larussel03
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Oh! Fun thread!!!
I'm from MA (just north of Boston) and I definately say "wicked" a lot. I notice my Rhode Island friends say it more though.
A water fountain is a bubbler
I drink soda, not pop (I live in MI now and I had a coworker say to me that she thinks "soda" sounds pretentious
and they say pop here. I asked what they call fountain soda then and she looked at me like I'm nuts, but I really wanted to know bc I love fountain soda!)
A liquor store is a packie (I don't use this that often, but I have caught myself saying it here and people not knowing what I meant) - usually I refer to a small whole in the wall liquor store as a packie
A dresser is the shorter piece of furniture for putting clothes in, often with a mirror on it, a bureau is the taller narrower one
I have ahnts (ahnti deb for example, not ant)
I ride the T (instead of train, subway)
I use a purse or a bag
Jimmies - chocolate sprinkles (I heard this is not politially correct though, someone once told me the name was coined because slaves were called jimmies - I have no idea if it's true or not but because of that I don't use the term jimmies because I worry that I could accidentially offend someone if it's true)
Sprinkles - rainbow sprinkles
My fiances uses the phrases "neither here no there" when he's saying something doesn't make a difference; adds "and what have you" instead of saying "etc"; and adds r's to words like "I sawr her."
That's about it for now.
I'm from MA (just north of Boston) and I definately say "wicked" a lot. I notice my Rhode Island friends say it more though.
A water fountain is a bubbler
I drink soda, not pop (I live in MI now and I had a coworker say to me that she thinks "soda" sounds pretentious
A liquor store is a packie (I don't use this that often, but I have caught myself saying it here and people not knowing what I meant) - usually I refer to a small whole in the wall liquor store as a packie
A dresser is the shorter piece of furniture for putting clothes in, often with a mirror on it, a bureau is the taller narrower one
I have ahnts (ahnti deb for example, not ant)
I ride the T (instead of train, subway)
I use a purse or a bag
Jimmies - chocolate sprinkles (I heard this is not politially correct though, someone once told me the name was coined because slaves were called jimmies - I have no idea if it's true or not but because of that I don't use the term jimmies because I worry that I could accidentially offend someone if it's true)
Sprinkles - rainbow sprinkles
My fiances uses the phrases "neither here no there" when he's saying something doesn't make a difference; adds "and what have you" instead of saying "etc"; and adds r's to words like "I sawr her."
That's about it for now.