Word usage - Pet peeves

[eddieq]

Ugh I HATE git-r-done, I was referring more to like slang phrases like "ain't", ya'll, & the general accent ... I don't have an accent in fact ppl always think I'm from California lol

Born and bred yankee here. I use "y'all" all the time. The one that drives me crazy around here is "yous". Example: "Yous guys ready to order sumthin?".

 

[Dogdragoness]

Eddie can u tell me any more Yankee phrases?

I like to hear phrases & sayings from other areas

 

[Fran101]

"That was wicked awesome!" Wicked anything really lol

 

[eddieq]

Eddie can u tell me any more Yankee phrases?

There isn't anything that I can really point to. Most of the regional stuff here is pronunciation.

The little stream rolling through the woods is pronounced "crick", you have a "far head" (not a forehead), you eat a samwich (no sand, I guess), you drink wooder (hopefully there are no splinters in the water), etc.

 

[Renee750il]

Eh. I'm from the South and I hate people that talk like we go to school in a one-room school-house. You know, the one by the cotton field? Living in the south isn't an excuse to talk like you're uneducated. It gives the rest of the people a bad rep. I don't know of many Northern phrases that make the people using them sound like a 4th grade drop-out.

My area should not be famous for a phrase like "Git r dun".

The real joke is that the guy who really made that phrase famous (or infamous) and made people associate it with the south is from . . .

Nebraska.

 

[MinPinOwner]

The most cringe worthy use of words and grammar I've seen are the signs at some of the parks in town that say "No dog defecation".

 

[Renee750il]

The most cringe worthy use of words and grammar I've seen are the signs at some of the parks in town that say "No dog defecation".

No sh1t!

 

[MinPinOwner]

I should invite a bunch of people in town to show up near the signs with their dogs in diapers.