Philly People Thread

iam_thatdude
iam_thatdude Posts: 1,266 Member
Say the most Philly word you can....Ill start


Im going down the crick (creek)
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  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    CHURRY instead of Cherry..........the worst thing I have ever heard them say is FLY EAGLES FLY !!!!!!!!
  • w_i_n_d_y
    w_i_n_d_y Posts: 216 Member
    Let's Go Flyers!
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    I like "arnges" (for you non-Philly folk...that would be "oranges")

    Or how bout: "a steak wit" or "a steak wit out" (I love you, Pat's)
  • iam_thatdude
    iam_thatdude Posts: 1,266 Member
    CHURRY instead of Cherry..........the worst thing I have ever heard them say is FLY EAGLES FLY !!!!!!!!

    FLy Eagles Fly....on the road to VICKtory!
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Let's Go Flyers!

    Clap, clap...clap, clap, clap (sorry...loses a bit when typing rather than cheering) :bigsmile:
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    CHURRY instead of Cherry..........the worst thing I have ever heard them say is FLY EAGLES FLY !!!!!!!!

    FLy Eagles Fly....on the road to VICKtory!

    OH stop the madness!!!!!!!!!! LOL GO Dallas !
  • Iggles = Eagles. "Freakin' Iggles!"

    Downdashore = Down the shore. "You going downdashore?"
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Never been to Philly. Don't really know anyone from Philly? But do they call it "pop" or "soda"? In the south, everything is Coke!! :laugh:
  • iam_thatdude
    iam_thatdude Posts: 1,266 Member
    CHURRY instead of Cherry..........the worst thing I have ever heard them say is FLY EAGLES FLY !!!!!!!!

    FLy Eagles Fly....on the road to VICKtory!

    OH stop the madness!!!!!!!!!! LOL GO Dallas !

    A Dallas fan? In Philly speak GETDAF*KOWDAHEYA (get the F out of here)
  • iam_thatdude
    iam_thatdude Posts: 1,266 Member
    Never been to Philly. Don't really know anyone from Philly? But do they call it "pop" or "soda"? In the south, everything is Coke!! :laugh:

    Sode in Philly...Ive lived in the SOuth for the last 18 years and the COke thing cracks me up.
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    Wooder = water

    As in:

    Boards creak...wooder flows through a crick.
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    CHURRY instead of Cherry..........the worst thing I have ever heard them say is FLY EAGLES FLY !!!!!!!!

    FLy Eagles Fly....on the road to VICKtory!

    OH stop the madness!!!!!!!!!! LOL GO Dallas !

    A Dallas fan? In Philly speak GETDAF*KOWDAHEYA (get the F out of here)


    LMAO !!! YOU NAILED IT !!! I am 30 mins from philly and have friends from there I love to hear them talk ..Its cracks me up !

    LETS NOT FORGET all the workers in the stadium saying...BEEH HEHH !!!!!! instead of BEER HERE !
  • bionicrooster
    bionicrooster Posts: 353 Member
    wiz wit / wiz witout
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    wiz wit / wiz witout


    aaaahhhh the wiz !!1
  • iam_thatdude
    iam_thatdude Posts: 1,266 Member
    i cant believe no one said Wooter yet? It took me almost 5 years of living outside of Philly to pronounce Water correctly.
  • gsheasley
    gsheasley Posts: 1,046 Member
    how about water ice??


    didn't realize there were so many of us from philly!

    when i went abroad i got laughed at for where I put the emphasis on Phil-a-DEL-phi-A
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    i cant believe no one said Wooter yet? It took me almost 5 years of living outside of Philly to pronounce Water correctly.

    I said it...I just spelled it "wooder"...every time my mom comes out here to visit & asks for "wooder", they look at her like she's not speaking English...
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    how about water ice??


    didn't realize there were so many of us from philly!

    when i went abroad i got laughed at for where I put the emphasis on Phil-a-DEL-phi-A


    PHILADELPHIA IS RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!! Delaware girl here, your sister state and I mentiond CHURRY earlier thats for when they ask for CHURRY WOOTER ICE !
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    my friends make fun of me all the time for my south jersey/philly accent. water, spewn instead of spoon, bowwt instead of boat, coewke instead of coke, the list is endless. oh and they don't like how i say hoagie instead of sub
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    my friends make fun of me all the time for my south jersey/philly accent. water, spewn instead of spoon, bowwt instead of boat, coewke instead of coke, the list is endless. oh and they don't like how i say hoagie instead of sub

    People just hate because we know how to speak properly :bigsmile:
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    my friends make fun of me all the time for my south jersey/philly accent. water, spewn instead of spoon, bowwt instead of boat, coewke instead of coke, the list is endless. oh and they don't like how i say hoagie instead of sub

    People just hate because we know how to speak properly :bigsmile:

    haha.
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    HOAGIE and MARKET LOL = SUB and GROCERY STORE !
  • iam_thatdude
    iam_thatdude Posts: 1,266 Member
    HOw about Ack A Me for Acme?
  • Ooh, I'm going to Reading Terminal Market in a few weeks - What should I look for??! Went to the Flying Monkey Bakery last time, and really liked their stuff. What else??

    I'm from Jersey, so no Philly words for ya! :embarassed:
  • my friends make fun of me all the time for my south jersey/philly accent. water, spewn instead of spoon, bowwt instead of boat, coewke instead of coke, the list is endless. oh and they don't like how i say hoagie instead of sub

    I once asked for a hoagie in a Canada sub shop and the guy behind the counter looked at me like I had three heads.
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    HOw about Ack A Me for Acme?

    It's THE Ack-a-Me...
  • Jersey_Devil
    Jersey_Devil Posts: 4,142 Member
    I'm going to my first phillies game of 2012 in less than 2 weeks! so freakin stoked! i miss the bank!
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    HOw about Ack A Me for Acme?


    OMG THIS SERIOUSLY MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a friend who says it like that...I GOT THIS AT THE ACK - A _ ME !!!!!
  • skinnywithin
    skinnywithin Posts: 1,392 Member
    I'm going to my first phillies game of 2012 in less than 2 weeks! so freakin stoked! i miss the bank!
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    love the phillies !!! Victorino is my future husband but he doesnt know it yet !