The Wide, Wide World Of Slang

[cyclonevkc]

demoriel said:

I'm originally from the Upper Peninsula of MI, a "Yooper"... and we call people from downstate MI "trolls." My favorite bit of slang oddness is that we sell a pastry filled with meat, potatoes, etc. and call it a "pasty"... so for that first few miles north of the Mackinac Bridge ("Mackinaw") people are always surprised at the overbundance of stores selling fresh stripper nipple stickers.

Had to give up the pop for the soda since moving to L.A.. *cry.*

OT: They were changing the Mackinac Bridge light bulbs on Dirty Jobs the other day - it was so cool! [/geek] I love the UP, it's so beautiful.

And I don't care where I move, pop will always be pop.

[plainjane]

I'm originally from the Upper Peninsula of MI, a "Yooper"... and we call people from downstate MI "trolls." My favorite bit of slang oddness is that we sell a pastry filled with meat, potatoes, etc. and call it a "pasty"... so for that first few miles north of the Mackinac Bridge ("Mackinaw") people are always surprised at the overbundance of stores selling fresh stripper nipple stickers.

Yup, Cornish miners immigrated to the UP, Wisconsin and Minnesota and brought pasties with them. Yum.

[Libelle]

A question for American East Coast Greecies:

Have you ever heard the term "handy" used for mobile phone / cellphone?

I'm asking because Handy is the German word for it, and in a book called "Ausgewanderte Wörter"(emigrated words), one contributing journalist claims that this word is starting to get used on the American East Coast.

[Deleted]

I've never heard of that, at least not on my part of the East Coast. We just call them cells around here.

[nadia]

I've never heard it either. I'm from Virginia, and I've only heard them called cells, phones, or cellphones. Some people use the name of the product (I was talking to so and so on my blackberry, etc.) but they're showy twats.

[bklynred]

Don't forget the ever popular 'crackberry'. I've heard Brits say 'mobile', I just say cell.

[Daisy Pusher]

demoriel said:

I heard a friend from the Pacific Northwest call a sandwich a "sangy" but I'm not sure if he got it from there.

I've lived here in the NW fifteen years and I have never heard that term, so I am guessing he may have picked it up elsewhere.

And you were a Yooper? Kewl. Traverse City-born, myself, so even though I guess I am technically a troll, it's still fun to have those "whatta small world" moments.

[prancingnougat]

libelle said:

A question for American East Coast Greecies:

Have you ever heard the term "handy" used for mobile phone / cellphone?

I'm asking because Handy is the German word for it, and in a book called "Ausgewanderte Wörter"(emigrated words), one contributing journalist claims that this word is starting to get used on the American East Coast.

I lived in Austria for 5 years, and the term Handy always made me giggle, but then again, I love all the 'nicknames' in German with 'y' or 'le;, e.g. Cleany, Kuechle.

Getting back on topic, everyone looked at me weird when I moved back to Canada, and I was calling my cell-phone either a handy or a mobile (my ex-boyfriend is British). I haven't heard of anyone calling it that on tv, or when i was down in the States.

[bossyboots]

kokopelli said:

demoriel said:

I heard a friend from the Pacific Northwest call a sandwich a "sangy" but I'm not sure if he got it from there.

I've lived here in the NW fifteen years and I have never heard that term, so I am guessing he may have picked it up elsewhere.

And you were a Yooper? Kewl. Traverse City-born, myself, so even though I guess I am technically a troll, it's still fun to have those "whatta small world" moments.

I live in the Vancouver, BC and have heard this term once -- the name of a restaurant or catering business (can't remember which) on Vancouver Island.

[lexylou]

People around here say "sangwich" sometimes, but I've never heard "sangy" before.