kwhite

I said something earlier and thought, "I have to remember to put that on the thread" and do you think I can remember what it was???

Baren*eh*ked_canadian

My dad says terlit, but he's only kidding when he says that. No idea where he got it from. He usually doesn't even say toilet, just what he's going to go do there :roll: , all in french, though.

Rhonda

I do tend to use the you guys I'm afraid. I went to use it the other day and thought twice about it but it fit what I wanted to say so I used it anyway!

My MIL used to say ret up for cleaning up too. She uses het up instead of heating up. As in I het up some soup fer you.

I have some old recipes of my grandmother's and various relatives of that era and some of the directions are really funny! they have lots of these words and phrases in them. Some day I am going to preserve them. Right now they are in a wooden box.

bearisgray

funny how what is proper/accepted/usual in one part of the country is thought of as being downright peculiar when used in another part of the country

pal

The most overused phrase "in these parts" is

"No Problem" that's the reply to "Thank you".

To tell you the truth, it's a real pain in the prat listening to people tell you that everything is no problem!

Rhonda

Sometimes Bear the peculiar can even be seen as rude.

If you are talking to a group of men and women do you call them you people or you guys?

thanksgiving we went out to eat and I went to say why don't you "guys" just find a place to sit. I thought twice about using you guys but what else would you say instead?

It doesn't bother me to be addressed as you guys. It is a group identification to me. Whether the group is men and women or all women.

bearisgray

I would probably go with "you-all"

It seems like a useful phrase or word.

burnsk

So true, so true. And if you go international with words and phrases it gets even more peculiar.

When I was in England with my son many years ago, I had to caution him to use his "real" name and not his nickname when he introduced himself. His birth certificate says "Randall" but he's been called "Randy" since day 1. If you're randy in the UK you're "horny". Hi, I'm randy.

And if you're pissed in the UK, you're drunk.

MadQuilter

My FIl tells stories of things that happened to him in a modified present tense: "So I goes to the store and I says to the clerk....and then I picks up the bucket and it falls on my foot..... Oh thems are long tales - lol

Lisanne

How else would someone say coffee? That's how I've always said it, and that's how I've always heard everyone, in every part of this country say it. What am I missing?