Words or Phrases that People Make Fun of You For
 

My Texas friends make fun of me fairly often for the "Michigan" things I say.

I'm sure this happens to a lot of people when they travel (or maybe even at home? :P).

Saying "pop" is an obvious one, of course.

Apparently I say the word "month" funny (like a Midwesterner, I guess lol).

Also, the big one I used to get teased about was "Oh, are they going out?" as in "Oh, are they dating?"

At least you don't saying "Going steady." That would be very Theo Huxtable.

When I was a kid, I would mumble a little, so when I'd say "Excuse me" it would sound like "Shoes me." Only one kid noticed this and he would get a kick out of it. Now, I notice that Eric Braeden (an actor from Young & The Restless) says it THE SAME WAY! And he's like 70!

(My diction got better though. lol)

I start sentences with "Dude..." when I'm talking to someone. Horrible habit and I get crap for it. Rightly so.

Very regular use of "fuckin'". Another bad habit. (As in, "I fuckin' hate how hot it is right now because my air conditioner is broken.")

My very pronounced southern accent. Not country, but southern. My immediate family does not talk like me. None of us have an explanation for it. Mostly my pronunciation of the "I" sound.

"Fixin' to". Again, none of us can figure this out. My grandparents use it, but my parents do not (we are all from the south).

^^^ I say dude and fuckin and nobody shits on me for it. You are welcome to my friends and family if you need them. :)

People laugh when I ask for shots on my ice cream. My mentioning of having "ice cream with rainbow shots" on FB even sparked a debate among my friends.

My acting coach cringes whenever I drop my "t" mid-word. For example, "kitten" sometimes comes out as "kih-ehn", "Britain" comes out as "Brih-ehn". I'm conscious of it in auditions or when performing, but in daily speech, not so much.

I also have a habit of pronouncing "Boston" as BAW-stin.

Hubby used to say this. After 15 years with me, he's cured. My in-laws, however, are always "fixin" to do one thing or another.

My hubby also pronounces "insurance" as "IN-sur-ance, whereas I say "in-SUR-ance". He actually does this with a lot of words.

I still say that!! "Oh they are going out? for reals?"


I apparently say "for reals?" a lot...and with a slight Mexican accent to it.


I don't really get made fun for it...but when my cousin and I are having convos, she gets mad when I take her saying ".....but I don't say anything" and use it.

For ex.

Her--"you're funny looking."
Me--"oh yeah? You know what? You're funny looking....but I don't say anything"

and then laughing ensues.

Seriously, I might borrow them. I've always assumed it's because it isn't ladylike, but gimme a break...

I think it's adorable and would love a guy to say that to me. Then again, my spirit rests in the late 80s. :D

People make fun of me when I say "Get a load of this...." or "Get this...." before telling a story.

I say "this is true" a lot, along with "veto", as in: "Let's go see a movie tonight!" "Veto."

I drop the T out of a lot of words that I say.

Internet is another word that comes to mind.

Also, that's how I pronounce Boston. :P
Sounds correct!

i get made fun of a lot for saying 'oh dear' or 'oh my goodness'
also, what most people call water fountains i call bubblers. that confuses people a lot.

jamaicans tend to pronounce every syllable of a word.
so when most people say comftable, i say com for table.
same for ve ge ta ble.

oh and i learned the hard way (ha!) that up here rubbers=/= erasers. :p

I grew up in RI and my mom was from Boston and my dad was from Cranston which is one of the worst places for the Rhode Island accent.

Now I go to college in FL so I get teased all the time for things like clicker (remote), bubbler (water fountain), carriage (shopping cart).

I also get teased becasue I say "room" funny. My friends say I sound like I'm saying 'rum'.

I also learned quickly that jimmies to people are not chocolate sprinkles. Oops.

And of course, wicked.

As an inside joke, my friends and I also used to say "di-lem-na" (pronouncing the n), and now I can't get rid of the habit =(

I also have a tendency to spell things the British way (practise, colour, encyclopaedia) even though I was born and raised in Texas and have never been out of the USA. My friends make fun of me for that, teehee.

"Geez and crackers!" I thought that this was a fairly common saying, just not in my circle of friends, I guess.

Then, of course, there are things like "holy carp," "shiznitzel," and "flim flammin'."

I have the same spelling issue. My mom says it's because she had me reading "classic literature" as a child. I suspect it's Harry Potter.

Apparently I pronounce my E's wrong. I think it's a midwestern thing, but in college (in the south) all my friends (from the northeast) would make me say, over and over,
pen, ten, many, friend.

I say pin, tin, mini, frind

Apparently this is wrong. I can't hear it. I remember very distinctly growing up, someone would ask for a pen, you'd have to ask them to clarify whether they wanted to write something or stick something.

I also say irregardless. I know it's not a word, but my friends and I started saying it after watching Mean Girls too many times. I didn't realize people thought it was a real word. I always say it in the Gretchen Weiners voice.

My coworkers make fun of me a lot or at least ask me to repeat what I've said. I'm from Georgia, but I trained myself out of a heavy southern accent when I was in high school.

I still have hints of an accent that are pronounced up here in New York. Some of the things I say are:

Fixin to (meaning "About to")
I reckon (meaning "I figure" or "I suppose")
I like to have (meaning "I almost")

I also drop my Ts like a couple people have mentioned. The worst is my hometown "Atlanta" which comes out as "alana" when I say it.

One of the people in my office says "Know what I'm saying" ALL THE TIME. It's to the point that people count how many times she says it and announce it to those of us in the know. It's so bad that people have begun to call her "The Gnome Saying."

Hmm, well I can't think of any words I use that people make fun of me about. However, people do make fun of the way I laugh. Everyone who hears me laugh, says even if what I'm laughing at or about isn't funny, they still laugh because they always say my laughter is contagious.:o That's the only thing I can think of.:)

Ummm.... I'm from Wisconsin. Down here, people make fun of me constantly.

It could be worse. I'm from by Milwaukee, so it's not terrible. But my future in-laws are from Sheboygan (read: She-BOY-gan, oh ya der), and my accent intensifies strongly when I'm there.

That's the correct name. Water fountains are what homeless people drink out of. ;)

I do this too with some words (colour, glamour, favour), but almost always catch myself because everything has spell-check now. I didn't even think it was from all the classic literature I've read, from Chaucer (12th century) to Shakespeare (17th century), to great Irish poets (19th century). Spend an entire semester immersed in Middle English (Chaucer), where even the professor spoke in Middle English, and that will mess you up.

I too say clicker (lived in CT most of my life), wicked and bubbler (picked that up living in MA for 10 years).

And yes, a lot of people from RI say "room" oddly, the "oom" as "uuhm". Same thing with "roof", they say "ruuhf".

lol my roommates and I last year all called the remote something different. We all also grew up in different parts of Michigan.

My roomie from Tawas says "remo/remote," my roomie from Ortonville says "clicker," my roommate from Bay City says "buttons," and I (from Detroit) say "turner."

Also, my friend from RI said ruff and rum. Funny. :P

Being from the Midwest myself, I've met someone and after about 3 minutes, they ask me if I'm from Cleveland. Well, I am, actually. Close enough. And I have NO IDEA what it is about the way I speak that could pin it. Saying "pop" not withstanding.

People make fun of me for the way I say the words button, cotton, etc. I say but-ton, cot-ton, etc

i'm guilty of the 'dude' thing unfortunately... :-(

I say "pop" at school & get crap for it so I switch mentally to say "soda" then I say 'soda' at home and people are like wtf???

that's another thing... I say "like" in half of my sentences. My boss gets on me for that allllllll the time. It's a regular conversation for them to chastise how much we say it. Which it really does sound terrible, but you can't help how you grew up talking always without thinking about how to say things properly

just saw this... I had a roommate from Boston who I LOVED to tease.

"I'll meet you back at the rum" (as in our dorm room)
The movie "The Departed" became depahhted. haha

and of course random others like "draw" and "cah"

Also she called a water fountain a Bubbla & her comforter a "puff"

lol! One of my Brothers is from Boston and we make fun of him by saying "pahk the cahh in the Hahvad yahd" (park the car in the Harvard yard).

I make fun of my friends from part of Michigan who say "melk," "pellow," and "BAG-el" (milk, pillow, bagle).

You get teased for this? I say it all the time. I never knew it was something odd..

I ALWAYS do this. More so when I've had a few drinks. People kind of laugh at me for it. A lot of times, my texts sound very much like I talk, so I frequently start texts with, "Dude,.." .. especially if it's a CRAZY story... Kind of like starting a sentence with, "Get this.."

Funny story... the computer program that I train in at work is an electronic filing and workflow system. In a user's "To Do List" they find all of their work they have to do. The button that you have to push to make all of your tasks show up reads, "Fetch". The company that owns the product is in Conyers, GA, and the developers are Russian and they took the way that people speak in Georgia VERY literally, so they just assumed that everyone "fetched" stuff. We get a good kick out of it. As everyone here in the north says as I'm training, "What are we, dogs??"

I say that I want "jimmies" on my ice cream. People are usually confused.

I say "oh my goodness". I've never really been laughed at because of it, though. And of course they're called bubblers! :) But when I went to school in PA, I definitely got a few weird looks when I asked about them. One kid even said, "You want a hit from a bong? It's only 2:30 in the afternoon!" lol

This brings me back to my jimmies on my ice cream. Apparently in some areas, "jimmies" is another word for.. well, you know... rubbers. :D

My mom grew up in RI, and my aunt and cousins still live there. They all have really strong RI accents. It's very similar to a Boston accent, but with some differences.

Oh, and in RI, a milkshake is called a "cabinet". In a lot of other places in New England, we say "frappe". LOVE them.

I can't get away from calling a shopping cart a "carriage". It's what I've always known, and I'd rather call it that than a "buggy", which yes, I heard quite frequently living in PA.

And my remote will always be the "channel changer"


A few other things I say...

Jughandle. Which is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jughandle

It's a pretty common term in New England, but when I moved to PA, people really didn't know what I was talking about. However, now that I live in New Jersey, where left turns are literally unheard of, everyone knows what I'm talking about again. Well, most people anyway..

A few other New England terms... pockabook. Yes, I know how you actually spell it, but it's a definitely a pockabook.

Wicked is a must. Wicked pissah is even better.

Fudgicle. I know that you'll all argue and say it's a fudgesicle.. but you'd be wrong. :D

And one thing that my mom used to always say to me and my brother when we were younger, and I definitely still call them this now... when we were in the grocery store, she'd ask, "Do you two want red chewy things?" In other words... fruit snacks. It didn't matter what color they were (because as we all know, they started making them in numerous colors and flavors), they were always called "red chewy things"... and they always will be!

Another thing I thought of is something we always tease my boy's mom for haha

"Jeet yet?" Did you eat yet
"No, jew?" No, did you?

"Juhlockit" - Did you lock it? all one word

There are others but they've slipped my mind and they are always picking on each other for how they say things

Yeah, apparently it's weird in Texas...

And speaking of jughandles, I definitely get tired of explaining Michigan Lefts when I reference them (or point out the new one in front of my house in Texas). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Left

ETA: Oh hey! Speaking of my house:

I use "like" a lot, too. My parents tried so hard to stamp it out of my speech when I picked it up as a preteen, but it's still there, lurking. It comes out when I get excited or overwhelmed.

"Like" comes out for me when I try to explain [what my brain thinks are] foreign concepts to people.

Like (damn it) if I start talking about how concrete breaks in tension, I will use the l-word a lot.

It also comes out when I say a follow up thought like the one above.