What do they say in your neck of the woods?

[Ginger Chic]

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ha ha glad you brought that up...here we call them Jy- Roes....hope I spelled that phonetically correct!


I have another friend That moved from CA to here a couple of years ago, and she still slips up sometimes and calls our highways by the number. For instance we have I-40, I-240, and I-35 and so on. She calls them the 40, the 240 and the 35 occasionally. I laugh at her when she does it then she realizes what she said and laughs. She makes fun of me for saying I'm fixing or fixn' to do something. We have fun with our regional differences.

Oh really... Now I know where I picked up that road number thing from. We lived in southern CA when we were first married. I "took the 5 to the 805 to the 52 to 15 to get to work." Here in GA most folks say I-85 for interstate 85, and use the next town to name the highway. GA Hwy 17 is just the Athens Highway, unless of course, you are currently in Athens.

 

[Ginger Chic]

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But you didn't tell us what this one means

I believe its "Let the Good Times Roll!!"

 

[purr]

we do that here in Ma,
I take 140 to 24 to 495 to get to boston

 

[Robin'sBrood]

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I've lived in the south (NC, near Raleigh) my whole life (I'm 41) and I've never referred to the midday meal, which I call lunch, as dinner... unless... it is eaten later than noon, like after church when we go to Grandma's and eat around 2:00, we call that Sunday dinner. I guess we call it that because we get so full that we normally don't eat a later meal... so Sunday dinner for me is kind of like what brunch is, but we're combining the midday and evening meals. Make sense? As for the evening meal... sometimes I call it supper and sometimes I call it dinner. If I open a box or get take-out, it's supper. But, if I slave away and cook it from scratch, it's dinner.

I would never say "it got gone" but it's amazing how different people in my area talk. Even I make fun of some of the grammar/dialects around here... Benson and Kenly come to mind.

 

[okiemommy]

okiemommy wrote:

Laissez les bon temps roulet! [lay zay lay bon tom roo lay]

But you didn't tell us what this one means big_smile

I believe its "Let the Good Times Roll!!"

Thanks!

I like that one too! I love regional things!!

we do that here in Ma,
I take 140 to 24 to 495 to get to boston

Do you guys put THE in front of it? Peeps from calif have to put the word "the" in front of the highway number.

 

[the1much]

in maine it was,, go down that main road, take a left at the big pine tree, then a right at the guys house that he sits in his cah waving to everyone, then hit the cross road, then take 95 all the wah.

 

[DuckLady]

My favorite here in Oregon is "spendy" for expensive.
It sounds more low key.

"Wow, that's expensive!"
or
"Wow, that's spendy!"

 

[wendy]

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But you didn't tell us what this one means

I feel like death warmed over = I'm sick


Brain Freeze = that headache you get from eating a CoCola Icee too fast

We say those too!​

sorry

it is "let the good times roll" like someone else put on here.

wendy

 

[Mahonri]

Growing up it was breakfast, lunch and supper.


Now it's breakfast, lunch and go find something in the kitchen.

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

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LOL Man, you Yanks are strange!