# Words (or syllables) that give an indication of where you're from **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 30, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789 "2019-05-30T20:28:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/121 "2019-06-03T16:52:17Z")
My daughter just used “boughten.” She doesn’t hear it in the wild; I assume it’s because she misapplied the wildly inconsistent rules of English verb formation. So you could see how it might re-arise, rather than having been a regional holdover. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/122 "2019-06-03T16:58:14Z")
If someone refers to a Sucrets as a lozenger, they are likely from Baltimore. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/123 "2019-06-03T17:29:36Z")
^ There’s no “t” in Bawlmer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/124 "2019-06-03T17:48:35Z")
And if anyone says they are from New York City, they are NOT from “the City.” ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/125 "2019-06-03T19:58:06Z")
Here’s a website all about regionalisms – [http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html](http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/maps.html) ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/126 "2019-06-03T20:17:04Z")
I took part in a discussion about “hamburger meat”. Some said it was a black English thing, but some white folks acknowledged they used the term also instead of “ground beef.” I said it was a Southern thing, as we Hoosiers just call the stuff “hamburger.” Many central Indiana natives call bell peppers mangoes. Many people in Georgia pronounce the L in salmon. Is this common in other southeastern states? ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/127 "2019-06-03T21:07:40Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ There’s no “t” in Bawlmer. 🙂 That’s right, but I was just translatin’, Hon. See you downy ocean. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/128 "2019-06-03T21:17:43Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > “Tolo” - what is (apparently) commonly referred to in other parts of the country as a “Sadie Hawkins dance.” > > “Pee-chee” - a term that my wife (and she’s no dummy) had never heard of until she moved from {undisclosed place #1} to {undisclosed place #2}. As I know what both Tolo & Pee-chees are, \ I know where you’re fro-om\. Also, apparently other places in the country don’t have “Honey Buckets.” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/129 "2019-06-03T23:26:01Z")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > Almond. If pronounced correctly with a silent “L” sound, then you’re from San Juaquin/Sacramento valley farm country. Ignorant dorks from the rest of the world pronounce the “L”. > > As if, everyone _knows_ that you knock the 'ell out of 'em, when you shake them out of the tree at harvest time… I’ve also heard people pronounce it “amm-ond” (“amm” rhymes with “Sam”) but I’m not sure where that one comes from. I was born in southern CA and lived the last 30 years in the Bay Area, and I say “ah-mund”. ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/130 "2019-06-04T04:30:20Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I’ve also heard people pronounce it “amm-ond” (“amm” rhymes with “Sam”) but I’m not sure where that one comes from. I was born in southern CA and lived the last 30 years in the Bay Area, and I say “ah-mund”. Where is it that _anyone_ pronounces the L in almond? To check myself I went and watched one of those Almond Joy/Mounds commercials. No L. Maybe in Britain, in Received Pronunciation? ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/131 "2019-06-04T05:15:58Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > And if anyone says they are from New York City, they are NOT from “the City.” No, that is completely dependent on who they are talking to. When I was in Amsterdam I’d say I was from New York City. I’d never say I was from “the City” in any case, if I am taking to someone local I’d say I live in Manhattan. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/132 "2019-06-04T12:04:02Z")
> [@TSBG](#): > > Where is it that _anyone_ pronounces the L in almond? To check myself I went and watched one of those Almond Joy/Mounds commercials. No L. Maybe in Britain, in Received Pronunciation? I pronounce the Ł in almond. But it is what is called a “dark L”. You start to form it, but before your tongue hits the front of your palate, your lips close into the M that follows, so it is very subtle. Almost like a flattening of the vowel rather than a full consonant in its own right (different from the L in “almost”). The way that most people say “calm” which sounds different from “comm”. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/133 "2019-06-04T12:40:01Z")
> [@TSBG](#): > > Where is it that _anyone_ pronounces the L in almond? To check myself I went and watched one of those Almond Joy/Mounds commercials. No L. Maybe in Britain, in Received Pronunciation? You mean those old “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t” commercials? I just watched several on YouTube, and the L is certainly pronounced in every one of them. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/134 "2019-06-04T14:08:57Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > No, that is completely dependent on who they are talking to. When I was in Amsterdam I’d say I was from New York City. I’d never say I was from “the City” in any case, if I am taking to someone local I’d say I live in Manhattan. I had the opposite situation, overseas and here. People ask where I’m from, I say New York, even New York State, and people will ask me if I live in New York City. Not a problem now that I live Rhode Island. Then people will ask “Is that in New York?”, or “What state is that in?”. ---
**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/135 "2019-06-04T18:15:12Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > You mean those old “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t” commercials? I just watched several on YouTube, and the L is certainly pronounced in every one of them. It is not. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/136 "2019-06-04T19:09:48Z")
> [@TSBG](#): > > It is not. It is on [this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TA3c1YqCiI). ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/137 "2019-06-04T19:16:20Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > You mean those old “Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t” commercials? I just watched several on YouTube, and the L is certainly pronounced in every one of them. > [@TSBG](#): > > It is not. I just went on YouTube and watched the first five “sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you don’t commercial” results … No Ls ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/138 "2019-06-04T19:19:53Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Hey, y’all! If you greet someone with a nice cheerful “How y’all doing?” or “Y’all come back now, hear?” and you’re talking to JUST ONE PERSON, you’re not actually from the South. “Y’all” is plural, y’all. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789/139 "2019-06-04T19:26:48Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I just went on YouTube and watched the first five “sometimes you feel like a nut sometimes you don’t commercial” results … No Ls Dude, they are there. I hear them. ---
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> [@MrAtoz](#): > > Dude, they are there. I hear them. Not this one – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOJAxformw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MOJAxformw) Not this one – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeibzLZn2hU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeibzLZn2hU) Not this one – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JSIRo9DjBA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JSIRo9DjBA) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-or-syllables-that-give-an-indication-of-where-youre-from/834789.md?page=8)