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

    And y'all is a regular part of my vocabulary.


    What are some regional slang/dialect things you say (that you may or may not be embarrassed by?)
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    Finagle.

    Dude I work with uses it, and it spread to me. I spread it to my group of friends.

    Anyway, it means to adjust or mess around with something in order for whatever to work correctly.

    EX: The damn computer kept giving me an error, so I had to finagle around a bit to watch my porn without interruption.

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    "Pry", which is a contraction of the word "probably".

    "grinder" which is a submarine sandwich. Or a gay hook-up app...

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    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.

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    I really can't think of anything; the Northwest/Rocky Mountain area is pretty... generic... overall.

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    i say y'all and i'm from the northeast. it's not just a southern thing, y'all.

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    I dunno! I don't realise that I'm saying things that nobody understands until they point it out to me. xD I probably use more regional dialect than I'd imagine.

    The greatest thing is actually when me and my Aberdonian friend sit and talk, and we come across terms and stuff that differ across the whole 3hr drive there is between us. xD

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    Utahns mostly slur their words and drop off consonants.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jowy View Post
    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.

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    I hear people call shopping carts "buggies" around here as well. I don't remember or recall any other regional slang that's exclusive to the Northern Virginia area.

    Apparently, I have been declared banished.

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    I live in New York. What slang don't I use?
    You think a minor thing like the end of the world was gonna do me in?

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    I say "dude" and "bro" a lot. As well as variations on those words. I also use "rad" still. I'm not sure these are California specific.

    I do say "hella" all the time though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DownDiagonalLeftA View Post
    I live in New York. What slang don't I use?
    Purdy much.

    I speak my own dialect of slang hybrids, so.


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    Well I use a lot of Swedish words, if that counts.

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    I don't do a lot on EoFF but verbally I have a habbit of letting the East London slip through. One major one that I always get called out on is:

    "you're avin' a giraffe"


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