mmgiles (Mandy) - where in Texas are you? I"m in HOuston, so no, no deer feeders around here. A feeder is the road that runs along the highway. In other parts of the country they refer to them as access roads, etc. However, here, they are feeder roads to get on the freeway (not the highway).

I live in Texas (San Antonio) and we don't refer to sodas as cokes, unless they are Cokes We call carbonated beverages Soda; My son calls it "Soe-La".

My sil named my niece Lillian Jade and it drives her absolutely nuts when people call her Liyun...She corrects it's Lil-li-an. We just call her Lily.

Thanks, nanna! My hubby is an encyclopedia of trivia! I will love giving him this one ..... rarely do I get to tell him he was wrong on something like this!

HA! Our husbands would get along well, then, my DH is the same way! I love when I can actually get one up on him! lol

Well I am bad with "pop" for soda pop and so now my grandson asks for black pop. Meaning Pepsi or Coke. He doesn't like what his mom drinks which is Sprite or 7UP which is clear. And I also say fridge or ice box. My parents are Okies born and raised. I was raised in AZ so I used to tease them alot for it. Now I am living in OK and have found my language change to the local way of takin'.

nannaraquel, I am cracking up SOOOO bad over here readng your post (yes, I am still catching up) and LMAO because I also grew up in PA and I say half of these myself - especially doohickey and conniption fit - everyone here thinks I am nuts, LOL...!

LadyofCake said, Quote:
Also a really good one is a private joke between us mostly - you know that commercial for Kay Jewelers that says "every kiss begins with Kay" ?
Well, we crack up every single time we hear it since kay in his language means sex, specifically the F-word, so we laugh and say no, every kay begins with kiss!


Lynda-bob said:
I've got to know, now. What language is it?


Hi all - u r going WAY to fast, I cannot catch up!!!!
My hubby is from Bangalore, India and his mother tongue is Kannada (yep, pronounced just like Canada - that's another thing people laugh at, if we talk and then they ask what language and then we tell them, they will say "Oh, I didn't know Canadians had their own language.." LOL!!!!!!
Also we speak Hindi, but that joke is in Kannada, LOL...

I can't believe I finally got to the end! Just read all the ones since the last time I posted. Wow!

Anyway, while reading I remembered a bunch more that I'd like to share with y'all.

One of my biggest pet peeves besides (already mentioned) prostate vs. prostrate, is when people pronounce nuclear like nucular (think President G. W. Bush).

Then there's my sister-in-law again (the school teacher) whom pronounces both of the above in the incorrect format. She also constantly says 'supposenly' instead of supposedly. When watching the movie My Cousin Vinny, she couldn't understand the joke in the courtroom when the judge questioned the phrase 'the two yewts' - the two youths. Her mother, whom is originally from Puerto Rico, had to explain it to her. The rest of the family, both my hubby's and mine, are Italian American, born in Brooklyn, NY. I can't even begin to tell you how both sides have butchered the Italian language.

First let me preface with, I don't speak Italian, but I know this is the incorrect pronunciation: gobagoole for capicola. Don't ask?! I used to ask my mother "Where is there a 'g' in that word??!

Then there's the one my father-in-law and his sister say - pulley pork instead of pulled pork. My mother used to say and my m-i-l says 'blesh you' if someone sneezes. I used to correct my mother all the time.

I think it's due to the fact that I grew up with my mother and grandparents so I refer to my 'pocketbook' or bag and not my purse. And I use 'tin foil'. Although occasionally I use aluminum foil when I remember.

Specific to NY is the pronunciation of Houston Street - it's pronounced like house-ton and not the city in TX! I didn't know that until I was dating my DH and again I was born and raised in B'klyn. Speaking of which, specific to B'klyn are 'the Belt' for the Belt Parkway. I believe it's referred to by another name on out of state maps (don't remember what it's called), but it's THE main highway/parkway, etc. in Brooklyn. And also, we have Johnny pumps, aka fire hydrants, or I've also heard them referred to as plugs.

Then since moving to NJ ten years ago, I've heard license plates referred to as tags. But I think one of my favorites has to be growing up my mom and grandmother referred to female private parts as "chaka". Unfortunately we stopped using that term when the song/singer "Chaka Khan" played almost daily on the radio during a certain decade. How we laughed. Now when my hubby asks me what we should call "that" part of the body for our children, I answer either, 'the front' or 'the basement'. Haven't been able to come up with something better.

pet peeves- egads one is a suburb in VAncouver called New Westminster. MINSTER AS IN RHYMES WITH SPINSTER. In no incarnation or era or ever was it called MINISTER as in the person who marries at a church! OMG it drives me ABSOLUTELY mental when people (especially and even people who live there) say New WestminISter- YOOHOOO There is no extra I in there!!! STOP IT! LOL

Another one that irritates me, when I lived in Spain as a kid, on the south coast, there were lots of Northern Europeans living there. Many Brits. It just always will drive me insane I guess to hear someone speaking Spanish with an English accent. UGH! lol

Re: trying to correct someone and they just dont clue in-MAN is that annoying lol. One of my sister's still uses the word Negro. YO how many times have I tried setting the record straight- we dont use that word anymore. Get with the times lol

....and yet another one (don't think was mentioned)
I hate when people say pacific for specific. "Just be pacific, which one do you want?"

and axe for ask..... "can I axe you a question?"

Drives me batty!!! (that saying might be a pet peeve-ha ha )

Another one that I just can't stand is to hear someone say that they're going to "make groceries". I just don't get it, you're not making them, you're buying them. I'm sure it's just me, but it makes me cringe to hear it.

LOL indy I hate that one also, and VA it drives my kids nuts when I ask if they want to " go to groceries " with me. It used to drive me up the wall when my mom said it, now I say it.

Ugh, I hate being axed to!

OMG, Sugar Plum Fairy, I say 'blesh you'! I seriously JUST realized it when I read your post. I kept saying it and that's just how it comes out of my mouth, never even thought of it being wrong. Goodness, I've got to try to correct that. This will take some work. But it can be done....

Having grown up in Houston, we all say Uuuu-ston. I have to think about it to get the H in there (same with huge or "U-ge"). It's hard work!

LOL. Mandy, I'm just glad I'm not near you when I sneeze!

I just remembered I forgot to mention my other pet peeve. This one really annoys me for some reason. When people use the word 'work' instead of job or place of business. Like for example, "I went to my husband's work". Did you go to his papers? His building? His computer? You didn't go to his work - what he does. You went to his place of business. Maybe it's an office, maybe a bus or even a street corner or the side of a highway.

I just find that very annoying. It should be where someone works, not at their work.

I just thought of one on myself One of my dear friends pointed it out to me when we were in high school. He would laugh at the way I say "three". I didn't get it I had to slow down my speech so I could get what he was saying. He said, "You say th-rrr-ee". I guess I was saying it with a Spanish accent; we all say it like that in my family... I tried to say thr-ee but felt like I was having to talk in slow-mo and think too much I soon just shrugged it off and went back to my old ways....i Ay Dios mio ! I'm rreegrressing

I used to work with a women who would say "Let me tell you a question" before she would ASK a question. Drove me insane!

My best friend says "bater-eez" instead of batteries. It drives me nuts. Oh and she says "liar-berry" for library.

I don't know how we all underdstand each other in my house, with all the accents being thrown around we have a storm of words that don't make sence, yet we all know what we are talking about. If you ever come to visit in my house make sure you bring your - English, Spanish, Brooklyn, Boston, Newyorican, spanglish dictionary ( I am sure I am missing something in there) with you otherwise you have no clue what is being said.

Vicky

Beashorty, your family sounds like me and my sis. My BIL gets so riled when he hears us having a conversation. Between our made up words, Spanglish, and not having to finish sentences he is so lost We just laugh and pat him on the back...

OMG I heard it again the other day!!! I thought I'd never have to hear it again after my brother split up with his wife. She always used to say instead of ih or ee-talian, (italian), she'd say EYE-talian. ACKKKKK that was like ears bleeding or nails on the chalkboard irritating lol , and I havent heard that in ages- THANKFULLY cause she hasnt been around for years . and then I hear someone say it the other day. Wanted to throttle them (Blech, she used to use that word /expression too- drove me insane lol, especially cause she never did throttle anyone ever- which is good, but then dont threaten it sheesh lol)

I was born and raised in Canada and moved down to Oklahoma (serious culture shock) then to Texas and now am in Michigan so I have a few. I hate when people say "ruff" instead of roof, my in-laws say "get your picture made" instead of taken and it gives me shivers when people call a bag a sack (in Canada, that would be a part of the male anatomy) and when they get a "dip" of ice cream. Um, it's a scoop!

Oh, I also hated when people would ask me what providence I was from. Yes that's right, proviDEnce.

My mum says squttle the pan instead of scrub and my grandmother says Maths which makes me crazy. I remember when she visited when I was a teenager and she asked if I needed help with my maths homework.

I grew up wearing runners (still do) and now if I want anyone to know what I'm talking about I have to say tennis shoes.

I have a friend that always asks for 'Bouffant' icing. It took me a while to figure out what she was talking about the first time she asked for it, now we say it as a joke!

You guys are so funny. My mother used to say diplooma for diploma. My sister says Boo-fay for buffet and Es-ca-lod for Escalade (truck). Our airport is O'hare, a lot of people say O'hara.

OK I'm in...I hate the use of "fridge" instead of refrigerator. I work in health care where alot of medications have to be refrigerated and it drives me nuts when the directions read "keep in fridge"---aaaarrrgghh.
Others on the hit parade: lie-berry for li-bRary, somebody mentioned going to someone's work, instead of going to their job--that one makes my teeth itch!!! My 13 year old DD can't stand the word cluster--she says the visual of a big mass of stuff bothers her (so of course I use it whenever possible; All the "abbreviation" talk: ie the store is on Crooks Ave. (ave is spoken) instead of Crooks Avenue. Boy, this thread is good and really has my mind going---Off to think of more

Ok, the first one I said was funny... I'll tell you one that irritates me.

My sister says foot instead of feet. Ex: "That table is 10 foot long." I always correct her because it makes me nuts that she has a college degree but talks like a 5th grade education was her limit. And my mother (in email) always mispells lose. She'll tell me she wants to "loose" 10 pounds. I am really bad about spelling and grammatical errors irking me. For the most part I just try to laugh them off, but when I KNOW the person knows better it drives me up the wall! Or if it's a professional communication... and you know seven people proofread it... ARGH!!!