Regional Sayings

[Ninetales]

What are common phrases that people say in your region? What is the local slang?

Here in Saskatchewan, for instance, "hoodies" are commonly referred to as "bunnyhugs." Also, as you'd expect, "eh" is commonly added to the end of sentences.

For example: "The weather's sure sunny, eh?" Typical Saskatchewan small-talk.

Also, you'll often hear locals joke about how terrible pot-holes are, how excruciating our winters are, or just how flat our province is. This is a very common joke that every Saskatchewan dad tells: "It's so flat here you could watch your dog run away for 3 days."

Or if you travel to Saskatchewan, we'll often ask why.

 

[Corrin]

"Fun times in the Maritimes"

edit: I wouldn't travel to Saskatchewan willingly either. The furthest I'll go is Montreal. lol
Toronto is horrible.

 

[killer-curry]

Malaysian people love to start their conversation with : "Have you eaten?" "Sudah Makan?" (Malay) "吃饱没有" (Mandarin) "Xeh Chuo Mei ya" (Dialect : Cantonese) "Chiak bao beh ya" (Dialect: Hokkien)
We are also have interesting terms like police: Ma Da Liu (derived from Cantonese) , you do not invite me:Bo Jio (probably from Hokkien) , westerners: Guai Lou (Cantonese) or Mat Salleh (Malay)
Our English tend to be broken such as: see first see how (depends on the situation), there there there there ... (means over there)
Go to Malaysia and be mesmerized by the varieties of slang, dialects, and languages.

 

[Soaring Sid]

In Telangana, there's few that I really like:
Evadi pichi, vaadiki aanandam (The craziness of someone's passion can only be understood from their perspective)

The word Baigan(eggplant) deserves special attention, as it's used by us Hyderabadis in various contexts! This can be very hilarious:

Spoiler:

Don't talk rubbish (and if literally translated, don't talk eggplants!) - Baigan ki baatein mat Kar!

No one'll do a thing to me! (All he'll do is uproot my eggplant!) - Baigan ukhaad leta mera

Not even an eggplant will do such a thing! (Indicating disgust/ lack of interest in given task) - Baigan bhi nai kartum ye kaam!

Bauman is also used in the same context as 'muk' or 'psyduck', in th his case, "Eggplant! The food's stuck in my teeth!" - Baigan! Khaana atak gaya!

 

[Neb]

Most of the Pacific Northwest's distinct phrases aren't used much anymore, but you'll occasionally hear someone say "the mountain is out." This means the weather is clear and the local mountain is visible. The mountain this phrase originally referred to was Mt. Rainier. Now some people use it to refer to Mt Hood, a mountain east of Portland.

 

[faf]

I'm from Saskatchewan too and some more words we use are:
grid - gravel roads
2-4 - 24 case
Pil - short for Old Style Pilsner
Double Double - 2 sugar 2 cream for coffee (generally Canada wide, a phrase I don't use myself because I dislike coffee)

There's more phrases from Saskatchewan but I tend to use common words instead. However, I still call gravel roads "grids", hooded sweatshirts "bunnyhugs", knitted caps "toques", and often end my sentences with "eh".

 

[Cherrim]

My parents are both from Saskatchewan and most of my extended family lives there. I've never heard the word "bunnyhug" from either side of the family, but all the Saskatooners say "hey" at the end of sentences where they'd normally say "eh". Once I realized that one, I can't unhear it from my aunts and uncles. My mom picks it up whenever she spends more time than usual talking to them, it's cute. They're the only people I know who use eh or some variation of it in the stereotypical way and it's so endearing ahaha.

Uhh, let's see. I've lived all over Canada but most of my life I've been in Toronto or close enough to it. I remember picking up a bunch of weird words when we lived in the Maritimes tho. I was so confused when we moved there and my teachers were asking if I'd bought a scribbler. Then it happened again with the same item when I moved to Ontario and they asked us to take out our "cahiers". They were talking about these:

We just called them notebooks in Alberta and BC, which is where I'd lived prior. (No idea why Ontario called them by the French name. It might have just been my school but that was bizarre.) Another school one I hated when I moved to Ontario is they call substitute teachers "supply teachers" for some reason. I don't get it, no one can tell me why or the origin, and everyone I've spoken to here agrees subs/substitutes makes way more sense. But alas.

I think my favourite Canadianism, though, is "pencil crayon" for coloured pencils. You hear it all across the country and I'm fond of the explanation that it's because most packages of coloured pencils say basically say "coloured PENCILS / CRAYONS de couleur" bc english/french and when you're a dumb kid reading your school supplies, you just read "pencil crayons" and that's what you call them for the rest of your life. And then you join art communities online at age 13 and they go "what the HECK are you talking about". :why:

 

[Auticorn]

I'm originally from Maine, and there's a lot of words and sayings that get said there. Examples are: Chowdah, Lobstah and wicked good... which are the ones I can remember. I don't know of any from Arizona other than maybe "it's a dry heat", but that's kind of given with AZ being a desert and what not. XD