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Odd local words and phrases.
This is the thread for unique sayings (not a weird state laws thread).
For example: here, it seems like everyone always says "the crows get bigger every year." Also, as I'm in the country, people are always saying: "this is the wettest (or driest) spring ever!" Or "this is the coldest/hottest winter ever!" besides that, though, I "go down cellar" rather then go into the basement, eat grinders (that's a New England thing) rather than...er...subways? And eat (oh, delicious of delicious!) creemees (or cremes, or creeemeees, or creemeees, or cremees, etc: the very first one is the most usual, but "creme" is generally the way tourist-traps spell it) which is soft-serve ice cream everywhere else. Anyone?
submitted by Aliza, age 13, Vermont
(May 15, 2009 - 10:11 am)
(May 15, 2009 - 10:11 am)
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! I may sound paranoid, but it's true. Start listening to things like UNR sports games, etc. Please say it right!
-EH
(May 17, 2009 - 7:07 pm)
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!!! I may sound paranoid, but it's true how much people say it wrong. Listen to things like UNR sports games, etc. Please say it right!
-Promotor of the common good (becaue it really does help the economy if you say it right... just kidding.)
(May 17, 2009 - 7:09 pm)
:D:D Ha ha, you're welcome! :)
(May 18, 2009 - 5:40 pm)
Oh, I know! Very annoying. Especially around here, because I get it mixed up with Novato, or at least I used to, when people say Nevada wrong.
(May 17, 2009 - 1:33 pm)
"Ayuh'!" :)
(May 16, 2009 - 7:46 pm)
Yeah, actually I do, too. It sounds funny when people pronounce it the other way...
(May 17, 2009 - 1:22 pm)
Grah, everyone here says "acrossed" and it bugs me soooo bad. *headdesk*
(May 17, 2009 - 1:27 pm)
Whoa! I'm on at the same time as TNÖ and... MaryJo? HI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(May 17, 2009 - 1:31 pm)
I live in New England, and I've never heard someone refer to 'grinders' or 'creemees.' Where I live, we use the word 'wicked' to mean so utterly awesomeful. 'Sick' also mean awesome, as in "That's sick!". At least one of the kids in my school has a pet peeve about how people spell "boloney". He said it's "bolonga" instead. We sometimes drop our R's by accident, but not as strong as "I pahked my cah in at Havahd, and ate some gahlic". No one ever says stuff like that. In Boston.... ;D
(May 17, 2009 - 2:32 pm)
"Creemee" is just a Vermont thing, but I was told people in New England a subway is grinder...maybe not, or maybe where you live they don't? Anyway, in Vermont we major leave off our "t's" so we pretty much say "the cah sah on the mah" with a little hiccup at the end, rather than a "t" :):) You should bring a cah(hic) on a boah(hic) so thah(hic) ih(you get the poinh(hic)) can eah the rah that's been troublin' you....:):):)
(May 18, 2009 - 1:37 pm)
Ayuh', New Englandahs' say wicked all the time! Here's how to speak like a Mainah':
:D:D
(May 18, 2009 - 5:39 pm)
Does NY count as New England? Mental block! Anyways, around here people say "sick," too. I think that that's pretty much country-wide. . .;)
Here's a question: do people in your town, or city, watev, say lol (as in lollipop) or spell it out, L-O-L? Here, people mostly saw lol, as in lollipop.
Um, I think that it is spelled bologna, at least that's how we spell it. . . .
I think New England is just Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Not New York.
Old Cricket
(May 18, 2009 - 6:48 pm)
Here they say both lol and L-O-L. :D
(May 19, 2009 - 1:50 pm)
And, yeah, the Admin is right, NY isn't part of New England. :) In Gorham, people mostly saw L-O-L, but my brother tends to say lol (but not as in 'lollipop', but as in 'oh').
(May 20, 2009 - 4:23 pm)
Yah, they say "sick" and "wicked" here, too. :D
(May 18, 2009 - 8:03 pm)