Most of my mother’s side of the family was born and raised in South Jersey, in the Barnegat Bay area, and still lives there. Some of their colloquial words and pronunciations:
Water is “woodr”
Sunday is “sundy” (same for all the other days of the week)
“Forked River” (a town/area) is pronounced “for-ked river”
Creek is pronounced “crick”
Taylor Ham is called “pork roll” (only North Jersey yuppies call it Taylor Ham)
Real-it-er (NJ pronunciation of Realtor). When looking for homes, even half of the realtors we met seemed to think it was pronounced Real-it-er.
uuuuugh I HATE this (even though I’m not usually a prescriptivist, this drives me nuts the same way “nukular” does). I had someone call me once who self-identified as a reel-it-ur. Later in the call I verified her profession as a real-tur. REALTOR. I have to say it the right way 3 times every time I hear it pronounced the wrong way.
realtor
realtor
realtor
How do you pronounce Gloucester? Just earlier today I was talking to someone who was talking to some tourists who used three syllables.
I’m from Central New Jersey, near New Brunswick (Exit 9). Pepper Mill is from Grover’s Mill 9where the Martians landed (Exit 8A), and she agrees with me about the pronunciations. I’ve never heard “Wood-R” from anyone in NJ. The weird pronunciations of “realtor” and “gloucester” don’t ring a bell, either.
This isn’t one of those “we don’t have an accent” claims. It’s a “I’ve never heard it pronounced that way” claim.
In NJ/Philly Metro: Glawster or the almost identical Glosster
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Grover’s Mill is closer to Exit 8, innit? Off of Princeton-Hightstown Road?
They’re comparable distances. But Pepper Mill preferred not to drive so much farther on the Pike. I’d give 8A the edge in closeness, myself.
Must have been a weird corner of NJ, because that’s how people in PA and Ohio say it, and we in NJ make fun of them. The most perverted pronunciation of water in NJ is Waw-ter (Waw rhyming with saw). I lived here 35 of my 41 years and have never heard wood-er from a resident.
In fact, most of this thread is wrong, unless midwesterners and southerners have suddenly infiltrated the Jersey shore.
Gloucester rhymes with ouster
“Sundy” is how they say it in Texas
“Crick” is how they said it in western movies and “Little House on the Prairie”
For-ked River is just the name of the town. But we don’t call a forked tongue a for-ked tongue.
Philster’s got it.
Used to make it really easy to sniff out telemarketers before Do Not Call.
I have lived in Jersey all my life but i went to school in the mid west and they insisted I had an accent. I, of course, think I just sound American 
but I must admit there is one word I say with an “accent”: I pronounce water as “waud-er”. But that sounds right to me darn it! To actually pronounce the “T” sounds stilted and silly.
caboche
I grew up in a decidedly lower-middle class neighborhood in North Jersey long before anyone knew what a yuppie was, and it was called Taylor Ham by everyone.
Okay, I don’t know if I should be embarrassed by this, but I live in NJ and have for a number of years and, although I’ve heard of them, I don’t know what pork roll or Taylor ham are.
We called it pork roll in Trenton. It’s lips and assholes, chopped up and formed into large sausages. You slice it like bologna, but thick, and fry it up, make a sandwich with pork roll, egg, and cheese. Mmmmmmm…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_roll
Joe
Gak! I guess I’d have to be from New Jersey to appreciate it.
I spent 26 years in Jersey real estate, and we always prnounced it REAL-tor.
“Bridge & tunnel crowd”–Those who live in NJ and work in NYC.
I live in north Jersey, and I have never heard most of those.
One that no one else on the Dope seems to have heard of, but that every Jersey native I know says, is “asterick” instead of asterisk.
Definitely not – every time I travel to visit friends and family out of state, I always make sure to put a couple packs of pork roll in the travel cooler. I’ve made people fans of pork roll in no less than seven states. It’s a little slice of artery-clogging heaven on a hard roll.
And don’t buy all that nonsense people try to tell you about egg, cheese and ketchup. That stuff is all fine, but pork roll is best served on its own.
I’ve known people everywhere I’ve lived - Trenton, Atlanta, and San Francisco - who say asterick. Makes me wanna reach for the Old Crow…
Joe