Do ya'll talk funny?

[PMA]

I liked it when Yankees use to ask for directions and we say over yonder way. Or you can't there from here.

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[DFB]

Whoooaaa....cant get there from here is definitely a Maine thang!

Some parts of Vermont too!

 

[vabiker23518]

Reminds me when I first took my 8 yo son (now 25!) to the hunt club. After sitting inside for awhile, we went outside to line up....he said to me..."Dad, those men don't speak right"! I just about died; today, he sounds just like them...when he wants to!

 

[Tig]

Language in North America is slowly getting homogenized, thanks to television.
Up here it's a cultural issue. There's no good reason to discard what makes a region unique.
Foe example, the area where I live has been known it's pickerel fishing for hundreds of years. Yet now we have a big walleye derby so that people can relate to terminology from south of the border.

 

[YesDeere]

I lived in Georgia while going to school. Definetly got some funny looks with my maryland accent. Thought I was gonna have to fight when asking for a soda. It's a coke. Even if it ain't a coke. "You want a coke?, yep Mountain Dew please"

Md accent is pretty funny. Long drawn out O's. water is wooder. Oil and foil are one syllable. And don't even begin to try and figure out Balmer Hun.

 

[Express]

I'm originally from New York now live in Ct. I can hide my accent sometimes but it's difficult. I travel a lot and people always can spot it.

 

[DeereMann]

Up here in the Siberia of the Americas, there is a little township with the name of Nowthen. Honest to God! The Scandahoovians (see: Fargo) actually do speak like this, though not as exaggerated anymore - and some of 'em end their sentences with "nowthen"......

"well, watcha gonna do dere, nowthen?" lore has it a local did this so much they named the township after his frequent usage of the term.

As a reminder, I am not from here - I am from way east (Wisconsin!) where everyone speaks normally. :toiletpaper:

 

[jerrybob]

You folks eat dinner or supper???

 

[DeereMann]

Supper in Scandahoovia (Minnesota, North Dakota, etc.), dinner in God's country (Wisconsin).
:cool2:

 

[Express]

"Dinna" of course

 

[Ted Summey]

Nothing sweeter than the drawl of a blonde blue eyed southern belle IMHO. As a young man of 20 I struck out on my own to Seattle to work as a civilian employee of the Navy. I was a trainee inspecting ships built or overhauled by private contractors. I was "out there" for several months before coming home at Christmas.

On my flight home I flew through Atlanta then from Atlanta to Charlotte, NC. There was nothing sounded sweeter to my ears than when the flight attendant on that last breakfast flight asked, "would you like some jeeuwse" and batted those baby blues! I knew I was home!

 

[farmgirl19]

You folks eat dinner or supper???

Here, there is breakfast, lunch and supper! Why would it be anything else? :laughing:

 

[Bird]

When I was a kid, we had breakfast, dinner, and supper. Lunch was just something you ate at school, and of course, my first years in school, we carried our lunch, because schools didn't provide that.

 

[Gunny]

Like Bird, we've got breakfast, dinner and supper. I don't ever remember the evening meal called dinner while I was growing up , same with lunch, it was at school and we carried it in with us.

 

[Tig]

You folks eat dinner or supper???

Dinner is often the noon meal locally, although I can't say I ever figured out the rules on this usage.

 

[Tig]

Growing up in a rural area we used to go to the Ho'-tel and drink on Friday night. I notice that in the city they go to "the bars".
I'm curious, in your neck of the woods do they sell "beer" by the case or is it "beers" by the case or box?

 

[k0ua]

Whoooaaa....cant get there from here is definitely a Maine thang!

Some parts of Vermont too!

What is interesting is some of you Northern VT and ME hillbillies have some of the same mannerisms as the Hillbillies around here in Southern MO. and Northern AR. Maybe y'all are just long lost cousins

James K0UA

 

[Bird]

Dinner is often the noon meal locally, although I can't say I ever figured out the rules on this usage.

I doubt that anyone knows of any rules on the usage of "dinner" but I think it was generally the main, or biggest, meal of the day, and that used to be around noon, at least for farmers (and our family) in our area. Except when we carried "lunch" to school, Mother cooked a big meal at noon. Then late in the evening, (after dark at our house because Dad said you could work outside until it got dark), "supper" might be cornbread and sweet milk, or pancakes or waffles, or watermelon or fruit, even sometimes just homemade milkshake (not ice cream; we just put milk, sugar, vanilla, and ice in a large mouth gallon jar, shook it enough to thoroughly mix the ingredients, and poured into our glasses).

I think the big meal at noon was actually healthier, since we then got out and worked it off.:laughing:

 

[farmgirl19]

Growing up in a rural area we used to go to the Ho'-tel and drink on Friday night. I notice that in the city they go to the bars.
I'm curious, in your neck of the woods do they sell "beer" by the case or is it "beers" by the case or box?

Beer by the case, or usually, I just say "a case of beer". No reason to buy less than that!