“Saturday” in Pittsburgh is generally treated as a one-syllable word.
I’ll take “Things that Sound Dirty But Aren’t Meant to be” for $200, Alex!
I also say “Say again” in normal conversation, it took a while to stop myself saying “Say again …over.”
My Yankee husband and my Southern girl-child both do this. I’m trying to re-train them.
“I seen him taking pitchers of the mud, he said it was too wet to escavate.”
No, no, you saw him taking pictures and surely you’re aware that there’s an x in excavate.
Also, people tend to misuse bring and take.
When I spent time in Utah, I couldn’t stand “Oh my heck”.
I get not wanting to curse… but… really?
Upper midwest (I think) or maybe just Minnesota: “come with”. I heard this one all the time from a college friend.
“Hey, Normal Phase, we’re going into town, want to come with?”
Aaaaahhhhh! I never got used to it.
My grandmother says this, and she’s lived in Oklahoma her whole life. Maybe it used to be more widespread.
Very common in Chicago, and leaving the “with” off such a sentence sounds weird to me!
Huh. This is a phrase I don’t just tolerate but actively like hearing. There’s something homespun and unpretentious about it without being cloyingly folksy.
Not sure why, but it’s always seemed very pleasant to me. I don’t hear it often, though, so maybe that helps.
Curiously, I just looked up the etymology and was surprised that “fix” as “repair” is an Americanism; the original usage is “fix” as “hold / fasten.”
snerk! zing, good one.
To me, the “come with” phrase seems truncated- it should be “come with us” or similar.
A couple things from south Georgia: “might could”, “might should”, and “might would”, as in “I might would go to the movies if I had a date”.
A really annoying phrasing that seems to be widespread is pre-plan or preplanning. Come on, people- all planning is “pre-” by definition! The “pre-” is repetitiously redundant.
Not a regionalism, just general bad grammar, but I LOATHE, “If I would have.” Ugh. “If I HAD. IF I HAD.”
Wisconsin too. I say this all the time. Better yet, “Do you want to come with, or no?”
I also drink out of bubblers. No high-falutin’ “water fountains” for me.
Ugh. The “or no” should be “or not”!
After reading this thread I feel like it might be best if I just never talk again.
[Clasps hands] Excellent! Our goal here at the SDMB is to shame people out of being human.
Haters’ gonna hate!
Me neither.
echo6160, it’s YINZ. Not yunz. YINZ. I don’t know what jagoffs you hang out with – they musta been from Cleveland.
Sir T-Cups – I don’t know if it’s a 'burgh thing, but I’ve always said “sweeper” an’at.
Oooooh I had some friends from PA who did that and it would take all of my restraint not to correct them. Drove me crazy!
I’m still working on my husband on this one. He’s from Atlanta and uses “might could” etc… I mock him mercilessly whenever I catch him. I think he won’t be taken seriously as a doctor if he doesn’t have a handle on such basic grammar.
I lived there for 22 years and I never heard anyone say that either…