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What words are in your vernacular?
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Avatar Image   Started by Torziah Torziah has 46,933 Grupie Points 1 year ago         Comments Add a comment

The words specific to where you grew up may not even be recognized by the rest of the world as "real words." They are often odd, silly and/or annoying to others, but if you think back you'll probably remember some that you used as a kid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernacular

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Y'all

Leader!
Contraction of "you all". Don't know why y'all have a problem with it. ;-)

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Bodega

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A Convenience Store. From the Spanish for "Storehouse." When I first showed up in New York, I had no idea what a "bodega" was.

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Persnickety, obsequious, ostensibly, woof

words are like breath. without them, i do not live. the interplay of their tumbling syllables is liek sunlight on water, a summer ... [show more]

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Fixin'

It means "about to" do something... "I'm fixin' to to go the store". As far as I know it's a Texan thing. I don't really use it an... [show more]

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Coke

I know everyone says "coke" to mean CocaCola, but here, it could mean anything carbonated. i.e. -- "I'm going to get a coke. Do ... [show more]

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Um-ver

This is specific to MT from what I can tell. The Eastern half of the state said Ah-ver, but they both mean "you said a bad thing."

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Yo

im from philly ... i dont have a choice

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Butty

Northern England, meaning a sandwich, usually used in the context of a "chip butty" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_butty), but... [show more]

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Damn Skippy!

equivalent to a "Hell Yeah!" or "Damned Right!"

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Outen

As in hey you outen that light; eg turn off

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Scatalogical

I used this word in kindergarten, confusing my classmates. I used it for words that were considered "potty language" to the rest o... [show more]

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Buletten

everyone else calles them Burger in germany ;)

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Dairy

A dairy is a convenience store in New Zealand

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Eh?

I'm half Canadian.

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Ker-fucked

mechanically/technically screwed up beyond any hope of fixing

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Craptacular

If you don't like it, eat my shorts, man!

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I Jokes

My friends and I didn't say this, but I grew up on the Flathead Indian Reservation and most of the kids, Caucasion and Native alik... [show more]

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This topic was started by Torziah Torziah has 46,933 Grupie Points on December 13th, 2006. 24 grupies have voted on one or more of the 18 answers.

Tags: language, linguistics, vernacular, words

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