Words or Phrases that People Make Fun of You For

[jennyj87]

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.

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by jennyj87

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'.

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

[nittanygirl]

Originally Posted by pshsx1

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

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"

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by nittanygirl

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).

[Miriverite]

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.

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by Miriverite

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.

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.

[ree-Xi]

Originally Posted by Miriverite

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.

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.

Originally Posted by jennyj87

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.

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".

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by pshsx1

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

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

Originally Posted by Alumiyum

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

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.."

"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).

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??"

Originally Posted by ree-Xi

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.

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

Originally Posted by sweetmagnolia

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.

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

Originally Posted by dreamseeker

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

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

Originally Posted by jennyj87

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).

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.

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!

[nittanygirl]

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

[pshsx1]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

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


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..

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:

The city of Plano will be the first city in Texas to utilize a median U-turn in the summer of 2010 at the intersection of Preston Road and Legacy Drive.[6]

[txpacer]

"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'."

[angels&angles]

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.

[preciousjeni]

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."

[cheerfulgreek]

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. That's the only thing I can think of.

[AnotherKD]

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.