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

[fire_of_avalon]

i thought about this today.

these here yinzers are interesting. rubber bands are called "gumbands", shopping carts are "buggies" and if you have disdain for another person, you essentially regard them as a "jagoff".

I'm so glad I'm an import.

Buggies I think are a "People who have lived close to the Appalachians" thing because it's very common around here, too.

My daily communication is fairly peppered with colloquialisms and I like to collect new figures of speech. The most common regional/relatively uncommon slang I use is reckon. It's a word everyone who speaks English knows, but it doesn't seem like many people use it anymore whereas my family and I use it all the time to mean "I guess so." Also the use of fix in ways most people don't use it. For example I don't cook supper, I fix it. And when I'm about to do something or complete a task, I'm fixing to do it. At home I use the term britches seriously, but not so much out in the world because people have teased me for that one. I say yonder. I say ain't and y'all. I say holler. One thing I don't say that's very common around here is yuns or you uns. I don't know why I don't just like I don't know why other people do.