marote" is funny, too. My nephew says he wants "frozens" when he wants Pop-tarts. The commercials used to say, "Taste great frozen" 
Here in Mexico we have a lot of words with no translation, like food items, and some people just don't get it, they would say:
Hop dogs (hot dogs)
Ha-kays (hot cakes)
kon-flays (corn flakes) or any kind of cold cereal for that matter are called kon-flays.
I have a friend who says captus instead of cactus. Oh and speaking of chanching letters how about pecsi instead of pepsi and picza for pizza.
Several years ago I worked as a tranlator so I had to increase my vocabulary so much that a lot of times I was speaking in spanish and then I couldn't remember the word I needed so I would say it in english and it drove my husband crazy, but now even him and my kids do that, but the one thing that he can't get over is me saying "watchamacallit" when I don't remember in spanish what I need.
HEHEHE!! I haven't been on this thread for a while and I am trying to catch up! I am LMAO!!! OK....this drives me crazy!! My husbands family calls a motorcycle a "murdercycle" and a tiger a "tager"! I just about laugh everytime I hear him say this. Oh, and any kind of paper towel is a "bounty towel" and anytime you go to a store......you're going to town. ARRGGHH!!! It drives me crazy. So if he wants to go to Walmart, he just asks if I wanna go to town. I never know where we will end up!! And we grew up about a half hour from eachother too!!
Dolfin, I think I'm going to get a "Hyena" from laughing so hard!
yeah here in Louisiana we have Scott towels whether it's bounty or viva or whatever.
My DH cracked me up the other day when he was explaining his new GPS he got for fishing trips. He said, "you can put in several point of interestes." LOL "You mean pointS of interest? RIght?"
My MIL says Ma(short a) naise (short a again no o at all) instead of mayonaise. One that I commonly mess up is it's thundering and lighteningin...I know it's wrong, but maybe it's my fear of it that makes me unable to pronounce it correctly!
This is tooo funny. But I have one. When I was 14 I worked at a fast food joint at the window. Well we had this guy come in every few days and I think that his accent got the best of him at times because this was his order:
eeee juan cheee hamburrger (rolling R), ee juan medeun coke an juan lar frend fri.
For those that don't know what he was asking for it's one cheeseburger, a medium coke and a large (order- not mentioned) of frensh fries.
I am hispanic and when I got older I was a translater at the courthouse and boy it was to funny to hear some people kill the language. Not to mention my mom has the WORST accent every (gotta love her) but some people are toooooo funny no matter what the accent is. BUt to defend them (a little) the english language is so hard to master. I mean really they way the you say something isn't always the way you spell it.
oh oh my favorite is my dad, he says, I luf you berry mush. when he is tell us that he loves us very much.
So this one really hits home.
My husband and I were born in Brooklyn, New York so we have a bit of an accent ourselves. My daughter really gets at me because I say she is my "dora" (at least that is the way she puts it) when I tell people "this is my daughter". And my dad says that I say "wotr" when I say water. I guess I don't hear it. I have been in Massachusetts since I was seven and they put me in speach class because they didn't understand what I was saying when I moved here from NY. Now my accent is just funny, A little NY, a little MA and a little (no offence, please) white valley girl. No spanish accent. Thank god imagine that in the mix.
Vicky
In Texas, any carbonated beverage is a coke, "you wanna coke?" 'Yeah" "what do you want?" "Dr. Pepper". I've also lived in OK and in Virginia (though I'm a native Texan) and now this drives me crazy. Though I don't know what to call them either, having lived in a couple of different places - soda, pop, coke?!?!?!
Oh yeah, and they are blinker's down here too.
Anyone know what a feder is? I actually had a friend from CO argue with me that I made the word up. Finally got to point it out to her on a billboard.
Ok, someone said auminua foil, my granny says tin foll. And the lady I work with says her British husband says al-you-mini-yum. (almost like condominium).My sister says serio instead of cereal. I had to do a double take when someone said "irregardless" was wrong. I dont think I've ever said it, but I grew up hearing it so much it just seemed normal. Someone mentioned coke, it refers to 7up, Dr Pepper, Sprite, etc. My grandpa builds a sandwich. My dad used to work with a from Mexico who call his "blinker" a clink clink. I almost corrected my husband this weekend when he said I never use my turn signal. I wasnt turnin' I was just changin' lanes. Why would I use it?
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