Pibroch wrote:People have told me that the unneccessary "at" at the end of sentences is an Ohio thing.

To wit: "Where will you be at?"
"Where are you at?"

I'll vouch for this.

Also, my buddy was born somewhere northeast of here (Dayton, OH) and goes around saying "Where y'ins gonna be at?"

fancyjamtime wrote:The car needs washed.
The laundry needs done.

Drove me up the fucking wall when I moved to Ohio. Of course, I lost all the bullshit Chicago stuff, so it's an even trade-off.

I wasn't aware this was an Ohioan grammatical construct until it was pointed out to me by a Baton Rouge native. Yeah, okay, no one from Louisiana has room to talk about the speech idiosyncrasies of other regions.

Growing up on the extreme eastern edge of Ohio, I was privy to Pittsburgh's Yinzer dialect as well.

I personally use pop and soda interchangeably, tending to use the latter more often if I'm ordering in a restaurant.

lemur68 wrote:

fancyjamtime wrote:The car needs washed.
The laundry needs done.

Drove me up the fucking wall when I moved to Ohio. Of course, I lost all the bullshit Chicago stuff, so it's an even trade-off.

I wasn't aware this was an Ohioan grammatical construct until it was pointed out to me by a Baton Rouge native. Yeah, okay, no one from Louisiana has room to talk about the speech idiosyncrasies of other regions.

Growing up on the extreme eastern edge of Ohio, I was privy to Pittsburgh's Yinzer dialect as well.

I personally use pop and soda interchangeably, tending to use the latter more often if I'm ordering in a restaurant.

gawd, thanks for the link. that's what i was talking about. city chicken, n'at...brings gramma & grampa back

'fin, which I think is short for fixin', like I'm 'fin to go to work now. I've heard this on the south side of Chicago--maybe it's a southern thing too?

I was watching the DVD extras of Season 4 of The Wire, where the actors were talking about how every script actually had a glossary at the back because the vocabulary is so Baltimore specific.

jimmy spako wrote:that's what i was talking about. city chicken, n'at...brings gramma & grampa back

I thought gramma and grampa were universal.

jimmy spako wrote:

Tom wrote:Not mine, but I noticed in central PA, you hear "you's guys" a lot.

I like that one.

haha. my grandparents on my mom's side were from latrobe. they said "youns". they also said "hicky" for thing. i'm sure i'll remember a bunch of others.

"Yous guys" healthily extends to "The Northeast" section of Philadelphia where my cousins live. "Geet jet?" and "Yo" and all that. More an accent thing really.

Back to central PA...not sure if I'm getting the spelling...When a baby or small child is unsettled or acting up, he is called 'ruchie'. 'That babe is ruchin' around.' It's Pennsylvania Dutch I think.

givemenoughrope wrote:

jimmy spako wrote:

Tom wrote:Not mine, but I noticed in central PA, you hear "you's guys" a lot.

I like that one.

haha. my grandparents on my mom's side were from latrobe. they said "youns". they also said "hicky" for thing. i'm sure i'll remember a bunch of others.

"Yous guys" healthily extends to "The Northeast" section of Philadelphia where my cousins live. "Geet jet?" and "Yo" and all that. More an accent thing really.

Back to central PA...not sure if I'm getting the spelling...When a baby or small child is unsettled or acting up, he is called 'ruchie'. 'That babe is ruchin' around.' It's Pennsylvania Dutch I think.

yeah, i imagine that's from german, or plattdeutsch, probably from "rutschen" (to slip or slide). i'd love to go back & see how much of the roots i'd recognise nowadays.

I nearly forgot one.
Billy Hell: Used "the ac's been running billy hell" or "it's been raining all billy hell", generally means that something is happening, only uncontrollably or excessively.
I use it a lot. I like how it sounds like an old man word.