A friend from LA stayed with me last night and she had trouble understanding not only my accent but lots of words she had never heard of before... like, "I reckon", "heaps", "surname", "dodgy", she even thought saying "take away" was weird, as opposed to "to go". So I guess I didn't realise how much of my lingo is local. What are the local slang words used where you live? and not just slang but words which are common for only that area?
I am familiar with all of those. None of them sound strange to me, except words like "dodgy" are more frequently used by Brits and Aussies. "Heaps" isn't used too frequently here, either, but most people know what it means. "I reckon" is more often used in the south, I believe, but it's definitely used a lot more by Aussies. "Take away" here is more often called "take out," but the difference is negligible.
What do you guys call salad dressing? I know the Brits call it salad cream or something. They also call ketchup "tomato sauce." I am not sure if it's the same with you Aussies.
i'm from boston and i'm always caught saying "wicked." its an adverb that we use a lot. as a stoner we would always talk about how smoking up a car is called "fishbowl" and in other places its "hotbox" or "crawfish boil" lol.
yeah tomato sauce is the aussie way, although we have ketchup in the stores as well. i think they are actually two different things because tomato sauce is just tomatoes without all the spices ketcup has (i prefer eating ketchup). salad dressing... i think that's the only way i know how to say it.
I have a pretty bad local slang. Not a lot of people know what I'm talking about when I say certain things. Even people from the other side of the state
Ruski, next time you go to out to buy anything, say you are going to "the shops", that always confuses North Americans. Radgie, gadgie, cush, broon, bairn, lass, bonnie, noompty, chava, chav, shite, wifey, fit and totty are some great words I learned in the U.K.
Mayo = salad dressing? Australia is different from NZ because they say: Deli (dairy), Ranga (ginga), Sick (cool), Hey (Aye, Eh), Hay-tch (H, 'Aye-tch')... Um and more but I can't remember.
convenience stores are corner stores - at least while i was growing up...they didn't have to be on the corner either, but most were wicked...can't think of much i wouldn't use this word for whats doin = how's it going
I remember when I first started talking to a good friend of mine, I said something like 'Yeah, I am fixin' to do that' she has NO idea what that meant....As in 'about to'. It is SO common where I am from, it was weird she had never heard it. Also weird, because her home town is very very close to mine. Something kids say here that I had never heard of until I moved here is referring to a car as 'my whip'. 'Hey-wanna come see my whip?' And about a year ago, it was trendy to leave the price tag on your clothing. Idiots everywhere around here were parading around the price tag to their sunglasses hanging in their face. Never understood that, but needless to say, it didn't last very long.
fixin is definitely not common here. lol that price tag thing sounds hilarious.. another thing i say that i just thought of is "rank". like, "how rank is that". also people at my school used to say chat in the same context. meaning gross/disgusting/festy.
ive never heard yins before, how weird! i first heard one of my friends from zimbabwe say "old mate" and now it seems like everyone here says old mate all the time. everyone is old mate!
There were also phrases that were INCREDIBLY overused at my old school. Like 'you would.' (In context- "AH! I broke my toe!" next guy says- "Oh, you would" interchangeable with 'you would do something like that.) There were sooooo many more phrases that were overdone at my old school. You could walk down the hallway and hear if ten times, easy. I just can't remember any more of them!
