Words or Phrases that People Make Fun of You For

[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]

[Alumiyum]

Originally Posted by nittanygirl

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

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.

[pshsx1]

"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.