Inspired by laceymcbain

[gnomi]

Give me your favorite regionalism (whether from where you are originally from or where you live now or just one you've heard) and its "translation."

Bring your jimmies, your frappes, your elastics, and your bubblers. Stand in line, on line, or queue up. Just share your favorite regionalism. 'Cause I know that my friends list includes people from all sorts of different areas. And I'm a language nerd.

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[jencallisto]

Minnesotans say "duck, duck, grey duck" instead of "duck, duck, goose." as far as i can determine (haphazard non-scientific conversational samples), we're the only ones, and i have no idea why.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Interesting...are there no geese native to Minnesota?

Hey - beths_stanley - are there any geese by you?

[sethg]

"By you" is Yeshivish, right? I've never heard people outside the Orthodox community use it, and it seems to be a calque of the Hebrew "'etzel" (or whatever the equivalent Yiddish preposition is).

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "by you" is Yeshivish. I think it's borrowed more from the German than Hebrew, but I'm not sure.

[jencallisto]

during migration season we get a lot of Canada Geese flying overhead, so they are around...