Differences between the north and the south.

brittanyjeanxo

EDIT: to clarify, I mean the Northeast, not the whole north :laugh:

Things I never heard/heard of growing up in the south:
Grinders
Package store or packie
Friendly's
Trader Joe's
Leafers
Johnny cake
Jimmies or shots
Paczki

To those of you that are going, HUH?!, that is, respectively
A sub or a po' boy
Liquor store
A restaurant
A grocery store
Tourists that come to New England to see the leaves in the fall
Like a cornmeal cake
Sprinkles
A jelly doughnut

Here are some southern terms/places that I grew up hearing/going to that I don't hear or find up here:
Catty cornered or kitty cornered (Diagonally)
Alligator pear (Avocado)
Sub (Grinder)
Chunk (Toss or throw)
Fix (not to repair, but as in "I'm fixin' to go to the store." Meaning, "about to.)
Coke (refers to pretty much any soda, or pop lol)
"I reckon" (I suppose.)
Hissy fit (temper tantrum)
Ain't
and my personal favorite, Well, bless your heart! Contrary to how it may sound, this is an INSULT! lol

Any others?

christine24t

im from the northern us and out of all the listed terms, i'm only familar with trader joes and grinders! i know more of the southern phrases!

christine24t

im from the northern us and out of all the listed terms, i'm only familar with trader joes and grinders! i know more of the southern phrases!

rissaface

and my personal favorite, Well, bless your heart! Contrary to how it may sound, this is an INSULT! lol

Any others?

LOL, that one cracks me up, I was just having a discussion about that phrase. Also, in my house I say Dinner my husband says Supper. Sheesh.................Supper, silly.

KEShikes

corn-pone (johnnycake)
chittlins (sort of like scrapple)
greens (any tough green veggie you need to cook with ham hocks in order to make it edible)
yaaah-up...(meaning "yes")

nygiantschick

people trip out when I say "ya'll....

nananie2

and my personal favorite, Well, bless your heart! Contrary to how it may sound, this is an INSULT! lol

Any others?

LOL, that one cracks me up, I was just having a discussion about that phrase. Also, in my house I say Dinner my husband says Supper. Sheesh.................Supper, silly.

What's wrong with Supper? ;-)

UnderCoverShyGirl

I'm from the west and i hadn't heard most of those either except for grinders (which is a new word for me) and trader joe's (love!).

When i lived in colorado, everyone called any kind of soda pop, all jeans were "levis" and you went to the market (here we go to the store). I love regionalisms! Growing up in northern california, one thing we always said that i don't hear in other places is "hella" or "hecka"....you know like "that's hecka nice!" LOL. Sounds silly now to me, but interesting nonetheless!

NiciS72

How 'bout:
pop/soda/coke
Bubbled/water fountain
'za/pizza

JNick77

Proper annunciation of our words. For instance, we don't add letters to words that don't belong. i.e. The north says "wash", the south says, "warsh". Say what?

AngAndrews

You must be from Texas! I have never heard of any of the "northern" things you mentioned but say all the "southern" words daily!

What about:
y'all

countrydarling1

I didnt know a single nothern phrase. WOW! I like ours better! i fixin to go to bed! loL! I call the fridg an "icebox" lol!

SiltyPigeon

I live in Wisconsin. You don't get much more North. I have heard, and frequently use, most of those "Southern" phrases; and haven't heard barely any of those "Northern" ones. &&&&& I call soda, "Pop", dammit!

brittanyjeanxo

Proper annunciation of our words. For instance, we don't add letters to words that don't belong. i.e. The north says "wash", the south says, "warsh". Say what?

:laugh: I actually know very few people that say warsh, and most that do are from Georgia, mainly.

Also, to the supper girl, in my house dinner was actually lunch and supper was dinner. Breakfast, of course, was the same lol.

cba4994

I grew up in the midwest and now I am raising my kids in the south. My 12 yr old can not get over that adults used to ask us when we were kids "where are youse going?" instead of "Where are ya'll going?"

brattyworm

Proper annunciation of our words. For instance, we don't add letters to words that don't belong. i.e. The north says "wash", the south says, "warsh". Say what?

i find this interesting as i was born and raised in tx and say wash.... however, my husband who was born and raised in cali says warsh lol

brittanyjeanxo

I grew up in the midwest and now I am raising my kids in the south. My 12 yr old can not get over that adults used to ask us when we were kids "where are youse going?" instead of "Where are ya'll going?"

Oy, people up here say "youse guys"! It drives me batty! lol

SiltyPigeon

Proper annunciation of our words. For instance, we don't add letters to words that don't belong. i.e. The north says "wash", the south says, "warsh". Say what?

:laugh: I actually know very few people that say warsh, and most that do are from Georgia, mainly.

Also, to the supper girl, in my house dinner was actually lunch and supper was dinner. Breakfast, of course, was the same lol.

Supper is when you eat at home in the evening... Dinner is when you go out in the evening. Dinner usually involves alcohol before, during, and/or after.

KEShikes

In the Boston area, the "hella" is "wicked"

ranewell

Awesome!!! I've lived in the north and in the south and that list is awesome!!

JNick77

Proper annunciation of our words. For instance, we don't add letters to words that don't belong. i.e. The north says "wash", the south says, "warsh". Say what?

i find this interesting as i was born and raised in tx and say wash.... however, my husband who was born and raised in cali says warsh lol

That's interesting. I grew up in northwest Indiana and lived in southeast Indiana which was basically Louisville KY. Passing Indianapolis (mid-state) was like passing the Mason Dixon line or something because I heard things like "Warsh" all the time. People use to give me **** about having an accent too, kinda funny.

brittanyjeanxo

In the Boston area, the "hella" is "wicked"

Another thing that drives me nuts! Haha.

NewVonnie

In New England unfortunately we..or they..I wouldnt ever do this..LOL..leave out the R sound when it needs to be there and adds it when they shouldn't.

For example.." Park the car in Harvard Yard" said with no R sound.
Pizza and Visa and other words that have no R at the end are said like..Pizzer..and Veezer..Ridiculous but true..LOL

brittanyjeanxo

In New England unfortunately we..or they..I wouldnt ever do this..LOL..leave out the R sound when it needs to be there and adds it when they shouldn't.

For example.." Park the car in Harvard Yard" said with no R sound.
Pizza and Visa and other words that have no R at the end are said like..Pizzer..and Veezer..Ridiculous but true..LOL

Totally. I find it's mostly with Maryland, Maine, and Massachusetts. I don't really hear it a lot here in CT.

NiciS72

Oh and it's pronounced ill uh noi, not il uh noise! (Illinois)

sakus32

I live in NEPA and can tell you first hand that even in the NE there is much variation. For example:

red up . . . . . as in "i'm gonna red up the house before company comes"
potpie . . . .made w/noodles
meatpie . . . . made w/crust
warsh (not just for the south anymore)
daresn't . . . . as in "you daresn't do that"
Pittsburgs . . . . salads w/french fries, cheese, and sometimes meat or not, but always the fries and cheese
yins . . . . . .kinda like ya'll (Pittsburg lingo)

and my personal fave
squares . . . . . another Pittsburg term form cigarretts

brittanyjeanxo

By the way, it's "Lose-iana" not "Louise-iana" and "Nah-Lins", not "New Or-leens."

KimmyEB

EDIT: to clarify, I mean the Northeast, not the whole north :laugh:

Things I never heard/heard of growing up in the south:
Grinders
Package store or packie
Friendly's
Trader Joe's
Leafers
Johnny cake
Jimmies or shots
Paczki

To those of you that are going, HUH?!, that is, respectively
A sub or a po' boy
Liquor store
A restaurant
A grocery store
Tourists that come to New England to see the leaves in the fall
Like a cornmeal cake
Sprinkles
A jelly doughnut

Here are some southern terms/places that I grew up hearing/going to that I don't hear or find up here:
Catty cornered or kitty cornered (Diagonally)
Alligator pear (Avocado)
Sub (Grinder)
Chunk (Toss or throw)
Fix (not to repair, but as in "I'm fixin' to go to the store." Meaning, "about to.)
Coke (refers to pretty much any soda, or pop lol)
"I reckon" (I suppose.)
Hissy fit (temper tantrum)
Ain't
and my personal favorite, Well, bless your heart! Contrary to how it may sound, this is an INSULT! lol

Any others?

Are you sure we only lived 2 towns apart? Haha. Because I have NEVER heard of some of those Southern ones. I do use variations of 2 of those, though--I don't say "catty corner," but "cat-a-corner" (and that's how I've always heard it, as well), and I say "chuck" not "chunk." I've never heard chunk being used that way before, haha. As for the Coke being used as any soda, that's a new one to me, as well, and I've lived most of my life here in the South. They usually just say "Coke products" or "Pepsi products" and then go into the list of exactly what those are, usually followed by "sweet tea," if sweet tea wasn't mentioned first.

I lived in Michigan during the winter of 2008-2009, and I worked at a coffee shop, and it used to annoy me like crazy when people would ask "Got pop?" I couldn't understand them. They said it so fast, "GOTPOP!" I had to have a coworker explain to me that they were trying to ask if we sold soda. To this day, I hate hearing people say "pop" instead of "soda."

My family is from Baltimore originally, and they all say "warsh." I'm glad I didn't get into that habit.

A lot of my friend who are originally from New England say "wicked." But I like that one. It's different from what I hear here in Florida. I also love "Hella" because, again, I don't hear it often here!

One thing I have definitely also noticed between the north and south, having lived in both, are what I call "fashion mannerisms." Girls here in Florida will wear Ugg boots and sweaters in 80+ temps, and then complain nonstop that they're so hot, while girls up north will wear mini-skirts in below freezing temps and complain that they're so cold. I have to hand it to the North, though--it seems like here in the South, people wear their trashyness with pride...racist bumper stickers, signs, and t-shirts abound, while I didn't see any of that when I lived up North. I'm sure there's trashy racist people up north, too, but at least it wasn't encouraged behavior, like it is down here.

souperficial

I'm from Massachusetts, so we use pretty much every one of those northeast words. But also kitty corner and hissy fit. And you forgot wicked. I abuse the word wicked.

brittanyjeanxo

EDIT: to clarify, I mean the Northeast, not the whole north :laugh:

Things I never heard/heard of growing up in the south:
Grinders
Package store or packie
Friendly's
Trader Joe's
Leafers
Johnny cake
Jimmies or shots
Paczki

To those of you that are going, HUH?!, that is, respectively
A sub or a po' boy
Liquor store
A restaurant
A grocery store
Tourists that come to New England to see the leaves in the fall
Like a cornmeal cake
Sprinkles
A jelly doughnut

Here are some southern terms/places that I grew up hearing/going to that I don't hear or find up here:
Catty cornered or kitty cornered (Diagonally)
Alligator pear (Avocado)
Sub (Grinder)
Chunk (Toss or throw)
Fix (not to repair, but as in "I'm fixin' to go to the store." Meaning, "about to.)
Coke (refers to pretty much any soda, or pop lol)
"I reckon" (I suppose.)
Hissy fit (temper tantrum)
Ain't
and my personal favorite, Well, bless your heart! Contrary to how it may sound, this is an INSULT! lol

Any others?

Are you sure we only lived 2 towns apart? Haha. Because I have NEVER heard of some of those Southern ones. I do use variations of 2 of those, though--I don't say "catty corner," but "cat-a-corner" (and that's how I've always heard it, as well), and I say "chuck" not "chunk." I've never heard chunk being used that way before, haha. As for the Coke being used as any soda, that's a new one to me, as well, and I've lived most of my life here in the South. They usually just say "Coke products" or "Pepsi products" and then go into the list of exactly what those are, usually followed by "sweet tea," if sweet tea wasn't mentioned first.

I lived in Michigan during the winter of 2008-2009, and I worked at a coffee shop, and it used to annoy me like crazy when people would ask "Got pop?" I couldn't understand them. They said it so fast, "GOTPOP!" I had to have a coworker explain to me that they were trying to ask if we sold soda. To this day, I hate hearing people say "pop" instead of "soda."

My family is from Baltimore originally, and they all say "warsh." I'm glad I didn't get into that habit.

A lot of my friend who are originally from New England say "wicked." But I like that one. It's different from what I hear here in Florida. I also love "Hella" because, again, I don't hear it often here!

One thing I have definitely also noticed between the north and south, having lived in both, are what I call "fashion mannerisms." Girls here in Florida will wear Ugg boots and sweaters in 80+ temps, and then complain nonstop that they're so hot, while girls up north will wear mini-skirts in below freezing temps and complain that they're so cold. I have to hand it to the North, though--it seems like here in the South, people wear their trashyness with pride...racist bumper stickers, signs, and t-shirts abound, while I didn't see any of that when I lived up North. I'm sure there's trashy racist people up north, too, but at least it wasn't encouraged behavior, like it is down here.

Haha, maybe it's because my mom grew up in Texas? IDK. And I totally know what you mean, like those stupid *kitten* "heritage, not hate" stickers and shirts. No, racist, it's hate. I hate rednecks :grumble: lol

Jenscan

One thing I really notice, other than the lingo, is that northerners talk so freaking FAST that my southern ears cannot keep up. Like seriously, I cannot understand at all what is being said. SO is from Chicago and when he gets going, I have to tell him to slow down because I can't hear what he's telling me.