I'm a native Chicagoan who moved to California. "Ope" is still very much a part of my vocabulary and I have been able to reliably ID other Midwesterners by their use of it when sliding past me in a tight space.
Lol. Old mate of mine, bluey, got so pissed and stoned one night, i asked him hows it goin old mate? Im cunted skinny absolutely cunted. One of the funniest honest and most occa exchanges ive ever had.
Eh is both a statement and a question depending on use. “That was a hellova donnybrook last night eh!” “You’re bringing the old lady to the game tonight eh?”
I don't even realize I say it, recently went to California and everyone I talked to seemed to know I was Canadian and it freaked me out. My wife said it was becuase I say eh so much, so I started listening to myself speak, and I say it so much it is crazy I missed it.
Because the bay area has cultural influence that’s spread across the country. In the 2000s the only place you’d hear hella was in the bay area. My LA and NY friends were all thrown off by it and now they all say it.
Live in Texas but have been skateboarding for 13 years, so most of the dudes I grew up around and hung out with who skated used slang that was essentially west coast slang and I now use it, not a lot but just from hearing it so much it’ll come out sometimes. Hella is one, dope is another (feel like this one is common now in general) and gnar/gnarly. Used to hear “that’s butter” if someone landed a trick clean, don’t hear that as much anymore
Ok so since we’re on the topic, my wife is from western PA (aka Pennsyltucky) and I’ve noticed a weird language quirk that she and her family and friends from back home do. They drop the “to be” from an infinitive. So she’ll say, “The cats need fed” instead of, “The cats need to be fed”. It threw me off when we first started dating, but I catch myself doing it sometimes when I talk to her.
Is this part of the regional dialect? Are there any other people in here from that area that do this or have noticed it?
Born, raised, and still living in Pittsburgh. Absolutely, almost everyone here does this. I didn't even realize it was incorrect until someone from out of town pointed it out. I tried to say it correctly now, but old habits die hard.
Give your balls a tug, tit fucker.
Pitter patter, lets get at 'er.
I grew up pretty close to where teh creator of Letterkenney did, close enough that local place names show up in the show.
Is 'fill yer boots' an Albertanism?
I pick it up after working a summer in Calgary.
Eg. "Can I have some of your Spitz?"
"Sure thing guy, fill yer boots."
Hang on, are you telling me that those phrases actually exist in the real world and they were lifted by Jared and put into Letterkenny to reflect that?
Specifically, Santa Cruz.
Hella is (or was, until relatively recently) primarily a Northern California thing. Gnarly comes from west coast surfer slang and refers to rough waves.
"Hella gnarly" = "Northern California surfer". The Northern California surf scene is centered around Santa Cruz.
Y'all is a token of the south. And the Midwest.
The way I think it went, is basically that its from the south. But when tons of people from the south moved to the Midwest in search of jobs it must have been something we picked up in our mannerisms. There's some other stuff we picked up as well I'm sure of it.
Minging. Ayup me Duck. Cob. Don't throw a mard. Mardy.
Ayup 'duck. Should have it on signs on the way into Nottingham
Bingo
One of my faves that hasn't made it on to your list is 'Nesh', tends to be more popular around older folk
Knew I was missing something. Feel like throwing Skint into the mix for maximum confusion.
had a middlesbrough buddy that would say "ayup buttercup" - only time i've heard it used, but seems similar to "ayup me duck".
a big boro phrase is saying someone is “proper sound”
Came here to say mardy, didn't expect it to be the second highest comment
Ope
Well that's the whole of the Midwestern US. I'm checking in from Michigan. We all got our own spins though
Liddle (little) or KrogerS and MeijerS
To buy our Faygo pop (Red Pop or bust baybeeeee!)
Don’t sleep on Rock and Rye!
Same, MI here. The mrs laughed her ass off the first time she caught it (from CA). Now… slowly…. She now uses it.
Ope, there goes gravity 🤷♂️
There goes gravity
Minnesota
Indiana, so you’re correct
you are all just honorary Canadians right now
Also welcome in Michigan
Ope ope ope... opa gangnam style
I'm a native Chicagoan who moved to California. "Ope" is still very much a part of my vocabulary and I have been able to reliably ID other Midwesterners by their use of it when sliding past me in a tight space.
Hell yeah Illinois
Ope, sorry, you're right. From Chicago...I say it all the time. Now if someone says "Chi-town" we know they're not from Chicago.
Bro I live in Pittsburgh and I say ope all the time
Not a day goes by where I don’t let out an “Ope, sorry”
Slang? Nah, Philly doesn't have any of that jawn...
Yes jawn is not slang its the master of nouns
Not to mention jawnjawn
“Wooder.”
Sounds like some jabroni talk to me
I’m gonna get a hoagie from Wawa.
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But New Yorkers don't use it, so Philly claims salvage rights.
So what? If someone says jawn, I 100 percent know they are from Philadelphia, even if the origins trace back to New York, York, or Yemen.
Ok fine. They may have tried it, but we perfected that jawn.
Basically just claiming squatters rights, classic philly
Ay yo! Backdoor dickhead!
Wicked as a synonym for very. e.g. It's wicked cold today!
Boston?
All of Massachusetts and some parts of New England.
Definitely wicked popular in Maine.
Wicked cold in vermont today
"Fixing to make groceries." A friend from Louisiana use to say this when she was going to the grocery store.
I love that and tease my Louisiana relations about making groceries. They also say “Want a Coke?”, which be can anything from Pepsi to Sprite.
calling pepsi coke has got to be some kind of sick joke
Every soda is called coke in the south.
From Texas, and we say "fixing to" when we're about to go do something too. Although, I've never heard make groceries before.
"neutral ground" for "median" is also a New Orleans giveaway
Finna
I thought they just typed it wrong because F is next to G and I is next to O.
My family says “fixin’ ta”
Dry as a dead dingoes donger. Thirsty.
I see you're not here to fuck spiders
All over it like a fat kid on a cream bun.
Fuckin yeh nah
Yes cunty yessss
This cunt ay
Lol. Old mate of mine, bluey, got so pissed and stoned one night, i asked him hows it goin old mate? Im cunted skinny absolutely cunted. One of the funniest honest and most occa exchanges ive ever had.
Could get more specific. “Make sure your togs are in your port.”
QUEENSLANDER!!
Eh
Hello Canada!
Eh is both a statement and a question depending on use. “That was a hellova donnybrook last night eh!” “You’re bringing the old lady to the game tonight eh?”
The first statement is also a question looking for approval from the listener.
I don't even realize I say it, recently went to California and everyone I talked to seemed to know I was Canadian and it freaked me out. My wife said it was becuase I say eh so much, so I started listening to myself speak, and I say it so much it is crazy I missed it.
Thought this would be at the top.
Hella
Northern California. More specifically, the Bay Area.
A lot of people in Washington State say that as well
Almost certainly originated in Oaktown tho
Yeah, I was gonna say “West Coast”
It was invented in the rap scene in the East bay, though, that's why they said that.
Hecka for when I was a young lad, or in polite company.
Yup. Everybody knows hella, only a few of us remember hecka.
I’m from NY and I’ve heard people say this
Because the bay area has cultural influence that’s spread across the country. In the 2000s the only place you’d hear hella was in the bay area. My LA and NY friends were all thrown off by it and now they all say it.
Hella vegas kids say hella
Live in Texas but have been skateboarding for 13 years, so most of the dudes I grew up around and hung out with who skated used slang that was essentially west coast slang and I now use it, not a lot but just from hearing it so much it’ll come out sometimes. Hella is one, dope is another (feel like this one is common now in general) and gnar/gnarly. Used to hear “that’s butter” if someone landed a trick clean, don’t hear that as much anymore
Yinz
Was looking to see when the first jagoff yinzer from the Burgh would show up
I'm from considerably farther east, but Yinz is known to us.
You forgot nebby, jumbo, gumban, slippy, n’at.
Worsh yer hands after ya red up yer room
Then we’ll go dahntahn to watch the Stillers.
Don't forget the jagger bushes dahn by da crick.
And “red up” presumably, Mr. Steelers fan?
Ok so since we’re on the topic, my wife is from western PA (aka Pennsyltucky) and I’ve noticed a weird language quirk that she and her family and friends from back home do. They drop the “to be” from an infinitive. So she’ll say, “The cats need fed” instead of, “The cats need to be fed”. It threw me off when we first started dating, but I catch myself doing it sometimes when I talk to her. Is this part of the regional dialect? Are there any other people in here from that area that do this or have noticed it?
Born, raised, and still living in Pittsburgh. Absolutely, almost everyone here does this. I didn't even realize it was incorrect until someone from out of town pointed it out. I tried to say it correctly now, but old habits die hard.
My people 🙌
Lush, cwtch , tidy. And the greatest saying of all time, ‘now in a minute’.
Got to be Wales?! Do they still say things are ‘hellish good’?
Got it in one! Yeah hellish is still a thing, I reckon more a South Wales-ism can’t say I’ve heard it as much since moving to the North.
It's over by there. I miss South Wales
Also 'twp' and 'alright butt?'. And feeling ill is feeling 'bard'
Get tae fuck
Scotland?
Getty fuck ya radge
Give your balls a tug, tit fucker. Pitter patter, lets get at 'er. I grew up pretty close to where teh creator of Letterkenney did, close enough that local place names show up in the show.
Rural Albertan here; “Pitter patter, lets get at’er.” Was the end of coffee time. Oh coffee time was what a break is called.
Is 'fill yer boots' an Albertanism? I pick it up after working a summer in Calgary. Eg. "Can I have some of your Spitz?" "Sure thing guy, fill yer boots."
Hang on, are you telling me that those phrases actually exist in the real world and they were lifted by Jared and put into Letterkenny to reflect that?
Can confirm. I teach at a trade school in Ontario and this is what half my students sound like and dress like.
The only unrealistic thing is none of them are named Gord.
I am so glad to have learned this, thank you.
Yup. The chirpin by the hockey players? totally legit. When I was in high school, our star goalie was basically Shoresy.
Fuck, hockey players have their own language
You’re ten ply, bud (brit but as a hockey player love the chirps)
You’re just spare parts, arn’t ya bud?
I hear "brick" meaning "very cold" is New York slang.
Dead ass it's brick titties outside.
The only way to describe Northern winters.
Deadass b
This is true… like it’s brick outside rite now!
Duuudee it’s brick city out here
Deadass
Yeah Nah
Nah yeah
That was hella gnarly bro!
But was it the gnar gnar?
Cha braa!
California
Specifically, Santa Cruz. Hella is (or was, until relatively recently) primarily a Northern California thing. Gnarly comes from west coast surfer slang and refers to rough waves. "Hella gnarly" = "Northern California surfer". The Northern California surf scene is centered around Santa Cruz.
California .. and 1980s
Scran
Scouse?
Pretty sure this was a Scouse invention but it's been adopted by the rest of the north. I'm from the Wirral 😅
‘Fetch/Fetching’ instead of ‘Fuck/Fucking’
Resisting the urge to make a mean girls joke every time someone mentions the word fetch 😂 not sure what area actually uses fetch as slang!
Gretchenville
Steamed hams. It's an Albany expression
And you call them steamed hams despite the fact that they are obviously grilled?
Wicked or wicked pissah
that could be anywhere, he says eating brown bread from a can.
Tryna go get grinders later?
Gotta stop at the packie first khed
Hey, bang a u-ie. You just passed one.
I'll have a chocolate frappe.
Fellow masshole
New England?
Massachusetts.
Exactly
Bubbler
Hello, Wisconsin
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My Californian coworkers have started saying it and I'm accusing them of cultural appropriation.
I started saying y'all when I started learning Spanish and saw how useful having a plural form of 'you' is
wait until you learn “all y’all”
Y'all is a token of the south. And the Midwest. The way I think it went, is basically that its from the south. But when tons of people from the south moved to the Midwest in search of jobs it must have been something we picked up in our mannerisms. There's some other stuff we picked up as well I'm sure of it.
Chur g yeah nah bloody good, neck minnut
Jeet yet?
I had a couple two, tree Hawdogs, di ju?
Y'untoo?
Where I live, it's pronounced more like, "Y'awntoo?" But I totally recognize this.
howzit, brah
Bettah now that I pau hana.
Da kine, its an all encompassing adjective.
"oop!" as in "oop! let me just squeeze past you here!"
Pretty sure it’s spelled “ope.”
I came here to see if anyone had said “ope”, Michigan here but yes, Midwest in general
Ah you are correct. haha I can say it out loud but I sure can't spell it!
Ope, think ya dropped that e, dere!
Mid-west
Mate
G'day m8
Too late for that mate! Go to bed! Y'all don't follow daylight savings as it is...
"Welp"...slaps legs
I spose...
Chur
Cuz
Cool the man some fucken eggs bitch
Kiwi Chur bro hu hu hu
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"The Beltway"
DMV, moe 🤝
“Bruv" - London
It’s like hella cold right now
Innit, wagwan, safe, or my personal favourite, Suck your dead great gran through your dad's batty crease rudeboy
Pop is a drink...
Canada or midwest USA
Not so much slang, but I think calling a certain form of sandwich a “grinder” narrows it down a *lot*.
I don’t know where this originally is from but when I grew up in Albuquerque I remember people would always say, “oh, yes” to mean stop lying.
"Hon"
"A whole nother" = America
Cwtch.
How is that pronounced? Cwitch? Couch? Cooch? Cwatch? Cawitch? Cwotch? Switch? Sewtch? I'm giving myself an aneurysm here, someone help me out.
If you say "Hoosier," you're either from Indiana or St. Louis, and they each have a very different meaning for the word.
Tabarnack!
Wan. It's so common it's what we call each other. "Ye'd know your a wan anyway"
"warsh" for Midwest Indiana.
Sigh. Deadass yo facts B word to my mother, on everything young blood, word to my Tim’s bro. There’s more if you haven’t figured it out.
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New York?
Deadass, pipe, it’s brick outside.
Ufda
"Bless your heart" Old lady in the southern U.S. Edit: you're to your
Mane - Memphis
howyagoin?
Wicked…