Growing up in western Mass, a word they used that I never hear anywhere else is "dingle". It's for a ditch, generally large enough to be above your head as I recall, but I was a kid at the time.
A phrase I hear from the older farm folk in Maryland is "yee gods and little fish hooks". It's an exclamation, usually of non-offensive surprise.
'Hella' is hella NorCal.
A long sandwich is called a hero.
Dingle lol
That is a word that I had only ever heard used among our Formula Hybrid team in college, although it has since become a part of my vernacular. We used it to refer to any random little nondescript odd or end on the car and used it A LOT. I think the guy who popularized it was actually from western Mass.
If you're in Milwaukee, and need a drink, don't ask for a water fountain. You'll be directed to something like this.
What you're looking for is a bubbler.
In reply to RealMiniParker:
Ask for a bubbler in WA and you will be directed to a head shop 
In reply to java230:
'Round here, what you're referring to is a bong.
RealMiniParker wrote: In reply to java230: 'Round here, what you're referring to is a bong.
Nope, not quite the same. A bubbler is more pipe-like.
Around here, Bubbler refers to a resident of a nearby town, whose high school's mascot is the Bubblers. Or to a graduate of said high school. But that's an extremely localized thing.
People in Northeast pa say "heyna or no" , I don't really understand it and have never said it. Also we say crick instead of creek
nepa03focus wrote: People in Northeast pa say "heyna or no" , I don't really understand it and have never said it. Also we say crick instead of creek
We also eat "sangwitches" in NEPA.
Sloppy Joes are called "Whimpies".
Older folks call Green Peppers "mangos". (WTF?)
Film is pronounced as "Fil-em".
Bars are called "beer gardens".
And the letter H is pronounced "haych".
if you don't deke around that puddle you will get a soaker.
Holy E36 M3.....my mother in law calls bell peppers mangos...I thought she was nuts. She's insisted for years the grocery store she went to growing up in WV called them that.
My mother (born ca. 1940) and grandmother (born ca. 1910) both knew a green bell pepper as "mango" in Southern Indiana (stone's throw from KY) but later switched to the common nomenclature. I grew up drinking soda pop (soft drink). I lived briefly in Western Illinois along the Mississippi river (early 00s) and heard lemon lime soda (7up or Sprite) referred to as "white soda". Was working as a bartender and gave someone club soda to disastrous result.
Further up the Ohio River in Lawrenceburg, IN, motorcycles were called "sickles" first time I heard that.
A friend of mine used to date a girl from Wisconsin and we gave her a hard time about her calling water fountains 'bubblers'.
nepa03focus wrote: People in Northeast pa say "heyna or no" , I don't really understand it and have never said it. Also we say crick instead of creek
I have only ever heard one person say crick, and it was a friend of mine who immigrated from Poland a year earlier. We were 8 at the time.
In Pittsburgh, we worsh (wore sh) our clothes, hunt crawdads in the crick, eat jumbo and chipped ham sammiches. Gradiate with good edumacations, swill our pop, and make casseroles instead of hotdish. Dahntahn used to be a big arhn district, now it's all tekkie.
Ok, I need to stop before i just copy in a Pittsburghese-English dictionary.
etifosi wrote:nepa03focus wrote: People in Northeast pa say "heyna or no" , I don't really understand it and have never said it. Also we say crick instead of creekWe also eat "sangwitches" in NEPA. Sloppy Joes are called "Whimpies". Older folks call Green Peppers "mangos". (WTF?) Film is pronounced as "Fil-em". Bars are called "beer gardens". And the letter H is pronounced "haych".
Never heard the beer garden thing, almost forgot tree is a number between 2 and 4. I know one family that calls peppers mangoes, that is a weird one.
E36 M3, ain't heard 'beer garden' in prolly 40 years
where's yur dad n uncle at, down the beer garden
takes me way back
Hollar - KY version = valley between a couple of hills
Pop = Pepsi, Verners, Coke, etc.. We don't call it Soda in Michigan
revrico wrote: In Pittsburgh, we worsh (wore sh) our clothes, hunt crawdads in the crick, eat jumbo and chipped ham sammiches. Gradiate with good edumacations, swill our pop, and make casseroles instead of hotdish. Dahntahn used to be a big arhn district, now it's all tekkie. Ok, I need to stop before i just copy in a Pittsburghese-English dictionary.
What you are trying to say is that we say everything correctly, everywhere else mangles our language. Now if yinz will excuse me, I have to go dahn to gian iggle n get some gumbands.
Funny story, when I was dating my (now) wife, she referred to windshield washer fluid as "monkey pee". She swore it was a local thing from growing up in Edinboro, PA but I have yet to meet ANYONE who called it that. And now, that's what we call it. LOL
Knurled wrote:nepa03focus wrote: People in Northeast pa say "heyna or no" , I don't really understand it and have never said it. Also we say crick instead of creekI have only ever heard one person say crick, and it was a friend of mine who immigrated from Poland a year earlier. We were 8 at the time.
I'll say crick sometimes but not always. North Eastern Wisconsin.
revrico wrote: In Pittsburgh, we worsh (wore sh) our clothes, hunt crawdads in the crick, eat jumbo and chipped ham sammiches. Gradiate with good edumacations, swill our pop, and make casseroles instead of hotdish. Dahntahn used to be a big arhn district, now it's all tekkie. Ok, I need to stop before i just copy in a Pittsburghese-English dictionary.
Having spent a few years around Steubenville Ohio I completely understood everything you wrote. Though to be fair my Grandparents, who grew up in eastern Ohio, used a lot of those.
Cool Beans is one of the more odd ones that I have heard here in Ohio.
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