Last time I was back in southern New England a glawackus stole a wicked awesome cabinet that I got from the corner ice cream shop. :(
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2015/09/united_slang_of_america_map_if_every_state_had_an_official_word_what_would.html
In before garbon bitches about Slate.
While might could and especially tump have currency in Tennessee, i've never heard anyone use whirlygust.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 15, 2015, 12:27:45 AM
In before garbon bitches about Slate.
Sad how much effort supposedly went into creating that.
It actually was pretty flawed. Never heard of the words for Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, etc.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 15, 2015, 01:22:22 AM
It actually was pretty flawed. Never heard of the words for Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, etc.
Yeah, I mean they took all those steps to then come up with something that's not even accurate and seemingly pointless.
You'd never heard of Cattywampus? I thought it had some reasonably high-profile use. Anyway, its a comfy word and very ideologically sound. There are efforts underway to rehabilitate the connotation of Cattywampus to something more positive that recognizes its yukkuri nature.
It sounds like a word invented by a children's writer.
Quote from: Lettow77 on September 15, 2015, 01:58:16 AM
You'd never heard of Cattywampus? I thought it had some reasonably high-profile use. Anyway, its a comfy word and very ideologically sound. There are efforts underway to rehabilitate the connotation of Cattywampus to something more positive that recognizes its yukkuri nature.
I've heard that in movies when they want to make a character sound stereotypically southern.
I wonder for California if they picked hella as that's one piece of slang local to part of California that is still recognizably a 'California' thing.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 15, 2015, 01:22:22 AM
It actually was pretty flawed. Never heard of the words for Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, etc.
I've never heard the ones for Kentucky or North Carolina, and I've lived in those states.
Quote from: dps on September 15, 2015, 04:53:52 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 15, 2015, 01:22:22 AM
It actually was pretty flawed. Never heard of the words for Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, etc.
I've never heard the ones for Kentucky or North Carolina, and I've lived in those states.
I've definitely heard Cackalacky and I only spent a few months in N.C.
Missouri's slang word is "Missouri"? Who wrote this?
They say Missouri loves company.
I feel really bad for people writing that shit.
Quote from: DGuller on September 15, 2015, 08:08:17 AM
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.
Kentucky - chughole... never heard it used
Pennsylvania - yinz... this is a Pittsburgh thing, not state-wide
Quote from: Caliga on September 15, 2015, 08:21:19 AM
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?
I guess I have heard 'hoss' a few times. Never really thought it was a characteristic word of Texas.
Quote from: DGuller on September 15, 2015, 08:08:17 AM
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!
Quote from: mongers on September 15, 2015, 08:15:14 AM
Quote from: DGuller on September 15, 2015, 08:08:17 AM
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. :goodboy:
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 :uffda: 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.
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?"
Quote from: Barrister on September 15, 2015, 01:10:41 PM
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. :Canuck:
The few trolls who moved to da Yoops are called "Troopers." :Canuck:
I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.
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.
That's such a wicked map! :cool:
Quote from: Barrister on September 15, 2015, 01:10:41 PM
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.
As a long-time Washingtonian...I have never heard the term "jumble sale".
Quote from: Tonitrus on September 15, 2015, 02:41:31 PM
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.
Can't we just all agree to criticize stupid maps like these? :P
Quote from: Tonitrus on September 16, 2015, 10:57:15 PM
Can't we just all agree to criticize stupid maps like these? :P
Yes.
Quote from: Savonarola on September 15, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.
It being Florida, I'd assume that term involves a perversion so unpleasant we'd be better off not knowing its definition. :P
Someone should make an equivalent map for British slang; though I'm not sure what the specific regional words/slang in the USA were about.
Quote from: Malthus on September 17, 2015, 03:50:19 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on September 15, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.
It being Florida, I'd assume that term involves a perversion so unpleasant we'd be better off not knowing its definition. :P
It means heavy rain. Stop projecting your Ontarian perversions onto others. :P
Quote from: Savonarola on September 15, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.
I grew up in Florida. I'm 6th generation Floridian. My family moved to Florida in 1820, 25 years before it became a state. I'm the most Floridian person I've ever met.* And I've never heard the word "Toad Strangler" either.
*Ignoring that I haven't lived in the state in over 10 years. And that Florida today is much more associated with descendants of northern or latin american transplants. Also not including any Seminole Indians I've met (and I mean the real Seminole Indians, not the racist assholes in Tallahassee).
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 17, 2015, 09:42:10 PM
Quote from: Malthus on September 17, 2015, 03:50:19 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on September 15, 2015, 01:19:38 PM
I've never heard "Toad Strangler"in all the time I've lived here in Florida.
It being Florida, I'd assume that term involves a perversion so unpleasant we'd be better off not knowing its definition. :P
It means heavy rain. Stop projecting your Ontarian perversions onto others. :P
Hey, half the Ontarian dirty old perverts now live in ... Florida. :P