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I know we've sort of hit on this before in different ways (the latest being Marianna's Spanish proverbs) but hey -- I'm bored and no one's posting.
What are some of y'all's favorite regionalisms? My favorite all-purpose Southernism is the use of "like to" to mean "almost," as in I like to died! *
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*post-edit: this is only used in the past tense, btw.
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I like to died
Must be the to goes with the like elsewise we got us a past tense infinitive.
Around here (Upstate NY) people say "So don't I" when they are expressing agreement/solidarity with another, as in:
"I really like Steven Spielberg movies."
"So don't I." This may be your onliest warning, E.
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Re: This may be your onliest warning, E.
yeah, well a warning like that, and a token might get you someplace...
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this is a good post-- but unless you have traveled-- you don't realize that something is a regionalism!
a local radio commercial has been mocking the way most NYer's? (any one else?) say caramel--
cara mel has a "boston a" for the first A(cara as in cara mia-) - but most NYer's say car mel with a much "harder" a .. I have traveled-- but never went looking for caramels... how do you all say it?
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Funny you should mention it, OT! Just heard a commercial today (same one?) where it was pronounced "kair-a-mel." I've always said "car-ml" for the candy - like the city in California but with the accent on the 1st syllable. Unless we're ordering creme caramel - yum! - that's a whole 'nother pronunciation. Whoops - are we slipping into a food thread here?
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re: how do I say, "caramel"? Just like "camel", with an r and a schwa thrown in.
so you have an the first a soft (as in camel), an r, and an other vowel before the mel-- not quite Kair a mel or Cara mel but not car mel.(with no hint of a vowel between the r and m) ---and while this is sweet talk--no, not a food thread!
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I just say "camel" and let people decide which kind, "creme camel" being such a delicacy 'round these parts...  [winning-the-prize-for-most-nonsensical-post-but-I'm-all-nonsensical-today e]
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When in Hawai'i : the locals' greeting is "Howzit?" for "How is it,' "How is it going?" "How are you?" etc.
Don't hear it much anywhere else but it's a dead give away for who is local or Kama'aina and who is not.
In New England : "How's it goin'?" is common. Which ties it nicely as the early missionaries to Hawai'i were New Englanders.
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Two that I've used today are:
Nobody home but us chickens, and
Keep yer cotton-pickin' hands off.
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