Regional Words (again)

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Postby Peterlover14 » Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:31 am

I hear swole sometimes.

I use the word "fixin" a lot, but until last summer I didn't know it was a southern thing.
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Postby CezeN » Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:36 pm

Yes! Another person hears the word swole!

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Re: Regional Words (again)

Postby Young Val » Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:06 am

In the Midwest people say "ish" instead of "ick" or "yuck." This is so, so strange to me, as I think the hard "k" sound is so imperative in communicating how distasteful something is.

One on my end that drives David INSANE.

David: What time is it?
Kelly: ::looks at clock, which says 12:45:: Quarter of.
David: What?
Kelly: Quarter of One.
David: What?!
Kelly: Twelve Forty-Five!
David: Why didn't you say so!
Kelly: I did!
David: No, you said "quarter OF" -- THAT DOESN'T EVEN MEAN ANYTHING!
Kelly: Yes it does! It means 15 minutes before the hour!
David: No. To communicate 15 minutes before the hour, you'd say "quarter TIL one." "Quarter OF" DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
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Re: Regional Words (again)

Postby Syphon the Sun » Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:15 am

Midwesterner, here.

I've never heard anyone say "ish" instead of "ick" or "yuck."

But I've never anyone say "quarter of one," either. Always "quarter til" or (less often) "quarter to."
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Re: Regional Words (again)

Postby starlooker » Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:17 am

I've heard ish. I think, perhaps, it comes from ishda. Have you heard ufda or ishda yet, Kelly?
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Postby LilBee91 » Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:18 am

I heard "quarter of one" I'd probably think it was 12:15.
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Re: Regional Words (again)

Postby Young Val » Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:20 am

I'm pretty sure "quarter of" is an East Coast thing, and I'll admit that when you think about it, it really is a poor choice of preposition. But I'll probably keep saying it that way anyway.

Interesting about the ish/ick thing though. People here say it ALL THE TIME. I am much more used to gutteral exclaimations: ugh, ack, ick, yuck, argh. I notice out here people use softer sounds: ish, ishy (really), yish, yeesh. Just a strange thing. Maybe it's just Minnesota?

ETA: uf-da, YES! So strange!
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Postby Syphon the Sun » Fri Sep 30, 2011 11:27 am

Could be a northern Midwest thing. (MN, WI, MI, etc.)
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Postby VelvetElvis » Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:37 pm

I say quarter of!

I also say "coloring pencils," and "bulked. Swole is what you call your ankle when you have excess fluid on it.
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Postby Noodle » Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:55 pm

In the Midwest people say "ish" instead of "ick" or "yuck." This is so, so strange to me, as I think the hard "k" sound is so imperative in communicating how distasteful something is.
This is a Minnesota/Western Wisconsin thing. I grew up with people saying ish, but I rarely if ever hear it in South Eastern WI.

I had never heard of Quarter of One until TMBG came out with the song Four of Two. Four of Two is a really weird saying, but it just gets weirder to me when they say Four Minutes of Two. I grew up saying Four to Two, or occasionally Four til Two.
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Postby Wind Swept » Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:14 pm

I cringe at "ish" based on the personalities of the people I know that use it often.
ETA: uf-da, YES! So strange!
Uff da is my grandmother's go to expletive, along with everyone else her age from our hometown. My parents generation mostly doesn't use it. It slips in occasionally. However, there a number of people my age that started to use it ironically and it has since become a permanent part of their vocabulary.

Four to two > Four 'til two.
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Re: Regional Words (again)

Postby GS » Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:21 pm

I'm pretty sure "quarter of" is an East Coast thing
Very much this. Probably mostly an East Coast thing. As for showing displeasure at something, I don't really have a go to. It is usually a random guttural sound, usually resembling a bah or rah, but not quite. But I might start using ishy, because how awesome is that word! I also am going to look forward to what others do around here, because I never really thought about it before.
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Re: Regional Words (again)

Postby Luet » Fri Sep 30, 2011 1:56 pm

I really had no idea that "quarter of" was a regional thing. I will say "quarter to/til" occasionally but usually go with "of".
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Postby zeroguy » Sat Oct 01, 2011 11:59 pm

I've never heard "ish" used that way either, in the past few years I've lived in the midwest. Not even from the MN and WI people I know; I guess just not the right area in those states. (But I've heard of "bubbler"! Haha, I love that one; it just sounds so silly!)

I'm from the east coast, though, so I grew up with "quarter of".

Uffda is Norwegian in origin, so I grew up with that, too. I had no idea it existed at all in the midwest until I came out here, and was pretty surprised by it. Before that, I had no idea there were so many scandinavian-americans around that area.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:27 pm

This isn't a word and I'm not sure how regional it is, exactly, but zero seemed confused by my use of "flip a bitch", meaning "to make a U-turn."

I used it in a sentence that was something like, "I want to head west again, so I can go in that turn lane and flip a bitch."


Anyone else hear of this use?
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Postby Petra456 » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:01 pm

That's a new one to me. But now i'm going to think that every time I have to make a U-turn!
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Postby starlooker » Sat Nov 26, 2011 11:06 pm

Ditto. New to me, but I will do my part to make it common in Kansas, now that I've heard of it.
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Postby Mich » Sun Nov 27, 2011 2:40 am

Not new to me, although whenever I hear it I'm like "nobody ever says that."
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Postby Rei » Sun Nov 27, 2011 4:10 am

On the earlier note of time, the half-hour here, e.g. 5.30, is often spoken "half-five".
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Postby VelvetElvis » Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:34 am

I've heard it, but no one really says it around here unless it is ironically. I love to say when I remember to, but I like curse words too much I think.
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Postby Bean_wannabe » Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:39 am

On the earlier note of time, the half-hour here, e.g. 5.30, is often spoken "half-five".
There are people who don't use that? Huh.
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Re: Regional Words (again)

Postby Luet » Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:42 am

I've never heard that for a u-turn.

And if I heard half-five, I would think 4:30 and that someone had just left off the "to/of/before" out of the sentence. It must be a british thing.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:36 am

Not new to me, although whenever I hear it I'm like "nobody ever says that."
*grin* Clearly I am that one person you know who is so tragically uncool that I do say stuff like that. And with no shame, even. Oh, the nerve.
I love to say when I remember to, but I like curse words too much I think.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:40 am

Oh man, Alea, it's true, though! I really need to stop.
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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:46 am

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Postby LilBee91 » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:56 am

Weirdness...I totally posted in here, but it didn't post.

Anyhoo--never heard that term for a u-turn before (and I just typed tern--must have birds on the brain), but I like it. If I were more inclined to swear, I would be all over that. As is, I just say "flip a U-ee."
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Postby VelvetElvis » Sun Nov 27, 2011 11:58 am

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Postby Gravity Defier » Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:00 pm

motherfucker.

*swoon* I try not to say too many cusswords, because I sound stupid and I don't want to be terribly offensive to those around me, but I do have this weird appreciation for them in general, and as such, I have a favorite. And that is it.

I blame Ed for that one.
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Postby VelvetElvis » Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:03 pm

haha. guess what wasn't caught by the censor?
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Postby zeroguy » Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:21 pm

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Postby Jayelle » Sat Dec 17, 2011 7:03 am

Guys! Guys!

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE HERE SOUND LIKE:



(skip to 0:45 to hear most of the talking)
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Postby Mich » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:35 am

(skip to 0:45 to hear most of the talking)
The Wadworth Constant stays true and accurate, then.

Also, that was both funny and one of the most difficult to understand English conversations I've ever encountered. I... I had no idea anyone up north even considered that speech. It's like if you mixed New England with Canadian and drunken Irishman.
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Postby Petra » Sat Dec 17, 2011 12:40 pm

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Postby thoughtreader » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:42 pm

Guys! Guys!

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE HERE SOUND LIKE:
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaht the heck... i mean... i just.... what in the hell did they say?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

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Postby Gravity Defier » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:51 pm

Was that beer they were drinking? Whatever it was, I could understand what was being said more (but still not well) when they were drinking than when they weren't. I also got some F bombs pretty clearly. Otherwise, what everyone else said. :?
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