United Slang of America Map

[Caliga]

Kentucky - chughole... never heard it used
Pennsylvania - yinz... this is a Pittsburgh thing, not state-wide

[mongers]

Kentucky - chughole... never heard it used
Pennsylvania - yinz... this is a Pittsburgh thing, not state-wide

Can you explain what the map is about, as I can't open the page in the browser I'm having to use at the moment?

[Valmy]

I guess I have heard 'hoss' a few times. Never really thought it was a characteristic word of Texas.

[Valmy]

I feel really bad for people writing that shit.

These kinds of articles are the worst.

10 reasons I hate click-bait. You won't believe number 3!

[garbon]

I feel really bad for people writing that shit.

Those forced to write click-bait content, it's the new model for journalism; apparently some companies are moving to paying them proportional to the number of hits.

Then again the article worked as it's being discussed/link to, here on Languish and no doubt half a hundred other social forums.

I just used it as a starting off point to look up more California slang to teach my direct reports.

[Barrister]

Let's see of the ones I know:

Alaska: sourdough.  This is definitely a Yukon term that goes back to the gold rush.  I think I heard it used non-ironically once or twice.  The more popular term was the opposite of a sourdough though: a cheechako (newcomer).  Supposedly you went from being a cheechako to being a sourdough after spending a winter in the north.

North Dakota: hot dish.  Never heard this.

Minnesota: Uff da.  Does this really count?  It's a scandi, or at least norwegian thing.  Hell it made it's way onto Languish   My wife, who is part Norwegian, uses it from time to time.

Wisconsin: TYME Machine.  Again, does this really count?  I remember encountering the term in Wisconsin, but it's not so much slang as the actual corporate name for an ATM in Wisconsin.  Google says it stands for Take Your Money Everywhere.

Michigan: Yooper.  I mean, I guess.  It comes from Upper Penninsula, UP.

[Admiral Yi]

For Hawaii they should have used haole and its variant happa haole.

Never heard of Kybo before, but that doesn't surprise me.  Iowa is the quintessential non-dialect state.

Only linguistic quirk I've ever heard here is "at all," as in "would you like a bag for those at all?"

[Savonarola]

Michigan: Yooper.  I mean, I guess.  It comes from Upper Penninsula, UP.

People who live in the lower peninsula are called "Trolls" (by Yoopers) because they live below the (Mackinac) bridge.

The few trolls who moved to da Yoops are called "Troopers."

I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Hoss?   I think the only time I've ever heard that used, and it hasn't happened often, it has been sarcastically and meant something more like "toughguy," not "partner" or "friend."

"I'm gonna kick that guy's ass!"
"Yeah okay, you go do that, hoss."

Or something.

[KRonn]

That's such a wicked map!   

[Caliga]

North Dakota: hot dish.  Never heard this.

It's a type of casserole, usually made with cheese, tater tots, and various types of 'cream of' soups (e.g. cream of mushroom, cream of chicken).  Sometimes people use that term here as casseroles are big for church dinners and shit like that.

[Tonitrus]

As a long-time Washingtonian...I have never heard the term "jumble sale".

[Caliga]

As a long-time Washingtonian...I have never heard the term "jumble sale".

Maybe it's from a specific part of the state and the person who wrote the article didn't know that, or didn't bother to mention it.  That's the case with the 'yinz' thing for Pennsylvania.

[Tonitrus]

Can't we just all agree to criticize stupid maps like these? 

[Ed Anger]

Can't we just all agree to criticize stupid maps like these? 

Yes.