# Regionalisms that stick in your head

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 26, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regionalisms-that-stick-in-your-head/266170 "2004-09-26T16:10:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regionalisms-that-stick-in-your-head/266170/41 "2004-09-30T06:11:24Z")

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In Minnesota we play “Duck, Duck, Grey Duck”. There was a thread on this subject some time ago.

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**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regionalisms-that-stick-in-your-head/266170/42 "2004-09-30T06:22:54Z")

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[Link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=32987)

NOTE: This thread was originally posted in 2000, so don’t go bumping it and whatnot. But it’s funny. 🙂

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**Author:** ![gyt\_fx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@gyt\_fx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gyt_fx)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regionalisms-that-stick-in-your-head/266170/43 "2004-09-30T14:29:03Z")

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Please don’t let me fall into the pool of people who refer to my state as "Wa **r** shington. 😕

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**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regionalisms-that-stick-in-your-head/266170/44 "2004-09-30T14:53:33Z")

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In RI, a milk shake is referred to as a “cabinet” for some reason (unknown to me). There are also charming terms like “tonic” for soft drink. Also, RI is the most insular state in the nation: a journey from Woonsocket (Northern RI) to Providence (the state capital) is only undertake after long hard thought and much preparation.  
Its about 20 miles…

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**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regionalisms-that-stick-in-your-head/266170/45 "2004-09-30T18:56:44Z")

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I have a couple of them that I have noticed around the lower Arkansas Valley in Colorado.

-Youse (pronounced: use) It is the plural of “you” - Natives of the area when using “youse” sound (for that one word at least) like a huge road company of ‘Guys and Dolls’.

-saying “on accident” for “by accident”. It makes sense, I suppose. After all, the opposite is “on purpose.”

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**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/regionalisms-that-stick-in-your-head/266170/46 "2004-09-30T20:02:52Z")

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> [@look!ninjas](#):
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> That’s weird. I’ve been informed that I’m the only person in the _entire state of Michigan_ who calls “pop” “soda.” Is it possible that there are more freaks like me?

My sister does that. It drives me nuts.  
I once knew a Manhattanite who had trouble dealing with the phrase, “You wanna come with?” Dropping the whatever it is at the end really put her off-kilter, I guess.  
Can you tell that my explicit knowledge of grammar is exquisite?

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