I seriously thought my parents made that up and nobody else called them that. I still don't know if they have any particular affinity for potatoes or something.
Frickin Milwaukee calling water fountains "bubblers". They know damn well nobody else calls them that, yet they still act like they didn't know what your talking about when you ask where the water fountain is.
Disclaimer: my information is from 30 years ago and may be slightly out of date.
re: "no one knows why" i've heard it was like department store catalogue regional marketing copy. i know that doesn't fully explain "why" but it's at least a bit of an explanation.
Just find me the place where 'u' is still relevant, like they're using pre-T9 1996 phones and are too lazy to press [9][9][9][6][6][6][8][8] to spell a real world, so I can give them all phones that won't continue wrecking their wrists from the weight.
Nevermind. They're a lost cause. Nuke it from orbit.
when one dad gives a joke answer to "what are these called?" so hard that a regional dialect change happens
That makes so much sense. Explains why the same bug within like 100 mi.² is called a Slater, a pill bug, a roly-poly, a potato bug, an armadillo bug…
They're called isopods.
Your dad is an isopod!
Isopod deez
Not by those Dads
Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:
Common names include:
Roly poly or pill bugs!
I had no idea what you were talking about until I got to pill bug.
Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.
Why, I don't know.
DRG?
Potato bug ftw
I seriously thought my parents made that up and nobody else called them that. I still don't know if they have any particular affinity for potatoes or something.
Frickin Milwaukee calling water fountains "bubblers". They know damn well nobody else calls them that, yet they still act like they didn't know what your talking about when you ask where the water fountain is.
Disclaimer: my information is from 30 years ago and may be slightly out of date.
Just don't call them extinct!
The steamed hams of the insect world
The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads "feeders."
Hell yeah I love regional pegging
I love looking at accent maps of the US, it's interesting to see how batshit bad at the language some of my countrymen are
Nukular
bunny hug
Here's another article that doesn't require a sign-in.
Long story short: People in Saskatchewan call hoodies "bunny hugs" and no one knows why.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/good-question-bunny-hug-1.7125965
re: "no one knows why" i've heard it was like department store catalogue regional marketing copy. i know that doesn't fully explain "why" but it's at least a bit of an explanation.
I've heard so many explanations I'm pretty sure Saskatchewan is like the Joker, coming up with a different lie every time someone asks.
Also like the Joker, Saskatchewan is fictional
Thank you. I didn't have that requirement.
I've only been to Saskatoon in Canada, so assumed all Canadians did that...
Just them. We all think it's super weird.
Glitter BUTTS makes more sense
I just had to convince someone the real game of tapping people and running around the circle to grab their seat is called: Duck, Duck, Grey Duck
And they straight up wouldn't believe me. Who cares if it's only the Minnesotans that say that. So do some Swedes!
This is lovely. I really like the quirks of language.
Makes me think of the jibberish that my dialect makes when simply pointing out a direction.
Me moving to the South:
"Red bugs."
"Chiggers?"
"Yes. Red bugs."
"Are we talking about the same thing?!"
Yinz.
Yinz love them lighning bugs.
Peenie wallie! 🇯🇲
Back where I come from we call mirrors 'leaks'.
Just find me the place where 'u' is still relevant, like they're using pre-T9 1996 phones and are too lazy to press [9][9][9][6][6][6][8][8] to spell a real world, so I can give them all phones that won't continue wrecking their wrists from the weight.
Nevermind. They're a lost cause. Nuke it from orbit.