I just threw out an unironic "ain't."

Nothing regional comes to mind.

Despite trying to be grammatically correct a lot of the time, I'm still occasionally reminded that I speak American and not the Queen's English.

hyuk hyuk

I was born in a "slightly dodgy" area of London, so occasionally I slip in a "ain't".

Apart from that, my friends always say that I speak with a very upper English accent, which does sort of contradict from where I was born :p

I'm pretty fluent in Geordie slang, more so since I moved into the city and started working in it.

I actually noticed the other day I rarely say "don't" and instead I say "deeant" also, I say "dea'nar" for "don't know"

I also say my "Whey aye" and "hya'man" - little fact for ya, soooo many people who aren't from Newcastle think it is "Why aye" it's not, it's "whey aye" :)


It's kind of a language all in itself really.

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Utahns mostly slur their words and drop off consonants.

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Same here.

Also "you can't get there from here" is an old Vermont saying.

"What's her/his/their/[insert name]'s cheer?" I use it on occasion and sometimes my friends won't blink and respond as if they understand it and other times ask me what the heck am I talking about. It basically means "What's new with X?"

I don't generally prescribe to the slang in my locality but I do sometimes pick up the odd "innit" "ain't" or "Chav".

Having said that since I'm in the north west of England we kinda just have a mix of everyone's slang rather than our own.

Summat up? Ain't owt wrong with that.

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I absolutely, positively refuse to say "y'all" or "ain't". It is my strongest conviction that those who do are uncultured hicks and of lower birth. :colbert:

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I absolutely, positively refuse to say "y'all" or "ain't". It is my strongest conviction that those who do are uncultured hicks and of lower birth. :colbert:

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Ain't ain't a word cus ain't ain't in the dictionary. So ain't ain't a word

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I say "dude" and "bro" a lot. As well as variations on those words.

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I actually do this a lot too. Dude not so much anymore but in high school it I said it aaalllll the time. And bro is just my word. Like, bro. You know what I'm saying, bro?

Oh, I thought of another one. Everyone in Washington says "Broke as a joke" and when I lived there recently I picked it up and started saying it too. :(

When I say "a lot" I want the grammar nazis to KNOW Im thinking, spelling and pronouncing it as "alot" in my head.

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I say "dude" and "bro" a lot. As well as variations on those words.

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I actually do this a lot too. Dude not so much anymore but in high school it I said it aaalllll the time. And bro is just my word. Like, bro. You know what I'm saying, bro?

Oh, I thought of another one. Everyone in Washington says "Broke as a joke" and when I lived there recently I picked it up and started saying it too. :(

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*brofist*

That must be a West Coast thing, because I know people that used to say it.

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When I say "a lot" I want the grammar nazis to KNOW Im thinking, spelling and pronouncing it as "alot" in my head.

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Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything

Unfortunately after living among rednecks for so long "y'all" has become a permanent part of my vocabulary. I also have a terrible southern drawl when I get angry as well.

There are plenty of words in my vocabulary that I try to avoid using.