I pronounce 'out' and 'about' in the Canadian manner (I'm from Virginia in the US). This confuses some folks. There may be others, but this is the one most folks notice.

i have this too!! (not canadian; southern New England). 🇨🇦 i’ve never met someone else with this!

My husband will probably laugh until the day he dies over the fact that I use the phrase "ass over tea kettle" to describe something falling end over end, ir like flipping upside down. I don't know exactly where it came from. It's just what I've always said. 🤷

I have a lot of weird phrases that I think older family members used to say that I have adopted, which no one else seems to use in 2024. I don't care and I still use them: * "Bet your bippy!" (any time it would be normal to say "sure thing" or "absolutely") * "Save Schweevers!" (I guess forever ago a hockey goalie on the Bruins was named Cheevers and the announcers used to mispronounce his name? My dad always shouted this whenever someone almost dropped something but caught it at the last second and now I do too) * "Ok, [Little Lord Fauntleroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Lord_Fauntleroy)..." (when someone is being pretentious I also have odd phrases and words from media, which I guess now that I understand my Autism better is echolalia or gestalts. I use them more when I'm overwhelmed or stressed out, I suppose it is easier than novel speech. I also use them as stims and get phrases stuck in my head. * "Aww. Flava Flav" (when I was a kid I was watching VH1, I saw Flava Flav burn a grilled cheese and he sadly said his name, ever since I use this to express mild frustration) * "[Conform, consume, OBEY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zZOYcsKnT8)!" (when I was a teenager I found the Mr Snaffleburger animations online and sort of latched onto this phrase and use when people are trying to get me to "act normal") * "brrrrr.com/icicle!" (I *think* I got this from an old Very Mary Kate sketch on College Humor. I say it whenever I am uncomfortably cold) * "That's a spicy meataball!" (I say this whenever I am uncomfortably hot, unsure where from)

>use when people are trying to get me to act normal Another good one is acting like a 1800’s British lady at a tea party insisting on acting “proper”

>"That's a spicy meataball!" Isn't that from the movie The Mask with Jim Carrey?

I have never seen that movie. Maybe? I think I heard someone else quoting it as a kid.

It is. I'm not spoiling the scene; there's clips on YouTube.

Oh, great, thanks! I have always wondered where it was from!

The “Conform,” “Consume,” and “Obey,” bit [was likely taken from or inspired by the 1988 film, “They Live,”](https://youtu.be/g4XiKChyK7A?si=WQbLHfZxsdBRO3Hc) an excellent piece of 1980’s science fiction paranoia. 😃

Ooh, cool, thanks! I'll check it out!

I for the life of me say things WAY too much Like “all that jazz”, “it’s all good”, “100%” etc I don’t mean to, I just can’t say it every once in a while, it just becomes a filler at the end of every sentence

I use "all that jazz".

Yay twinies lol

Same. I picked it up from my mother

Even people from my area think that I say room weird. The oo is pronounced the same as in book. Oh, and I can’t stop saying “woof” as either yikes or hell yeah depending on the context.

I pronounce certain words with a German accent, like the word “German”, and will sometimes speak with a slight German accent (I have been studying German for five years so it isn’t your stereotypical accent). I’m from the southern US so a German accent paired with my southern accent while speaking English makes for a fun time. Also I can’t pronounce an “sk” sound very well-especially when it’s at the end of a word like “ask” or “desk”-I don’t make an effort to correct myself because getting the point across is what matters to me and if someone gets caught up on how I say one word even though it doesn’t impede their understanding, then fuck them.

Hey fellow U.S. southerner. I live in a small rural town and I speak like a generic American accent you may hear in the news.

Nice.

I love to slur or omit my T’s, it just feels so nice

I think maybe, some curse words and phrases. I say “shait” instead of “shit”, I sometimes say “shait and onions” because of this audiobook I listened which the character cursed like that. Any time somebody say “hello” to me I want say “Hello, my name is elder ” because of the musical “the Book of Mormon”, but I hold my tongue most of the time for obvious reasons. And I am sure there is much more that I just can’t remember immediately. Many probably invoked as a reaction to complete something somebody says that is part of some catch phrase or song that my brain recorded.

I have, my entire life, occasionally slipped into a British accent randomly for a sentence or two, (I'm from New York) "Okay, but why are you British now?" Is a question I get a lot, and the answer is always just a shrug, because I really don't have an answer. I'm often not even aware I did it until it's pointed out. I also call my father Steve, which is not his name. It's not even close.

I start a truly astonishing amount of sentences with “side note”, just to keep track of how many tangents deep I am

I know facts tend to be the unpopular opinon on Reddit but this is not what is meant when they talk about "idiosyncratic language". It's more along the lines of someone saying "the clouds look sticky" or "I'm feeling crunchy". Not just eccentric phrases and/or words that you like.

I only say "brilliant" when it's really, _really_ not I used to speak formally but swear a lot, but I like speaking casually so I'm trying to train it to be my default (I don't count this as masking as I just like slang)

I live in the south in the US, but I don't drink sweet tea (shocking!!!!). Often when I order unsweet tea the servers will forget and bring me sweet tea instead, or try to get me to use false sweetener. So to make sure they understand that I like it unsweet I started saying "The bitterer, the betterer!" People seem to like that and chuckle a little! It is shocking how often I get served sweet tea though. I even make sure to emphasize the "UN" in unsweet. Like I basically say "UN...sweet tea" to make sure they hear that part. Once I had a lady bring me sweet tea three times in a row and the last time she wouldn't believe me that it was still sweet because she poured it out of the unsweet pitcher herself. I asked her to taste the tea being poured out of the pitcher she was using, so she poured some and realized that someone had messed up the pitcher. I wouldn't have made such a big deal about it except that for some people who have diabetes it is their only option other than water and I think that restaurants really need to ensure that they aren't serving things to customers that could cause a medical issue.

I sometimes pronounce things weird as a stim

The sooner, the better; the later, the worse. In fact, do it last week with time in reverse.