Regional Expressions

[Brundlefly]

What expressions are unique to your part of your country? I was in Alabama on business last week and I overheard a conversation between locals where one person said to the other : "I might could help you out with that". I read somewhere that it was the Northern English and Scots who settled in the South that brought that kind of double modal "might could" speech pattern here..

In Philadelphia, we say "Yo" in an attempt to get someone's attention (just like in the movie "Rocky" where Stallone said "Yo, Adrian" at least a dozen times). Also, when we talk about going to the beach, we say "down the shore", as in "Are you going down the shore this weekend?"

[SlowwHand]

Does a night being "darker than a stack of black cats" count?

[Ari Rahikkala]

You know you have to cut down on the UNIX when: You read this thread's title as "regular expressions"...

[Lawrence of Arabia]

"chill" "yo" "dawg" "wassup" "sup" "cashed"

[mrmitchell]

"yall"
"aint"

Massive abuse of double negatives, especially when "ain't" is included

[DarkCloud]

"corpse home" = "funeral parlor" ick.

I'm not a resident where this is spoken, but apparently it's common usage in Northeastern Pennsylvania, USA- and I've heard some people use it in speech...

[Mercator]

Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala
You know you have to cut down on the UNIX Perl when: You read this thread's title as "regular expressions"...

[Patroklos]

"soda" "pop" and "coke" are all used to describe the same thing in different parts of the USA. I use "coke."

"grinder" "sub" and "hoggie" are all used to describe the same thing in different parts of the USA. I use "grinder."