# Do you have a family dialect? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2010, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489 "2010-07-21T17:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![El\_Nene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/da6949/32.png) [@El\_Nene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Nene)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489/21 "2010-07-23T16:26:31Z")
Chefguy, it could be worse. My parents still refer to me as el nene in their conversations, hence the handle. I’m 31 now. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489/22 "2010-07-23T17:35:52Z")
> [@Looey](#): > > What’s for dinner? > > Pickled skunk butts and fried A-holes! (My brother-in-law is a strange man.) From my husband, I learned that dinner often consists of “goat nose and okry (okra).” Alternatively, we might have “a soup sandwich and a bowl of steam.” From the early mispronunciations of our nephew, we sometimes have “bibbits and hot foffee.” (This is in actuality biscuits and hot coffee!) ---
**Author:** ![Looey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Looey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Looey)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489/23 "2010-07-23T17:48:02Z")
I wonder why so many of these are food related? My brother refers to mustard as mouse turds, and Coke as Choke-a-Cola, and Pepsi as Pissy-Cola. One day years ago, he walked over to me gnawing on some awful looking blackish-brown crunchy chunk from his lunchbox. I asked what he was eating and without missing a beat he holds it out to me and says, “brownie briquette, want some?” (His wife had burnt the brownies, but he’s not picky and she’s thrifty.) ---
**Author:** ![rayman5321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@rayman5321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayman5321)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489/24 "2010-07-23T19:46:47Z")
Billies = poop ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Hazel\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ms.Hazel\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Hazel_Ice)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489/25 "2010-07-23T20:42:45Z")
Some of ours relate to my parents’ pug, who clearly owns the house: Pug-sulted: insulted, not amused (from Pug’s tendency to snort on things he doesn’t like) Pug-sausted: over-tired, prone to sleeping excessively (like Pug) Pug-approved: anything that Pug has clearly shown favor towards Food related: “ceremonial mammal flesh”: usually pork loin or an eye of the round roast “fizzy lifting drinks”: soda (courtesy of Roald Dahl) Stolen from our Finnish heritage: “Mene pois”: Go away! (Directed towards Pug when underfoot, flies, someone starting horseplay) “Sauna monkey”: the person in charge of monitoring the sauna when we have guests, usually by feeding the stove and throwing water on the stove for steam ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489/26 "2010-07-23T22:52:35Z")
Just two. Scissors are “skizzers.” And deep dish pizza was “upside-down pizza.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489/27 "2010-07-23T23:33:04Z")
> [@Ms.Hazel\_Ice](#): > > “ceremonial mammal flesh”: usually pork loin or an eye of the round roast. _giggles_ Pug-approved reminds me of our own approval word, ‘‘Stamp!’’ Best if accompanied by actual motion of ink-stamping something. Alternatively, ‘‘I’m going to allow this.’’ Yet another _Futurama_ reference. In the episode where Zap Brannigan is being criminally prosecuted for (something), Leela is on the jury and requests permission to testify. To reiterate, a member of the jury requests permission to testify against the accused. The judge thinks about it seriously for a few moments and then says, ‘‘I’m going to allow this,’’ in the most dignified and professional tone. So we use that phrase all the time because it’s hysterically funny. I think if you put a hidden camera in our home you would find that about 70% of our dialog consists of random quotations from silly TV shows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-family-dialect/547489.md?page=1)