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Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:15:49

Combining 3 from below, I definitely could see myself saying "The dishes need warshed after supper."

Posted by Philo <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Philo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:47:34, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

I am what I am.

LOL.*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 16:51:49, in reply to "Combining 3 from below, I definitely could see myself saying "The dishes need warshed after supper.""

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I am what I am.

and you warsh them with a dish rag*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:48:02, in reply to "Combining 3 from below, I definitely could see myself saying "The dishes need warshed after supper.""

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I am what I am.

absolutely! :) *

Posted by Philo <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Philo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:54:17, in reply to "and you warsh them with a dish rag*"

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I am what I am.

vvvvv...y'all*

Posted by lcubed <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=lcubed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 12:58:32, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

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Y'all are real sensitive these days.*

Posted by DiamondDazzle <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DiamondDazzle' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 12:22:22, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

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It's possible to complain about something and have it not be a big deal in the least*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:03:28, in reply to "Y'all are real sensitive these days.*"

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Seriously.*

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:02:41, in reply to "Y'all are real sensitive these days.*"

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It's not like I lay away at night thinking about the word supper*

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:04:00, in reply to "Seriously.*"

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But the word supper is something that rises to the level of “hate”?

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 16:54:32, in reply to "It's not like I lay away at night thinking about the word supper*"

Seems like you have some pretty strong feelings / emotions at least.

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you pay for it all at once, eh?*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:14:12, in reply to "It's not like I lay away at night thinking about the word supper*"

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strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

It took me a minute

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:21:39, in reply to "you pay for it all at once, eh?*"

Remember Lay away? It was a simpler time.

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New Yorkers who pronounce words ending in "aw" as "err"

Posted by Jersey <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Jersey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 12:08:56, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

Draw = Drawr
Banana = Bananer

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"Supper" (shudders) *

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:46:28, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

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I can't decide if my dislike of this word is completely irrational

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:48:14, in reply to ""Supper" (shudders) *"

or 100% rational. I hate it so so much. Maybe it's because everyone I know who uses it is a total hillbilly.

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I grew up saying it and never thought twice about it. Moving away and realizing...

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:53:07, in reply to "I can't decide if my dislike of this word is completely irrational"

...no one else uses it, it definitely perks my ears when I hear it.

See also..."pop".

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or 100% rational. I hate it so so much. Maybe it's because everyone I know who uses it is a total hillbilly.

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Technically speaking, dinner and supper have different meanings*

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...no one else uses it, it definitely perks my ears when I hear it.

See also..."pop".

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or 100% rational. I hate it so so much. Maybe it's because everyone I know who uses it is a total hillbilly.

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I realize that. 95% of people who use "supper" in conversation do not. *

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:57:03, in reply to "Technically speaking, dinner and supper have different meanings*"

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...no one else uses it, it definitely perks my ears when I hear it.

See also..."pop".

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or 100% rational. I hate it so so much. Maybe it's because everyone I know who uses it is a total hillbilly.

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Many people who say supper say dinner to mean lunch*

Posted by Herman Blume <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Herman+Blume' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 12:06:17, in reply to "I realize that. 95% of people who use "supper" in conversation do not. *"

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...no one else uses it, it definitely perks my ears when I hear it.

See also..."pop".

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or 100% rational. I hate it so so much. Maybe it's because everyone I know who uses it is a total hillbilly.

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That is correct

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 12:02:31, in reply to "I realize that. 95% of people who use "supper" in conversation do not. *"

When I hear it in my head, it's some dipshit redneck saying "What's fer supper?"

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...no one else uses it, it definitely perks my ears when I hear it.

See also..."pop".

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or 100% rational. I hate it so so much. Maybe it's because everyone I know who uses it is a total hillbilly.

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In Atlanta parking garage = parking deck. You use a buggy not a cart at the grocery store and you

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:45:59, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

have your photo made instead of taken.

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I actually like it when my English accented Siri / Apple Maps tells me to turn into the “car park.”

Posted by DocWalk20 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DocWalk20' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:01:31, in reply to "In Atlanta parking garage = parking deck. You use a buggy not a cart at the grocery store and you "

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have your photo made instead of taken.

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Adfession: I use the female Indian English voice for Siri. She does the same and sounds like an

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:27:07, in reply to "I actually like it when my English accented Siri / Apple Maps tells me to turn into the “car park.”"

auntie.

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have your photo made instead of taken.

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

My Alexa is actually a Lakshmi.*

Posted by complainant <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=complainant' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 16:17:02, in reply to "Adfession: I use the female Indian English voice for Siri. She does the same and sounds like an "

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auntie.

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have your photo made instead of taken.

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I don't think my alexa lakshmi at all*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 16:48:59, in reply to "My Alexa is actually a Lakshmi.*"

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auntie.

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have your photo made instead of taken.

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strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

My dad has a friend who refuses to have a female voice for his GPS

Posted by Sounder <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sounder' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:29:42, in reply to "Adfession: I use the female Indian English voice for Siri. She does the same and sounds like an "

because he says that women don't have a good sense of direction. Cool story.

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auntie.

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have your photo made instead of taken.

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that's better than Minnesota calling them "parking ramps"*

Posted by shua <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=shua' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:56:30, in reply to "In Atlanta parking garage = parking deck. You use a buggy not a cart at the grocery store and you "

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have your photo made instead of taken.

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Not really a colloquialism...but the small-town midwest / ECI accent...

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:44:03, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

I didn't notice it growing up, but I do now.

Ex: "Warsh" = Wash

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guilty --> *

Posted by Philo <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Philo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:35:45, in reply to "Not really a colloquialism...but the small-town midwest / ECI accent..."

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I didn't notice it growing up, but I do now.

Ex: "Warsh" = Wash

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My dad grew up in Kankakee….always had the hard R.

Posted by TarheelIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=TarheelIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 12:05:30, in reply to "Not really a colloquialism...but the small-town midwest / ECI accent..."

It drove me bananas

Recrudescence

Heard "warsh" a lot from two native Chicagoans of my age. They got it from their mother (TN native).

Posted by osklister <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=osklister' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:48:28, in reply to "Not really a colloquialism...but the small-town midwest / ECI accent..."

At the Illinois-Washington game in Seattle earlier this year

the PA announcer kept pronouncing it Illinoize. I wanted to find him and beat him senseless.

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Eye-Talian, Ore-A-Gone, Warshington*

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I didn't notice it growing up, but I do now.

Ex: "Warsh" = Wash

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Using the past participle instead of the present participle to create a gerund. To wit:

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:37:02, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

Binders that need filed

Instead of

Binders that need filing

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

I've had two girlfriends who used this one and the "whenever" one below.

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:49:57, in reply to "Using the past participle instead of the present participle to create a gerund. To wit:"

One was from Texas, and the other was from Illinois.

strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

We get it, Sammich pulls the ladies*

Posted by reggiedunlop <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=reggiedunlop' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 13:42:33, in reply to "I've had two girlfriends who used this one and the "whenever" one below."

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One was from Texas, and the other was from Illinois.

I’ve never heard the latter *

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 12:24:28, in reply to "I've had two girlfriends who used this one and the "whenever" one below."

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One was from Texas, and the other was from Illinois.

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

which region is that?*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:38:06, in reply to "Using the past participle instead of the present participle to create a gerund. To wit:"

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Binders that need filed

Instead of

Binders that need filing

"the sum value of my outfit will always be higher than yours."

Pittsburgh to be sure. “Can’t meet you tonight, my lawn needs mowed.”*

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:39:51, in reply to "which region is that?*"

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Binders that need filed

Instead of

Binders that need filing

“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

In both cases it’s lazy. They are dropping the ‘to be’ in the middle*

Posted by TarheelIllini <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=TarheelIllini' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 12:06:49, in reply to "Pittsburgh to be sure. “Can’t meet you tonight, my lawn needs mowed.”*"

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Binders that need filed

Instead of

Binders that need filing

Recrudescence

My dad, who has terrible grammar, talks like that*

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Binders that need filed

Instead of

Binders that need filing

A lot of Baltimore folks say someone is being “ignorant” when they mean “rude”*

Posted by DT <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=DT' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:36:31, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

Irony!

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“I was down at Polak Johnnie’s in Lexington Market and the cashier was so ignorant, Hon.”

Posted by ATL <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ATL' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:41:17, in reply to "A lot of Baltimore folks say someone is being “ignorant” when they mean “rude”*"

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Irony!

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“We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of.” - Republican voter, Dec. 2024.

Aaron earned an iron urn*

Posted by Sammich <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Sammich' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:37:19, in reply to "A lot of Baltimore folks say someone is being “ignorant” when they mean “rude”*"

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Irony!

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strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre contemplating a crime

I hate it when people say "on line" in stead of "in line"*

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a lot of STL people will say "whenever" in place of just "when".*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:31:55, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

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"the sum value of my outfit will always be higher than yours."

Not a regional, but the next person to say ‘kiddo’ I will chokeslam*

Posted by Stu <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Stu' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:28:44, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

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that's what I call my nephew

Posted by IlliniSax05 <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=IlliniSax05' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:33:04, in reply to "Not a regional, but the next person to say ‘kiddo’ I will chokeslam*"

Why do you hate me, Sammich?

MAJOR UPDATE: "Maybe you're not such a bad egg, Lisle-y"
-Sammich, 1/15/2011

My dad called a waitress "sweetheart" a few days ago

not a great moment for me.

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Everyone here seems to call cleats "spikes" and I hate it*

Posted by ISeeDeadHawkeyes <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=ISeeDeadHawkeyes' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:20:29, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

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Have a good one

Have a good what, mother fucker?

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Does this count....

Posted by Philo <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=Philo' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:19:19, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

At least once a day, my new boss wants to "axe me a question". The other day, it was about the "libary". Not the "library".

"Hella". Heavy usage in SF Bay Area / Northern California. Ex - "It's hella foggy today." *

Posted by haighter <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=haighter' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:16:48, in reply to "Sidejack to the other thread...regional colloquialism you just can't get used to...*"

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Do people really still say that?*

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they hella say that*

Posted by VIV <iframe src='https://mb.boardhost.com/TheDeuce/info/user=VIV' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on October 3, 2025, 11:36:39, in reply to "Do people really still say that?*"

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"the sum value of my outfit will always be higher than yours."

that's wicked terrible*

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